Market Down next week

Since there was no discussion thread

Here area couple of questions.

Will we still have access to our purchased chartaer slots? Often when the market goes down they are shown as locked until it comes up.

Will store bought power sets be locked out?

Well basically will anything store bought be locked out during this 8 days?

I think you're mis-reading the announcement -- it's not an 8-day period, it's two separate maintenance occurrences happening a week apart.

Ok not 8 days. But will the items still not be accessable during those down times?

And that's not what the OP asked. He was asking if we would lose access to items already purchased.

I believe all of that information is stored local to each server, and not on a central separate server now. That's why there's an extra pause when you connect to a server: "Retreiving Information From XXXXXXX Server" or words to that effect.

This was tested during the beta period of CoH: Freedom of "what happens when the market server is down". Here's the rundown as near as I can recall:

(1) There's a backup flag for "this account is VIP", so you don't lose your VIP status

(2) Unlocked characters will continue to be unlocked, they will have access to any claimed items or powers they had before the downtime as well as any unlocked content. (Temp/inherent powers that don't represent a choice like the mission transporter are automatically claimed at creation, only when you choose between two powers like sands of mu vs. the ghost slaying axe do you need to explicitly claim them.)

(3) Claiming items will be down, so if there are any consumables you must have during those two periods, get them now.

(4) Creating a new character or unlocking an existing but locked character was troublesome. I don't remember if it completely failed or had problems, and in either case if you succeed you can't claim things on it.

Now, all this is what I'm pulling out of my swiss cheesed memory and could be wrong, plus there were fixes in the development process (originally, market server down, your VIP account just became a free account) and conceivably could have been more fixes since then. But I am sure that characters will continue to be able to use anything they've already claimed. So in prep, if you need to claim consumable items, create a new character, or unlock a character, smarter to do it outside of the down time.

I'm more curious about what's going to happen. I don't recall any announced maintenance periods for the market server, just the (rare) crash. Maybe it is just long delayed maintenance and optimization, maybe this is the start of fixing things that include parts of the market that drive us crazy like "doesn't show you've already unlocked something".

Hi guys,

We don't anticipate there being any issues that would prevent previously purchased items from being available. The maintenance is being carried out by the third party that runs the Paragon Market back-end, and is not taking place within Paragon.

Thanks!
~Freitag