Additional Character Slots Announcement
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13th_Stranger,
Posted on: 2008-04-15 07:36 in Developers' Corner
Ok...free slots up front, plus slots based on Vet time, plus purchasable slots for a one-time fee that are less than $10.00 each?
Ok...who are you guys and what have you done with our Devs? lol!
I thought I12 was full of win before...
WOOT!
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I will join with the majority of postings (posters?) and say AWSOME!!!
Although I have many Toons, and use all but one server, I mostly play on Guardian and Victory (and Justice...) As far as I know this compares Very Favorably to any of the other MMO's. More Importantly it will let Me get More Enjoyment Playing City of Heroes! I've been here since the Beta, and hope to keep playing for many more years!
I hate deleteing characters, and have almost never done so. Thus there are many Toons I might have made, but have not yet because of a lack of slots. This will let me make many of the Toons I have wanted too. And over the years, and especially since CoX made the changeover I have been favorably impressed by the direction things have been going.
I am renewing my yearly membership and look foward to having FUN in CoH with your Peep's Toons!
Good Luck, have FUN!
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Excellent solution, thank you very much.
Curse you all for enabling my altitis, but seriously thank you guys this sounds great. 
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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.
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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)?
[/ QUOTE ]So US players would get 11 slots for $6, while EU players would get 4 slots?
Not to mention many players only actually play on a handful of the available servers. I play on 4 of the 11.
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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:
<ul type="square">[*] All current subscribers will receive 2 free character slots, each of which can be used on the specific server of their choice. This is to help you make new characters to take advantage of the new features of Issue 12, even if you already have maxed out your home servers character slots.
[*] 1 free character slot will be granted retroactively on a yearly basis through the current Veteran Reward system. Every 12 months that a subscription is maintained will unlock an additional free character slot that the user can apply to the server of their choice. Thus, existing players will be eligible for up to 4 additional character slots at the launch of Issue 12. This will continue into the future for Veteran Rewards given out every 12 months, so you get another slot for 5 years, another one for 6 years, etc.
[*] Additional Optional Character Slots will be available on a purchasable basis. These are one-time fees, not an addition to your monthly subscription rate. The additional slots can be had at the following price points:
1 Optional Character Slot for a one-time fee of $5.99
2 Optional Character Slots for a one-time fee of $9.99
5 Optional Character Slots for a one-time fee of $19.99
[*] Players can have up to 36 slots per server, with an 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. All customers benefit from these great new User Interface features included with the revisions for Optional Character Slots.[/list]The above features are planned to be made available at the launch of Issue 12: Midnight Hour, which is currently in closed beta testing. Be sure to check out this feature, along with the rest of Issue 12 when we enter the open beta testing period that should be starting in several more weeks.
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<Blinks.. reads again....blinks.... head explodes from joygasim> 
I'll add my $0.02 now and say Well Done!
I'll add my $19.97 when I12 goes live....again...and again...and again....until either my bankroll screeches to a halt, or 36 slots.
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I'm just happy to know I'm not the only one creeped out on the lack of doomsaying on this thread.
But I guess we all can't be asking for easy prey once in a while. I'm still laughing at the whole thing about people getting offended by the "Friends and Family" phase of testing.
As for CoH and it's slots... *sigh* now I don't have an excuse to not make a lot of alts without fearing of running out of space for new ideas. I know I know, poor me. I guess I'll have to deal with being able to make more characters and not having to delete them...WHAT AM I TO DO?
Geez Devs, make my life on CoH better why don't ya?
...freakin jerks. 
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i hope your ncstore doesn't break when everyone goes to buy extra slots on the first day. i'll probably be picking up the wedding pack and GoodvEvil pack for me and my wife before the Ncsoft credit card server breaks from over use :P
Hot Dog, thanks Posi. Glad to know you guys are doing this per server as opposed to globally since it would, in theory keep the price per slot down. Course, the price is somewhat arbitrary but I assume that the money will mostly go to pay for game improvements just as the Wedding pack went for improvements to the game.
