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Who is going from VIP to Premium?

Ad Astra

By Ad Astra,
Posted on: 2011-07-18 14:08 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Westley View Post
Next question: Does the fact that you will be able to "buy off" the restrictions placed on Premium accounts using your already earned "Vet Rewards" change any of your minds either way?
Maybe. Certainly it's an advantage for my former Eu account where I may be able to use the t rewards it should have accrued to buy "enough" on it so I can let my main sub lapse for a bit.

 

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Maintaining the status quo.

 

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Next question: Does the fact that you will be able to "buy off" the restrictions placed on Premium accounts using your already earned "Vet Rewards" change any of your minds either way?
Not one bit. I might purchase controllers/MMs on my second account, but that is about it.



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Next question: Does the fact that you will be able to "buy off" the restrictions placed on Premium accounts using your already earned "Vet Rewards" change any of your minds either way?
Not really, but then again none of that is really news to me. I'm just happy they finally started talking about the thing, because its so relevant to discussions about the intended direction of Freedom as it pertains to veterans and subscribers (and veteran subscribers).

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Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post

Basically, most of the things that caused me to get Unleashed for a while.
We've missed you! You even got a happy birthday thread!

Also, I'll be primarily premium player once Freedom goes live. I'll subscribe from time to time, but not that often.

 

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I'm staying on VIP because I enjoy having full access to all the features and 12 slots per server to use as I see fit.

I may start a new Free account just to see how the experience feels like for an all-new player (and possibly make really stupid RP characters* without fear of getting my main account Ignored by everyone).

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Originally Posted by Catwhoorg View Post
Grinding 6 accounts in my case to 50 though could be time consuming
Make them all Spines/Fire or Spine/Electric Scrappers. Have them auto-follow a tanker, and farm whatever.

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Originally Posted by EvilGeko View Post
Make them all Spines/Fire or Spine/Electric Scrappers. Have them auto-follow a tanker, and farm whatever.
Six-boxing constantly might be a drain on many people's hardware. It might be better to level-pact them in pairs, and PL three of them one at a time, if you aren't religiously opposed to PL.

I don't PL main characters I actually play, but I do PL them in test accounts to test power features. I'm not against PLing fillers in Premium accounts. Although I'd have to either do it in normal missions or buy AE access for all of them, since Premium doesn't gain XP in the AE by default.

If you're religiously opposed to PL, then the alternative is you roll six new characters that will level reasonably fast, level pact them each with one character in each of your six premium accounts, and then level each character in turn normally. When you've leveled those six to 50, you'll also have six fillers in the Premium accounts. Assuming premium can participate in level pacting.

Of course, this will require as much effort as it takes to level twelve characters to 50, but there are some short cuts. Running WSTs whenever possible for the initial XP burst will help. Double XP tokens could help: is it cheating if you're opposed to PL, but you level pact yourself then use a double XP token?

Hmm, maybe its better not to think about this too much. I might end up making a spreadsheet to lay out all my rules for playing the game, and who knows what nightmarish place that would lead to.

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Originally Posted by Westley View Post
Next question: Does the fact that you will be able to "buy off" the restrictions placed on Premium accounts using your already earned "Vet Rewards" change any of your minds either way?
well, didnt post because you asked previously for those staying vip not to, but since you changed the question now i can answer . no, the new system is nice, but im at 84 months as of last month, the vet system is my oyster, and i see no compelling reason not to be vip, particularly given the exclusive nature of the celestial armor and cool wings.