I was just thinkin'Follow

Kind of like the Test system where you can start at 25 with eqpt. I think 50 might be a bit high, cuz you would have complete newbies in there, too, not just alts of experienced players.

Just a comment, for what it's worth.

I don't think it would be game breaking even at 50 (though 40 would be less controversial). It's less forgiving not knowing what you are doing at level 7... but almost all characters made this way would be established players alts anyways.

They'd have to give you the basic spell book and 100 (at least) in each normal skill a class would build up by the level. Otherwise it defeats the test-drive a class dynamic this could introduce.

The 50-65 climb seems to be where most casuals and alts get bogged down so it would probably be a positive for grouping at that range for a short while.

If it was implemented with an account flag, so you had to have a levelled character on an account to use the option that was (let's say) 20 levels higher --so you can create a level 20 @ 40, 30 @ 50, 40 @ 60 and 50 @ 70. This way you wouldn't have brand new accounts with 8 X level 50s with no effort. But that's more coding and maybe missing the point?

I'd use the feature if it ever happened.

I'd think people need to grind a certain number of levels to learn their class, the spells and tips and tricks etc. So level 50 seems awfully high to me. That said, the idea has merit, but how about:

"If you have at least one character at the current level cap, you can choose to start a second/third/whatever character at 1/4 of the current level cap."?

That way you could make sure that the player had at least a basic clue about the game and the world before they start spawning high-level toons left and right.

On one hand, there's an obvious progression to how you gain skills and especially spells. Later spells are frequently not only more powerful but also more sophisticated versions of earlier spells. Skipping the early levels takes away the chance to learn about these.

On the other hand, the way the game is set up right now, you essentially plow through the first 15-20+ levels solo anyway. Gone are the days of spending a month on levels 1-12, grouping at some orc or dervish camp and becoming well familiar with all of your spells/skills.

I'd say to require a character on the account to be at least 60 and that, for each character level 60+ you can start a new one at lvl 40 with a full spellbook and skills and low-moderate level equipment. If you have a level 60+ character, getting a lvl 40 decently geared should be trivial anyway. If you delete your lvl 40, you can make another (allowing people to test classes).

By lvl 60, you know (God willing) the basics of aggro, healing, class roles, etc etc. Even if you have to fumble around your new shaman's spellbook a bit, you should at least be aware of what shamans do and noodle out how to do it.

I'm pretty sure Dark Age of Camelot (heh.. I know) allows for this. Once you get a character past a certain level, you can get a quick start on your alts.

Knowing SOE, they'd charge you $6.99 for each quick-start slot.