r/NovelAi

V5 looks better, i was so excited for it, but the new Opus usage limit kinda kills the thing that made NAI good for a lot of us.

Yesterday I did around 100 gens just testing art styles, weights, and prompt variations. That’s not farming, that’s just how you figure a new model out. You have to see what actually works now because V5 is different enough that you can’t just port everything from 4.5 without it looking worse.

The 0.5%/hour refill, is way too slow for that kind of work. You get in the zone troubleshooting and then you’re watching a stamina bar. That’s the opposite of what made Opus feel worth $25.

I get they’re trying to stop the people running it 24/7, but this also slaps anyone who actually iterates instead of just hitting generate a few times a day. You can still burn Anlas after you hit the wall, but that kind of defeats the point of the “unlimited” perk that used to be the whole reason to be on Opus.

The unused Anlas vanishing on cancel in 31 days is extra salt on top.

The way I see it, I can understand if the limit for NAI V5 limit is temporary until they get their infrastructure together; I'm paying for Opus too. However, in my point of view, if this is an actual permanent thing, I can't see it as a good thing for both the customers and the company

What do you think?

Edit: The limit punishes the majority of the Opus users, that's what I believe.

I just sat down at my computer and was surprised to see V.5 load up. I know what I'm going to be doing the rest of the day . . .

https://preview.redd.it/y71d88stcnkh1.png?width=417&format=png&auto=webp&s=d995be2c0b0db800754b0fd86765a0ccec3f66c4

I simply asked some questions and offered some suggestions on Discord, and I was banned for an hour. I believe my suggestions were all reasonable; Anlatan is ridiculous.

The following is my chat content

【I don't understand why this measure was introduced, because the vast majority of users wouldn't abuse the free generator feature. This is unfair to most users. My suggestion is to introduce a user tagging function, marking and warning users when they excessively use the free generator feature, instead of restricting all users.】

【You could offer a higher-priced subscription tier, for example, an increase of $5-10. The current Usage Limits are extremely unfriendly to Opus users, especially heavy image generators. This is because adjusting details would waste a significant amount of allowance.】

Doing this will only cause you to lose more core users. This company has absolutely no respect for its users; everyone should take a good look at their true colors.

https://blog.novelai.net/subscription-updates-usage-limits-2025-88a208d5d9c5

since the update whenever i use reference images it consumes tokens, before the update i was able to use up to 4 image refs before it would eat up tokens. Also if i add more than 1 image on v5 it switches the model back to v4.5. Am i doing something wrong?

I'm noticing that some characters I want to make pictures with aren't registered. Notably characters like Jacinthe and LeBanne from Pokémon Legends ZA. Is there a reason for this, and any way to address it?

Hi, it's been 2 months since I got a NovelAI subscription. Actually, I'm coming from Grok — I used to use it for text-based role-playing games, and it excelled at that, until xAI put weekly limits on it, which completely destroyed its usability. So I discovered NovelAI, it's good, you get a lot of control, you're not limited, but I have a problem: I'm always fighting with the AI to stay in control of my narration. Very often the AI will ignore me when I'm playing in text adventure mode, ignoring everything my hero does and says, and take total control of the story instead. How do I avoid this? I'm tired of fighting against the AI.

What prompting techniques help you keep a character’s personality, appearance, and behavior consistent across different scenes?

It's quite annoying at the end of each chapter of dialog it has to add the corny third person narration.

EXAMPLE: "Her quiet life was over. A new chapter had begun, and she was no longer just a reporter. She was a witness, a conspirator, and maybe, just maybe, a warrior in a war she never knew existed. And she wouldn't stop until the truth was out, no matter how dangerous it became. The story of the year had found her, and she was going to see it through to the end."

I have it tagged as dialog heavy, and i even put "no third-person narrative" in the memory.