City of Heroes may be saved, but it will almost certainly not remain within the walls of NCSoft. But even if it did, this will never happen for a bunch of pretty obvious reasons (enabling RMT/PL services, for starters).
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
City of Heroes may be saved, but it will almost certainly not remain within the walls of NCSoft. But even if it did, this will never happen for a bunch of pretty obvious reasons (enabling RMT/PL services, for starters).
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RMT? I know PL is Power Level, people already do this
Real Money Transactions.
Real Money Trading.
Those are the two fully written forms I've seen over the years.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Okay, now imagine the ability to pay someone on any server to roll and PL a character for you, then transfer it to your account. (Copying would be much worse as you could duplicate 50s from your main account to a secondary account which is just begging for exploitation.) Not to mention the possibility or even likelihood that it might be flat out impossible to even move that kind of information between accounts.|
Originally Posted by JoshexDirad
RMT? I know PL is Power Level, people already do this
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I'm certain this has been addressed by a redname in the past but I don't have the time to research it at the moment.
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
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Oh, you misunderstand me.|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
Okay, now imagine the ability to pay someone on any server to roll and PL a character for you, then transfer it to your account. (Copying would be much worse as you could duplicate 50s from your main account to a secondary account which is just begging for exploitation.) Not to mention the possibility or even likelihood that it might be flat out impossible to even move that kind of information between accounts.
I'm certain this has been addressed by a redname in the past but I don't have the time to research it at the moment. |
I meant transfer between two accounts owned by the same person (same Master Account)
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Fair enough, but I'm still positive there was at least some technical reason why it couldn't be done (and I'm sure someone could still find a way to exploit the system).
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Originally Posted by JoshexDirad
Oh, you misunderstand me.
I meant transfer between two accounts owned by the same person (same Master Account) |
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
The answer players have received for the past 8+ years has been "No".
I doubt they would change that policy now that they are sunsetting the game.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
sigh, depressing the GM answered me and didn't even answer the topic of character transferring, instead they said;
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quite depressing, I really was trying to forget it was closing in 3 months.. grrr all the reason to fight stronger to try and keep it, keep making noise people let them hear us roar! the moment we stop making a fuss about it is the moment they think we don't want COH..
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That's an automated message. I'm not even sure there's any GMs left to respond to those manually anymore.
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Originally Posted by JoshexDirad
sigh, depressing the GM answered me and didn't even answer the topic of character transferring, instead they said;
quite depressing, I really was trying to forget it was closing in 3 months.. grrr all the reason to fight stronger to try and keep it, keep making noise people let them hear us roar! the moment we stop making a fuss about it is the moment they think we don't want COH.. |
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
I sent something similar to this as a message to the ask a question staff at NCSoft;
I recently got my girlfriend to play CoH, she's from china and she loves it.
I just created an account for her separately and IF the game is continued I'll make it VIP paying for the content.
secondly the main thing, her characters are in my account, so IF the game is continued can we have the option to Copy characters from one account to another with-in the same master account?
obviously it would be mandatory to change the name of one of the characters and pay for the name change fee.