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Snow Bunny · Oct 24, 2008, 05:32 PM // 17:32

70 toons?

Anet is just laughing at you for that I would imagine. I don't know though...

Maere · Oct 24, 2008, 05:33 PM // 17:33

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Originally Posted by Akolo

lol.

most likely its actually you who thought wrong, not the dates who showed wrong :P

I got the dates from /age. Since I have been reading for over 40 years I have become quite good at it, so I think this is not the correct response.

Maere · Oct 24, 2008, 05:35 PM // 17:35

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Originally Posted by Snow Bunny

70 toons?

Anet is just laughing at you for that I would imagine. I don't know though...

No they are rubbing their hands together in glee with all the money I'm spending and realising I'm a toon-making addict.

Maere · Oct 24, 2008, 05:37 PM // 17:37

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Originally Posted by Painbringer

With that much hardware running at all times I doubt you need to turn on the furnace in winter.

Unless you are working for the Sunday funnies 70 toons seems a bit much.

I'm warm all the time. 70 may seem a bit much to you, but to me it's just right. What is a bit much is how many extra devourer minipets I get.

Kerwyn Nasilan · Oct 25, 2008, 12:25 AM // 00:25

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Originally Posted by Azazel The Assassin

69 of them were fore minipets.
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Fail
12 chars

Valkyria · Oct 25, 2008, 04:25 PM // 16:25

got no idea whats wrong,but damn,70 chars is much

Jake_Steel · Oct 25, 2008, 04:46 PM // 16:46

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

Winterclaw · Oct 25, 2008, 05:08 PM // 17:08

In other words, you blew 7,000 dollars on characters, plus the time to earn 7 grand, plus the time to develop those characters.

Please for your own sake, get help.

Jake_Steel · Oct 25, 2008, 10:11 PM // 22:11

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Originally Posted by Winterclaw

In other words, you blew 7,000 dollars on characters, plus the time to earn 7 grand, plus the time to develop those characters.

Please for your own sake, get help.

Try again 619.28 cents. HE only had to buy 62 slots at 9.99$ each in addition to the 3 campaigns.

MagmaRed · Oct 26, 2008, 12:57 PM // 12:57

Maere, it is obvious from the responses most of us think you are an idiot for having that many characters. However, don't let the mods on Guru think the same thing. STOP POSTING MULTIPLE TIMES IN A ROW. Edit a post, don't add a new one. 4 posts in a row is sad, very sad.

As you seem to have figured out, the account can be older than the characters due to the pre-release period. The account would be started at that time, while the characters wouldn't be started until the game went live. Wouldn't matter that they were made during the pre-release phase, they wouldn't be in the system until the game went live.

As for the question asked about characters made on Feb 29, they would get 4 birthday presents over 4 years, not 1. Character age is not determined by a date, but by a number of days.

w00t! · Oct 27, 2008, 03:22 PM // 15:22

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Originally Posted by MagmaRed

Maere, it is obvious from the responses most of us think you are an idiot for having that many characters. However, don't let the mods on Guru think the same thing. STOP POSTING MULTIPLE TIMES IN A ROW. Edit a post, don't add a new one. 4 posts in a row is sad, very sad.

As you seem to have figured out, the account can be older than the characters due to the pre-release period. The account would be started at that time, while the characters wouldn't be started until the game went live. Wouldn't matter that they were made during the pre-release phase, they wouldn't be in the system until the game went live.

As for the question asked about characters made on Feb 29, they would get 4 birthday presents over 4 years, not 1. Character age is not determined by a date, but by a number of days.

Quit screwing up this thread by posting a sensible response!

Gregslot · Oct 27, 2008, 05:30 PM // 17:30

I have 7 characters and 1 slot for PvP and i find it hard to play with all of them (ever since the titles thing)

And why having mutiple accounts?
Why people have it? If you need more character slots you just have to buy more character slots, right?

And dude... that WoW guy is insane!
I can barely manage my own skills + heroes, i cant imagine using 11 characters with more than 20 skills at once!
This is just wrong!

w00t! · Oct 27, 2008, 08:56 PM // 20:56

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Originally Posted by Gregslot

And why having mutiple accounts?
Why people have it? If you need more character slots you just have to buy more character slots, right?

In the "old days" you could not purchase extra characters. So I bought a second account, as my son and I both played.

I bought a 3rd account as the "Guild Mule" last year when they were going for $10 at Best Buy after Thanksgiving. Cheaper than buying extra characters.

In no way can I understand the need to have 70 toons tho.

stevedallas · Oct 27, 2008, 11:38 PM // 23:38

I've had issues with character age too. I created a number of toons 12 months ago (took screenshots with the pc's clock up) and they didn't /age from feb - april of this year. it was like time stood still for them.

