Going from VIP to F2P


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I can't figure out what i lose access too...what changes?


 

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Originally Posted by Jaso View Post
I can't figure out what i lose access too...what changes?
Incarnates, IOs unless you had/buy a licence. You can still use purples though, from what I remember PF was saying.


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There's a certain level of VIP that once you pass it you have IOs perma unlocked... believe it's either tier 7 or 8.


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T7. Whenever I go F2P I lose incarnates and that's it. Though that's enough.

I'm ready for a nice long break from this game though, so who caaaaares.


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I am at 7 and don't really care about incarnates only bothered to get them once - what about the toons am I cut down to 2 or do I still get access to all my toons?


 

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T7. Whenever I go F2P I lose incarnates and that's it. Though that's enough.

I'm ready for a nice long break from this game though, so who caaaaares.
Does that mean T7 needs to be completely filled?



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Does that mean T7 needs to be completely filled?
Probably. It's the bar to the right you need to watch. Once you hit that benchmark you don't have to worry about it anymore.


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Does that mean T7 needs to be completely filled?
Yes it has to be filled so basically you have to be just starting on tier 8



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what about the toons am I cut down to 2 or do I still get access to all my toons?
(from personal experience: I have a 2nd account that went Premium not too long ago).

You are indeed cut down to 2 slots + whatever slots you received as Veteran Rewards + whatever slots you bought from the market.

And these are "Global Slots", i.e. they are for ALL the servers, not per servers.

Exemple: you go Premium, and you get 5 Global Slots.
You can choose to have 2 toons on Virtue, 2 on Freedom, 1 on Protector... and that's it (or any other combination of server and slots, up to 5 max.).

You also lose access to any toon created/transferred to Exalted.



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I have a VIP account that went premium a couple of months ago. Your salvage and vault capacity, wentworth transactions, and recipes capacities will be greatly reduced when you go to premium.

I kept track of some numbers up to lvl 18:

Well, I can't seem to make a nicely formatted table.

Roughly,
Salvage capacity is capped at 17 at level 6. I think it starts to go up slowly after level 35.
Vault storage is also capped at a max of 17 at level 6.
Wentworh transactions slowly go up to 6 at level 18.
Recipes carried start at 3 at level 6 and slowly go up to maximum of 7 at level 18.

I got used to the lower capacities and stopped keeping track after 18. And I wasn't sure how I could ever tell anybody either.

My 40 corruptor still has only 7 recipe slots, so it doesn't go up much. The 49 scrapper has 8 recipe slots.

You can get extra salvage slots from badges. Scrounger badge (+2 for selling 50 salvage) works. The badges from making level 25-30 enhancements all grant +2 salvage. Vault storage never raises above 17 that I have seen.

Haven't tried for the 45-50 enhancement badges but I would guess they work. I'm trying to reach the 250 salvage sold badge on WW but haven't yet.

I don't know if the vanguard storage sack works- not sure a premium player can get vanguard merits.

Of course u need an IO license to craft enhancements and WW license to use WW.

After downgrading to premium, if you have more than you can carry, then you still keep it, but that character can't pick up anything new. Which means be careful what you drop because until the toon gets under their max capacity, you can't pick anything up again.

This was an enormous surprise to me after downgrading. Hope it helps.

Oh yes, although VIPs have access to controller and mastermind, they are not considered to have "bought" them, so you'll lose access to those archetypes. You'll have to decide if you want to spend the paragon points to unlock them. Pretty sure the same applies to Time Manipulation.


 

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Time must be purchased from the store if you're Premium just like Street Justice and Beam Rifle etc.

Controllers and Masterminds will only be locked if you're not up to that tier. I can't remember which tier it is, but it's not that high up.


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