****uck NOrris Posted:

5 alts are easy to get – even a kid could pay $12.

Just a note here, but to be bleeding edge competitive at dom, you’ll need to buy Episode 2 as well, so we’re looking at the $25 package.

****uck NOrris Posted:

So 5 alts limit is the best choice – it gives people more chances to reach the top, if they want it.

I suppose it all depends on what you think it fair. The alts I’ve got have cost me about about $50 (+10 for Ep. 2). Considering the amount of play time I get out of this game, I’d say it’s better than a lot of console games I’ve spent far more on. I don’t think what I’ve paid is at all unreasonable, or out of reach for anyone who has enough money for a computer and internet connection, and enough spare time to really think playing Dom is a decent way to spend their time, especially if $25 is fine, but apparently, it is. Log in to see images!

scullyangel Posted:

I honestly don’t know how a limit of one character would go over. Would the knowledge that a person could not play other characters in endgame prevent them from financially supporting the site?

I don’t know, but I don’t think a lot of people buy alts specifically for dom-related purposes. Us alt whores are in the very small minority, as you go on to say further down in your post. I think a lot of people buy their first couple alts for the same clbum-testing reasons you had.

scullyangel Posted:

I don’t think the majority of alt holders spend any time “gaming the system” in Dom, do you?

I think the few that are trying to compete with raiders, certainly are. I really doubt it’d get any better if alt-cramming becomes the new optimum strategy.

scullyangel Posted:

Very simply, looking back at earlier times some people had a few alts and we just didn’t see the same problems. I didn’t see alt clumping start to happen until I jumped from having 4 characters to having 9 and then 12.

Were people really dominating it up back then on all their alts? I can’t remember anyone using alts for dom at all, other than Arktor. Not like I’d pay much attention to it back then, anyway…

scullyangel Posted:

if Spacekadt’s idea of a certain number of locked brackets happened and it was impossible to get alts in bracket together I don’t think alts would be a problem any longer.

Well, you’d still have coordinated interference to contend with, but that’s really less of a problem than anything else relating to alts in dom.