Well met all and again.
I am unsure where to place my suggestion, so I opted to place it within this strain.
Back when the servers were line, I remember the limit on available character slots could be adjusted by NC Soft.
If that is something still available to the developers currently, I have a suggestion.
Reduce all players to a maximum of 10 total characters, instead of the 1000 or so we currently have access to.
My reasoning is simple, with the increased number of new and returning players since the licensing was announced. (as below)
1) "Name Availability" is once again becoming a concern.
2) Any characters beyond the 10 that are displayed on the character select screen, can easily be overlooked and thus forgotten and often not played.
3) So any characters that are beyond the displayed 10 are in effect, "Names" that are rendered unavailable to those who may be returning or new players.
4) One of the concern from back when the "Live Servers" were in use, was the act of "Name Scalping" I am hoping that it dose not come back to
CoH/CoV/CoR
(It was the practice of people "locking Down Names" and attempting to solicit money from members of the community to "Let them Use" name for there characters,
in effect a person would stack a lot of character names, then attempt to "sell them" for real world profit. I remeber NC Soft doing something the stooped the practice once it was discovered, but do not know how they did so.)
It was the same "category" as most any other of the numerous "In Game Sales, for "Real World Money" and thus illegal, but people would still try and "profit off the game", as it were.
I have unfortunately seen the "precursors activates a hand full of times in the game already" so wanted to give you all a heads up, and offer the above suggestion/possible resolution.
(the "precursor" I have seen most often thus far is "Auction House Price Pushing" witch is the practice of purchasing a mass quantity of a given "common/needed" item and re-posting them in mass with a higher price tag, making things more difficult for "new/low level" characters to get so they can "build enhancements" for there characters.
My thanks for your time and concentration.