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SmokeJumper
09-28-2010, 10:28 PM
<p>We've solved some technical issues recently and we can now offer character slots for sale. (Something previously unavailable.)</p><p>So as of October 5th (Tuesday), character slots will be available for purchase in the marketplace.</p><p>Here's a couple quick facts to answer obvious questions:</p><ol><li>Slots are pemanent. You pay for them once and they stay on your account forever.</li><li>You can purchase any number of character slots. There is no limit. You want 20, 30 or even a bajillion character slots? Go for it.</li></ol><p>Regarding Station Access subscriptions:</p><ol><li>Character slots sold are *in addition to* any slots you are getting by being an SA subscriber. (Example: If you had 12 slots available as an SC subscriber and you purchase two more slots in the marketplace, you'll now have 14 slots available.)</li><li>If you cancel your SA subscription, and then buy slots to replace the slots you were getting, your characters *will* still be present in those purchased slots (they won't get deleted during the swapover). </li></ol><p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p>

PlaneCrazy
09-28-2010, 10:37 PM
<p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>We've solved some technical issues recently and we can now offer character slots for sale. (Something previously unavailable.)</p><p>So as of October 5th (Tuesday), character slots will be available for purchase in the marketplace.</p><p>Here's a couple quick facts to answer obvious questions:</p><ol><li>Slots are pemanent. You pay for them once and they stay on your account forever.</li><li>You can purchase any number of character slots. There is no limit. You want 20, 30 or even a bajillion character slots? Go for it.</li></ol><p>Regarding Station Access subscriptions:</p><ol><li>Character slots sold are *in addition to* any slots you are getting by being an SA subscriber. (Example: If you had 12 slots available as an SC subscriber and you purchase two more slots in the marketplace, you'll now have 14 slots available.)</li><li>If you cancel your SA subscription, and then buy slots to replace the slots you were getting, your characters *will* still be present in those purchased slots (they won't get deleted during the swapover). </li></ol><p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>Probably the first thing on SC that I fully support. </p><p>Nice to see something positive like this ... /thumbs up!</p>

Finora
09-28-2010, 10:38 PM
<p>Oh dear me, you've made me ever so happy!</p>

Cyliena
09-28-2010, 10:41 PM
<p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>We've solved some technical issues recently and we can now offer character slots for sale. (Something previously unavailable.)</p><p>So as of October 5th (Tuesday), character slots will be available for purchase in the marketplace.</p><p>Here's a couple quick facts to answer obvious questions:</p><ol><li>Slots are pemanent. You pay for them once and they stay on your account forever.</li><li>You can purchase any number of character slots. There is no limit. You want 20, 30 or even a bajillion character slots? Go for it.</li></ol><p>Regarding Station Access subscriptions:</p><ol><li>Character slots sold are *in addition to* any slots you are getting by being an SA subscriber. (Example: If you had 12 slots available as an SC subscriber and you purchase two more slots in the marketplace, you'll now have 14 slots available.)</li><li>If you cancel your SA subscription, and then buy slots to replace the slots you were getting, your characters *will* still be present in those purchased slots (they won't get deleted during the swapover). </li></ol><p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>I love you in a fully platonic way at the moment. Awesome that ya'll are finally doing this and honestly that is a terrific price.</p>

Calthine
09-28-2010, 10:44 PM
<p>I can't see anyone objecting to this one, ever.  Thanks!</p>

Xalmat
09-28-2010, 10:45 PM
<p>About time!</p>

Ciara52
09-28-2010, 10:52 PM
<p>Thank you!  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> </p>

smokedout
09-28-2010, 11:03 PM
<p>This is Awesomeness~<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" /></p>

Drumstix
09-28-2010, 11:09 PM
<p>/presses the "Like" button</p>

Eveningsong
09-28-2010, 11:10 PM
<p>You just made a raid full of people very happy <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.</p>

Juravael
09-28-2010, 11:15 PM
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Very nice and a good price too!</span></p>

Xillean
09-28-2010, 11:28 PM
<p>I am really happy to see this and the price isnt bad either. /happy druid</p>

wepowx
09-28-2010, 11:45 PM
<p>very nice</p>

KerowynnKaotic
09-28-2010, 11:58 PM
<p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>*snipped* <p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>*boggles* </p><p>$10 for a character slot, a thing everyone has been wanting and praying for a very long time. That will add tons of issues for SOE in regards to storage/etc/whatever .. or so they have said so often when asked about getting more slots ..</p><p>And, yet a Cloak, with Featherfall, that might be used for 1 week before a person finds a new 'toy' is priced at $11?! </p><p>This is one of the reasons why I think you guys pull out random numbers out of a jar for this SC stuff! </p><p>Glad you added this as an option but for crying out loud!  Someone get a clue as to what something in the Virtual Strip Mall should be worth and price EVERYTHING accordingly!</p>

Barq Bandit
09-29-2010, 12:43 AM
<p>YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!  (^_^)</p><p>This is a much, much cheaper price than I expected for this, and I for one will be buying these left and right!  Finally!  I can create new characters as I please without getting extra accounts and enjoy the same Veteran Rewards on them as my other, older characters!  What a wonderful feature!</p><p>This is fantastic beyond words!</p>

Andok
09-29-2010, 12:47 AM
<p>How lame!  I prefer to <strong><em>earn</em></strong> my character slots in a dungeon!  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></p>

ekylok
09-29-2010, 01:12 AM
<p>Whoever was the mind behind this needs to get a promotion and a raise. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" /></p>

FalseCourage
09-29-2010, 01:34 AM
<p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>We've solved some technical issues recently and we can now offer character slots for sale. (Something previously unavailable.)</p><p>So as of October 5th (Tuesday), character slots will be available for purchase in the marketplace.</p><p>Here's a couple quick facts to answer obvious questions:</p><ol><li>Slots are pemanent. You pay for them once and they stay on your account forever.</li><li>You can purchase any number of character slots. There is no limit. You want 20, 30 or even a bajillion character slots? Go for it.</li></ol><p>Regarding Station Access subscriptions:</p><ol><li>Character slots sold are *in addition to* any slots you are getting by being an SA subscriber. (Example: If you had 12 slots available as an SC subscriber and you purchase two more slots in the marketplace, you'll now have 14 slots available.)</li><li>If you cancel your SA subscription, and then buy slots to replace the slots you were getting, your characters *will* still be present in those purchased slots (they won't get deleted during the swapover). </li></ol><p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>Here is an important question: If I purchase a character slot on EQ2Live, will they also be present in EQ2X? </p>

Dawnya
09-29-2010, 01:34 AM
<p>Omg, Yay! *jumps up and down repeatedly* This is every altaholics dream come true!</p>

Vortexelemental
09-29-2010, 01:37 AM
<p>Meh, Too little too late =)</p><p>You'd have had a ton of my money on this one had ya not already caused me to quit =)</p>

ColZeed
09-29-2010, 01:41 AM
<p>good news !!There is a hope, what on Barren Sky a server it will be too?</p>

Morgonn
09-29-2010, 02:02 AM
<p>One seriously happy rat inc!</p><p>/happydance  Thank you!</p>

EQPrime
09-29-2010, 03:08 AM
<p>Nice work making this happen, and it's even a reasonable price!</p>

SmokeJumper
09-29-2010, 03:11 AM
<p>Very happy you like! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Character slots, as you might expect, are not shared between the two services. So if you buy a slot on EQII Live, you do not have an extra one on EQ2X unless you buy it there also.</p>

Ceeamee
09-29-2010, 03:14 AM
<p>Holy cow.  About time.  I remember writing a message on the forums about this back in 2005.  It's nice to see that the years of begging and pleading have finally paid off.  <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

SmokeJumper
09-29-2010, 03:36 AM
<p><cite>Daenu@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Holy cow.  About time.  I remember writing a message on the forums about this back in 2005.  It's nice to see that the years of begging and pleading have finally paid off.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>Ah! Yours must have been that note we found the other day folded under a table leg to keep it from tipping. Thanks for the suggestion!</p>

Cloudrat
09-29-2010, 03:45 AM
<p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Daenu@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Holy cow.  About time.  I remember writing a message on the forums about this back in 2005.  It's nice to see that the years of begging and pleading have finally paid off.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>Ah! Yours must have been that note we found the other day folded under a table leg to keep it from tipping. Thanks for the suggestion!</p></blockquote><p>Hehe and   YAY!</p>

Ceeamee
09-29-2010, 03:59 AM
<p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Daenu@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Holy cow.  About time.  I remember writing a message on the forums about this back in 2005.  It's nice to see that the years of begging and pleading have finally paid off.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>Ah! Yours must have been that note we found the other day folded under a table leg to keep it from tipping. Thanks for the suggestion!</p></blockquote><p>Ouch, Smokey.  That burns.  To the core.  *sniff*  <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Dragoneyes
09-29-2010, 04:22 AM
<p>Great Idea so Well done..now heres a but</p><p>I have Station Access As I can have 12 char slots and pay more,so if I then revert down to the basic subscription plan which is 7 slots and buy the extra 5 wont you over the long run loose out in revenue? as its like half price what im paying now if this was spread over the year.</p><p>Ooh I just thought as well by reverting back I can then get the Bonus items if I pay in bulk months....hurry up the 5th.!!</p><p>I am thinking right that the next one down from SA gives you 7 slot chars ? lol </p><p>DE</p>

