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Why is there this extra step before you can login, I hear you ask. Please, read on.
Why is there this extra step before you can login, I hear you ask. Please, read on.


===Characters and Accounts===
Characters and accounts were really one thing before, now they are split. Lets explain the basic ideas:
Characters and accounts were really one thing before, now they are split. Lets explain the basic ideas:


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Up until now you had to create a new account for each new character you wanted. Each account might have different passwords. If you wanted to change the password on your accounts or check your login history on the database you had to login and logout separately for each character you owned.
Up until now you had to create a new account for each new character you wanted. Each account might have different passwords. If you wanted to change the password on your accounts or check your login history on the database you had to login and logout separately for each character you owned.


Now you can merge accounts.
Now you can merge accounts. Please go to [http://stendhalgame.org http://stendhalgame.org/...TODO]. It is likely you already have a character you consider your main one, perhaps the first you made. So lets choose this to be your account and merge the other characters to it. '''You will stay be able to play all your characters normally. You can play more than one at a time.'''

===How to merge accounts===
Please go to [http://stendhalgame.org http://stendhalgame.org/...TODO]. It is likely you already have a character you consider your main one, perhaps the first you made. So lets choose this to be your account and merge the other characters to it. '''You will stay be able to play all your characters normally. You can play more than one at a time.'''


# Choose your main account
# Choose your main account
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===Logging into game with main account===
Next time you login to game, use the account name and password you chose as your main account.
Next time you login to game, use the account name and password you chose as your main account.


You'll be able to choose which character to play:

[[Image:Stendhal_choose_character.png]]

===Cleaning up saved profiles===
You can remove saved profiles of accounts that are now merged onto your main one. We merged ''hendrik'' onto the main one, ''hendrikus''. So, we go to the Login to server dialog, select the old profile from the list and click ''Remove profile''.
You can remove saved profiles of accounts that are now merged onto your main one. We merged ''hendrik'' onto the main one, ''hendrikus''. So, we go to the Login to server dialog, select the old profile from the list and click ''Remove profile''.