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The Star Wars RP
Star Wars Legacies: The Fifth Timeline
Star Wars Legacies: The Fifth Timeline
Once the new timeline begins, a new character limit will be instituted. We currently allow 10 characters, but as of Tuesday, July 19, 2011, all role-players will be limited to a maximum of five (5) characters.
There's a host of reasons for this. For starters, there's the often used idea that with less characters you can focus more on quality over quantity. You invest more into a character when you have less characters, and you therefore care more about them because they mean more to you.
It also opens up opportunities that you probably would not have taken had you had ten. For example, if you had, say, 1 character and that character was a Jedi, then you're more likely to allow the character to fall to the dark side and become a Sith if it ever came to that than if you had started with both a Jedi and a Sith. Why have a Jedi fall or a Sith be redeemed if you have both?
Stories become more interesting if you develop only a handful of characters.
Another issue that this aims to avoid, and this is probably the most important reason for the change, is the trust issue that developed lately, particularly in some of the latter months of the fourth timeline. With ten characters, it enabled people to join every faction and even have independents too. With five characters, odds are you're going to have to choose only a few main factions to join if you want to have independents. Even if you don't have independents, you're probably not going to want every single one of your characters in every main faction.
When people had a hand in everything, it created issues of trust for faction leaders. Speaking from my opinion which I brought up when we discussed this, I don't like people having conflicted allegiances in the RP. When I was a faction leader, and other faction leaders have attested to feeling this way too, I had to ask, how can I trust someone with information about something that would be used against another faction they're in? Maybe that person wouldn't reveal anything, but what if they did? It created unnecessary stress.
So yeah, this is something we're going to be trying for now. Ten was a very high number that we instituted only because so many people had very high numbers of characters. It was the highest we ever had, and it proved to be an issue in the fourth timeline. The RP Profiles board was often a character factory with characters that were just never used, and there was the trust issue.
The best character limit we had on this site was one character, in the first and most fun of all the timelines, but we'd never go back to that. Instead, we've gone to five.
Feel free to post here if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
