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In the rewrite of DoN that I am slowly working on, I have added an account system. It takes one more command for a new player to be fully started playing before (Taking it from 7 to 8), which is hardly a time investment, and exactly the same number of steps as before until they get to the point where newbie helpers can assist them, with the added bonus that as a new account, newbie helpers can be more reliably informed that it is a new player who will need special attention.
On the plus side for the player, they can easily check on (limited) details of their other characters, while playing another - since they are associated through an account. People are less likely to forget about their characters and have them purge if they are presented a character choice list on startup.
Players will be given the option of adding details to their account at a later date, but there will be no requirement to register email addresses and the like up front.
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