Multiple characters

[soapmak3r 677]

I know this has probably been asked a lot, but I searched for a thread and nothing came up.

What are the reasons behind not being able to have more than one survivor on the go at a time?

I play with friends, but when we can't play together, I would like another character that I can play with on my own, so that I can carry on with my friends when we get the chance, without splitting up.

I have heard people throwing around the idea that people would farm etc. but would this really be as big an issue as people are making it out to be?

People farm servers and use exploits anyway...That is never going to stop (unless something changes in the game).

Is it not more reasonable to assume that the reason we can't do it currently is because the hive server currently can't cope with everyone having 1 profile, never mind 2?

Have the devs given a definitive answer on this feature?

It just seems like an unnecessary limitation to me (if it isn't a limitation of the current hive servers).

Edited July 18, 2012 by soapmak3r

[Gashed 16]

Would love to hear more on this topic as I too, play with friends.. Problem is they're all overseas, and not being able to play most of the day is kind of frustrating.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

I quite like the limitation. It makes every decision you take with your character more important. You can still play on your own and arrange a meeting point with friends. I'm not sure what the official answer is though.

[Coco McDuck 0]

There is a way of having multiple Accounts. Don't know if it works with the Steam Purchase.

[soapmak3r 677]

There is a way of having multiple Accounts. Don't know if it works with the Steam Purchase.

I was kind of looking for a straight forward way...Naive of me, I know...Considering this is an ArmA2 mod and nothing about the set-up or controls is intuitive.

[hawc 63]

Well for every number of characters the size of the hive database has to double(from original size), which at this stage is probably an unnecessary cost. In the future they might consider it.

Also some people might use this as offline storage.

[`Orum 17]

I play with friends, but when we can't play together, I would like another character that I can play with on my own, so that I can carry on with my friends when we get the chance, without splitting up.

Totally agree. I play with a friend and love the coop experience this game provides. However, my friend isn't always around, and I'd also like to play "lone wolf" once in a while. Unfortunately, it's not possible right now--but hopefully that will change.

What are the reasons behind not being able to have more than one survivor on the go at a time?

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It just seems like an unnecessary limitation to me (if it isn't a limitation of the current hive servers).

There is, regrettably, a strong economic incentive for them not to support multiple characters. You need two copies of OA to to play two characters, and selling two copies of OA earns them more money than selling one copy. So, when it comes to player enjoyment or the almighty dollar, I think you already know which is going to win, especially when you consider that most players (myself included) only find out that you can't play multiple characters after buying one copy of the game.

[Mildley 20]

I like only being able to have one character...It is already easy enough to get loot. But if you're fully geared up you normally are more cautious about going into towns... If I could have 2 characters I would leave my main one near camp (Until friends are on to play) and use the second as a loot whore and just loot everything with him without a care in the world about dying, then running it up the the camp site....So in a way I think it is a good thing.

[TurtleMadness 5]

It would definitely help to have more than one character. Especially since every time I log on I'm on the coast because my brother got himself killed... although, a guy could have a ton of accounts to mule with, or someone could stationing like 30 guys in cherno that he switches between, sniping people, or using as lives in pvp.

[Blakorr 77]

multiple characters would ruin the game imo. people could just hoard items on alternate characters like they were tents or use them to find items like guns and ammo for their main character without putting that main character in harm's way.

[Quaby 93]

Maybe if you limited the amount of extra characters you could have, it would work out. Also, make it so that the characters could not interact. I.e. if you drop a gun on one of your characters and log in on another one in the same server, you will not see the gun, but other players will. That way you couldn't use them as storage. Also, if you die with one character, your other character cannot log in if he is within a rather large distance(500m-1km) for an hour or two so people cant just PK in cherno, die, log in on another character, PK, die, and so on.

[Quaby 93]

Maybe if you limited the amount of extra characters you could have, it would work out. Also, make it so that the characters could not interact. I.e. if you drop a gun on one of your characters and log in on another one in the same server, you will not see the gun, but other players will. That way you couldn't use them as storage. Also, if you die with one character, your other character cannot log in if he is within a rather large distance(1m-2km) for an hour or two so people cant just PK in cherno, die, log in on another character, PK, die, and so on.