anyway to buy points for a free acct now?


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So while I've been semi retired for six months or so, paying but not playing. My kids have been playing away on their free accounts. Occasionally I've bought points for them to buy a character set or the like. With the whole thing going away, I figured I'd get my eight year old a couple of the new power sets. Unless I'm completely screwing this up...The site won't let me add points any more.

I guess that makes sense, but if I can't add points to his account, he is going to be disappointed.

So am I doing it wrong, or have they removed the ability to buy points....If so is there any way to obtain them?


 

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No one can buy any more points. The ability to do any monetary transactions has been terminated.


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Am I able to upgrade my account to VIP until the end of City of Heroes?

Upgrading to a VIP account has been disabled

Can I purchase Paragon Points?

Paragon Point acquisition has been disabled



Above excerpts taken from the following thread


http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=297679


 

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Thanks a bunch. I should have dug up a FAQ apparently, I was looking for a news piece.


 

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NCSoft has been silent about saying anything about whats going on here, and I don't think there's anyone left that can release news pieces at Paragon Studios.


 

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Install Beta and allow him to play there. I believe it was announced it is open for all now. You can 'buy' points there and unlock a lot of stuff but none of it will cary over to Live. And don't expect it to stay open till the end. If I am mistaken, Sorry, someone will be along to correct me shortly LOL


 

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Originally Posted by Mr_Body View Post
Install Beta and allow him to play there. I believe it was announced it is open for all now. You can 'buy' points there and unlock a lot of stuff but none of it will cary over to Live. And don't expect it to stay open till the end. If I am mistaken, Sorry, someone will be along to correct me shortly LOL

You can't buy points there either but everything in the store has a price of zero so you can just claim it.

I don't know if they are allowing people to upgrade prem accounts to VIP tho. I've heard people say it can't be done.


 

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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
You can't buy points there either but everything in the store has a price of zero so you can just claim it.

I don't know if they are allowing people to upgrade prem accounts to VIP tho. I've heard people say it can't be done.
Correct. You can't be VIP on the beta server unless you are VIP on the live servers. Therefore, you can't access VIP-only content that cannot be purchased, such as Incarnates and Night Ward and some of the recent story arcs.


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I have old trial accnts and made toons with them on the beta server. Here's what I did:
Buy for free from Paragon market:
- invention license
- IO sets, costumes etc
- super packs
- For the kiddies, I suggest getting the rocket board and carpet travel powers for them. If playing together, get the team transporter on each account.

Market
- buy recipes not in Paragon market. Only 1 inf
- buy salvage, only 1 inf
- buy ATOs

For trading between prem and vip toons, made supergroup. On main accnt, on a throwaway toon, put 2 bil, copy toon to beta. Convert 2 bil to prestige. In base, buy enhancement table and put IOs from superpacks there. Prems can't trade, but they can put salvage and IOs in base storage.

Prems can't buy enh converters, so vendor/delete unwanted ATOs or place in base. Altho Empy Mike allows prems to buy Emp Merits, they can't use any incarnate power. The power is grayed out.