Senya
09-29-2010, 04:22 AM
<p>Yay!  Now I can have all 9 tradeskillers on one account and a spare slot to server hop and visit all the pretty houses!  <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Hirofortis
09-29-2010, 04:26 AM
<p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>We've solved some technical issues recently and we can now offer character slots for sale. (Something previously unavailable.)</p><p>So as of October 5th (Tuesday), character slots will be available for purchase in the marketplace.</p><p>Here's a couple quick facts to answer obvious questions:</p><ol><li>Slots are pemanent. You pay for them once and they stay on your account forever.</li><li>You can purchase any number of character slots. There is no limit. You want 20, 30 or even a bajillion character slots? Go for it.</li></ol><p>Regarding Station Access subscriptions:</p><ol><li>Character slots sold are *in addition to* any slots you are getting by being an SA subscriber. (Example: If you had 12 slots available as an SC subscriber and you purchase two more slots in the marketplace, you'll now have 14 slots available.)</li><li>If you cancel your SA subscription, and then buy slots to replace the slots you were getting, your characters *will* still be present in those purchased slots (they won't get deleted during the swapover). </li></ol><p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>WOOHOO, Something on SC I can say is a good idea. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Cecie
09-29-2010, 04:41 AM
<p>Oh please. Am I the only one who thinks this smells fishy? We've been asking for more character slots with every expansion for years now. Suddenly, once they have an in-game marketplace set up, they magically solve some "technical issues" and can offer unlimited character slots now? For 10 bucks each?</p><p>Don't pee on me and tell me it's raining.</p>

Xalmat
09-29-2010, 05:11 AM
<p><cite>Cecie@Kithicor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Oh please. Am I the only one who thinks this smells fishy? We've been asking for more character slots with every expansion for years now. Suddenly, once they have an in-game marketplace set up, they magically solve some "technical issues" and can offer unlimited character slots now? For 10 bucks each?</p></blockquote><p>My understanding is that it really was a technical issue, as well as an issue that had to be cleared by the Legal department. I've no doubt they would have added one years ago if they could have.</p>

Keikoku
09-29-2010, 05:37 AM
<p>In just about every MMO I've seen that offers characters lots for sale, 1.) They are still limited.  2.) They are quite close to the $10 mark.  I personally don't need any extra character slots, but I still think that this is awesome.  See, goes to show that they DO listen to their player base. GJ SJ.</p>

KniteShayd
09-29-2010, 07:21 AM
<p>/squeal !!!!</p>

Writer Cal
09-29-2010, 07:35 AM
<p>About dang time.  Kudos, SOE.</p>

nikknakks
09-29-2010, 08:01 AM
<p>Wheeeee <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Does a very happy dance !</p>

Cyliena
09-29-2010, 08:12 AM
<p><cite>Cecie@Kithicor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Oh please. Am I the only one who thinks this smells fishy? We've been asking for more character slots with every expansion for years now. <strong>Suddenly</strong>, once they have an in-game marketplace set up, they magically solve some "technical issues" and can offer unlimited character slots now? For 10 bucks each?</p><p>Don't pee on me and tell me it's raining.</p></blockquote><p>Pretty sure it's far from sudden with regards to the introduction of the Marketplace.</p><p>Considering they're offering unlimited char slots, pretty sure they had to work out some stuff first. And legal stuff like Xalmat mentioned. /shrug</p>

Tyrus Dracofire
09-29-2010, 08:17 AM
<p>senya, that exactly same sentiment i agreed with you, get 9 crafters and 1 for house explorer is what i am going for <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Crickett
09-29-2010, 08:44 AM
<p>/: Gives Smokejumper a great big hug!</p>

Murryha
09-29-2010, 08:55 AM
<p><cite>ekylok wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Whoever was the mind behind this needs to get a promotion and a raise. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>LOL..that would be us..the players.  We have been asking for this for years!  </p><p>Now I do have a use for that SC lying around.</p>

Ciara52
09-29-2010, 09:02 AM
<p><cite>Kaisha@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>*snipped* <p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>*boggles* </p><p>$10 for a character slot, a thing everyone has been wanting and praying for a very long time. That will add tons of issues for SOE in regards to storage/etc/whatever .. or so they have said so often when asked about getting more slots ..</p><p>And, yet a Cloak, with Featherfall, that might be used for 1 week before a person finds a new 'toy' is priced at $11?! </p><p>This is one of the reasons why I think you guys pull out random numbers out of a jar for this SC stuff! </p><p>Glad you added this as an option but for crying out loud!  Someone get a clue as to what something in the Virtual Strip Mall should be worth and price EVERYTHING accordingly!</p></blockquote><p>It is a fair price.  Guild Wars charges $10 per character slot and I believe it's the same price for more storage panes.</p><p>I've got 3 accounts on GW with 14 characters each.  I've never regretted the purchases.  As soon as my station access runs out I'm getting the slots for the rest of my characters.  In the long run I'm saving money.    True some things are higher then I would like but SC is something I indulge in only when I must have it LOL.  </p>

JoarAddam
09-29-2010, 10:16 AM
<p><cite>Andok wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>How lame!  I prefer to <strong><em>earn</em></strong> my character slots in a dungeon!  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>I LOL'd</p>

Loxus
09-29-2010, 10:19 AM
<p><cite>Ciara52 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Kaisha@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>*snipped* <p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>*boggles* </p><p>$10 for a character slot, a thing everyone has been wanting and praying for a very long time. That will add tons of issues for SOE in regards to storage/etc/whatever .. or so they have said so often when asked about getting more slots ..</p><p>And, yet a Cloak, with Featherfall, that might be used for 1 week before a person finds a new 'toy' is priced at $11?! </p><p>This is one of the reasons why I think you guys pull out random numbers out of a jar for this SC stuff! </p><p>Glad you added this as an option but for crying out loud!  Someone get a clue as to what something in the Virtual Strip Mall should be worth and price EVERYTHING accordingly!</p></blockquote><p>It is a fair price.  Guild Wars charges $10 per character slot and I believe it's the same price for more storage panes.</p><p>I've got 3 accounts on GW with 14 characters each.  I've never regretted the purchases.  As soon as my station access runs out I'm getting the slots for the rest of my characters.  In the long run I'm saving money.    True some things are higher then I would like but SC is something I indulge in only when I must have it LOL.  </p></blockquote><p>I think it's a fair price for the toon slots (not for the appearance items) but... SOE had to do SOMETHING to start getting back in the good graces of the playerbase.  I'm sure this will be a big jump in the right direction for the developers to regaining faction of the playerbase.  I'm sure being KOS to the player base on the forums is getting old for them.</p><p>I'm guessing they upgraded something in their server farm (maybe to 64 bit) that made this possible?</p><p>SOE, YOU have gained positive faction with the Player Base...(2)</p>

JoarAddam
09-29-2010, 10:29 AM
<p>Let's change Smokejumper's name to Sharkjumper.  Everything SOE ever said would never happen with EQ2 has happened.  I'm not criticizing, I like some of the changes, and some others don't seem to have the negative effect a lot of folk were expecting.</p><p>What am I talking about?  EQ2X, Changes to Existing Housing Models, Character slots...  Next?</p><p><a href="mailto:BEASTLO@#$">BEASTLO@#$</a> (SOE has censored the actual word...  so childish, that should be the first thing SJ fixes today if he wants to make lots and lots of money off selling them) .  We'll have them by this time next year, for 2500-5000 SC.   Bet on it.  I'd pay 2500 SC <strong>RIGHT NOW</strong> for the promise of having a BL to play after 6 mo dev/test time.  Well, Friday, my wife strictly controls weekday purchases...</p>

msheaf
09-29-2010, 10:31 AM
<p>I have a question: if I buy one $10 slot does that give me one additional character slot on the US servers, EU and test or just one server?</p>

Mustang8259
09-29-2010, 10:44 AM
<p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">WOOOHOOO!!! /dance</span></p>

Terron
09-29-2010, 11:20 AM
<p>This is great.</p>

Cyliena
09-29-2010, 11:33 AM
<p><cite>Ekum@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I have a question: if I buy one $10 slot does that give me one additional character slot on the US servers, EU and test or just one server?</p></blockquote><p>I asked that same question in the <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=487668#5424039" target="_blank">other thread</a>. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> The answer is it's per account basis, not per server, so it'd be available on US, EU and Test.</p>

msheaf
09-29-2010, 11:38 AM
<p><cite>Cyliena@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Ekum@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I have a question: if I buy one $10 slot does that give me one additional character slot on the US servers, EU and test or just one server?</p></blockquote><p>I asked that same question in the <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=487668#5424039" target="_blank">other thread</a>. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> The answer is it's per account basis, not per server, so it'd be available on US, EU and Test.</p></blockquote><p>Thanks Cyliena, as someone who is maxed on Everfrost and test plus up to 7 on EU this will be nice. I thought $10 a slot was a bit high but since it's really 3 slots the price isn't bad at all (I was comparing it to 5 slots for $20 on CoX, but that is only for one server).</p>

Oobo
09-29-2010, 11:41 AM
<p>AWESOMEEEEEEEE,,, finally</p>

Phaldyne
09-29-2010, 12:04 PM
<p>I think it's great that this option is being offered.  I've feedbacked this as well for a while and it's awesome to finally see it's going in.</p><p>However, I'm still a bit peeved about something.  I was able to upgrade to Station Access, create extra characters and downgrade back to a regular subscription and still play those characters.  I know it was a bug and I understand why it was fixed recently.  However, I got used to the extra characters and now I'm being told I need to pay money to fix something you had broken from the start but never bothered to fix when it was discovered.</p><p>Imagine if the government said smoking cigarettes was perfectly legal, albeit not healthy and typically discouraged, but you were allowed to do it and as much as you wanted.  Then, one day they put a law into affect that says it's now illegal to smoke more than 2 cigarettes per day.  The addiction factor of cigarettes is incredibly high and you'd have people going nuts trying to cope with withdrawls.  Then, a month or so later after the government has been given a ton of crap about it, they announce that you can go back to smoking as much as you want but now you have to pay money for a special license to smoke more than the baseline 2 cigarettes per day.  The government created and allowed the ability to produce an addiction to cigarettes and now, after years of letting it grow and build, they try to fix it but at a major cost to the users.</p><p>Not that having alts is as addicting as cigarettes and I know my anology is a bit of an extreme compared to this but still, I think it gets the point across.  SOE created a situation that allowed users to get comfortable with something then they took it away and said the only way you can have it back now is to pay up.</p><p>I think a little additional compassion on SOE's part needs to be brought into the mix here.  Would it be possible to have Customer Service grant an account a few character slots at no cost for the accounts that already were over their limit?  I think this would help padden the blow many people have taken.  I like the solution of being able to acquire additional character slots without paying for a full-blown subscription that I'm not using to its full extent.  I like how it's a one-time fee and not a subscription fee.  For characters I haven't created yet, I'll be more than willing to pay the extra $10.  But for the characters that were stripped from me that I now have to pay a ransom for.....still not very happy.</p><p>-Phaldyne</p>

kcirrot
09-29-2010, 12:06 PM
<p><cite>Andok wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>How lame!  I prefer to <strong><em>earn</em></strong> my character slots in a dungeon!  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>ROFL! </p><p>Great job and great price on these devs!  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" /></p>

