VIP to Premium: retained unlocked slots

I subscribed and played CoH for years, then didn't play for a couple of years. When I launched f2p, I installed and started playing again as a free account. I then decided to subscribe and am now playing VIP. If/when I return to Premium, will character slots I unlocked while VIP still be unlocked, or lock again and require me to unlock a reduced number?

Thanks!
Optiker

you will not lose any slots that you bought or earned

so if you got 2 from being 2 year vet, bought 5, and had GR before freedom release (another 2 slots) you would keep all of those in addition to the 2 free slots which are given to all players (free players start with 2 total character slots)

so as a returning player with (my example) you would have the 2 global slots, then 2+5+2 for a total of 11 slots (note: this is based off of the example i gave and i have no idea how many slots you would actually have)

you wont have as many slots as a VIP but you can still have a good number of slots as a returning player

Think he means: he went from Premium, to VIP, and now back to Premium. Will the exact same slots he unlocked as a premium the first time still be the unlocked slots for the second period as a premium, or will he get to pick new slots to unlock?

Personally, I don't know. Good question for someone who has done it, or for Zwill to answer.

To follow up a little further on what Necrotech said, those slots are NOT per server--that's how many you get, total. You can use them on any server or combination of servers except for the Exalted server, which is VIP only.

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Thanks for the replies. Some new info for me and some not. I do understand that as a Premium player, slots I unlock stay on the server in which they are unlocked.

Further explanation...if I unlock more slots in my current VIP mode than I am allowed when I return to Premium, what happens?

In subscription mode, prior to f2p, I had a good many characters spread over four servers. I also have a second account for my wife with fewer characters over the same four servers. A few days ago I chose to pay for both to revert to VIP so I could go in and review each character, and transfer any inf and goodies from those I am willing to delete to those I will keep. I did this using two computers with both accounts open on the same servers so I could pass stuff and eventually accumulate it on characters I will keep. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough. I couldn't quite get down to the number of slots I was allowed as Premium - 7 global on one account and 4 on the other.

So, I'm faced with having to further reduce the number of characters before returning to Premium. That's really hard...do I delete my only lvl 50 because I don't play that character much?

My original question was intended as follows. If, while I am VIP, I unlock 10 slots on Virtue, for example, when I then revert to Premium, will all slots be locked, so that I will need to unlock only the 7 global I am allowed as a Premium player, or, will all 10 be unlocked since I unlocked them while VIP? The wording in the "Side-by-Side Comparison" chart seems a little ambiguous.

I suspect this is wishful thinking! I'd have to assume that NCSoft isn't that generous, and that as a Premium player, I would not have more than the 7 global unlocks when I revert to VIP, but thought it was worth asking the question.

Thanks!
Optiker

I'll take a quick stab at this.

First off, the characters will not be deleted unless you delete them. They will just be in a locked state initially.

You don't need to delete the characters.

Each server is capable of holding up to 48 characters. As a premium player you can unlock up to 36 character slots on a server (except Exalted).
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To answer your rephrased question:
When you are a VIP you buy slots and apply them to a server, you keep the slots on that server. The first time you log into Virtue as a premium, all your characters will be initially locked and you will have 10 server slots.

I'm not sure where you are getting the 7 global number from. However, let me guess:
+2 slots from when the extra slots were introduced.
+2 slots from Going Rogue before Issue 21.
+1 slots from Veteran Rewards.
+2 Global Slots.

If you had previously assigned those slots to a server, they STAY on that server, even if you unsubscribe.

If you bought 10 more slots and applied them to Virtue and you applied the slots I've guessed you have had from before to Virtue, then you would have 17 character slots available on Virtue when you revert to premium. However all your characters on Virtue will be initially locked. You can then unlock them by assigning them to a server slot. This does not cost any money. To change characters assigned to a slot, you have to subscribe for a month, then unlock the different characters you want to assign those slots after your subscription lapses.
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Subscribers can unlock up to 48 character slots on a server. If they've unlocked 36 slots on a single server, they would lose access (but the characters will not be deleted/lost) to 12 characters. By subscribing again for a month, they gain access to all their characters again. At the end of that month, they can still choose to unlock any 36 of the 48 characters.

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Thanks all!

Very confusing!

My reason for deleting characters was mainly to clean up too many that I started just to try different types way back when I originally subscribed. I played some up high enough that I wanted to to reclaim inf and goodies, so had to unlock them to do that. Once that was done, I no longer needed them, so deleted them. I hope that deleting them left the slot available to create a new character.

Thanks again! I guess sometime in the next few weeks I'll revert to Premium and will see what happens, and report back.

Optiker

• A player will receive one additional token for every cumulative 12 months of total paid subscription time
• A player will reveive two additional tokens if they were subscribed during the release of Issue 12
• A player will receive two additional tokens if they purchased Going Rogue before City of Heroes Freedom's release
• A player will receive one additional token per character slot purchased, before or after Freedom's release