It makes me calm that some really understand what im trying to point out here. I’m not really against buyable character slots. Just pointing out that companion-character slots is not a good thing. Maybe i sounded too aggressive lol
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For what it’s worth. I do think this mechanic will change, and I do think market restrictions will get reworked. Eventually.
The quantity of work we’re seeing right now isn’t the quantity of work that happens for a concurrent population of 5k. They clearly expect more players in future so they have some sort of plan. Focusing on the early-game frustrations should be on the to-do list.
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Seems like IMC have solid plans like you make it out to be for early game frustration. What about end-game frustration like unfixable reset bug?
i had that too, they said they applied a hotfix on this but nothing happened. I had my dungeon entry count reset but the day after that, the bug occurred again. Then this happened - yesterday they had about 8hr maintenance (if im not mistaken), now i cannot queue in any dungeon. Seems like after they fix / patch something, other bugs occur. I’m disappointed again, i wasn’t able to do dungeons yesterday and up to this hour. Another thing that makes me lose interest to the game little by little but somehow it makes me feel excited with the incoming rebalance patch so i’m staying 
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Probably well above the early game to be honest. Seems like one they’re struggling to pin down.
Anything that’s currently generating support tickets is usually highest-priority, with one team member actively working on them.
If it’s still ongoing, it’ll be a priority. If not, new bugs caused by this update might be bumped up dependent on what kind of fire the support tickets look like right now.
The rest of the team will be based around implementing future plans.
I think the best way here is to rename the graphic and term to 4 character/companion slots.
So players wouldn’t keep harping on character slot = player characters only. The game already offers the full content experience for free to play players and they make 4 slots (in combination of character + companions) available to everyone for free.
There is no free lunch in the world.
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Well, at least in RO the mounts of Swordmen and the Falcon of Hunter didn’t cost you a character slot. I can understand that the normal companion costs a character slot, but the Falcon should not cost one as it is not a companion at all but a feature that allows you to use basically all of your skills.
You also can’t ride it, share it with other characters who aren’t Falconers or get any additional boni from it like e.g. the TP pets provide.
Maybe IMC can change this to make the Falcon useable on all characters as an advanced autolooter (i.e. the Falcon increases your autoloot range by fetching far away items on the ground), but can’t attack monsters, can’t be used together with other pets and can’t be mounted.
That way the TP costs for the character slot could be at least justified.
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We are aware that not everything can be free. Based on the examples given by some ppl in this forum, it is really UNFAIR for players. Imagine making a falconer, that just takes 2 slots of your character slots.
we will consider all angles
Thank you very much, it would be great if you’ll be able discuss this with your team.
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Not really Nekorin, you can’t level up your team to the max for free with 4 slots. And you can’t have access to the 4 trees if you have one character which needs a pet slot… It’s really frustrating to start a Swordman as your 4th character and see you cannot do Cataphract for exemple, same with Archer at R8. It forces you to buy for free content.
Edit : Classes with pet ->
Hunter Rank3 / Falconer Rank6 / Schwarzer Reiter Rank6 (NICE CHOICE AT RANK 6) / Hakkapalle Rank8
Nothing for Cleric
Cataphract Rank4
Nothing for Wizard
As you can see it’s a big problem for Archer tree.
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-3 slots
go make new account
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Even with max 30 slots paid also can’t level to max team level for now.
Sometimes I just don’t get why players keep saying that it is unfair. Sure some characters need more characters slots to function, for example the Hunter/Falconer build @siderit99 linked. But all these builds are entirely doable with the 4 given character/companion slots in free-to-play accounts.
It will be unfair only when class builds are locked out due to the limited slots, like for example if the account only has 2 initial free slots and hunter/falconer isn’t feasible anymore due to it requiring 3.
Many of us do know that free things often comes with limitations. And the limitations of ToS is it is limited to 4 character/companion slots. All builds are available, each one depending on how many character slots it needs. All the other PVE content all the way to solmiki is available to both free and paying players. PVP/GVG is available. Even the marketplace is available too.
This is already huge for a free to play game. See how FFXIV do their free to play accounts and you can see how many things ToS actually offers for free.
Do realise that the limitations offered by ToS F2P is actually quite little compared to others. I would very much prefer ToS’s model rather than being able to create more characters but get locked out of end game content.
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Ofc but you know where is the difference between 4 and 18 slots.
In theory. But do you really want to waste 3 slots for one character ? And what about the rank 6 in Archer tree in the case you wanted to take one of the two new classes ? This could be solved just by allowing a lot of skills usable while not mounted. Remember that Hacka was not teased as a mounted class.
Yes with 1 item registered and 30% of your money in the sky xD.
It’s a bad excuse, and you know it. Most people would like to pay to play.
Ofc if you compare it to the worst F2P systems, your point is right. Compare it to LoL or if you want a MMORPG, you have GW2, we are far from ToS restrictions.
Really? It wouldn’t make any sense consider what the class is based on. 
I wanted to do an Hacka when I saw their costume. And they did a mount only class for no reason. STRANGE.
Plus I don’t get why you need to mount a pet while doing these skills…
and lets say they free up companion as character slots and then remove companion from team level cause it no longer taking a slot as a character. Would you be complaining about that as well?
its up to you to make a mount class and tos do provide 4 free slots. Any additional character after that, its totally up to you and its only makes sense that you got to pay for it, no?
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It’s up to you when you don’t have 2 classes from Rank 6 which need a pet to work. Or when skills are not mounted only when it’s not logic.
it is your choice to make a class with mount in the first place? they provide 4 free slots, anything more its only natural you got to contribute for it, cant expect to be spoonfed all the time. and btw, they did not make hacka a mount class for no reason, do you know what hakkapeliitta means?
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