Gemesis

Yeah, your account doesn't get suspended anymore. You stop paying, and you go Premium! You'll still be able to play for free, so no your characters don't, and won't get deleted. But as others said, make sure you claim email items before you go, if you won't be playing as a Preem.

What Hopeling said and IIRC as it's been a while since I played a MM, the pets still need to be in a close range to the MM. So if your minions run up to melee, while you and the rest of your pets stay at range, the damage will be split across the pets still near you, and the minions would not take damage from Bodyguard.

I see it from all sides.

From a VIP player Point of view: I see no need for increased access, for those who aren't supporting the game by paying for the service.

From the point of view of a Premium Player: I see the desire to get access to areas of CoH that I'm currently restricted from. My 50s on my premium account can't run incarnate trials, and if/when my VIP account goes Premium, there will be parts of the forum I can't access.

From the viewpoint of the devs/Community Mods: Originally there was no forum access for free players, then gave them some access. Now they ask for more. This one person is asking for the For Fun section, and nothing else. But then another wants the Server forums. Another will want PvP forum access.

I understand all these different points of views, and more, and the way I see it, is that there isn't a need for more access to be given. If it's given, great I won't object.

Honestly if saying that the restriction is enough to make you quit playing the game(Or edit your posts to say never go Premium}, then I see that as your loss. Like Aett said, the community here is great, and you're not cut off from it. It's why the City Life forum is open for all access, and not just the 'ask for help here' forums. It's limiting of course, but if you can play the game and live with the chat restrictions there, I don't see that the forum restrictions being that harsh.

Well considering this forum is for players asking players questions about the game, you're not likely to get someone to give you the answer you want. I recommend contacting support to ensure this doesn't happen to you again.

Here ya go.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=255928

When you do a transfer, you have to already have an open slot on the server that's getting the character. For instance, say you've got 12 slots on Justice, and all of them are being used, and you want to transfer a character from Infinity to Justice, then it won't allow you to transfer the character to Justice until you've freed up a slot.

Now if you are VIP right now, and transfer the character, then when you drop to Premium, you'll be prompted to unlock the slots you want to play, be they slots with characters in them, or empty slots so you can create new characters.

This is the part that I can't say for certain on. If you're wanting to transfer once you've gone Premium, I would assume the character slot will not transfer. I would assume it will work the same as if you're VIP, the new server has to have an open slot for the transferring character to occupy, and then will leave an open slot on the original server.

My best suggestion would be to do the transfer before dropping to Premium, but not knowing the hows or whys, you might want to wait to do it, I'd prepare for the situation as I assumed it would happen above.

Anyone else having issues with MM pets after dismissing them?

I haven't played an MM in a while, so I don't know if this is an old bug, or a new one, but when I played one today, I had it happen twice where I tried to dismiss my minions, and they didn't go away. Their names vanished from the pet window, but they were still there.. and still took commands.

I tried resummoning them, and it acted as a misfire.

I did /bug this, but I remember Posi said once that bugs get noticed here better than /bug does.

Just to scratch this off the possible reasons... when you say servers are you including the test and beta servers? Because both of those are separate from the live servers. if you bought it on beta, you won't get access to it on the live servers, and vice versa.

There was another thread not long ago talking about this as well. Big Bang Theory has a LOT of CoH/V stuff in it.

What really surprised me was in an episode of Chuck this season(Only two episodes so far!) there was a large display stack of City of Villain game boxes in the Buy More.

1: Like Ad Astra said, you earn them during the winter event by turning in Candy Canes, which you can start buying off the auction house now. I believe they are 50 candy canes a piece, one nice, and one naughty. Also, it's per character.

2: No, those dresses do not exist for players. Only NPCs have them, and they've been requested to be ported over to players since Cimerora came out.