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  1. Update from SGMate handling the ticket via MOTD:

    "Update on prestige, coalition etc. Whatever was lost is lost basically. According to the GM. Its up to us to establish any coalitions, they don't handle that."

    Ouch and outrage.
  2. My billing date is also on the 28th (12+2 month plan, next payment in May) and I got my 550 PP on October 12th.
  3. My billing date is on the 28th. I got 550 points on October 12th.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    If your game account has a bill day between the 11th of the month to the 31st of the month, you will receive your Paragon Points on your game accounts billing date, as long as you maintain the VIP status of your game account.
    Thread about my confusion over this and other awarding oddities here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=271608

    The good news: I've not been shorted any points or tokens.
  4. And now on October 12th, I got another 550 Paragon Points.

    My microtransactions now look like this:

    Quote:
    Date Game Account Name Item Source Status
    Oct 12, 2011 City of Heroes Freedom™ storyteller 400 Paragon Points VIP Completed
    Oct 12, 2011 City of Heroes Freedom™ storyteller 150 Paragon Points VIP Completed
    Sep 14, 2011 City of Heroes Freedom™ storyteller 400 Paragon Points VIP Completed
    Sep 14, 2011 City of Heroes Freedom™ storyteller 150 Paragon Points VIP Completed
    Sep 13, 2011 City of Heroes Freedom™ storyteller 400 Paragon Points VIP Completed
    Sep 13, 2011 City of Heroes Freedom™ storyteller 400 Paragon Points VIP Completed
    Sep 13, 2011 City of Heroes Freedom™ storyteller 400 Paragon Points VIP Completed
    I'm not short points, but I've been over-rewarded by 950 Paragon Points.

    September 13th awarding: 400 points for being subscribed on my billing date in July (28th), 400 points for being subscribed on my billing date in August (28th), 400 points for ???

    September 14th awarding: 550 points awarded in advance of my billing date on September 28th. See above: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...5&postcount=31

    October 12th awarding: 550 points for ???

    So did I just get my 550 points for my billing date on October 28th? That contradicts what was said here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...06&postcount=1

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    If your game account has a bill day between the 11th of the month to the 31st of the month, you will receive your Paragon Points on your game accounts billing date, as long as you maintain the VIP status of your game account.
  5. Yay, it made it to the known issues list!
  6. Our base has been re-enabled as of October 8th. No restoration of previous prestige or coalitions. It seems to be an older copy of the base since some of the items in the storage bins don't fit our current storage paradigm.
  7. I also got a code that is being rejected as already redeemed. I already have /facepalm on my primary account. I was going to add it to an old beta account that was reactivated.

    V6Y2-HD5Q-HPCT-ZY95-L4RY

    If someone gets it to work, more power to you.
  8. As of 10-02-2011, my main account now has a second server transfer token.
  9. Not that it's any protection, but the VG has existed since CoV head-start. We've got almost 6 years of precedent going.

    Another interesting bugged thing: The prestige column alone of the sg roster adds up to way, way more than 300K.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Impish Kat View Post
    Unless the OP is the red star superleader, all the other items could be changed by someone with high level (red star) edit privileges (possibly as a prank?)...
    I had been the superleader until recently. Hijacking had occurred to me. There's a character I'm not familiar with as superleader now and the other 125+ sg members are all lackey rank.

    However, (I know from trying to do it) there is no way to delete having a base. You can delete everything except the entry room and base portal, but you can't remove that imaginary real estate option once you commit to it.

    Another thing I need to double-check on: I think our coalitions were gone as well. I recall when I tried Base TP, I got no pop-window at all for any base.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Montaugh View Post
    I think I figured it out and it has to do with July being 31 days and having been subbed in June.

    In july they awarded everyone that was subbed in the month of July for even 1 day 400 points. But if you resubbed in the month of july you would have gotten another 400 points for resubbing. If someone wasn't subbed in june and resubbed in July for the 400 points they would have just gotten those 400 points. So June/july awarded 800 points. July only rewarded 400 points.

