Additional Character Slots Announcement
By
13th_Stranger,
Posted on: 2008-04-15 07:36 in Developers' Corner
Positron, I just totally had your babies.
DING!
w00t
FREEM!!
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Um, 24 slots X 11 servers is 158 slots you would have to purchase.... for a low, low price of $1,040.
O.o'
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Heh, looks like they can afford to put in that espresso machine in the breakroom now....
And donuts! FREE DONUT FRIDAYS!!!
That should cheer up them grumpy devs... 
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They are in the business to make money and have you seen the size of Lighthouse?
Bet the Devs get crumbs when he is around.
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Gee, Devs, this is all great and all...you giving us an inch.
I guess what many are saying is that we just want a mile?
/endsarcasm.
C'mon folks...
The gift horse has a mouth. Don't look into it. 
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the weakest saint on his knees.
<----- Click there to learn how you can help! It just keeps getting better and better. NCSoft should have bought CoX from Cryptic a LONG time ago!!!
DDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!! There I said it. Now then... what were we talking about?
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*feels silly for the post he made the other day* Thanks Posi. Free slots is awesome. Now just to choose between Pinn and Virtue..
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Virtue.
BTW, thank you devs! I am sooooo happy about this announcement!
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Positron, I just totally had your babies.
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FOUR HUNDRED BABIES!
<sniffles> I... I love you!
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So....since you're answering all sorts of other questions Lighthouse, what about being able to transfer across accounts under the same master NC account with this? If you don't know, just an 'I don't know' would be nice so we know at least someone's reading the posts and know its a concern
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We're aware of the desire for cross account transfers. However I don't have any public statement on it, nor would I hazard a guess if or when or under what conditions it would be implemented.
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As someone who has three accounts, this would be an awesome feature for those of us who can't stop making alts
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Positron, I just totally had your babies.
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FOUR HUNDRED BABIES!
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And i gave them shocklate so they are good at SPORTS.
They can run ABNORMALLY FAST.
In fact they are as fast as KENYANS.
People watch them run and think they are KENYANS.
They will race as fast as KENYANS.
Against actual KENYANS.
And then it will be a tie and they will be deported back to KENYAAAAA.
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*cough* RIP OFF *cough* why spend money on slots when there are many servers to play on and other games give MANY more slots for free? just my opinion.
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Ya would you care to name said games & just how much character custimization do they offer along with "ALL" their slots?? Just curious you know, cause I don't know of any offhand that are currently available that offer quite the same combination that CoX does.
IMHO I think what the Devs' have done is simply wonderful & the fact that we're getting 2 slots as a bonus to place on the server(s) we wish along with retroactive VETs rewards. What would make it totally Gasmatic is if they do the "max your slots on 1 server for $84.99" idea or even impliment $34.99 for 12, $47.99 for 24 for those SERIOUS altoholics that really do luv their HOME Server(s). **starts handing out depends & towels just incase they do**
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*my god..it's full of stars!*
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Oh thank you! I thought it really sucked that I had to delete already awesome ideas for characters to make a new one and keep to one server where I know people. And I always found it difficult weighing the coolness of one character against the one I wanted to make which may not have been cool of an idea anyway.
I probably will be buying 5 slots right off the bat.
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*cough* RIP OFF *cough* why spend money on slots when there are many servers to play on and other games give MANY more slots for free? just my opinion.
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You don't have friends you play with that stick to one server, do you? But I guess I could move a character to another server, but that could get expensive if you want to do that all the time. Might as well stick to one server and pay the one time fee.
And why are you trying to convince us to play other MMORPGs? You know that won't work. j/k
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*cough* RIP OFF *cough* why spend money on slots when there are many servers to play on and other games give MANY more slots for free? just my opinion.
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Ya would you care to name said games & just how much character custimization do they offer along with "ALL" their slots?? Just curious you know, cause I don't know of any offhand that are currently available that offer quite the same combination that CoX does.
IMHO I think what the Devs' have done is simply wonderful & the fact that we're getting 2 slots as a bonus to place on the server(s) we wish along with retroactive VETs rewards. What would make it totally Gasmatic is if they do the "max your slots on 1 server for $84.99" idea or even impliment $34.99 for 12, $47.99 for 24 for those SERIOUS altoholics that really do luv their HOME Server(s). **starts handing out depends & towels just incase they do**
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Champions does.....
DOOOOOOOOOM*
*all the feel goodyness physically harms the forums so someone has to say doom everynow and again or else the servers explode*
Ok, ok...
Don't anyone have a seizure or faint or anything, but I have something POSITIVE to say:
woot!
Thank you, indeed, Positron, for an righteously, excellent solution.
And, yes, even your pricing scheme is perfectly reasonable.
vivots! vivots! vivots!
Cal2
PS: lest I break character here and seem to be insidiously revising my previous, long-reaching denigrating, over-arcing recent reviews of the game: yes, I'm still heading to CO when it launches.
gomen nasai
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Ok, ok...
