Ah, the plan was to do for 15 characters eventually as well, but first have to start with 1 and then 5 and then 15 to say, working myself up as I get through milestones to say.
Me mentioning 5 characters like that it was just the start and I very well know that you optimally need 15 and 20 if possible, but I personally as a F2P, VIP 0, level 191 can’t nearly afford to keep up with 5 characters stamina wise and at least right now have 3 R12 characters. Although that might change as we now get more stamina.
As for gold I can maybe keep up with 7-8 characters a month.
I don’t mean to fact deny to say, but it is true that I try to be diplomatic and objective, as well as informative in my post even though depends on the type of post. If anything I just try to see the positive first and the negative things factors afterwards.
Anyway, for friendship it is possible to level your main characters so much that they don’t need help from the other characters, although have to wait some months if so I suppose as you have to wait on the level cap increasing. But it is definitely possible in theory to have your main carry the whole friendship team, even if the other character need to get to the level requirement you don’t technically have to increase the rank.
Still if the main isn’t a good damager you may have to level up some of the others or wait extra long though.
I would very much like having 15 main characters to be the minimum an F2P can obtain, but unfortunately keeping up with around 5 is hard enough. Right now I have around 5.46M and that power is mainly from my main team, especially Nick who is around 500 000 himself.
But the thing about F2Pers or at least myself at least, I enjoy the game in my own pace and focus on characters I like :-). I don’t really care about having the best characters, I go for the characters that works and I have a PvE focused team. I level characters that has skills that isn’t dependant on power like Tron’s ability to remove enemies’s buffs like Berserk and Invincibility, so that I don’t get stuck in City Watch due to Beast and similar. As long as I can keep up PvE wise I am happy enough.
But yeah, for the Power Craft cost thing I would set up the cost for 1, 5 and 15 so not just in terms of 5 characters yeah :-).