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Additional Character Slots Announcement

13th_Stranger

By 13th_Stranger,
Posted on: 2008-04-15 07:36 in Developers' Corner

 

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Excellent job, Devs. You continue to outdo yourself. I sincerely appreciate all your hard work and extensive efforts.
Keep up the good work.

 

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Wooo! This will be great since I have altitis.... <.<

 

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I appreciate the 2 free slots, thanks for that at least. It does seem a little skimpy though (skimpy as in 1 additional slot per year of paid account time), considering the capacity for 36 slots *per server*.

I'd buy 5 slots per server for 20 bucks, but 5 slots total is crap. Almost as bad a deal as a wedding costume or two for $10. 5 more slots on 11 servers would run me, what, $220?! Please correct my math if it's wrong, but it looks to me like maxing out your 36 slots on all 11 servers will cost you about $1000.

Well at least you don't charge $25 per character transfer, like Blizzard. Although, considering the way things are going, who knows what to expect.

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Excellently dooooom-y post. Nice job simultaneously repeating known facts in quasi-belligerent fashion and speculating ominously about the future based on positive news.

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I am EXTREMELY pleased with this new system now, and more pleased at the fact that people who are currently playing CoX get the perks of having a couple "free" slots. That's just awesome, and something that I was REALLY hoping we'd see someday. Kudos on that!

 

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I appreciate the 2 free slots, thanks for that at least. It does seem a little skimpy though (skimpy as in 1 additional slot per year of paid account time), considering the capacity for 36 slots *per server*.

I'd buy 5 slots per server for 20 bucks, but 5 slots total is crap. Almost as bad a deal as a wedding costume or two for $10. 5 more slots on 11 servers would run me, what, $220?! Please correct my math if it's wrong, but it looks to me like maxing out your 36 slots on all 11 servers will cost you about $1000.

Well at least you don't charge $25 per character transfer, like Blizzard. Although, considering the way things are going, who knows what to expect.

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Or the bargin proce of $15/month for a full 12 extra slots per server via a second account.


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Muchas Gracias! Thank you NC Soft for fairness and customer satisfaction! I will certainly be a returning customer...

 

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Wow, great works Devs! This is truly an awesome, fair, yet profitable way to implement more slots. Way to go, and thank you!

 

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omfg. i love you matt.

 

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Excellent!!!!!

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On March 12, 2008 _r0y_ wrote:
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on April 15, 2008 Positron replied:
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NCsoft NorCal Studios is pleased to announce the pricing and details for the coming Optional Additional Character Slot feature. As we previously announced, we heard the request for a system to allow more characters on a single server and this is our answer. City of Heroes is a unique game that offers many playstyle options; options that are growing in a large way due to Powerset Proliferation and the addition of the Villain Epic Archetypes in the next free expansion, Issue 12: Midnight Hour. To accommodate playing more characters on your favorite server, we will be including the following features in Issue 12:
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Yeah. 'bout time you got around to that, Posi... &gt;.&gt;

-r0y

(fyi: for the folks who spend more time in the forums than actually playing the game, that *was* indeed sarcasm).

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I appreciate the 2 free slots, thanks for that at least. It does seem a little skimpy though (skimpy as in 1 additional slot per year of paid account time), considering the capacity for 36 slots *per server*.

I'd buy 5 slots per server for 20 bucks, but 5 slots total is crap. Almost as bad a deal as a wedding costume or two for $10. 5 more slots on 11 servers would run me, what, $220?! Please correct my math if it's wrong, but it looks to me like maxing out your 36 slots on all 11 servers will cost you about $1000.

Well at least you don't charge $25 per character transfer, like Blizzard. Although, considering the way things are going, who knows what to expect.

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Or the bargin proce of $15/month for a full 12 extra slots per server via a second account.

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Paying $15 bucks a month rent on an additional 12 slots for however many months doesn't sound like much of a bargain to me. At least with buying them it's a one time charge and you can have up to 3 accounts worth (36) on a server and only pay $ 15 bucks a month for one account.

 

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I have always been a fan of change. With the right intent, change can be great.

I remember reading a post along time ago that made mention of "One combined Server". I have spent some cash moving toons and would still openly welcome this change. Then i thought about the why behind them not taking action on this and it lead me to Names rights. Who would be allowed to keep their name if 2 were the same? I wonder how many cases of duplicates exist across servers? With one name you could have more than just a few people forced to change names. With all of that in mind i hope they consider how many more cases adding these slotts might make, thus making it less likeley to happen. i could not quantify the number of people on individual servers but i can tell you it feels like activity levels are down. I would even love the combining into 2 or 3 servers if you wanted to tick off less people.

I realize my post is a little off topic. Just trying to think ahead.

