STO: Characters per Account

A trend that has been going around the STO forums which is directly related to PvP for the most part I think.

Should we be limited to 1 character per faction per account?

My answer to this is no.

From a PvP point of view this might be seen as fair since there has to be some kind of balance, but limiting people to one portion of the game is very unfair in my opinion. Cryptic have come up with their own solution to this by displaying peoples handle/username beside their characters name at all time. I have my reservations about this too but it is a step in the right direction.

One solution that came to my mind with this is to limit account activity when attempting to change characters between factions.

For example - You are playing with your Federation character when a message appears, you find out that the Klingon's are raiding a sector in the neutral zone. Instead of fending them off, you decide to log into your Klingon character and help them.

Once you log out there should be a 5-15 minute wait before you can log into your Klingon character. This will deter people from upsetting the balance in the game. This idea can also be used when flagged for PvP also but maybe there is a longer wait 10-20 minutes.

It's understandable that Cryptic can only do so much to try keep a balance between factions. In reality if people really want to do it, they will pay for a second account to use.

My thoughts on how many characters you can have is this.

1 per class per faction. Which would be a total of 6 characters per account. I'd love for there to be more which isn't impossible but I believe 6 is a good number because it leaves all options in the game open to you without the need to delete anyone.

Of course if Cryptic decide to add more classes and another faction it wouldn't be a terrible thing if they were to upgrade our character slots to the appropriate amount.