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Post by Jaxton Dragoon on Jun 2, 2011 16:46:03 GMT -5
So I started around the time Free2Play did. Actually I was playing the trial first. I created my main hero, Kyoko, basically the day Free2Play launched. She was a Silver, Blade Archetype as I didn't feel like paying for Gold at the time. Due to an unused gift card and the cheap price of the physical game I now own the disc and used the code to get a month of Gold (managed to get roughly 35 days out of it somehow). Anyway, the month expired and from my understanding I can no longer convert Kyoko back to Silver. I checked with support about changing her and he basically said she was locked as a Gold. Granted I have a time card so I'm set for another 2 months.
But apparently I can no longer play as her if I go back to Silver. To me this seems a silly choice. True when a player gets Gold they get several new slots to play with but if they prefer a certain hero they will likely convert it.
Honestly, I was hoping to let my Gold lapse. Convert Kyoko to Silver, and then on the way back change her to a Freeform hero. I had initially left her as an Archetype upon conversion because I thought I read that Archetype Gold characters could be changed back, otherwise I might have switched her at the outset.
Does anybody have any experience with this? I even checked the official forum and it seems there is confusion there too.
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Post by joh on Jun 2, 2011 17:29:37 GMT -5
Well you know I had a freeform toon before you even joined Champions. I converted her to AT (Grimoire) when F2P started then I got gold and converted her to gold (had to keep the AT for the conversion as the other options were grayed out) then I let my gold expire and converted her back to Silver no problem. If they changed that, I had no knowledge of when but I do have a theory (when retrain started showing on PTS).
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Post by Jaxton Dragoon on Jun 2, 2011 17:57:02 GMT -5
Well you know I had a freeform toon before you even joined Champions. I converted her to AT (Grimoire) when F2P started then I got gold and converted her to gold (had to keep the AT for the conversion as the other options were grayed out) then I let my gold expire and converted her back to Silver no problem. If they changed that, I had no knowledge of when but I do have a theory (when retrain started showing on PTS). Well if the retrains are on PTS then I'll just use my time card now and convert when they hit Live. If Kyok's locked to Gold its not much of a loss IMO.
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Post by rhyatt on Jun 11, 2011 3:55:28 GMT -5
If you converted Koyoko into a Freeform character when you went Gold, yeah, you have to wait until the retrain tokens come in. You currently cannot convert a from Archetype to Freeform then back, it's a one way process until the tokens show up in the C-Store...
But Archetypes can be converted between Gold and Silver freely...
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Post by Jaxton Dragoon on Jun 11, 2011 7:07:02 GMT -5
If you converted Koyoko into a Freeform character when you went Gold, yeah, you have to wait until the retrain tokens come in. You currently cannot convert a from Archetype to Freeform then back, it's a one way process until the tokens show up in the C-Store... But Archetypes can be converted between Gold and Silver freely... Currently she's been changed just from a Silver AT to a Gold AT. My hope was to drop her back to a Silver AT then bump her back to Gold but as a freeform. Looks like the AT <-> Freeform is a one time offer though from what I'm reading so I'll just wait for the retrain token to freeform her.
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Post by koross on Jun 28, 2011 23:30:06 GMT -5
Ok so let me get this straight.
Say I have two characters and I am in SILVER user status. The characters are TIM who is a Soldier AT and JIMBOB who is a Behemoth AT.
I subscribe for one month and now I am a GOLD user.
I convert TIM to GOLD status but still using the same AT (Soldier). At this moment, I change his appearance since I have access to different costume parts and through the time I used him, I added two more inventory belts/ slots and they are filled with items. Now, after my one month subscription is finished, I am back to SILVER user status.
So, when I'm back in SILVER, from what I understand, I should not have a problem converting TIM back to SILVER because he was still an AT user. But what happens to my costumes that were available only in GOLD and the items in the extra belt slots?
Anyone in the know?
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Post by Zydrate on Sept 15, 2011 21:12:35 GMT -5
Ok so let me get this straight. Say I have two characters and I am in SILVER user status. The characters are TIM who is a Soldier AT and JIMBOB who is a Behemoth AT. I subscribe for one month and now I am a GOLD user. I convert TIM to GOLD status but still using the same AT (Soldier). At this moment, I change his appearance since I have access to different costume parts and through the time I used him, I added two more inventory belts/ slots and they are filled with items. Now, after my one month subscription is finished, I am back to SILVER user status. So, when I'm back in SILVER, from what I understand, I should not have a problem converting TIM back to SILVER because he was still an AT user. But what happens to my costumes that were available only in GOLD and the items in the extra belt slots? Anyone in the know? Quoting this because I would like to know specifically, what happens to my "costume" when I log on, after going back to silver, with costume pieces I got -from- being a Gold for that month?
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Post by thelurkerabove on Sept 15, 2011 21:14:55 GMT -5
Items in bags are mailed back to you (including the bag). Costumes I'm not so sure. Probably reverts to some default?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2011 4:15:59 GMT -5
Ok so let me get this straight. Say I have two characters and I am in SILVER user status. The characters are TIM who is a Soldier AT and JIMBOB who is a Behemoth AT. I subscribe for one month and now I am a GOLD user. I convert TIM to GOLD status but still using the same AT (Soldier). At this moment, I change his appearance since I have access to different costume parts and through the time I used him, I added two more inventory belts/ slots and they are filled with items. Now, after my one month subscription is finished, I am back to SILVER user status. So, when I'm back in SILVER, from what I understand, I should not have a problem converting TIM back to SILVER because he was still an AT user. But what happens to my costumes that were available only in GOLD and the items in the extra belt slots? Anyone in the know? TIM in this case would have the costume pieces in question removed from the costume entirely and replaced with the first item found in each category. You'd have to purchase the appropriate costume pack to retain use of the pieces. thelurkerabove is correct about the items and bags. You'd have to purchase the bag slots to retain the ability to use more than one bag, this is on a per character basis.
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Post by scorcherofthorns on Dec 6, 2011 18:54:13 GMT -5
Makes me wonder what happens if your inventory was full to beging with.
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Post by truelove on Feb 22, 2012 7:51:05 GMT -5
Nice one..I had read the whole post and found it very nice..Good to know that She was a Silver, Blade Archetype as I didn't feel like paying for Gold at the time...
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