Question about multiple characters:
Let's say you're in single player. If you can have multiple players, would you be able to log out of the session, and log into the same session with a different character just to use their perks momentarily? Or would they be basically another entity at another location as the other character?
Each character spawns at the spawn location for the world. If character 1 is 1000 miles from spawn then character 2 would have to walk 1000 miles to join them.
The point is to be able to play the same world with multiple character types... not to quickly cheat past some area.