Character Creation/Updates
Hum i can understand you. It is really annoying , still when i relogged putting the char back together took no time since i already knew what i wanted where.
On a convenience level I agree.
But I don’t know how the game handles a character in character creation. It might load them into a temporary “creation” area or something, in which case that area would be part of the server and it would HAVE to go offline when updates happen, because the whole server needs to go down.
It would also potentially allow people to bypass downloading an update, if they’re in the process of character creation when an update hits. Of course they’d be forced to update the next time they shut off the game and started it back up, so nothing permenent, but for a while anyway they’d be running an outdated version of the game. Which would probably be bad.
The one thing I will say thats related to this issue that probably wouldn’t cause any problems is that I’d like to see them remove the “inactivity lockout” for character creation. Maybe I’m just really freaking slow at character creation, but I know that twice while I was creating my 5 characters I got kicked from the character creator for inactivity (because apparently those sliders don’t count as being “active”, its not like I was actually AFK). And you don’t get any warning that its coming when you’re in character creation, because you can’t see the chat box or anything (which is where the notification that you’re about to be inactive-kicked shows up). Heck, I wouldn’t even know what happened at all except that in one of those cases when I got done with creation and entered the world I noticed the inactivity warnings in the chat once I got into the main game.
I agree with the OP. If you are going to boot me, at least let me save a char at that point and continue from where I left off.
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