 

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If you haven't heard it already, Posi, thank you for feeding my altitis addiction. Without enablers like you, I couldn't get to be where I am today.



Seriously, this rocks. Thanks for the info.

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Oh jesus now I can have 72 characters on freedom

 

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I appreciate the 2 free slots, thanks for that at least. It does seem a little skimpy though (skimpy as in 1 additional slot per year of paid account time), considering the capacity for 36 slots *per server*.

I'd buy 5 slots per server for 20 bucks, but 5 slots total is crap. Almost as bad a deal as a wedding costume or two for $10. 5 more slots on 11 servers would run me, what, $220?! Please correct my math if it's wrong, but it looks to me like maxing out your 36 slots on all 11 servers will cost you about $1000.

Well at least you don't charge $25 per character transfer, like Blizzard. Although, considering the way things are going, who knows what to expect.

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Or the bargin proce of $15/month for a full 12 extra slots per server via a second account.

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Paying $15 bucks a month rent on an additional 12 slots for however many months doesn't sound like much of a bargain to me. At least with buying them it's a one time charge and you can have up to 3 accounts worth (36) on a server and only pay $ 15 bucks a month for one account.

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Yeah but for someone complaining about $1000 to get 36 slots on each server ? at $30/month that longer than most people play an MMO for, so the option is there for 2nd/3rd accounts if you want that number of slots spread round.


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...and to think, so many people I know who've purchased multiple accounts to have more character slots and all they had to do was wait 4 years and until Issue 12 :P

Don't know if it has been posted yet and this is really more of a suggestion which means it probably doesn't belong here.....

anyways....

Why does it cost less to add a whole new slot then it does to move around characters? or rename them? I mean heck, a rename should cost the amount you guys are charging for a whole new character slot.

Listen...this is great and all, but your other "optional one time fee" features are pretty weak.

[u]Character Transfers[u]
Character transfer should cost NOTHING for toons that are lower then maybe level 18 or 20. The adventure doesn't really begin until 20 anyways IMO. THEN a "One Time Fee" for moving characters 20+ is charged for $10.00+ or whatever it is.

Honestly this would be a moot point if you somehow managed to do the granddaddy of them all, server-to-server gameplay. No more searching for teams, no more low populated servers and more importantly, no more server transfers...course then you guys would have to find something else to fill the void

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Renames should be free, but the penalty should be that once a character is renamed it cannot be changed until X amount of time. Say, 6 months to a year, so it would force the player to choose wisely. OR, you could charge the additional name changes, but the first one is free.

Don't get me wrong, I think you guys worked out this new character slot system to a tee. 2 Free ones, vet reward ones, optional payed for ones.....thats awesome. I know this came off angry, and yes, there are a few things that I'm REALLY angry about. Mostly the screw job thats happening to Villains. Aside from the new VEATS, unless there are things in the NEAR future you guys have always been planning to add and I'm way off base.

I'm really not all that angry, just....passionate. I love this game, to a fault sometimes, as we all do I'm sure.

Anyways, keep up the great work and if you must, feel free to move this post if you deem it necessary....

Thanks.

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I give this news eight thumbs up!

Nice work, NCNC.

 

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wow, what can you say but wow, thank you Dev team

 

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I'm not one of the un-evenesss of chars per servers, but max 36 per is going to have some people want to transfer characters from one account to another.
2 slots + extra veteran slots really isn't that many free slots. But I won't look a gift horse in the mouth (which has nothing to do with the Trojan War btw; it would be an insult to check a horse's teeth if someone was giving it to you - you do that when your buying a horse..)
I gained 4 per server when adding CoV so, that was much cheaper and had alot of additional content.
I'm suprised you stopped the scaling at 5 chars. I'm sure there would be plenty that would by 10 or 20 at a time (since here will be 24 more slots per server?) - heck if I just wanted 4 more per server that would be 44!
I would really have liked the $4.95 for the 4 addtional slots per server or $9.95 for an expansion that came with costume, gear, etc. and 4 additional slots per server...oh, well...the "a couple on a specific " will make more loot for NCSoft....so I hope for some great game improvements!

 

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All current subscribers will receive 2 free character slots

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Could we have clarification on the word 'current'. I have friends seriously considering a return for I12. What date (roughly) do they actually need to have an active registration in order to get these two free slots? I would be very interested in the info as a potential recruiting (re-recruiting) tool.

 

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That is a good idea.

 

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Great Job Posi.....great job to those that assisted on this too. Kudos

*continues with altitis with no fear of running out of slots on virtue*

 

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Best idea yet! I wonder if they will allow us to merge two accounts with the upgrade? I'd gladly pay 19 dollars to have all of my Justice toons on 1 account!