A question about the game regarding the community and single player

[Nerevar]

I've been looking over the game and it looks fun, but I'd rather play the game on my own or with my wife than with others online.

I know that there are skills and, I suspect, that you can't master everything and so that's where the community part comes in.

So my question is, can I make multiple characters in a given world so that I have, says, a lumberjack character, and a miner, etc. Or does each world have only one character per player available?

I just want to play the game by myself or with my wife and I wanna make sure we can have a fun time. Thanks!

[Shane]

You do have time to learn everything, its just more tedious because instead of mastering just a few roles, and trading for items related to the other skills. You have to do them all instead, which also means more construction work.

There is no need to make multiple characters, you just make the same character master every skill. This said i find most peole on the online servers learn everything over time anyway, so its kinda moot in the end in all fairness.

All your going to lose is most of the mechanics such as trading, economy aspects, blah, blah

When i go online, most the stores cant buy anything anyway because they have not got enough currency or something, not to mention they only sell the crap they dont want, which generally means you dont want it either...

Nobody seems to bother leasing/renting their stations, and if you do, they have their own anyway which is free to use. So you never make anything from that either. Then we have the large communitys, where all the best land is taken, tree damage everywhere, and what i can only describe as complete junk construction projects.

the one i play online is very good, not many players, but they all have taken great care to construct something really nice, but the rest of the stuff is not really so great as i say. i generally log on in the morning or a little bit, spend my XP, jump onto my SPserver, then before bed repeat the online for a little bit spend that XP again.

For me the care of the planet and the construction overrides the other stuff like the economy

[Risk4Reward]

Me and my wife both play on are private server, you can tweek the settings a little to give yourself more skill points so your not waiting so long to skill up.

[Nerevar]

Thank you both. This is super helpful and informative. I'm sad about missing out on some of the aspects that sounded cool like laws and elections (reminds me of Star Wars Galaxies politicians), but I've played enough games online to learn that most people don't tend to play the way I do anyway (those kinds of mechanics sound great on paper but then in player communities, unless you have a ton of friends to play with which I dont, don't often work well for me). I think it would bother me more to not have access to the best lands, or not being able to be important to the economy than it would to learn every skill and do everything myself.

Anyway, thanks again, I think I'll see about getting it soon and checking it out with my wife.