VIP Starter

Hey, I'm trying to get a few friends into the game.

The VIP Starter mentions that you get access to Going Rogue, as well. So here's my question(s):

1) If they DON'T get the Starter, and just pay for a month in store, can they get Hero Merits / do tip missions?

2) If they DO get the starter, when they have a month that's not VIP, can they get Hero Merits / do tip missions?

Or, phrased another way, "Why get the VIP Starter, instead of just a month of VIP?"

In your case, *do not* get the starter unless you are creating a completely new account. According to your join date, you have a previous account and as it says on the Starter kit

"The City of Heroes Freedom™ VIP Starter Kit can only be used to activate a NEW account and cannot be applied to existing VIP or Premium accounts." (bolding mine).

Guide: Premium Accounts and Paragon Rewards.

Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters

One thing you might do is check Amazon and get a copy of Going Rogue from there. It's selling pretty cheaply atm (one new copy for only $0.99, a bunch more at the $5-7 range) and that will include a month of VIP play as well. I bought a couple copies at $5 to upgrade a couple f2p accounts a couple months ago and had no problems.

No, *I* don't need the starter. My friend does.

Who's never had an account.

And thanks, Snow Globe!

From the way I read the guide, and that makes it sounds like the VIP Starter Kit actually isn't anything; VIPs get Going Rogue anyway.

Hm.

Having bought a 99 cent VIP starter kit in December, and just last week having spent $15.00 on points so that I could buy some fancy attuned IOs and costume pieces, I was pleasantly surprised that this earned me enough reward tokens to fill in tier 3, so that I can now join SG and talk in global chat channels. I feel like a real person on my alternate freebie account. ^_^

I'm actually experimenting with different levels of free/premium on the side just because I'm interested in how things work for other people. I have a premium account from last August that cost me $1.99, and I may have subscribed for another month I think, and I have one level 50 on that account fully IO'd and recently bought the inventions license so I could play the character. Quite cheap, actually, and for whatever reason I had 1200 points on the character to spend so I can afford to keep doing that for a while without spending more money. And I have a free account that I've never spent a cent on. So my experiments have so far been:

1. Free account with nothing. I've PL'd the one character a bit but I'm mostly curious about the experience of not being able to talk to others freely and using only SO's and possibly hami-O's in my build.

2. Premium (free) account with inventions license and fully IO'd character. I should add that I IO'd out with money I made on this character only, though this was also last Summer and it is a claws/fire brute.

3. Premium (free) account with a build making as much use of ATOs and attuned IOs as possible -- just to see how well I can build a character who does not need an invention license.

So far it seems to me that the big restrictions on premiums are having so few characters to play and not being able to play certain ATs. Beyond that, it's pretty cheap to do just the invention license and, barring stuff like side-switching, hero merits, incarnate stuff etc., you're capable of quite a bit for virtually free. I think the people that complain about what they don't get for their zero dollars are really off base.



Eventually I think I'll be able to start any TF and then solo it without bothering friends.