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Characters Locked

Sureshot_Liberty

By Sureshot_Liberty,
Posted on: 2011-09-14 19:53 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I'm not entirely sure this is a real problem. The game keeps giving me messages that my characters are locked because it's a free account. My account clearly shows VIP (and paid to January) on the site. As well, all of my VIP rewards appear to be showing up properly. My characters appear to all be accessible, so I think it's just a display problem.

Still, it's a little troubling.

 

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I have a similar situation, except that it's only on one server (Protector). If I try to enter the game with a locked character, though, it prompts me to use a character slot unlock.

 

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Originally Posted by Sureshot_Liberty View Post
I have a similar situation, except that it's only on one server (Protector). If I try to enter the game with a locked character, though, it prompts me to use a character slot unlock.
We only get 12 slots per server as standard but you should have been given a number of slot unlocks equal to the number you had before i21.

To the op: we got that on beta when they switched us from premiums to vip's. Logging in to each character removed the display for that character only.

 

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Originally Posted by _Klaw_ View Post
We only get 12 slots per server as standard but you should have been given a number of slot unlocks equal to the number you had before i21.
Right. That server only has about 7 characters on it, anyway. Some of those, I'd logged into recently, but others haven't been logged in in a long while. Those are the locked ones. (I returned with a VIP account a little before this update, so these "locked" characters were ones that had been archived but that I hadn't gotten around to logging in yet.)

The problem isn't so much that I can't access the characters, but that on this particular server, it's tossing up the message that some slots have been locked because I've gone free to play. It may just be a display issue, or an issue with generating the wrong error message for the situation.

I just figured I'd post and let the devs know. I've /bugged it in game too. I don't really care about those characters anyway, and had only logged in to delete them to free up names for other people, as they were just characters that I'd used to test some powersets on way way back.