JoarAddam
09-29-2010, 12:21 PM
<p><cite>Phaldyne wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I think it's great that this option is being offered.  I've feedbacked this as well for a while and it's awesome to finally see it's going in.</p><p>However, I'm still a bit peeved about something.  I was able to upgrade to Station Access, create extra characters and downgrade back to a regular subscription and still play those characters.  I know it was a bug and I understand why it was fixed recently.  However, I got used to the extra characters and now I'm being told I need to pay money to fix something you had broken from the start but never bothered to fix when it was discovered.</p><p>Imagine if the government said smoking cigarettes was perfectly legal, albeit not healthy and typically discouraged, but you were allowed to do it and as much as you wanted.  Then, one day they put a law into affect that says it's now illegal to smoke more than 2 cigarettes per day.  The addiction factor of cigarettes is incredibly high and you'd have people going nuts trying to cope with withdrawls.  Then, a month or so later after the government has been given a ton of crap about it, they announce that you can go back to smoking as much as you want but now you have to pay money for a special license to smoke more than the baseline 2 cigarettes per day.  The government created and allowed the ability to produce an addiction to cigarettes and now, after years of letting it grow and build, they try to fix it but at a major cost to the users.</p><p>Not that having alts is as addicting as cigarettes and I know my anology is a bit of an extreme compared to this but still, I think it gets the point across.  SOE created a situation that allowed users to get comfortable with something then they took it away and said the only way you can have it back now is to pay up.</p><p>I think a little additional compassion on SOE's part needs to be brought into the mix here.  Would it be possible to have Customer Service grant an account a few character slots at no cost for the accounts that already were over their limit?  I think this would help padden the blow many people have taken.  I like the solution of being able to acquire additional character slots without paying for a full-blown subscription that I'm not using to its full extent.  I like how it's a one-time fee and not a subscription fee.  For characters I haven't created yet, I'll be more than willing to pay the extra $10.  But for the characters that were stripped from me that I now have to pay a ransom for.....still not very happy.</p><p>-Phaldyne</p></blockquote><p>For your smoking thing, the government DID do that.  You had a farm with tobacco on it, and you could keep it and smoke it yourself.  then the government came out and said Hey, no more growing that much, unless you pay for a special stamp.  So yeah, it did happen.  Happened with Alcohol too.  People have been brewing their own beer for years...  but they have to keep it under a certain amount or start paying taxes. </p><p>So your analogy is flawed, though your outrage is nearly righteous... nearly. </p><p>It would be wholly righteous except that you and I and everyone knew what you were doing was technically wrong. You were essentially stealing 5 extra slots.  If you wanted 5 extra character slots, you should have continured paying the Station access fee.  People who were still paying their station access fee at the time the glitch was corrected still had their 5 characters, after all. <strong> Try some social responsibility</strong>. Buy a copy of that dvd from the store rather than looking for the rental/copy glitch that gets you something for nothing.  You're like the guy with the hacked xbox stealing games and then qqing that microsoft figured it out and kicked you off their network.  boo freakin hoo.  You're lucky they didn't just ban your account.  If I had been in charge, you'd be playing a different game right now.</p>

Calthine
09-29-2010, 12:37 PM
<p><cite>Cyliena@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Ekum@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I have a question: if I buy one $10 slot does that give me one additional character slot on the US servers, EU and test or just one server?</p></blockquote><p>I asked that same question in the <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=487668#5424039" target="_blank">other thread</a>. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> The answer is it's per account basis, not per server, so it'd be available on US, EU and Test.</p></blockquote><p>EXCEPT EQ2Live and EQ2X are seperate.  If you buy slots on one, you won't have them on the other.</p>

Anastasie
09-29-2010, 12:58 PM
<p>This is a long awaited feature. /applauds</p><p>Now if they could figure out how to link multiple accounts - or add multiple log-ins on the same account.</p>

Nindaene
09-29-2010, 01:26 PM
<p><cite>JoarAddam wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Phaldyne wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I think it's great that this option is being offered.  I've feedbacked this as well for a while and it's awesome to finally see it's going in.</p><p>However, I'm still a bit peeved about something.  I was able to upgrade to Station Access, create extra characters and downgrade back to a regular subscription and still play those characters.  I know it was a bug and I understand why it was fixed recently.  However, I got used to the extra characters and now I'm being told I need to pay money to fix something you had broken from the start but never bothered to fix when it was discovered.</p><p>Imagine if the government said smoking cigarettes was perfectly legal, albeit not healthy and typically discouraged, but you were allowed to do it and as much as you wanted.  Then, one day they put a law into affect that says it's now illegal to smoke more than 2 cigarettes per day.  The addiction factor of cigarettes is incredibly high and you'd have people going nuts trying to cope with withdrawls.  Then, a month or so later after the government has been given a ton of crap about it, they announce that you can go back to smoking as much as you want but now you have to pay money for a special license to smoke more than the baseline 2 cigarettes per day.  The government created and allowed the ability to produce an addiction to cigarettes and now, after years of letting it grow and build, they try to fix it but at a major cost to the users.</p><p>Not that having alts is as addicting as cigarettes and I know my anology is a bit of an extreme compared to this but still, I think it gets the point across.  SOE created a situation that allowed users to get comfortable with something then they took it away and said the only way you can have it back now is to pay up.</p><p>I think a little additional compassion on SOE's part needs to be brought into the mix here.  Would it be possible to have Customer Service grant an account a few character slots at no cost for the accounts that already were over their limit?  I think this would help padden the blow many people have taken.  I like the solution of being able to acquire additional character slots without paying for a full-blown subscription that I'm not using to its full extent.  I like how it's a one-time fee and not a subscription fee.  For characters I haven't created yet, I'll be more than willing to pay the extra $10.  But for the characters that were stripped from me that I now have to pay a ransom for.....still not very happy.</p><p>-Phaldyne</p></blockquote><p>For your smoking thing, the government DID do that.  You had a farm with tobacco on it, and you could keep it and smoke it yourself.  then the government came out and said Hey, no more growing that much, unless you pay for a special stamp.  So yeah, it did happen.  Happened with Alcohol too.  People have been brewing their own beer for years...  but they have to keep it under a certain amount or start paying taxes. </p><p>So your analogy is flawed, though your outrage is nearly righteous... nearly. </p><p>It would be wholly righteous except that you and I and everyone knew what you were doing was technically wrong. You were essentially stealing 5 extra slots.  If you wanted 5 extra character slots, you should have continured paying the Station access fee.  People who were still paying their station access fee at the time the glitch was corrected still had their 5 characters, after all. <strong> Try some social responsibility</strong>. Buy a copy of that dvd from the store rather than looking for the rental/copy glitch that gets you something for nothing.  You're like the guy with the hacked xbox stealing games and then qqing that microsoft figured it out and kicked you off their network.  boo freakin hoo.  You're lucky they didn't just ban your account.  If I had been in charge, you'd be playing a different game right now.</p></blockquote><p>Bravo JoarAddam!  Bravo!!</p><p>You said everything that I was thinking... you just managed to say it before me.  Kudos to you.</p>

PlaneCrazy
09-29-2010, 01:58 PM
<p><cite>Xalmat wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Cecie@Kithicor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Oh please. Am I the only one who thinks this smells fishy? We've been asking for more character slots with every expansion for years now. Suddenly, once they have an in-game marketplace set up, they magically solve some "technical issues" and can offer unlimited character slots now? For 10 bucks each?</p></blockquote><p>My understanding is that it really was a technical issue, as well as an issue that had to be cleared by the Legal department. I've no doubt they would have added one years ago if they could have.</p></blockquote><p>I imagine some higher ups in Marketing and Sales had to sign off on this as well.  After all, someone who is paying $25/month now for 12 slots and not really playing the other games on SA anymore can just pay $50 and get the extra slots - then drop the SA subscription and they will still save $70 in the first year and $120 per year after that.</p><p>I guess SOE finally realized it may be healthier to keep the people subbed and playing then to risk loosing them altogether.</p><p>(Edited for bad math, lol)</p>

Dramira
09-29-2010, 02:16 PM
<p>Awesome! My guild leader had the station access and cant afford it now and she and I were talking that an idea like this would be great. Glad to see this, itll make her so happy.</p>

Nindaene
09-29-2010, 02:39 PM
<p>The money that they are loosing from people that will drop SA will be made back by the people that buy slots that never would have paid for SA in the first place.  Paying $10 here or there and only having to pay it once is way better than subscribing to a service just to have 1 more character.  Players save money, and SOE still makes out.  Its just a matter of balance.</p>

TaleraRis
09-29-2010, 03:29 PM
<p>Finally, something on SC that should actually be there. CO does this through their C-Store and it's quite handy there when you want to try out different superhero builds.</p>

Aner
09-29-2010, 03:35 PM
<p><cite>Senya wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Yay!  Now I can have all 9 tradeskillers on one account and a spare slot to server hop and visit all the pretty houses!  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>yesh!</p>

ElsaRat
09-29-2010, 04:08 PM
<p>Wow. A modest one-time fee to get an extra character slot? Very nice!</p>

