gameboy1234

Actually the biggest problem is that your friend doesnt' have a credit or debit card. That's almost unheard of in this day and age.

Second, don't game cards work? I thought they did. Find out first, of course, but you could just send your friend a game card or the numbers from a game card.

Lastly, because of the two points above, it is not nearly as urgent as you suggest, but yes it would be nice to have some way to gift folks with either points, or items. Or a subscription, as in your case. I hope Paragon studios is giving all the feedback required for NC Soft to implement this.

Use one of these, rather appropriately I think:

Oops, yeah, Celerity goes in Run, my bad.

Oh wait, unlock manually because you are returning.... right. I'm still confused how you set your title to VIP. What did you buy exactly? Going Rogue through the NC store? Or did you mean you bought a box and applied the code?

Something ain't right here. Could be just the forums software.

Meaning it's $45, not $30, like I said.

C.f. Snow Globe's guide.

Tier: 1 -- Free, 1 Token
Tier: 2 -- Any purchase, 2 Tokens
Tier: 3 -- 5 Tokens, all chat channels

So you basically get two tokens for any purchase, then it's $15 x (5 - 2) = $15 x 3 = $45 for the Tier 3.

Tricksie, but I think I'm getting it. The first purchase counts as part of the first $15. So if you buy $5, you're Tier 2, and then you only have to spend $10 to get a third token. I think that's what is tripping everybody up. Myself included, because I had to be corrected at least three times on this stuff.

After you get the third token, then it's a straight $15 per token. Or 1 month subscription per token, if you're VIP.

However, the *best* way to get an Arachnos outfit is to get a villain to level 20. Then the Arachnos "class" is unlocked and you can make picture perfect Arachnos villains.

If you're on a premium account, you have to buy the Arachnos villains if your rewards are not high enough. There are two types, it's $12.50 each, iirc. A might cheaper than $100 for one hat.

I do agree up to here. I'd like to see the LFG system enhanced to allow teaming too. Just add your team to the LFG, and members get added to it when there's room. The TUT (Team-Up Turnstile, what the devs call LFG) should be made smart enough to give you a decent replacement pick based on the current composition of your team.



Disagree here. I fully expect most F2P folks to go premium. The cost is minimal and you can do it on accident, just by applying a code or buying any little thing. All returning players automatically have access to /tell if they ever had more than just the free trial.

So I think the population that can't use /tell is going to be miniscule. Data mining and experience will tell us if this ultimately is true or not.

Just about 100% sure the free month is free and doesn't count towards monies spent or getting an additional token. Retail code = Tier 2, and that's it, regardless of how many retail codes are applied (Positron said that, explicitly). So I don't see how the free month could count.

Local, Team, Help and Friends.

It's $5 or applying a retail code to get /tell (and /sg, and a couple of others). It's $45 or 3 month subscription to get access to ALL channels, globals included.

Premiums are grandfathered in: if they've subscribed a total of 3 months at any time, they have access to all chat channels. All Premiums (meaning all returning players) have by definition applied a retail code so they all have access to at least /tell.


(Whew! I think I got it finally.)

You mean, "try to send a /tell" is hard?

Yeah, you're right. I was reading that wrong. It takes $45 to unlock all channels (still $5 for just /tell). Poo.

Ah ha! OK, so it costs $15 for Tier 3, and Tier 2 is any purchase.

Tier 1 = Freem
Tier 2 = Unlocks /tell
Tier 3 = Unlock all chats

Any purchase will bump you up from Tier 1 to Tier 2. $15 total will bump you up to Tier 3. So my numbers were off by $5 because I thought the first Tier actually did cost $5.

See if she can send another player a /tell. If she can, she's premium of some sort. Otherwise, it's Free.

Yep, soloed 3 times now. Admittedly not on squishies.

1. 50 Bots/FF mastermind
2. 50 fortunata
3. 44ish night widow

All of these toons were SK'd down to level 20, so I don't think IO sets and Incarnates had much to do with it.

Bots/FF was the hardest. At level 20, you're right in the middle of the Mastermind "hell levels". Three little minions, and only one lieut. Lenkin killed two of my little bots in the last mish before I finished him off. Not too bad though.

Mostly we all just wing it.



This. On squishies I've spent better parts of certain missions face planted because there was no point in even trying. The soloists and speed runners did their thing, and we all moved on.

If the speed runners couldn't finish the mish, I assume we would have regrouped and all went together for a regular team type run. But it wasn't needed, so no big deal.

Just that the FPS numbers were much higher than I would have expected. Unless I misunderstand your settings. If it works OK, then I guess the OP might be good.