This updates is exclusively about how I’m incorporating the use of multiple characters into Beta-A.

When you register your account for Beta-A, you submit your User Name, Character Name, Valid E-Mail Address, and Password.

  • User Name - The name for your account as a whole. For instance, I would choose TDKenyon
  • Character Name - The name for your first character (Which you create below, choosing race+class). I would choose Palin, Janos, et cetera.
  • E-Mail Address - Used to validate your account and login.
  • Password - Used to login

Thus, when you register your account, you also create your first of 3 possible characters. Each Race+Class combination gives you different initial stats (I will go into Race+Class and Stats in a later post).

Characters will be selected in a Character Selection screen. Towards the top of the page you will see the full stats of your currently selected character (Similar to the Training Panel screen). Below this you will see three character slots displaying basic stats (Similar to the left stats bar you see on every page).

Upon selecting a character, that character will be active and will be used in Eternia and Arena. When battling an opponent in Arena, you can not choose which of the opponent’s characters to battle, you must battle his/her active character at the time of the battle.

Some stats - such as HP/MP/Sta, Str/Vit/Int/Dex/Agi, and Sil On Hand/Sil Banked (Currency) - are individual for each character in an account. Other stats - such as Profile Info, Map Location, and UP - are shared for the whole user/account. This is primarily for database functionality and for the ease of you guys editing/deleting characters and stuff.

This new feature will allow us to individual suspend/ban specific characters, not just an entire account, so that if you exploit/hack for one character only, you don’t necessarily have to lose your whole account. This, of course, depends on the severity of the crime.

I think this covers all of the multiple characters info.