Creating new character

[Striker44]

It's just one of the many things that show the dev process never really had people having more than one character in mind.

I'd just slightly amend this to add "on one server." I think they anticipated people having multiple characters, perhaps to play with different groups of friends and the like (since DC travel wasn't a thing originally), but with an individual character able to play all possible classes, why would you need more than one on the same server? (Yes, I can see some reasons why, just speculating from the dev side of things.)

[SongOfTheWind]

I'd just slightly amend this to add "on one server." I think they anticipated people having multiple characters, perhaps to play with different groups of friends and the like (since DC travel wasn't a thing originally), but with an individual character able to play all possible classes, why would you need more than one on the same server? (Yes, I can see some reasons why, just speculating from the dev side of things.)

How about the subscription tier to be able to do that is actually higher? If they are oblivious to why would anyone want that?

[Astrus]

I'd just slightly amend this to add "on one server." I think they anticipated people having multiple characters, perhaps to play with different groups of friends and the like (since DC travel wasn't a thing originally), but with an individual character able to play all possible classes, why would you need more than one on the same server? (Yes, I can see some reasons why, just speculating from the dev side of things.)

On the one hand, yes. And the cheaper sub option has limited you to one character per world for the longest time so the incentive clearly was there.
On the other hand they dropped that limitation, the cash shop has so many items that are single-character with no option to pay extra for an account-wide version and seasonal event achievements are also character-bound. If you were present for an event and played through it you get to claim as many copies of its rewartds from the NPC as you need, on that character, when you switch to one who didn't play the event or was created after the event you have the privilege of buying the replica rewards from the cash shop, as single-character purchases. Yet we have other items that are sent to all your characters whenever.
They're sending very mixed signals overall but you only ever run into issues if you intend to have more than one character.

[Nitelancer]

If my world if congested why does it feel so empty?

[Akonyl]

FWIW, all worlds were set to Congested with Dawntrail release, outside of the worlds they wanted to force people to.

They mentioned prior to DT release that come 7.05 (tomorrow) this travel restriction should be released, so hopefully along with that some of the currently "congested" servers will be re-categorized and you'll be able to make another character.