Lycus
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This is a nice idea, but not one that would work well in EpicDuel at all. Now, there have been a variety of suggestions similar to this one, most being the ability to trade weapons/items from one character on your account to another on the same account. I will start off with the initial issue with the storage idea and this is not to say it is a bad idea, it is simply to point out the problems that arise from it if it! So, basically, there is a reason why inventory spaces are limited (not just in EpicDuel, but in other AE Games as well). That reason is that everything stored on your account and attached to your account, items in your inventory being the main one, takes up bandwidth. Bandwidth costs money based on how much is being used, however due to all AE Games being free-to-play, you get a designated inventory space that allows you to enjoy the game without paying, however it is not too large that it leads to huge costs to the company. Now every time inventory space and more space is given to people, bandwidth costs go up, which is why there is a Varium cost to it in ED and an AC cost in AQW (other such costs in other AE Games). The point of this explanation being, if we give people an extra '200' slots in a locker type storage, it will raise bandwidth costs a lot (since quite a few players will take this option). Now I understand that you have said to charge Varium for this, however it would have to be a Varium cost equivalent to approximately 200 inventory slots. Either that or a much smaller allocation of slots in this locker type storage system. Now onto the issues with trading between characters. First off, it would ruin balance further, because it would mean that first-time play through players will be struggling to fully upgrade all their items each level and choosing wisely which to upgrade and when. Where as players with high level characters on the same account will simply use their high level character to supply their low level character with the most upgraded items consistently. Not only this, but there would be no motivation you battle on low level alts because there is very little to aim for because you can trade anything over that is needed from higher level characters. Furthermore some items are one-time drops and sharing these between characters would lead to a mess. Finally security wise it would cause a huge mess, if the help team are notified to look into an account issue to do with items and it's gone from one character to another to another, it will make it extremely hard to locate and deal with. With Alpha and Beta Weapons suddenly appearing on low level accounts it will confuse players and lead to uproar as people complain of 'hackers' etc. You will likely suggest to restrict these items, but by the time all the items that would cause issues are blocked from use in this system, there would be very few left to actually be able to include. Now that is just a few issues and I could list more - though it is a nice idea for an RPG game, it is not for an MMO like EpicDuel!
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