For me, the Veterans reward will be nice on this since it means I can add 6 slots across the two main servers I play on. Man.... I need more slots.
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Schweet. So 5 free slots on my first account and 4 on my second. Will probably buy 5 more on both also.
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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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You should have a pretty good idea of when Issue 12 (and optional character slots) will go live by how the beta progresses. We are in closed beta and have more weeks of that to go, then weeks of open beta, then launch. That's as clear of a picture I can give at this juncture.
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Ok, just to be sure...
If you have an active subscription the day that I12 goes live, you get the two free slots.
Right?
If I12 goes live on June 6th, they can re-subscribe on June 5th, and they get the slots. If they re-subscribe on June 7th, they don't. (Go live date is purely theoretical, of course).
So One side benifit from this is it should put to rest the possibility of going serverless, if they combine servers some how in the future,think how ticked off people would be who spent money to get extra slots, then all of those slots from extra servers suddently become avail. Like I said this is a good thing
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WOOT!!!
Wow that's like three times what i was expecting 
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Fantastic giving us free slots fro vets too You guys did great work on this one!
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Any chance we can get more enhancement slots for our 50's? Being able to go from 4 slot to 6 slot on my 50's would be something I would pay for!
On behalf of the Repeat Offenders Network,
Thank you and great timing on the rollout of more slots (if all testing goes well).
Also, while you're basking in the glow of praise, can we talk about raising the SG Coalition limit from 10 to 15 or 20? Just thought I toss that out there. 
The price seems a tad high to me (just a bit), but giving the free ones MORE than compensates for that.
Great stuff guys.
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On behalf of the Repeat Offenders Network,
Thank you and great timing on the rollout of more slots (if all testing goes well).
Also, while you're basking in the glow of praise, can we talk about raising the SG Coalition limit from 10 to 15 or 20? Just thought I toss that out there.
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and further suggest a review of prestige earning rates and current base costs. i think things are still a little wonky. but the minimum influence while in sgmode thing may go a long way towards fixing that too.
EDIT: Why not just give people a loot slider? let them pick what percentage of influence or prestige they're comfortable with.
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Also I think they a bit greedy on not letting other players try the new classes in the test area.
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This is fantastic. I really love the free slots up front, as well as the Vet Reward structure. The prices are pretty reasonable too.
[/ QUOTE ] Free slot every 12 months, but the price for additonal slot is high? I think it should be half of that? And who would have 36 chars?? You should beable to buy a max level char for $100? Do they need more money? Sell max level chars? Make more guns, bows, Even a new class Summoner, can create images of the mob you kill to fight for you. 1 slot = $2, ect.. 5 slot = $10.....If NCsoft need more money This is how you should do it. **When your offering a player to return to the game and the other person gets a free month, they both should get a free month- enabling that other player to stay and play more then the month and the free month they got??? Why only the person that got them to come back to the game gets a free month. thats unfair. Maybe the player quit the game for lack of NC soft taking advantage of players Real Life $$$.
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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)?
[/ QUOTE ]So US players would get 11 slots for $6, while EU players would get 4 slots?
Not to mention many players only actually play on a handful of the available servers. I play on 4 of the 11.
[/ QUOTE ] it's a rip-off I argee you mise well buy more accounts then the price would be cheaper then buying more slots??? I GOT AN IDEA, THEY SHOULD SELL +EXP 2X EXP & MONEY, 4X EXP & MONEY, AND 10X EXP & MONEY
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i hope your ncstore doesn't break when everyone goes to buy extra slots on the first day. i'll probably be picking up the wedding pack and GoodvEvil pack for me and my wife before the Ncsoft credit card server breaks from over use :P
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Pick up those extras now. PlayNC is notorious for credit card use restrictions in order to prevent fraud. Besides the current limit on how much a credit card can be charged in one month, there is often an enforced waiting period between online purchases, especially for more than one of the same item.
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WOOT excellent....this is a fantastic idea. All you have to do now is increase BIO size