Instant leveling fromNCSoft?

I'd totally use it. On the rare occasions I want to play through the content, I have more fun exemping down to do it from 50 than doing it on the way up.

10$ to autolevel a 'toon to 50, w/influence and merits to match? if someone wants to shell out the cash to just get 1 alt to 50, sure, why not? either they'd draw up another alt and play it through, or shell out another 10$ for ANOTHER 50 or whatever it costs to transfer characters from server to server, or they leave. are any of these options that big a deal to people?

Personally I think that maybe as a final vet award you could get a free 50 token, but maybe that belongs in another thread. I dunno, final vet award, been everywhere, done all that, want to try out some powerset combo that might be the only one that you haven't tried yet, I'd still have a long way to go, only at 11 months, but it would be something to look forward to.

Lol, So much fail in that idea.

If you want a 50 you gotta earn it. You can't stop gold sellers, you have to ignore them. No way would i spend real cash on inf and an auto 50.

It's all too easy as it is.

Okay first I agree with Obsidus .. bad idea all the way around. Okay I pay my $10 and now have a completely broke 50 level that can't afford a single enhancement... so what's the first thing most players are going to do? Head straight to PI or the AE building and star farming because now they want, and short of a LOT exemplaring.. which sort of defeats the whole purpose of BUYING a 50 level to begin with, IOs... more over they want PURPLES so they can be Uber awesome. Frankly I don't see this hurting those "we can level you or we will sell you Influence sites" one bit.. in fact it may increase the sales they have because now that dead broke 50 want CASH and wants it fast.. Let's face facts if he or she was willing to spend 10 dollars to get a 50 level I seriously doubt they'd balk at spending more to make them rich quick as well.

I won't go into detail on the whole "Okay you now have a 50 level .. whatever but do you have a clue how to play it?" It's an old arguement and there are way to many people on both sides .. some saying I can play anything and don't need to learn my power and others insisting the normal leveling they missed now means at level 50 they know as much about this new character as a 1 level in Outbreak. I will say I know some people are now selling their account on Ebay and there are players out there with a TON of Vet badges that play the game like they started last week.

Frankly my question is what is the point? Okay a brand new player to the game buys a 50 level character and let's say by some miracle actually learns quickly and does well. Does well at what? Repeatedly running ITFs, LGTFs, Mothership Raid, Hamidon raids and some newspaper missions? Not to say that as soon as you hit 50 life is over. I manage to keep my 50s active but I also enjoy creating new characters with different power sets and learning how to play them successfully. By skipping level 1 through 49 they missed almost all of the content people have been screaming to get for years and now if they want it.. the need to exemplar down to see it.. so they spent 10 bucks and are now losing levels to see what they could have seen for free if they just rolled a character normally and started as a one level.

The idea behind leveling is to make a player feel good about themselves.. "I accomplished THIS today!" I created a DP Blaster the first day DP became available. I hit the sewers and then KR with a good team and in no time I was level 14. Before Double XP weekend even hit I was over 22 and slotting with SOs and now that character is closing in on 40 level and it's not the only one I play. People moan that the lower levels are boring.. unless you solo constantly they fly by so fast I really don't understand that at all. Heck a freind and I duo missions with a ILL/FF Controller and a EMP/AR Defender. We have now taken to playing constantly at +1 difficulty and both of us are at 38 pushing 39.. we play together a few hours a night a few days a week. Anyone that claims they can't find a team isn't trying very hard because I can find them quite easily and even start them myself when no one else is around to take the leadership role. If you ONLY want to solo.. Yeah ts going to take a lot longer so either deal with that fact or change your mind set and join a TEAM once in a while.. BUYING a 50 level is not the answer.

RMT's or gold farmers???

Haven't seen those goobers in awhile.

Auto 50 option just doesn't sound good and everyone has already posted everything I could have thought off,so nah I'll pass.

First, and foremost, I'm /unsigned from the idea for all the various reasons posted before me.

But, something else has to be pointed out that may not have been. In order for a freshly minted Level 50 to enjoy access to Oroborous arcs, that purchased character must have a series of contacts from which to choose uncompleted arcs. But the purchased character is a tabula rasa, a blank slate. The character will never have selected any contacts.

This is important, because many times you are presented with several contacts to choose from.

Who's going to make those choices? The game client? Are you going to let it foist undesirable contact choices (and their arcs) upon you?

Thinking you can simply create a new level 50 character and hit the ground running is simplistic and naive. It's not just a case of leveling the character. It would require additional software to determine which contacts the character wants to interact with. That's new code, new user interfaces, and possibly new artwork.

Again, /unsigned.

I reiterate my earlier point:

POWER thinks this is a bad idea.

Does anything else really need to be said?

The fact that Power doesn't like this idea is enough to convince me that it is very possibly the worst idea ever conceived of in the history of the forums. (Seriously, have you SEEN some of the stuff that guy has come up with?!)