    So your june payment comes do. You resub. July comes around and on july 1st every account is awarded 400 points. You resubbed in the end of July gaining another 400 points so basically double dipped in July. I did the same thing, I'm guessing anyone that was subbed in June and resubbed in july did the same thing as well. August doesn't double dip because the system is working as normal by this point in regards to point rewards and you get 400 points. All of this is awarded on september 13th so you get 1200 points when you think you should only be getting 800 points.

    On or around September 14th they give everyone their september rewards. For some accounts this was late (september 1-13th), for others it was normal (september 14), and for some it was early (15th-30th). This causes confusion as you would not normally have gotten the reward until later in september. So your bill date rolls around and you don't get the reward because it was already rewarded earlier that month (again same boat as you, I would have gotten my around the 25th but it was actually awarded on the 14th).

    My guess is that they rewarded everyone on the 14th to allow those that had a september bill date of (1st-13th) to get the rewards for september otherwise they would have missed the september reward entirely as they would have technically fallen under the old reward system/billing plan. Its a funky little thing as they opened everything up in the middle of the month rather then the start or end of the month. It all makes sense in a weird sort of way/logic when you look at it and why some accounts got 1200 points, and others 1600 point or even higher do to being a tier 9 on september 14th.

    Everything from this point on will be rewarded as normal come october as you will get your reward on or around your bill date.. the reward date can be a few days off of the billing date for some accounts do to timecards being a static 30 or 60 day option, and NCsoft may just call every month 30 days regardless of actual numbers of days in the month for all accounts, so you may see a few funky bits do to that and bill/reward dates may be a few days off but otherwise everything is working as intended.

    You wouldn't have gotten 2 server transfers for september but would have just gotten the 1 transfer on or around the 14th as I beleive it came a few days later. So you should have 1 for september I know my account has 1 transfer on it. Again this is normal. You wouldn't have gotten another on the 28th as it was already rewarded on or around the 14th.

    Your reward token, the 550 paragon points, the server transfer were all rewarded on the 14th rather then the on your sept 28th bill date.

    Hope that cleared everything up and why you had an extra 400 points and didn't get an extra server token. That was from being subbed in june and having to resub in july.

    I hope all that babbling made sense...
    Thank you for taking the time to reply. Your post is not entirely clear in many areas.

    I find your premise invalid.
    • I'm on a yearly subscription that last renewed in March 2011.
    • My next payment is in May 2012.
    • I don't use time cards.
    • There was no "re-subscription" only an on-paper "billing date".
    • There were no payments made in June OR July.
    • There was no system awarding Paragon Points in the month of August. (All Paragon Points were credited to accounts as a result of a script run in September)
    • If I were a brand new subscriber, I'd expect to get my server transfer, reward token and Paragon Points on the day I paid my money, not at the end of the month when my playtime was up.

    The method this script used to derive how many points should be awarded is what I fundamentally question.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Morgan Reed View Post
    Did you have a "mass exodus" of characters transferring to other servers (such as Exalted)?
    Did you have a bunch of character accounts drop to premium?
    I don't know if anyone transferred to Exalted, but I doubt it. It's a very inactive group.

    It is very likely that many of the characters belonging to this sg are now on Premium level accounts.

    PS - Yes, I opened a support ticket. First thing!
  13. The villain supergroup The Hall of Doom on Virtue seems to have been reset.
    • No base available
    • Prestige dropped to 300,302 from 14 million-ish
    • Emblem changed to Anarchy (1st available iirc)
    • Primary/Secondary colors changed to White/White
    • Rank titles changed back to default
    • Permissions reset to all Superleader only, all else no permissions
    • MotD blank
    • Motto blank
    • Description blank
    • Inactive Leaders Demotion reset back to 15 days
    Any one else had this happen to them recently with the last few patches?
  14. From another thread:
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Beastyle View Post
    As existing VIP subscribers, when the City of Heroes Freedom™ Head Start began, your game accounts automatically received credit for being active in September, as your first month of having VIP status. Paragon Points were awarded on the date Head Start began, instead of on your monthly billing date.