Don't anyone have a seizure or faint or anything, but I have something POSITIVE to say:
woot!
Thank you, indeed, Positron, for an righteously, excellent solution.
And, yes, even your pricing scheme is perfectly reasonable.
vivots! vivots! vivots!
Cal2
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..... you broke my computer.....
Posi mate, you bloody well rock.
Thumbs up for each of the ways we get access to the slots, very well balanced (/wtb more thumbs, two ain't enough).
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fantastic addition, wtg guys. I love the direction this game is headed.
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Hmmm....
36 slots on 11 servers is 396 total alts.
Primary powers * secondary powers for all the character types (not including the new powersets!) is 400 possibilities ...
Not QUITE enough slots....
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It will be over 537 when i12 goes live.
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Um, 24 slots X 11 servers is 158 slots you would have to purchase.... for a low, low price of $1,040.
O.o'
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Exactly why it's a rip-off. The limitation of slots to one Server even for Vet Awards seems silly. Since each player can only play one Toon at a time, the server impact of a Character is a bit of storage space (Moore's Law makes that cheaper over time). Also with Powerset proliferation, Epic ATs, Costume Design... The added benefit of these things is marginalized without the ability to try them all, and you've made that economically unfeasible (add fees for Server Transfer and Wedding Costumes!). Limited costume slots compound the problem of proliferating Costume pieces (Gotta Colect Them ALL! ... wait, is that copyrighted?). Did I wait 3 years to get into a game that was better or just more expensive? Really, how hard would it have been to buy a slot and get it on all the servers (without it being 3x the price of the game)?
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*cough* RIP OFF *cough* why spend money on slots when there are many servers to play on and other games give MANY more slots for free? just my opinion.
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I'm with the others here. Name them Canuck. I have played plenty of other MMORPGS and none give you as many character slots or customization abilities/power set choices. And the others that allow you to buy more slots are upwards of $10.
Far as I know, this is the cheapest character slot purchase price and we already have the most available to us.
I'm spread out all over different servers (something I'm sure you are more than well aware of) and I am dying to put more slots on Guardian and Victory because I play the most there.
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You've gotta be kidding me!
This has got to be one of the most bunk wannabe features added to any mmo ever!
Nah, just kidding... nice job; all i'll need is my freebies and my vet slots... anything more than that is obsessing.
Apparently, I play "City of Shakespeare"
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BLESS YOU BLESS YOU BLESS YOU!
Not just for the extra slots, but ESPECIALLY for the "arranging chars via drag and drop" option - something I've wanted since I made my 3 or 4th alt 4 years ago. This may sound silly, but I'm honestly feeling choked up right now because I've wanted this so badly!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
OMG, this is sooo bitchin'! Thank you so much to listening to the players. YOU GUYS ROCK!
You make me want to stay. No higher compliment could be paid to a creative team than that. I'll say it again: Well done.
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Word-straight-frakkin'-up!!!
Once upon a time there was a little game called City of Heroes & Villains then I12 came along and blew it the frak out the water and reassembled it with more awesomeness than the world had ever seen before. Really you guys got to stop with the goodies or your entire player base just might die from the sheer shock of it all.
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while your at it and all... no pressure or anything. 
They listened! They really listened! Guys, I am tearing up.
This is awesome. A few free slots...a vet reward (which I'd been campaigning for)...and an affordable one-time fee for extra. This is the best of all possible solutions.
Awesome...just awesome.
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Ditto.
I mean we got the full meal deal = a Tasty Burger, the Awesome Fries, the Tasty Beverage, and an extra Side of Hellyeah!
Hellyeah - being the "update to the character selection screen that lets you re-organize your character list by Drag and Drop, as well as easily flip between up to three pages of characters available on that server."
Now if they wanted to super-size their new happy meal deal - they could look into Two things mentioned above in this thread (and elsewhere previously, more than once).
The first by Suspicious_Pkg:
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Agreed. It would be nice if they tied vet time to the master PlayNC account date rather than the individual game account. But being able to buy slots with a one-time fee will be a better alternative for me than opening an additional account and paying monthly.
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And the other by 9thcircle:
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Now if there were a way for me to add my soon to be new characters to my 1 person SG without using another player. )Maybe a SG/VG recruitment station in Pocket D.) It would make it just a little more awesome.
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You guys managed to make all of the "Sides/Factions" in the previous thread (argument) on additional character slots happy and all.
You know I'm just saying,
Edit: BTW the Vet Reward part makes me alot more enthusiastic about recently getting the 39 month = Ardent.
Before today - I was like *sarcasm "oh yippee, boxing outfits"*.
Now it means that 45 won't feel so empty to me (42 & 48 already looked sweet) - and I'll bet this applies to many other folks too, among all levels of the Vet Rewards.