I have been hoping to clean up my hard drive for a long time and have a new character in mind to start over with.
I have also heard that there is a certain 'compacting' (for lack of a better word) that happens each time a new save is created. Something along the lines of the growth on the size of information saved in say character #35 who has completed less of the game than character #1.
The accuracy of the save file inflation isn't actually what us important to me (though further information will always be appreciated), however I would like to know if I were to delete all my safe files, would the next character I create start back at 1, or would I need to do something else first? (Assumably clearing the cache I guess).
Would be nice to know before blowing 10+ characters into oblivion for no reason.