    Going forward from October you will receive your Paragon Points on your game account's billing date as long as you maintain VIP status.
    So that explains the points I got on Sept. 14 (400+150).

    Billing Date Update (28th):
    • I got no points on my billing date this month (28th), so it's WAI, per the post above.
    • No additional Reward Token on the 28th, but I'm not due one according to support (see post above, GM_Grackle).
    • No additional server transfer token awarded.
    I'm still +400 Paragon Points by my accounting with no explanation or response from support since 09/16/2011.
  15. I also had a beta account that was recently reactivated.

    This was the beta testing account I received for being a registered member of the forums before City of Heroes launched in 2004.

    The last time I logged into it was just prior to Name Reservation and Headstart.

    It has had no codes applied, no retail boxes applied, no nothing.

    This account has: 17 Reward Tokens, 14 spent. 0 PP. 2 Global Character Slot Tokens. No characters on any server.

    Strangeness.
  16. I'm just now realizing the only way to access the Mission Architect is through VIP or Paragon Rewards.

    They removed the Mission Architect License (30 day) from the live release.
  17. I did a Tin Mage on Victory last night on Cannonfodder and also got 40 merits, but no reward table as well.

    More specifically, I can recall the reward table flashing into existence, then when I went to look for it, it wasn't on the screen.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Caulderone View Post
    Any update on yours yet? None on mine so far.
    No updates.
  19. For the Paragon Points section, what do you think of adding a column for number of reward tokens earned?

    Also, how about a "Date Added" column for the market listing?
  20. Tunnel Rat acknowledges Purple Paper Dolls as a bug here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...96#post3884396

    Quote:
    The dark, opaque afterimages in the Dual Pistols attacks and Dimension Shift emote are the result of a bug. This will be fixed and reverted to the original look in an upcoming patch.
  21. Storyteller

    10 Years of CoH

    • I started following the game and registered for the forums in 2003 after seeing an article about the Super Strength power set in a gaming magazine.
    • I've been subscribed continually since head-start.
    • I come from a varied background of RPGs with a smattering of table-top miniatures war-gaming, CCGs and board games including Marvel Super Heroes and Champions.
    • I was exposed to and loved EverQuest in 1999, so I was OK with the whole MMO pay-to-play structure.
    • I got into the beta in early March because of my previous forum registration and also got another account into beta because I pre-ordered.
    • CoH has outlasted two jobs and one relationship.
  22. Got a response from GM Grackle.

    Quote:
    After further investigation, we've been able to determine that this Reward Token discrepancy is linked to an issue in the account system. The Development Team is aware of it and is working on a fix for it at this time. As it stands right now, your account has essentially received an extra Reward Token in advance/prematurely. That shouldn't have happened.

    Even so, when this is fixed your game account will be updated and will accrue the correct Reward Tokens from that point forward. It's also important to keep in mind that it may take a month for your account to "catch up" with the reward system (to compensate for the extra Reward Token that you have now) once this fix has been applied.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by wod_marach View Post
    Out of interest aren't points etc supposed to be added on your billing day? I had a billing day yesterday and have nothing added...
    You should definitely petition. When you get a response please let us know what they told you.

    Thanks!
  24. Storyteller

    Whats new?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ideon View Post
    Is there anything new regarding power pools? Like, does everyone have access to all travel powers without picking air superiority, combat jumping, etc? How about stuff like First Aid and Tough/Weave? :3
    From patch notes:
    • The first and second tier powers in Fighting, Concealment, Leadership, Presence and Medicine are now available at level 4 instead of 6.
    • The fourth tier power in Fighting, Concealment, Leadership, Presence and Medicine is now available at level 14 instead of 20.