Nope.
You can't even make the purchase unless you log into a Master account. So in order to buy it for someone else you'd have to know their Login and Password.
Then you are given the option to buy with a CC or Paypal.
Then you have to add your billing info.
Confirm the purchase
The system doesn't give you the activation code. It keeps track of it and applies it to the account.
Why? To keep dishonest people from buying the codes up cheap when they are on sale and selling them at a profit (the same codes over and over) to gullible people.
Then you either select an existing free account to upgrade or create a login and password for a new account.
Then choose a payment plan, which can immediately be cancelled if you intend to drop to premium after the free month VIP.
Bluh.
Copy.
I'll have to pester them to get it for themselves, then.
Dawncaller - The Circle of Dawn
Too many blasted alts to list, but all on Virtue.
Assuming you live close, you could walk up to your friends and hand them a dollar bill with "VIP Starter Kit" written on it. (Gov't doesn't like you defacing their money, but also not a lot they can do about it.)
Maybe scan a dollar (or get a pic?) and photoshop "VIP Starter Kit" on it and email it out to remind people. Etc. If the NC Soft store won't provide, we'll do our own gifting.
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Most scanner software recognizes money and refuses to scan it, to help prevent counterfeiting (some printer software will do the same thing). What's crazy is that I once tried to scan two pennies, because I was going to type "My two cents" over them and attach it to a forum post, and the scanner refused to let me. Because I was obviously going to scan and print out a whole bunch of pennies and get rich off my genius counterfeiting scheme.
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Originally Posted by gameboy1234
Maybe scan a dollar
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@Roderick
I'll bet you a dollar you're wrong. Here's a brand new scan of a bill in my wallet, which I did about 60 seconds ago:
Never blame super smart AI in your software for what can adequately be explained by PEBCAK. (Also, that is one huge bill.)
That is George Washington, not Bill :P
Your character does not have capped defense. Depending on your AT the cap is between 175% - 225%. Your defense is not teal in the combat window, it can go higher. STOP SAYING IT IS CAPPED! The correct term is Soft Cap.
I enjoy playing in Mids. I specialize in Melee Characters, other AT's usually bore me.
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So... The pop-up that said that I can't scan money because it's evil and bad is a PEBCAK. Okay then.|
Originally Posted by gameboy1234
Never blame super smart AI in your software for what can adequately be explained by PEBCAK. (Also, that is one huge bill.)
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Maybe it's something specific to a certain brand of scanners (I've always had Lexmark), maybe it's a requirement of Canadian law, and isn't included in the drivers distributed to other countries. But EVERY time I've tried to scan money, I've gotten an error message telling me that I'm not allowed to scan money.
Hm. I can't even share a screenshot, because my scanner is in storage right now, so I tried to search for an image of the error message. All I can find is error messages from Photoshop saying you can scan bank notes, but not print them. However, I did find this British article stating that it is, in fact, illegal to scan bank notes. I suspect that it is a matter of different countries' laws.
@Roderick
Looks like the Telegraph has found some copies of New Scientist from 30 years ago. I last came across anything about this in the early 80s. Photocopiers at that time would copy notes but would deliberately get the colours wrong.
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Deadly Doc 50 Dark/Dark Corr
and lots more on Pinnacle,Union and Defiant
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I can't reproduce your error here on a relatively recent Hewlett-Packard 3-in-1 scanner. There's a few forum posts and whatnot saying "you can't scan money," but you have to dig through Google pretty good to find them. I.e., it appears to be just an internet rumor.|
Originally Posted by Roderick
So... The pop-up that said that I can't scan money because it's evil and bad is a PEBCAK. Okay then.
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| Hm. I can't even share a screenshot, because my scanner is in storage right now |
P.S. I just scanned a $20, because one of those internet rumor sites said it only checks for bills over $2. The $20 looks great.
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Originally Posted by gameboy1234
I can't reproduce your error here on a relatively recent Hewlett-Packard 3-in-1 scanner. There's a few forum posts and whatnot saying "you can't scan money," but you have to dig through Google pretty good to find them. I.e., it appears to be just an internet rumor.
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| Yup, kinda like Bigfoot and Area 51, the clear photo with proof is always in some other bag, got lost, or was mysteriously ruined. |
There's several links that are easy to find that call out Adobe software for this. It's likely that the scanning software I had been using was put out by Adobe as well.
It may no longer be the case, but the last time I tried to, I couldn't, and the error message was similar to the one above. Perhaps the software that had that functionality has had it removed. After all, that search turned up several ways to defeat the anti-money scanning software.
But hey, thanks for assuming that I'm an idiot, a crackpot, and a liar, rather than the possibility that I may have been right, in my own admittedly limited experience.
EDIT: From what I'm seeing, it seems most likely that it's not a limitation on scanning, but a limitation of the image-editing software. Since I almost always use an image editor to scan, rather than the scanner's software, I would run into that every time, regardless of the scanner, if the software in question blocks money editing.
@Roderick
My question is actually pretty simple, and perhaps somewhat silly.
Can these be bought as gifts, and handed out to Some People I Know who have Free Accounts?
Highly relevant to their curiosity, I suspect.
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