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Animal Fur is available as an option for Monstrous gloves, on both male and female. It's not available for any other glove type that I could find.

The NCCoin stuff has been in the EULA for a long time, and seems to be standard to NCSoft EULAs, but does not apply to all of their games. CoH doesn't use NCCoin, and I'm sure that if at any point they decide to start using it for CoH, they'll explain what it means for us.

Issues that are escalationed to senior support staff aren't usually taken care of on weekends, unfortunately, because senior support staff tend to only be available during business hours Monday through Friday. You probably won't hear anything from them until Monday morning, from my experience.

In order to upgrade to the Tier 4, you need any two of the T3s from the same tree. If you scroll down in the recipe window for each T4, there are other recipes. All combinations are listed, just find the recipe appropriate to the two T3s you made.

Yeah, the issue of Paypal not being available for the in-game store purchases has been around a long time. Like you, I'm in Canada, and for the longest time I was also using pre-paid cards to make that sort of purchase. We might consider it a bug, but I don't think Paragon Studios does. This forum is primarily for help given by other players, so they don't look in here often, unless someone points them here for something specific. If you want to inquire about getting the ball rolling on making that possible, I think PMing one of the Community reps, or possibly Black Pebble, would work better.

In the meantime, though, CIBC got in the Advantage (Visa Debit) card...not the first of its kind in Canada, but a first for one of the national banks. The Visa Debit isn't a credit card. It's a bank card attached to an account, but it can be used for online purchases the way a credit card is, through the Visa system. If you an account with CIBC (there's no extra fee for upgrading to this card, despite what you might read online, some people simply don't understand how to pick an account with fees and transaction limits that work for their needs), or are a student and can get the no-fee unlimited account, I really suggest this. It's made online transactions so much easier for me...I've got my CoH sub on it, and iTunes account on it as well. If you aren't a student, or don't already have an account with them, it's still an option to consider...the 10-transaction per month account has a monthly fee that's less than that of the activation fee of those prepaid cards, however, I know money can be tight these days, so that's much less of an option if you don't really think you'd use it that often.

Anyways, I hope some of this helps!

Yup. Hotfixing the game usually requires a patch, unless the issue is purely server-side, which it rarely is.

Avatea's announcement indicates that they know they're running late, but expect it to end soon, and will keep us updated.

Online support asks that you provide as much of that information as possible to make a positive identification that the account is indeed yours. One piece of information that they will also accept is the unique account ID, which they will only send you on the creation of a brand new retail account associated with your Master account. I've gotten mine twice...once when creating my CoH account, and on an old address that was lost, so I did freak a little when I realized how important that was, and once when I created an account for another NCSoft game.

I don't think that online support support can do as you're proposing, however, if I remember correctly, phone support should be able to accept a faxed ID as proof of ownership, provided that the name on the ID matches the name on the account. Phone support is usually faster to deal with in hack cases anyways.

No, the days that you have left would continue to count down. When you unsub, you're really cancelling the recurring payment. You keep the time you have, and your account continues to be active for the remaining time. They don't give us an option to save them for later.

With a good, tight-knit group of close, mature (though, not necessarily adult!) friends, Vent can be an incredibly useful tool, and a lot of fun. However, that doesn't necessarily describe every SG that uses it. A number of them do it because that's the social norm for big groups in an MMO, these days.

You're right, this can definitely hurt team play for those that choose not to use Vent. Most good groups, however, will work to accommadate you if you voice concerns, such as the lack of chat to keep those not using it in the loop, and the constantly changing password. Vent passwords don't have to be changed, but a lot of the time it's changed if someone leaves the group, in order to keep them out of a Vent channel for a group that they no longer belong to.

There is if you're in Canada! I don't think the US has one, though.

There have been a large number of email phishing scams going for Aion, and people who have never had an Aion account have been known to get these emails (the people sending them out don't know if you do or not, and are taking a chance that you might). If you're sure that address was never tied to your PlayNC account, chances are you're right that it wasn't, and the email was a phishing attempt. Never follow the links from these emails, -especially- if they're asking for account information. NCSoft will never ask you for your account information in an email.

Also, Support may not be ignoring your ticket (provided that you put one in, rather than just emailing them), there just may not be anyone of sufficient authority in over the weekend to help you, these cases often require that the ticket be escalated to a senior rep. Update your ticket to keep it open, and a senior rep will get to you as soon as one is available. If you haven't yet put in a ticket, you can submit one here.

Yes

We haven't been given any information on the beta since the Friends and Family stage started. That's not to say that it's not in progress, we just haven't been told about it if it is.

Ummm, unless they changed it back when I wasn't looking, Vengeance hasn't been able to stack for PC characters since the 2006-04-11 patch.

Walmart, EB Games and Gamestop in Canada carry them, but only the 60 day cards these days, and not every store has them.

Yup, there's currently a patch up on Test to fix this problem.