MyleeSilverwings
09-29-2010, 05:37 PM
<p>I am so seriously overjoyed with this, SmokeJumper!  You are true to your word when you said it was being worked on, and I, for on, admire you enormously ... and thank you from the bottom of my heart!</p><p>Now I can say goodbye to my SA account, get heavy discounts for paying my subscription months in advance, AND have as many characters as I want for such a low price.</p><p>/bow</p>

david3009a
09-29-2010, 05:41 PM
<p>Doing the Happy Happy Joy Joy dance here!</p>

Valentina
09-29-2010, 06:28 PM
<p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>We've solved some technical issues recently and we can now offer character slots for sale. (Something previously unavailable.)</p><p>So as of October 5th (Tuesday), character slots will be available for purchase in the marketplace.</p><p>Here's a couple quick facts to answer obvious questions:</p><ol><li>Slots are pemanent. You pay for them once and they stay on your account forever.</li><li>You can purchase any number of character slots. There is no limit. You want 20, 30 or even a bajillion character slots? Go for it.</li></ol><p>Regarding Station Access subscriptions:</p><ol><li>Character slots sold are *in addition to* any slots you are getting by being an SA subscriber. (Example: If you had 12 slots available as an SC subscriber and you purchase two more slots in the marketplace, you'll now have 14 slots available.)</li><li>If you cancel your SA subscription, and then buy slots to replace the slots you were getting, your characters *will* still be present in those purchased slots (they won't get deleted during the swapover). </li></ol><p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>Awesome!  Time to cancel SA, re-up as normal (extended subscription) subscribers, and buy some char slots. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Dreadpatch
09-29-2010, 06:44 PM
Here is proof that the players will provide positive feedback when you do something positive. I wouldn't personally use this, as I typically focus on just a few toons. This is great for many people and an awesome bone to throw people on the Live servers. I might also say, that I was actually amazed when I saw the price of adding a new permanent spot. GREAT JOB ON THIS SOE, A GOOD BONE TO THROW YOUR CUSTOMERS.

Avianna
09-29-2010, 06:48 PM
<p>Thank you I will be purchasing a few myself,  this is finnally some possitive faction for the SOE powers that be. The price is fair too.</p><p>I feel that you should go thru the market place and lower a lot of the other prices and you would sell more. There are a few of the mounts I would purchase if they were around $10.00 I would prolly buy them all just to change up my look every now and then, but at $25.00 I can't justify buying any.</p>

Nindaene
09-29-2010, 07:02 PM
<p><cite>Avianna@Butcherblock wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>I feel that you should go thru the market place and lower a lot of the other prices and you would sell more. There are a few of the mounts I would purchase if they were around $10.00 I would prolly buy them all just to change up my look every now and then, but at $25.00 I can't justify buying any.</blockquote><p>I had similar feelings but purchased mine when they offered double SC for redeemed cards.  Because of that, the mounts only cost $12.50 instead of the regular $25.00.</p><p>I guess you could use the same method next time they offer double SC.  Buy your cards and redeem them for double points and then your slots would only cost you $5 instead of $10.</p>

dawy
09-29-2010, 09:39 PM
<p>great news perhaps we can put away the ptichforks for a couple of weeks <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p><p>great and very fair price too not often i say it but thumbs up to SOE for this move.</p>

melaine_dvarvensplitter
09-29-2010, 10:03 PM
<p>THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I will now be buying 4 slots for sure with in the next 3 weeks I will buy 4 more. THANK YOU!!!!THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Oh and THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Finally something Smoke that I am proud to say you did something that will get alot of SC from me.</p><p>THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!</p>

Brekkik
09-29-2010, 11:46 PM
<p>This, along with the outdoor areas being added to all large houses, and the currency window and mount slots that are being patched into test have made me a very happy lizard. Thanks a ton, SOE!</p>

Denon
09-29-2010, 11:50 PM
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial black,avant garde; color: #3366ff; font-size: large;">THANK YOU !!!!!!</span></strong></p>

Calthine
09-30-2010, 12:37 AM
<p><cite>dawy wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>great news perhaps we can put away the ptichforks for a couple of weeks <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>What would be the fun in that?</p>

Tigress
09-30-2010, 04:36 AM
<p>awesome!  thanks! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Kain-UK
09-30-2010, 07:37 AM
<p>That isn't a bad price for extra slots... I think I'll be picking some up for my second account.</p><p>Many thumbs up from me for this new service. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

dawy
09-30-2010, 07:51 AM
<p><cite>Calthine wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>dawy wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>great news perhaps we can put away the ptichforks for a couple of weeks <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>What would be the fun in that?</p></blockquote><p>Very true <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

MsChief
09-30-2010, 09:43 AM
<p>Thank you!  Thank you! Thank you!</p><p>Now I can get my "hidden" characters out of purgatory<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /></p>

Tikku Lilledrum
09-30-2010, 10:19 AM
O yes! Mind you, I have kept stuff apart already for my once-upon a time-if ever we get a new slot-perhaps lady-dwarf berserker <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />. Yes!

Captain Apple Darkberry
09-30-2010, 10:31 AM
<p>Between this...and the removal of the eye bleeding Halfling pantie lines...I almost hold some faith in SOE again.  Well, other than the EQ2X thing...that is still stupid...oh, and the removal of the lunging stomp animation from the scout debuff sooooo many updates ago (about the time Fae came out come to think of it).</p><p>Anyways...THANK YOU!</p>

Jrel
09-30-2010, 11:26 AM
<p>I was asking for this a year ago, so Thank You!!!</p><p>"I'm an EQ2 player and extra Character Slots was my idea!" (tm)  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/97ada74b88049a6d50a6ed40898a03d7.gif" border="0" /> ;-D</p>

Gumukatz
09-30-2010, 11:46 AM
<p>Thank you sony for this service.</p>

Nindaene
09-30-2010, 12:30 PM
<p><cite>Nyfe@Butcherblock wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>"I'm an EQ2 player and extra Character Slots was my idea!" (tm)  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/97ada74b88049a6d50a6ed40898a03d7.gif" border="0" /> ;-D</p></blockquote><p>Hahaha - that totally cracked me up.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Quelektra
09-30-2010, 12:44 PM
<p>Woohoo!  Thank you so very much!!</p>

Avirodar
09-30-2010, 12:46 PM
<p>They need to add account linking, so people who pay extra for multiple accounts, get the same privilages (heirloom equipment etc) as people who pay less and have multiple characters on one account.That, or make it so you can pay a premium and be able to log in 1 or more additional characters from the same account, at a rate to match standard subscription costs.</p>

Kimage
09-30-2010, 01:19 PM
<p>Just like SOE to bring this in JUST after I deleted a char to start another on!</p><p>I swear SOE somehow put microchips in our head and when we want something its something that they "will look into" and once we just give up on it.... and delete a char *sniff* they go and do something like this!</p><p>GRRRR... ok evilness about this done...</p><p>That being said.</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! I'm soooo excited!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ok now I just have to convience my hubby to let me have some money to get the extra char slots! ( what he doesn't know is I still have some money in my marketplace. heheheh ) </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">/turns around quickly to see a necro tapping his foot ... </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">What hunny? Oh no >< </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">/shifty eyes and dones innocent voice</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> I dont have anything in the marketplace.</span></p>

Nindaene
09-30-2010, 01:29 PM
<p><cite>Avirodar@Oasis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>They need to add account linking, so people who pay extra for multiple accounts, get the same privilages (heirloom equipment etc) as people who pay less and have multiple characters on one account.That, or make it so you can pay a premium and be able to log in 1 or more additional characters from the same account, at a rate to match standard subscription costs.</p></blockquote><p>If you don't 2-box, and you only have the 2nd account for the extra slots, its more beneficial in the long run to transfer those extra characters (depending on how many you have that is) to the 1 account.  My guild leader has 3 on a 2nd account but doesn't 2-box.  We figured that the amount it would cost him to transfer those 3 characters, plus the cost for the extra slot, would be the same amount as if he continued to pay for the 2nd account for the next 7 months.  At 7 months, he'd break even.  If you take into account that he would no longer have to purchase a 2nd copy of the game just for that account and that the expansion is slotted for about February (5 months from now), the money that he would save from not having to purchase the expansion for a 2nd account meants that he would break even in about 5 months.  Overall its a nice chunk of change up front, but the savings would add up rather quickly.</p><p>Granted, if you 2-box... well that's another issue entirely.  Guess you're just outta luck there.</p>

gds
09-30-2010, 03:21 PM
<p><span style="font-family: "><span style="color: #ffffff;">I'm glad to see this is finally available.  Being an artisan rather than an adventurer, I sure felt that I was losing out on not having those other 2 crafter classes. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "><span style="color: #ffffff;">And like some others, I've been providing feedback for this like forever!  It was probably stuck into that same folder that was propping up that table let that SJ mentioned earlier in this thread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But at least is this cheaper that I had suggested.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "><span style="color: #ffffff;">I have one peeve in that those on EQ2X platinum get a base of 10 character slots whiles those on EQ2 that pay a yearly only get a base of 7 character slots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Sure EQ2XPlat costs $200/yr but then that’s $60 worth of SC included with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>So take the cost of SC away and that’s $140/yr or what the yearly cost is for the regular EQ2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Is the 3 extra slots compensation for forcing the EQ2XPlat folks into buying $60 of SC?</span></span></p>

Anastasie
09-30-2010, 04:15 PM
<p>I know there is a rather large number of players that multi-box. Many box 2-3 characters, but I have known some who play up to six characters at one time. Being able to either link accounts or pay for multiple log-ins for one account would be a huge improvement and fix a lot of issues that currently exist for those that multi-box and those that play with them.</p>

Kamimura
09-30-2010, 06:05 PM
<p>Oh wow, great change! It's about time something like this was added! <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Now I can keep all my caracters on the same account (cause I've been wanting to drop SA to save some money) AND have some extra characters slots on top of it all!</p>

Zivgar
10-01-2010, 04:28 PM
<p>What I am worried about is that when I buy this extra char slot what character am I going to get? Right now I have 4 hidden characters and when I buy this I plan on getting just 1 character to start, but which of the 4 hidden characters will I get? Hopefully I will be able to choose. Such as make all hidden characters available for 24 hours so you can decided which one it'll be then it'll go back to the number of slots I'm paying for, in this case the last 8 characters I have logged on.</p><p>If it just gives me whatever character that I logged on last I'll be kinda disapointed, but I'll live.  It is nice that they have given us this option now.</p>

