Maybe it's me

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.5.0
-- Joomla version -- : 3.4.3
-- PHP version -- : 5.3
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : Chrome Latest
-- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : No Error Messages

So I am getting ready to buy the business edition so I setup the starter edition to get a taste of Hikashop before I buy. There is 1 specific requirement that I have for items, and it appears HS meets the requirement but I am getting some really weird behavior.

I have about 6 categories, each with roughly 10-20 products in them.

Some of my products need to have multiple characteristics with about 25 values per characteristic.

I created my item and saved it. (1 Set of 8 Bags, 4 of 1 color, 4 of another)
I created my Bag 1 characteristic with all 25 values and saved it. (Bag Color 1)
I created my Bag 2 characteristic with all 25 values and saved it. (Bag Color 2)

Went to my product and added Bag 1 and Bag 2 as characteristics.

Currently I only have 4 products entered in my backend. The 1 set of 8 product being the only one with characteristics.

Looking in my products table in the database I now have like 655 rows in that table.

It looks like the values for my characteristics are creating individual products instead of just a relation in the variants table.

I don't know if I am doing this wrong or not, but it is driving me bonkers.

I tried to add another product which was 8 sets of 8 Bags, that product uses 8 characteristics (25 colors each). It created something like 32000 products in my database and caused an out of memory error in the backend.

I have uninstalled Hika, deleted all tables, and reinstalled 3 times now thinking it was me, same thing keeps happening

Any help would be more than appreciated.