Additionally, my oldest characters, their age seems to ignore the time spent in pre-searing. I brought my first character to post-searing on New Years Eve night, after spending several days in pre-searing, three years ago. Yet that characters' /age is set for New Years Eve night each year.

And we're not alone. I know many people in the real world who have had this same trouble with pre-searing time not being counted. And like you, aNet's support staff werent interested in helping me either.

In response to questions raised about you having 70 characters, I'm honestly not surprised. I have 7 accounts. In the old days, you couldnt buy character slots and even after slots become a buyable commodity, it was usually cheaper to buy a copy of the game.

I use most of mine for storage and as placeholder accounts in guilds.

Quaker · Oct 28, 2008, 04:00 PM // 16:00

Riddle - My (1 and only) account says it's 38 months old, but my oldest toon just turned 36 months old - how can this be!

Answer - I deleted my first character when it was 2 months old. My account is 38, my character is 36.

(Disclaimer - all times are approximate.)

**cosyfiep** · Oct 28, 2008, 04:30 PM // 16:30

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Originally Posted by stevedallas

I've had issues with character age too. I created a number of toons 12 months ago (took screenshots with the pc's clock up) and they didn't /age from feb - april of this year. it was like time stood still for them.

Additionally, my oldest characters, their age seems to ignore the time spent in pre-searing. I brought my first character to post-searing on New Years Eve night, after spending several days in pre-searing, three years ago. Yet that characters' /age is set for New Years Eve night each year.

And we're not alone. I know many people in the real world who have had this same trouble with pre-searing time not being counted. And like you, aNet's support staff werent interested in helping me either.

In response to questions raised about you having 70 characters, I'm honestly not surprised. I have 7 accounts. In the old days, you couldnt buy character slots and even after slots become a buyable commodity, it was usually cheaper to buy a copy of the game.

I use most of mine for storage and as placeholder accounts in guilds.

yep I know about the pre-sear thing, my hubby and his brother got the game at the same time, they played for a week or so before they left pre and at that time played until they had enough plat to make a guild---at that point the game decided that was the creation date for their characters...not when they had started in pre, but the date they created our guild

......so their accounts are older than their first characters (and no, my hubby does not delete characters...for any reason)

(and my first characters had late first birthdays as well....2nd year was too soon and 3rd year

I was out of town for...)

Orange Milk · Oct 28, 2008, 04:44 PM // 16:44

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Gregslot
And why having mutiple accounts?
Why people have it? If you need more character slots you just have to buy more character slots, right?

Smurf Guild accounts.

I have 2 accounts, 1 is my main, and one is my rarley played on PvP only (for the most part) that resides in the Smurf guild. A place where we can test GvG builds without effecting our current rank/rating or displaying to other top guilds what our new build/tactics are.

Anyway, 12 slots on my main, 3 PvE and 9 PvP, I hate rerolling.

Alt has 6 slots, or is it 8? I forget I don't use it much now that I stopped GvGing a couple months ago.

Quru · Oct 28, 2008, 08:53 PM // 20:53

Actually, I noticed i have same "problem". /age shows that my account is 25months old, but odd thing 'bout this is that when i use it at my first toon (really first, no re-rolls or anything), it shows that char is only 24months old. It really doesn't bother me that much, but just noticed it today.

I just curse my miniature fire imp.

MStarfire · Oct 28, 2008, 09:12 PM // 21:12

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Originally Posted by Winterclaw

In other words, you blew 7,000 dollars on characters, plus the time to earn 7 grand, plus the time to develop those characters.

Please for your own sake, get help.

More like $770 plus any applicable taxes, being the cost of one account with all campaigns and the necessary expansion slots. Even buying separate accounts without adding expansion slots or multiple campaigns per account he'd only be spending $900, assuming around fifty bucks per campaign (and even this is over the top since Prophecies is like $30 now). The MOST he'd realistically be spending is $1350, and that's assuming he links all three campaigns together but does not purchase additional character slots, assuming $150 for the full tour.

Please, for your own sake, take a math class.

However, spending this much money to move pixels around on a screen is excessive. I suggest an intervention.

Concerning the OP's actual, on-topic problem, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe your connection is slow and you have a two-month lag? I dunno. Just keep asking Anet. I'm sure in between taking naps on large piles of your money they can come up with an answer for you.

Edit: The prices above are for purchasing campaigns separatley at prices quoted when I bought the various campaigns. I found this at Amazon, and using that price we can assume the following:

Minimum investment: $422.91 (all separate accounts, no expansion slots)
Maximum investment: $666.37 (one account, 62 expansion slots)
Retarded investment: $719.82 (all Nightfall accounts, no expansion slots)

This is the current market price of the OP's addiction.

Beren985 · Oct 28, 2008, 09:53 PM // 21:53

Riddle - My (1 and only) account says it's 38 months old, but my oldest toon just turned 1 minute old - how can this be!

Answer - You got hacked!