Mikai
10-01-2010, 07:59 PM
<p>Great addition.  Keep doing things like this, and SOE's reputation may actually improve.  SOE will probably make quite a bit of money on October 5th.</p><p>The only thing that would make this better is a double station cash weekend!!!</p><p>What are the odds of getting one soon?   Please, please please???  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /></p>

Ceeamee
10-01-2010, 08:19 PM
<p>Probably not anytime soon, given that we will be buying the extra character slots via station cash.  That would be nice, though!</p>

Brekkik
10-01-2010, 11:02 PM
<p><cite>Zivgar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>What I am worried about is that when I buy this extra char slot what character am I going to get? Right now I have 4 hidden characters and when I buy this I plan on getting just 1 character to start, but which of the 4 hidden characters will I get? Hopefully I will be able to choose. Such as make all hidden characters available for 24 hours so you can decided which one it'll be then it'll go back to the number of slots I'm paying for, in this case the last 8 characters I have logged on.</p><p>If it just gives me whatever character that I logged on last I'll be kinda disapointed, but I'll live.  It is nice that they have given us this option now.</p></blockquote><p>I believe that it will most likely be the character you logged on most recently among your hidden characters. iirc, there's a file on your computer that lists your characters in the order they would appear on your character select screen. I don't remember the name of the file if it does exist, but it should give you an idea of which character you would get when you purchase a character slot. Deleting a character works the same way. If you delete an active character, the last logged on of your hidden characters becomes available, so I see no reason that it would work differently when expanding your max number of active characters.</p>

Euronymous
10-01-2010, 11:40 PM
<p><cite>Brekkik wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Zivgar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>What I am worried about is that when I buy this extra char slot what character am I going to get? Right now I have 4 hidden characters and when I buy this I plan on getting just 1 character to start, but which of the 4 hidden characters will I get? Hopefully I will be able to choose. Such as make all hidden characters available for 24 hours so you can decided which one it'll be then it'll go back to the number of slots I'm paying for, in this case the last 8 characters I have logged on.</p><p>If it just gives me whatever character that I logged on last I'll be kinda disapointed, but I'll live.  It is nice that they have given us this option now.</p></blockquote><p>I belive that it will most likely be the character you logged on most recently among your hidden characters. iirc, there's a file on your computer that lists your characters in the order they would appear on your character select screen. I don't remember the name of the file if it does exist, but it should give you an idea of which character you would get when you purchase a character slot. Deleting a character works the same way. If you delete an active character, the last logged on of your hidden characters becomes available, so I see no reason that it would work differently when expanding your max number of active characters.</p></blockquote><p>I believe I saw a post from SJ in a similar thread that pretty much says this same thing.  But I'm in the same boat.  If I had a SA account but then reverted back to a regular 7 slot subscription, what if the toon I last logged isn't the one I want occupying my newly purchased slot.  It would be nice if they had a way of letting us choose which character or even rearranging the order in which to fill future character slots we purchase.</p>

dawy
10-02-2010, 09:41 AM
<p>I'm all for SOE bashing but lets be fair they did give us chance to sort out the "hidden" toons issue a couple of weeks back and yes i have the same problem when i buy a slot or two this week i guess i'll have to suck it up i suppose.</p>

Wingrider01
10-02-2010, 10:12 AM
<p><cite>Euronomous@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Brekkik wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Zivgar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>What I am worried about is that when I buy this extra char slot what character am I going to get? Right now I have 4 hidden characters and when I buy this I plan on getting just 1 character to start, but which of the 4 hidden characters will I get? Hopefully I will be able to choose. Such as make all hidden characters available for 24 hours so you can decided which one it'll be then it'll go back to the number of slots I'm paying for, in this case the last 8 characters I have logged on.</p><p>If it just gives me whatever character that I logged on last I'll be kinda disapointed, but I'll live.  It is nice that they have given us this option now.</p></blockquote><p>I belive that it will most likely be the character you logged on most recently among your hidden characters. iirc, there's a file on your computer that lists your characters in the order they would appear on your character select screen. I don't remember the name of the file if it does exist, but it should give you an idea of which character you would get when you purchase a character slot. Deleting a character works the same way. If you delete an active character, the last logged on of your hidden characters becomes available, so I see no reason that it would work differently when expanding your max number of active characters.</p></blockquote><p>I believe I saw a post from SJ in a similar thread that pretty much says this same thing.  But I'm in the same boat.  If I had a SA account but then reverted back to a regular 7 slot subscription, what if the toon I last logged isn't the one I want occupying my newly purchased slot.  It would be nice if they had a way of letting us choose which character or even rearranging the order in which to fill future character slots we purchase.</p></blockquote><p>There is a method to get the one you want - it is called the delete key or purchase the slots until you get the one you want.</p>

Keirie
10-02-2010, 01:10 PM
<p>When on October 5th will slot purchase be possible? 12am or when?</p>

Calthine
10-02-2010, 01:42 PM
<p><cite>Keirie wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>When on October 5th will slot purchase be possible? 12am or when?</p></blockquote><p>Since that's traditionally Hotfix day, I guess after the Hotfix.</p>

drakkenshie
10-03-2010, 06:24 AM
<p><cite>Kaisha@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>*snipped* <p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>*boggles* </p><p>$10 for a character slot, a thing everyone has been wanting and praying for a very long time. That will add tons of issues for SOE in regards to storage/etc/whatever .. or so they have said so often when asked about getting more slots ..</p><p>And, yet a Cloak, with Featherfall, that might be used for 1 week before a person finds a new 'toy' is priced at $11?! </p><p>This is one of the reasons why I think you guys pull out random numbers out of a jar for this SC stuff! </p><p>Glad you added this as an option but for crying out loud!  Someone get a clue as to what something in the Virtual Strip Mall should be worth and price EVERYTHING accordingly!</p></blockquote><p>Well, everything is way overpriced.</p><p>I think the slots are an awesome thing to have, wanted it for a long time.</p><p>However $10 is a bit much to me, just as the current price of most everything else is quite a bit too much.</p><p>But yea, another issue besides just the price is everything being out of what in terms of relative pricing.</p>

drakkenshie
10-03-2010, 06:25 AM
<p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Euronomous@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><p>There is a method to get the one you want - it is called the delete key or purchase the slots until you get the one you want.</p></blockquote><p>...which of course is not a valid method at all.</p><p>You should be able to pick the ones  you want to re-activate at the moment.</p><p>I have several toons that will be hidden when I get rid of station access, and I can't afford to buy slots all at once.</p><p>In fact, not being able to pick is pretty much a show stopper and an amazingly silly restriction.</p>

Wingrider01
10-03-2010, 09:16 AM
<p><cite>drakkenshield wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Euronomous@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><p>There is a method to get the one you want - it is called the delete key or purchase the slots until you get the one you want.</p></blockquote><p>...which of course is not a valid method at all.</p><p>You should be able to pick the ones  you want to re-activate at the moment.</p><p>I have several toons that will be hidden when I get rid of station access, and I can't afford to buy slots all at once.</p><p>In fact, not being able to pick is pretty much a show stopper and an amazingly silly restriction.</p></blockquote><p>why? becasue you want to?</p>

Wingrider01
10-03-2010, 09:26 AM
<p><cite>drakkenshield wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Kaisha@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>*snipped* <p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>*boggles* </p><p>$10 for a character slot, a thing everyone has been wanting and praying for a very long time. That will add tons of issues for SOE in regards to storage/etc/whatever .. or so they have said so often when asked about getting more slots ..</p><p>And, yet a Cloak, with Featherfall, that might be used for 1 week before a person finds a new 'toy' is priced at $11?! </p><p>This is one of the reasons why I think you guys pull out random numbers out of a jar for this SC stuff! </p><p>Glad you added this as an option but for crying out loud!  Someone get a clue as to what something in the Virtual Strip Mall should be worth and price EVERYTHING accordingly!</p></blockquote><p>Well, everything is way overpriced.</p><p>I think the slots are an awesome thing to have, wanted it for a long time.</p><p>However $10 is a bit much to me, just as the current price of most everything else is quite a bit too much.</p><p>But yea, another issue besides just the price is everything being out of what in terms of relative pricing.</p></blockquote><p>expensive? you do realize that 10.00 is the going price for slots in the other games that allow it right? Add to the fact in the other games to get anywhere near the storage that each individual character in eq2 has available you need to buy storage slots?</p><p>Personally think it is to cheap, but then again that is a opinion, as it stands now it is a wonderful bargin, this will allow me to get rid of 2 of the 3 station access acounts I have left and combine everything down to 1 account for a lot less then what I am paying yearly for the 2 other SA accounts. In the process now of striping all the banks slots on the other two accounts of all items that are of any value in preperation for the 6th. The other two accounts have already been canceled and have about 20 days left to go on them</p>

Enica
10-03-2010, 12:13 PM
<p><cite>Euronomous@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Brekkik wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Zivgar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>What I am worried about is that when I buy this extra char slot what character am I going to get? Right now I have 4 hidden characters and when I buy this I plan on getting just 1 character to start, but which of the 4 hidden characters will I get? Hopefully I will be able to choose. Such as make all hidden characters available for 24 hours so you can decided which one it'll be then it'll go back to the number of slots I'm paying for, in this case the last 8 characters I have logged on.</p><p>If it just gives me whatever character that I logged on last I'll be kinda disapointed, but I'll live.  It is nice that they have given us this option now.</p></blockquote><p>I belive that it will most likely be the character you logged on most recently among your hidden characters. iirc, there's a file on your computer that lists your characters in the order they would appear on your character select screen. I don't remember the name of the file if it does exist, but it should give you an idea of which character you would get when you purchase a character slot. Deleting a character works the same way. If you delete an active character, the last logged on of your hidden characters becomes available, so I see no reason that it would work differently when expanding your max number of active characters.</p></blockquote><p>I believe I saw a post from SJ in a similar thread that pretty much says this same thing.  But I'm in the same boat.  If I had a SA account but then reverted back to a regular 7 slot subscription, what if the toon I last logged isn't the one I want occupying my newly purchased slot.  It would be nice if they had a way of letting us choose which character or even rearranging the order in which to fill future character slots we purchase.</p></blockquote><p>I'm also going to be dropping SA and buying slots, so I'll be in the same boat.  But what I plan to do the night before my SA lapses, is log on to my favorite 8.  That way when I buy my first slot, the one hidden one that I want to show up *should* be the one that *does* show up.  Then over the next few weeks, I'll uncover the others.</p>

