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** On the official Morrowind/Oblivion forums, this trope strain is usually called Restartitus. |
** On the official Morrowind/Oblivion forums, this trope strain is usually called Restartitus. |
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** Games with plugins or mod packages are particularly prone to this. Install a few nifty new mods, roll a new character so you can experience all the mod content. Then, repeat forever and never finish the main plot. |
** Games with plugins or mod packages are particularly prone to this. Install a few nifty new mods, roll a new character so you can experience all the mod content. Then, repeat forever and never finish the main plot. |
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* ''[[Rohan Online]]'', ''[[Shaiya]]'', and most other Korean-made [[MMORPG]]s. |
* ''[[Rohan Online]]'', ''[[Shaiya]]'', and most other Korean-made [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s. |
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** This became a pandemic within ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'', which allows 9 characters per server (3 servers for the International variant) by default. This was not enough characters, so you got to seeing players with two, three or more accounts - many of which would be running at the same time, ''on one computer.'' Efforts to fix the 'multi-boxing on one comp' problem were quickly shelved when the playerbase nearly rioted. |
** This became a pandemic within ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'', which allows 9 characters per server (3 servers for the International variant) by default. This was not enough characters, so you got to seeing players with two, three or more accounts - many of which would be running at the same time, ''on one computer.'' Efforts to fix the 'multi-boxing on one comp' problem were quickly shelved when the playerbase nearly rioted. |
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** Similarly, multi-logging has becomer permissable (instead of against the rules, but ignored) in ''[[Flyff]]''. This has led to a situation where one of the most common pieces of advice given to newbies is to make a second account with an FS assist on it, so the assist's buffs can help them level. |
** Similarly, multi-logging has becomer permissable (instead of against the rules, but ignored) in ''[[Flyff]]''. This has led to a situation where one of the most common pieces of advice given to newbies is to make a second account with an FS assist on it, so the assist's buffs can help them level. |
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