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#1 | | Beholder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: In a small cave on the second story of my house.
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Here is something I have been wondering. once the new MMO is out, can we transfer characters we made? Levels and all? (minus the few changes to skills to add to the char's flavor) Or will we have to start from scratch? just some food for thought... (food for my thought!  )
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08-31-08, 01:33 PM
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| Re: transfer
I'd check out the FAQ. Quote:
Will my character be able to re-created in this project?
This is a complicated question that is difficult to address without getting more into detail about the project. Characters will not be transferred over from NWN in any way of that we are certain.
| Regarding the difficult to answer part, I think that was because NWN is class-based, and the MMO is skill-based. So at the time, before that was announced, it was likely hard to say. You can probably cobble together an equivalent to most classes by taking the appropriate skills and attributes and such, but you're not going to have a class really. At most probably a nice pre-package of skills to simulate it. A cool add-on, whether dev or community made, would be class simulations for all of our NWN classes by pre-assigning them, for those that like the simplicity of the recommended button (Edit to add link)
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now, new question. No transfers, got it. but can we re-incarnate our characters? (Ideas run thin sometimes...  ) Start from scratch with original bios? just a new journal?
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| Re: transfer
Bear in mind that the game (at least initially) will center around three islands, and will likely be set some distance in the future.
As such, most bios will have to be dramatically altered to fit with the new setting and the new time. Characters could almost certainly be re-created, but they'd have to be reimagined first.
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| Re: transfer
It's important to say that any ideas of what will be permitted in terms of "restarting" existing characters is purely speculation at this point. We've made no official statement regarding the timeline nor the administrative probability of allowing characters with the same names and backgrounds as existing characters.
We've had only light discussions on this point at this time, and as with many things related to this project, it's subject to change. | | | | | The Following User Says Thank You to Dorganath For This Useful Post: | | |
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| Re: transfer
ahhh. Ok! thanks for the info. sorry to be a bother.
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| Re: transfer
No bother
We just can't really answer the question at this time. | | | | |
09-03-08, 03:33 PM
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| Re: transfer
I don't mean to cause any trouble by saying this and don't mean to start any arguments but I do want to express my opinion.. I do hope you make everyone start again at zero. A fresh start should be a fresh start.
Of course everyone should have the opportunity to restart or recreate a character they love (or make a descendant of their NWN characters if they wish) but I can't imagine anything worse than joining a brand new game and finding there's a private club of epic characters already there on day one. Among other things it would be a huge and unwelcoming turn off to new players.
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| Re: transfer
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Originally Posted by wisper  I do hope you make everyone start again at zero. A fresh start should be a fresh start. | I can assure you there will be no such thing as anyone getting any sort of head start buildwise due to any history with the NWN world.
Our difficulty in making decisions on existing characters will be things like timeline conflicts messing with historical accuracy, existing reputations and titles, life expectancy and such.
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| Re: transfer
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Originally Posted by Link092 now, new question. No transfers, got it. but can we re-incarnate our characters? (Ideas run thin sometimes... ) Start from scratch with original bios? just a new journal? | Your assuming that there will even be a bio/character approval process. Of course this can be asked in terms of a journal.
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| Re: transfer
true, But it was just a thought. of course, Now That I think of it, what races can a person play? are there going to be any fundamental changes in them? how will RP be enforced? I there are no more character submissions, I suspect people will jump in playing it like it is FR, and have no idea about Layo and what it is....
I don't expect answers, just wanted to put those questions out there.
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