Jrral
10-03-2010, 03:43 PM
<p><cite>drakkenshield wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>However $10 is a bit much to me, just as the current price of most everything else is quite a bit too much.</p></blockquote><p>Overpriced? A one-time $10 payment per slot, vs. $15-18/month (depending on how many months you pay for at a time) extra for Station Access if you only have it for the extra character slots. So if shelling out $50 lets me drop Station Access, it pays for itself in 3-4 months and after that it's extra money in my pocket every month. I wouldn't call that overpriced.</p>

Wingrider01
10-03-2010, 06:03 PM
<p><cite>Jrral@Unrest wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>drakkenshield wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>However $10 is a bit much to me, just as the current price of most everything else is quite a bit too much.</p></blockquote><p>Overpriced? A one-time $10 payment per slot, vs. $15-18/month (depending on how many months you pay for at a time) extra for Station Access if you only have it for the extra character slots. So if shelling out $50 lets me drop Station Access, it pays for itself in 3-4 months and after that it's extra money in my pocket every month. I wouldn't call that overpriced.</p></blockquote><p>actually it will save me around 1,100.00 a year after I combine all my station access account characters into 2 accounts and convert them to the normal 7 slot accounts with extra slots purchased to cover all my 90's. have completely lost interest in any SOE game outside of eq2</p>

Mustang8259
10-04-2010, 02:06 PM
<p>I have to agree, I'll be saving a ton of money in the long run too if you compare it to what it would have been if they would have just said "Nope, your out of luck and have to resub to Station Access to ever see your "hidden" toons again" so if you compare it to that I really don't think $10 a toon is bad.  Granted i'll be dropping $100 to get 5 toons on each of my 2 accounts to get ALL of them back, but I still think it's a fair price when compared to the continued cost of paying $30 x 2 every month.  If anything I'd have to say perhaps the other items are a bit over priced, how can you justify a single cloak costing more than a whole nother character?</p>

Jrel
10-04-2010, 06:14 PM
<p>I definitely don't think it's overpriced. I quit playing a few other games because the cost of extra storage space was too high.</p>

Hirofortis
10-04-2010, 06:41 PM
<p>The price is where it should be.  SOE needs to be competitive and it looks like we might actually be on that road.</p>

melaine_dvarvensplitter
10-04-2010, 07:12 PM
<p>After looking at a few things tomorrow I will be buying 5 slots and in 3 weeeks I will be buying 2 more then 2 every two weeks till I hit 24 slots <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Thanks SOE once again for this.</p>

Wingrider01
10-04-2010, 08:10 PM
<p><cite>Mustang8259 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I have to agree, I'll be saving a ton of money in the long run too if you compare it to what it would have been if they would have just said "Nope, your out of luck and have to resub to Station Access to ever see your "hidden" toons again" so if you compare it to that I really don't think $10 a toon is bad.  Granted i'll be dropping $100 to get 5 toons on each of my 2 accounts to get ALL of them back, but I still think it's a fair price when compared to the continued cost of paying $30 x 2 every month.  If anything I'd have to say perhaps the other items are a bit over priced, how can you justify a single cloak costing more than a whole nother character?</p></blockquote><p>the 10 bucks is pretty much in line with what the other games are charging, personally I am surprised it is so cheap considering the amount of item storage available to a character on eq2 as compared to base storage on the other games</p>

Kendor
10-04-2010, 11:03 PM
<p>Any more information about the exact time this is gonna be available? It is Oct 5 in Europe now already, was it supposed to be Oct 5 in US and some specific timezone?</p><p>And, I guess it will be in the Consuables/Services section in Marketplace? Where the character transfer and such things are?</p><p>Can things like this be added without server downtime at all, so is there any point in checking while playing?</p><p>I know, I know, sounds like I am terribly impatient about this, but ... well yes I am <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Alenna
10-04-2010, 11:59 PM
<p><cite>Kendor@Splitpaw wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Any more information about the exact time this is gonna be available? It is Oct 5 in Europe now already, was it supposed to be Oct 5 in US and some specific timezone?</p><p>And, I guess it will be in the Consuables/Services section in Marketplace? Where the character transfer and such things are?</p><p>Can things like this be added without server downtime at all, so is there any point in checking while playing?</p><p>I know, I know, sounds like I am terribly impatient about this, but ... well yes I am <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>it is now October 4 8:00pm PST(west coast US.) so anytime tomorrow maybe after the down time of the U.S servers?</p>

Kyiara
10-05-2010, 02:19 AM
<p>This is awesome! The only problem I foresee is that my husband is gonna kill me cause I'm gonna be adding new slots often at that price! LOL  No, seriously, THIS is a great use of the Marketplace, something we want, we can use and reasonably priced! Kudos SOE!</p>

Brethil
10-05-2010, 05:37 AM
<p><cite>Kendor@Splitpaw wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Any more information about the exact time this is gonna be available? It is Oct 5 in Europe now already, was it supposed to be Oct 5 in US and some specific timezone?</p><p>And, I guess it will be in the Consuables/Services section in Marketplace? Where the character transfer and such things are?</p><p>Can things like this be added without server downtime at all, so is there any point in checking while playing?</p><p>I know, I know, sounds like I am terribly impatient about this, but ... well yes I am <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>My guess is after <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=487939" target="_blank">tomorrow's hotfix</a>... we have to wait for it a day longer</p>

Wingrider01
10-05-2010, 08:24 AM
<p><cite>Kendor@Splitpaw wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Any more information about the exact time this is gonna be available? It is Oct 5 in Europe now already, was it supposed to be Oct 5 in US and some specific timezone?</p><p>And, I guess it will be in the Consuables/Services section in Marketplace? Where the character transfer and such things are?</p><p>Can things like this be added without server downtime at all, so is there any point in checking while playing?</p><p>I know, I know, sounds like I am terribly impatient about this, but ... well yes I am <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>would hazard a guess that it will be available sometime after 10:00 AM pacific (4pm uk time?) on the 5th, since the normal downtime is at 7:00 am and the network status shows a 2 hour window for downtime. Add an extra hour to let the gold rush on slots settle down and you should be good to go. All patch times are based on the Pacific time zone</p>

Cyliena
10-05-2010, 08:26 AM
<p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Kendor@Splitpaw wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Any more information about the exact time this is gonna be available? It is Oct 5 in Europe now already, was it supposed to be Oct 5 in US and some specific timezone?</p><p>And, I guess it will be in the Consuables/Services section in Marketplace? Where the character transfer and such things are?</p><p>Can things like this be added without server downtime at all, so is there any point in checking while playing?</p><p>I know, I know, sounds like I am terribly impatient about this, but ... well yes I am <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>would hazard a guess that it will be available sometime after 10:00 AM pacific (4pm uk time?) on the 5th, since the normal downtime is at 7:00 am and the network status shows a 2 hour window for downtime. Add an extra hour to let the gold rush on slots settle down and you should be good to go. All patch times are based on the Pacific time zone</p></blockquote><p>Especially considering that the patch notes specifically mention that character slots are now available, I'd say that's a safe guess. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

megaira13
10-05-2010, 11:32 AM
<p>Agreed! Excellent use of the marketplace, and well implemented, too! </p>

mistressofdoom
10-05-2010, 11:59 AM
OMG!!!! Awesome

Masuri_Sukawa
10-05-2010, 01:40 PM
<p>Thank you so much!  I've been whining for this, and I am so happy to see it.  My poor account was getting crowded!</p>

Thorand
10-05-2010, 01:43 PM
<p>I haven't found a direct answer to my question as yet, but if there is one, I'm sorry, but I missed it.</p><p>My question is: I have a Station Access account with 12 characters on it. If I cancel the Station Access account to a normal account, it will be reduced to 7 characters. Which 5 characters get the axe? Does SOE pick them or do I? Then, according to what I read, I can pay $50 and have those 5 characters added back on to my new normal account.</p><p>Can I instead, open a 2nd EQ2 account and put those 5 cancelled characters into the new account? Then add more character slots as I desire to both accounts. (Altaholic disease spreading rapidly here)</p><p>Any answer to these questions will be appreciated.</p>

Stabbinyer
10-05-2010, 01:58 PM
<p>So estimated downtime was only 2 hours....we're on hour 3....</p>

Chiyoiche
10-05-2010, 02:09 PM
<p><cite>Thorand wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I haven't found a direct answer to my question as yet, but if there is one, I'm sorry, but I missed it.</p><p>My question is: I have a Station Access account with 12 characters on it. If I cancel the Station Access account to a normal account, it will be reduced to 7 characters. Which 5 characters get the axe? Does SOE pick them or do I? Then, according to what I read, I can pay $50 and have those 5 characters added back on to my new normal account.</p><p>Can I instead, open a 2nd EQ2 account and put those 5 cancelled characters into the new account? Then add more character slots as I desire to both accounts. (Altaholic disease spreading rapidly here)</p><p>Any answer to these questions will be appreciated.</p></blockquote><p>a similar quest was asked several pages back and answered. but, if you cancle SA, i think its random on wich ones still appear. not sure, i still have SA, and have no plans on cancling it. if you buy the extra slots, they will appear for you. IF, you open a new account, you will have to pay character transfer fees (what was it about 50-100 per character?) its been a long time since i read anything on it.(on transfering on to another account). so in the long run, would be better if you wanted, to just keep the one account, and buy the extra slots.</p>

nihilux
10-05-2010, 02:10 PM
<p>Hmm.</p>

Gadii
10-05-2010, 02:12 PM
<p><cite>Thorand wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I haven't found a direct answer to my question as yet, but if there is one, I'm sorry, but I missed it.</p><p>My question is: I have a Station Access account with 12 characters on it. If I cancel the Station Access account to a normal account, it will be reduced to 7 characters. Which 5 characters get the axe? Does SOE pick them or do I? Then, according to what I read, I can pay $50 and have those 5 characters added back on to my new normal account.</p><p>Can I instead, open a 2nd EQ2 account and put those 5 cancelled characters into the new account? Then add more character slots as I desire to both accounts. (Altaholic disease spreading rapidly here)</p><p>Any answer to these questions will be appreciated.</p><p>None of your toons get the "ax" they simply are hidden from play, the 7 most recent played toons you have will be the ones available to still play and each toon will become  playable in order of play if you delete a toon from the 7 available.</p></blockquote>

Lortet
10-05-2010, 07:41 PM
<p>Looking forward to this - but cancelling SA and resubbing to a normal account is not smooth. Cancelled my SA sub last night, but any attempt to resub directs me straight to SA resubbing even if I click the "normal sub only" button.</p><p>Awaiting a reply from CS - perhaps I have to wait until the SA sub expires then resub - which I hope does not break my subscription age.</p><p>I also see that the new character slots aren't appearing on SC yet. </p>

Finora
10-05-2010, 07:57 PM
<p><cite>Hykaree@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Looking forward to this - but cancelling SA and resubbing to a normal account is not smooth. Cancelled my SA sub last night, but any attempt to resub directs me straight to SA resubbing even if I click the "normal sub only" button.</p><p>Awaiting a reply from CS - perhaps I have to wait until the SA sub expires then resub - which I hope does not break my subscription age.</p><p>I also see that the new character slots aren't appearing on SC yet. </p></blockquote><p>From working around SA sub & another game subscription, you can't change the subscription of a SA account until the time has run out. If you want to change something about a sub under it before the SA time has run out the CS people have to manually shut down your SA subscription, fix whatever subscription you want and then credit you for any time you had left on you SA subscription.</p><p>If you are just wanting to sub for a regular account and add characters to it, set your SA account to non-recurring/canceled and wait until your paid time is up. When your paid time is up you should see all the options available.</p>

PsiaMeese
10-05-2010, 08:05 PM
<p><cite>Thorand wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I haven't found a direct answer to my question as yet, but if there is one, I'm sorry, but I missed it.</p><p>My question is: I have a Station Access account with 12 characters on it. If I cancel the Station Access account to a normal account, it will be reduced to 7 characters. Which 5 characters get the axe? Does SOE pick them or do I? Then, according to what I read, I can pay $50 and have those 5 characters added back on to my new normal account.</p><p>Can I instead, open a 2nd EQ2 account and put those 5 cancelled characters into the new account? Then add more character slots as I desire to both accounts. (Altaholic disease spreading rapidly here)</p><p>Any answer to these questions will be appreciated.</p></blockquote><p>I was poking around and saw this information on the <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=487998" target="_blank">Marketplace news for the week</a>:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Former Station Access Subscribers: </strong></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">If you were formerly a Station Access subscriber but have since downgraded to a standard account, purchasing additional character slots will reopen your characters that have been hiding away. The character that was played last will be the one to appear in the new slot.</p>

Brekkik
10-05-2010, 08:12 PM
<p><cite>Chiyoiche@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Thorand wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I haven't found a direct answer to my question as yet, but if there is one, I'm sorry, but I missed it.</p><p>My question is: I have a Station Access account with 12 characters on it. If I cancel the Station Access account to a normal account, it will be reduced to 7 characters. Which 5 characters get the axe? Does SOE pick them or do I? Then, according to what I read, I can pay $50 and have those 5 characters added back on to my new normal account.</p><p>Can I instead, open a 2nd EQ2 account and put those 5 cancelled characters into the new account? Then add more character slots as I desire to both accounts. (Altaholic disease spreading rapidly here)</p><p>Any answer to these questions will be appreciated.</p></blockquote><p>a similar quest was asked several pages back and answered. but, if you cancle SA, i think its random on wich ones still appear. not sure, i still have SA, and have no plans on cancling it. if you buy the extra slots, they will appear for you. IF, you open a new account, you will have to pay character transfer fees (what was it about 50-100 per character?) its been a long time since i read anything on it.(on transfering on to another account). so in the long run, would be better if you wanted, to just keep the one account, and buy the extra slots.</p></blockquote><p>The 7 characters you keep initially when you switch from Station Access to a regular subsctiption will be the last 7 characters you logged on before the switch. When you buy character slots, the next character "unlocked" will also follow this order, starting with the one most recently logged in and ending with the one logged in last. It's been ages since I transferred a character between accounts, but I believe it was around the $50 area per character. Since you can buy an unlimited number of character slots, it would be cheaper to just pay a single $50 to buy enough slots to unlock your characters and an additional $10 for each extra empty slot after that.</p><p>EDIT: Just adding that you can easily tell what order your characters will be unlocked in by looking at your character select screen. Your characters are listed in order with the most recent one logged in at the bottom of the list and the rest ordered from there in order of last logged in with the character on top of the list being the last character you would unlock.</p>

melaine_dvarvensplitter
10-05-2010, 09:11 PM
<p>Well so far 5 toons bought and then time every 2 weeks to get 2 more <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>yay!!!</p>

Elwin
10-05-2010, 10:27 PM
<p>Suddenly it becomes clear why after six years you cut back all accounts to their 'strict' number of slots.</p><p>This would of been ok but I'd actually paid to transfer toons from a dead EU server to a US server and then lost them to your cut. Yippee now I can pay more money to $oE and get them back! </p><p>How about you spend some of this money you're raking in on the live servers? Do you even remember what they are?</p>

Cyliena
10-05-2010, 10:35 PM
<p>Any chance of getting this thread locked now since the character slots are out? I'm sure we'd appreciate being able to see when new announcements are being posted. <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Lodrelhai
10-05-2010, 11:26 PM
<p><cite>Brekkik wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Chiyoiche@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Thorand wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I haven't found a direct answer to my question as yet, but if there is one, I'm sorry, but I missed it.</p><p>My question is: I have a Station Access account with 12 characters on it. If I cancel the Station Access account to a normal account, it will be reduced to 7 characters. Which 5 characters get the axe? Does SOE pick them or do I? Then, according to what I read, I can pay $50 and have those 5 characters added back on to my new normal account.</p><p>Can I instead, open a 2nd EQ2 account and put those 5 cancelled characters into the new account? Then add more character slots as I desire to both accounts. (Altaholic disease spreading rapidly here)</p><p>Any answer to these questions will be appreciated.</p></blockquote><p>a similar quest was asked several pages back and answered. but, if you cancle SA, i think its random on wich ones still appear. not sure, i still have SA, and have no plans on cancling it. if you buy the extra slots, they will appear for you. IF, you open a new account, you will have to pay character transfer fees (what was it about 50-100 per character?) its been a long time since i read anything on it.(on transfering on to another account). so in the long run, would be better if you wanted, to just keep the one account, and buy the extra slots.</p></blockquote><p>The 7 characters you keep initially when you switch from Station Access to a regular subsctiption will be the last 7 characters you logged on before the switch. When you buy character slots, the next character "unlocked" will also follow this order, starting with the one most recently logged in and ending with the one logged in last. It's been ages since I transferred a character between accounts, but I believe it was around the $50 area per character. Since you can buy an unlimited number of character slots, it would be cheaper to just pay a single $50 to buy enough slots to unlock your characters and an additional $10 for each extra empty slot after that.</p><p>EDIT: Just adding that you can easily tell what order your characters will be unlocked in by looking at your character select screen. Your characters are listed in order with the most recent one logged in at the bottom of the list and the rest ordered from there in order of last logged in with the character on top of the list being the last character you would unlock.</p></blockquote><p>Just for the record, character transfer between accts is now $25 per character, but can only be handled through the Technical Support dept at 858-537-0898.  <a href="http://everquest2.com/shop/charactertransfer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://everquest2.com/shop/charactertransfer</a></p>

CerriHerring
10-06-2010, 12:04 AM
<p>How long should it take for the newly purchased character slots to appear on the character select screen? I purchased slots earlier this evening but they haven't appeared yet. I do see where the deduction was made to my station cash balance.</p>

Cyliena
10-06-2010, 12:44 AM
<p><cite>CerriHerring wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>How long should it take for the newly purchased character slots to appear on the character select screen? I purchased slots earlier this evening but they haven't appeared yet. I do see where the deduction was made to my station cash balance.</p></blockquote><p>Did you remember to "use" the item that was added to your inventory when you purchased them? They should be immediately available after you do that.</p>

CerriHerring
10-06-2010, 08:30 AM
<p><cite>Cyliena@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>CerriHerring wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>How long should it take for the newly purchased character slots to appear on the character select screen? I purchased slots earlier this evening but they haven't appeared yet. I do see where the deduction was made to my station cash balance.</p></blockquote><p>Did you remember to "use" the item that was added to your inventory when you purchased them? They should be immediately available after you do that.</p></blockquote><p>Found them. That's what I get for changing characters without checking my inventory. Thanks  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Zirazai
10-06-2010, 09:52 AM
<p>Marketplace now crashes EQ2 (Server Valor)</p>

Dragoneyes
10-06-2010, 11:41 AM
<p>Well just to let peeps know that even tho the extra char slots are not that exspensive and myself will be down grading my SA to basic and buying 5 char slots it is still 3-4 times more than some mmo's for example Final Fantasy XIV £2.10 per char ok downside they only let you have 8 max slots and you have to buy the char slots to even start,so EQ2 is still a better buy over all as a game but the extra chars slots can be cheaper.</p><p>DE</p>

Qojan
10-09-2010, 01:53 AM
<p>Very Nice. Thank you</p>

Wingrider01
10-09-2010, 09:56 AM
<p><cite>Dragoneyes@Splitpaw wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Well just to let peeps know that even tho the extra char slots are not that exspensive and myself will be down grading my SA to basic and buying 5 char slots it is still 3-4 times more than some mmo's for example Final Fantasy XIV £2.10 per char ok downside they only let you have 8 max slots and you have to buy the char slots to even start,so EQ2 is still a better buy over all as a game but the extra chars slots can be cheaper.</p><p>DE</p></blockquote><p>the other higher profile games from turbine charge around the same cost as SOE, and you get a lot less character storage in the bank and on the character. Any additonal storage costs also. Still amazed it was only 10.00 per slot</p>

Vannin
10-10-2010, 08:12 AM
I recently deleted some alts as I had the 5 "extra" slots from when I used to have a station account. If I buy extra slots will I be able to recover some of the deleted chars?

Aneova
10-10-2010, 09:57 AM
<p><cite>Vannin wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>I recently deleted some alts as I had the 5 "extra" slots from when I used to have a station account. If I buy extra slots will I be able to recover some of the deleted chars?</blockquote><p>if you went through the delete process, no i don't believe so, had you just down graded from SA to regular sub, and the chars where "hidden" and you bought the extra char slots then they'd just be shown in order of last time played.</p>

Anastasie
10-10-2010, 11:34 AM
<p>You might be able to petition and try to get those characters restored. But maybe contact customer service before purchasing the extra slots so you don't waste your money.</p>

Gungo
10-10-2010, 11:51 AM
<p><cite>Annelise@Guk wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You might be able to petition and try to get those characters restored. But maybe contact customer service before purchasing the extra slots so you don't waste your money.</p></blockquote><p>You can petition and retrieve them if they were deleted within the year. </p>

melaine_dvarvensplitter
10-10-2010, 10:43 PM
<p><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Annelise@Guk wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You might be able to petition and try to get those characters restored. But maybe contact customer service before purchasing the extra slots so you don't waste your money.</p></blockquote><p>You can petition and retrieve them if they were deleted within the year. </p></blockquote><p>QFT! I have had toons restored 3 years deleted so it is possible.</p><p>I spent 100.00 on extra toons <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> So they finally found a way to hook me with SC <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Treyya
10-12-2010, 02:01 PM
<p>This is a nice idea. Too bad it wasn't available before the "hidden toons" on my old Station Pass accounts were no longer available. The money I had to spend on an account transfer to "save" my level 90 jeweler could have been used for this... *shrugs* ... Still nice to be able to recover a couple of suicided toons, I guess.</p>

Vannin
10-12-2010, 07:26 PM
Thanks for the answers. I'd assumed that a petition would get me want and it has. Cheers.

melaine_dvarvensplitter
11-16-2010, 12:04 AM
<p>I have purchased 14 slots so far and I forsee me buying 3 to 4 more <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

Hamervelder
11-16-2010, 04:15 AM
<p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>We've solved some technical issues recently and we can now offer character slots for sale. (Something previously unavailable.)</p><p>So as of October 5th (Tuesday), character slots will be available for purchase in the marketplace.</p><p>Here's a couple quick facts to answer obvious questions:</p><ol><li>Slots are pemanent. You pay for them once and they stay on your account forever.</li><li>You can purchase any number of character slots. There is no limit. You want 20, 30 or even a bajillion character slots? Go for it.</li></ol><p>Regarding Station Access subscriptions:</p><ol><li>Character slots sold are *in addition to* any slots you are getting by being an SA subscriber. (Example: If you had 12 slots available as an SC subscriber and you purchase two more slots in the marketplace, you'll now have 14 slots available.)</li><li>If you cancel your SA subscription, and then buy slots to replace the slots you were getting, your characters *will* still be present in those purchased slots (they won't get deleted during the swapover). </li></ol><p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>How many more things that at one time were supposedly 'impossible' are you guys going to release via the Marketplace, now that you can charge us real money for them?  For that matter, what happened to Smedley's promise that there would never be RMT on non-exchange servers in EQ2?  What's next?  A class-change potion for $50?  /eyeroll</p>

feldon30
11-16-2010, 05:30 AM
This thread needs to be closed. It's just whining and trolling now. $10 is a good price for a lifetime character slot, especially when there was just a 50% off stationcash promotion. Just as tradeskillers have had a Tradeskill Class Reset for many years, allowing you to reset to level 9 and pick a new class, we will soon have an Adventure Class Reset which will probably (not announced yet) reset to level 9 and let you pick a different adventure class. It won't be a StationCash thing as far as I know.

Trellium
11-16-2010, 01:34 PM
<p><cite>Illiam@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>SmokeJumper wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>We've solved some technical issues recently and we can now offer character slots for sale. (Something previously unavailable.)</p><p>So as of October 5th (Tuesday), character slots will be available for purchase in the marketplace.</p><p>Here's a couple quick facts to answer obvious questions:</p><ol><li>Slots are pemanent. You pay for them once and they stay on your account forever.</li><li>You can purchase any number of character slots. There is no limit. You want 20, 30 or even a bajillion character slots? Go for it.</li></ol><p>Regarding Station Access subscriptions:</p><ol><li>Character slots sold are *in addition to* any slots you are getting by being an SA subscriber. (Example: If you had 12 slots available as an SC subscriber and you purchase two more slots in the marketplace, you'll now have 14 slots available.)</li><li>If you cancel your SA subscription, and then buy slots to replace the slots you were getting, your characters *will* still be present in those purchased slots (they won't get deleted during the swapover). </li></ol><p>Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.</p></blockquote><p>How many more things that at one time were supposedly 'impossible' are you guys going to release via the Marketplace, now that you can charge us real money for them?  For that matter, what happened to Smedley's promise that there would never be RMT on non-exchange servers in EQ2?  What's next?  A class-change potion for $50?  /eyeroll</p></blockquote><p>Software changes. Databases are modified. Hardware is added, and larger drives become available for a reasonable price.</p><p>The world changes, maybe it is you who expects it to stay the same?</p><p>From our perspective, we just love this change and added several slots to our accounts.  Not only that, but I also ended up buying a lot more points when they were on sale, and even a few other items. In other words, it's a bit irritating that the marketing department actually talked me out of money!</p><p><cite>Andok wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>How lame!  I prefer to <strong><em>earn</em></strong> my character slots in a dungeon!  <img src="../images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>Well, in Canada we called them "cubicles". They are like really, really simple dungeons with about a million instances each with one mob in it and an epic mob who only comes out on payday.</p>

DrkVsr
11-16-2010, 05:07 PM
<p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #993300; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Illiam's complaint is not so much that they are now releasing things that were previously deemed impossible, but more that they are being released only to those who can pay real cash for them, what about coming up for new quests for them?</span></p>

Hamervelder
11-17-2010, 04:51 PM
<p><cite>DrkVsr wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #993300;">Illiam's complaint is not so much that they are now releasing things that were previously deemed impossible, but more that they are being released only to those who can pay real cash for them, what about coming up for new quests for them?</span></p></blockquote><p>Bingo.  If people would read my <em>entire</em> statement, then they should have understood what I had to say.  Name changes and guild name changes have always been possible, for instance.  GM's used to do them.  But SOE didn't make them available for us, until they could charge us real money for them.  Why not make them available in-game for a HEFTY sum of plat, instead of (or as an alternative to) paying real money?  When it comes to character slots, the community has been asking for them  for years.  We got told no, usually because of legal reasons.  Yet again, when they figured out a way to charge us money for additional slots, we can suddenly have them.  Character slots are great.  All these things are great.  Charging real money for <em>everything</em> is not great.  I'll confess that I bought a character slot when the double-value event was going on recently.  Why?  Because I needed one and <em>there's no other way to get one!!!</em>  Of COURSE people are going to pay real money for things, if it's something that they feel they need, when SOE gives them no alternative means to get it.  /eyeroll</p><p>The shift seems to be almost exclusively toward releasing new items/services/amenities on Station Cash.  Where is all the great new armor that Smokejumper promised would be released in-game?  He did say that they'd release great new items in-game, and not exclusively on the Marketplace.  Of course, that 'promise' has proven to be hollow.  It's very irksome to see that Sony is just interested in nickel-and-diming us with everything that they can.</p><p>@ Trellium: What I want from SOE is <em>honesty</em>.  John Smedley has been lying to us for years.  Smokejumper has been lying since he got here.  If they want to charge us for everything new and beautiful that comes along, then please, just tell us up front that that's what they're going to do.  I know, that might be a hard concept for some people to grasp, but honesty does go a long way, even when you're the president of a big company.  To be clear, I don't think that name changes, race changes, guild name changes, or additional character slots were ever technically impossible, even though SOE told us at times that they were.  I think that when SOE's leadership realized that they could, in fact, get people to pay real money for these items and services, that SOE made them available.  Yes, Smokejumper and Smedley will say that I'm wrong.  But Smedley also said that there would never be RMT on any non-exchange server in EQ2, and look at us now.</p>

CoLD MeTaL
11-17-2010, 07:40 PM
<p><cite>Illiam@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>...@ Trellium: What I want from SOE is <em>honesty</em>...</p></blockquote><p>If you don't see the 'honesty' in everything (and I do mean everything) is up for sale right now  you aren't playing the same game, or reading the same forums I am.</p>

Trelyn_Willowleaf
11-17-2010, 08:29 PM
<p>Ok so if we can have unlimited char slots on a account is there a cut off for the exp bonus? For instance if I had 20 chars at lvl 90 would I be earning 400% exp bonus, at 40 lvl 90's would give 800% exp....?</p>

QuestingCrafter
11-17-2010, 08:35 PM
<p><cite>Trelyn_Willowleaf wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Ok so if we can have unlimited char slots on a account is there a cut off for the exp bonus? For instance if I had 20 chars at lvl 90 would I be earning 400% exp bonus, at 40 lvl 90's would give 800% exp....?</p></blockquote><p>Capped at +200% (for 10+ max-level toons).</p>

Trelyn_Willowleaf
11-18-2010, 10:27 PM
<p><cite>QuestingCrafter wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Trelyn_Willowleaf wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Ok so if we can have unlimited char slots on a account is there a cut off for the exp bonus? For instance if I had 20 chars at lvl 90 would I be earning 400% exp bonus, at 40 lvl 90's would give 800% exp....?</p></blockquote><p>Capped at +200% (for 10+ max-level toons).</p></blockquote><p>Boooo! <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>