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== Overview ==
== Overview ==
An '''account''' is required to play City of Heroes Freedom. There are three types of accounts, each offering access to a different set of features in the game: '''Free''', '''Premium''', and '''VIP'''. Players of such accounts are known as '''Free Players''', '''Premium Players''', and '''VIP Players''', respectively.
An '''account''' is required to play Homecoming: City of Heroes. There is only one type of account; any player can access all features of the game, and no fee or subscription is charged.
 
[[Category:Gameplay]]
== Account Types ==
=== Free ===
 
A Free Player is a non-subscription account holder who has never spent money on City of Heroes. Free Players have extremely restricted in-game options, much like the Trial Account had prior to the release of City of Heroes Freedom. As soon as a Free Player spends any money on City of Heroes, their account upgrades to Premium Player. Note that it is impossible to downgrade from a Premium Player back into a Free Player.
 
Trial Accounts from prior to City of Heroes Freedom launch will be treated as Free Players when logging in.
 
Free Players are also colloquially referred to as ''freebs'', ''freeps'', ''freeks'', ''freems'', and ''freemies''.
 
=== Premium ===
 
A Premium Player is any non-subscription account holder who has ever spent money with [[NCsoft]] on the [[City of Heroes]] product.  [[VIP Player]]s whose subscriptions lapse turn into Premium Players. Premium Players may have limited access to some game features and systems. It is impossible to downgrade from a Premium Player to a [[Free Player]].
 
Premium Players are also colloquially referred to as ''preems'', ''freemium'', and ''premies''.
 
=== VIP ===
 
A VIP Player is a subscription account holder in good standing. Any form of subscription counts for VIP status, including monthly payments, paying for blocks of time, and free months included in box sets. VIP Players get 400 [[Paragon Points]] for free each month they are subscribed, to make purchases from the [[Paragon Market]]. VIP Players have little restriction within the game, especially long-time subscribers, as the [[Paragon Rewards Program]] awards a lot of the unlockable content for free over time. Additionally, any player who had an account prior to the release of City of Heroes Freedom still has access to any [[Veteran Rewards Program|Veteran Rewards]] they may have accrued.
 
VIP Players that unsubscribe for any reason are downgraded into [[Premium Player]]s, and must adhere to any restrictions placed on them due to their new designation, although any purchased or rewarded unlockable piece is still available even if normally restricted from Premium Players (e.g. purchased character slots, costumes or powers awarded through Veteran Rewards or Paragon Rewards).
 
VIP Players are also colloquially referred to as ''veeps'' and ''elites''.
 
== Account Features ==
 
Accounts have access to a wide variety of game features depending on the type of account, the account's Paragon Rewards status, and any made on the Paragon Market.
 
=== For Free ===
 
All accounts have access to the following core features.
 
*Access at least 8 [[Archetypes]] ([[Blaster]], [[Brute]], [[Corruptor]], [[Defender]], [[Dominator]], [[Scrapper]], [[Stalker]] and [[Tanker]])
*At least two [[Global Character Slot Token]]s across all [[servers]] (details on the Global Character Slot page)
*Create [[costumes]] from billions of combinations
*Play as a [[Hero]] or [[Villain]] up to [[Level]] 50
*105 [[Power Set]]s
*Play in 45 different game [[Zone Overview|zones]]
*Play stories within the [[Mission Architect]] (no rewards)
*Access to Local, Team, Help, Pets, Friends, League, Arena, Leveling Pact, Looking for Group, Emote, and Architect [[Communication Channels]]
*Reward Drops including small [[Inspirations]], [[Enhancements#Training_Enhancements|Training]] [TO], [[Enhancements#Dual-Origin Enhancements|Dual-Origin]] [DO], [[Enhancements#Single-Origin Enhancements|Single-Origin ]] [SO] and [[Special Enhancements|Special]] [[Enhancements]]
*Player-to-Player [[The Players' Guide to the Cities/Trading|Trading]]
*[[Inf]] Cap of 25 million inf per character
*Limited Inventory
*Ability to buy anything from the [[Paragon Market]]
*Read the [[Official Forums]]
*Support by [https://help.ncsoft.com/ Knowledge Base] and [mailto:[email protected] email]
 
=== Paragon Rewards, VIP Status ===
 
The following features can be earned as part of the Paragon Rewards program. Additionally, VIP accounts automatically have access to all of these features.
 
*Access to all of the Communication Channels and Ability to Join [[Global Chat Channels]]
*Inf cap up to 2 Billion per character
*[[Mail System]] Access
*[[Mission Architect]] [[Mission Architect License|License]]
*Ability to earn [[Merit Rewards|Reward Merit]]s
*Ability to earn [[Vanguard Merit]]s (subject to Prerequisites)
*Medium and Large [[Inspiration]] drops
*Join [[Supergroup]]s
*Edit [[Supergroup Base]]s
*Increased [[Invention System Capacity]]
 
=== Paragon Rewards, Paragon Market, VIP Status ===
 
The following features can be earned as part of the Paragon Rewards program or purchased from the Paragon Market. Additionally, VIP accounts automatically have access to all of these features.
 
*[[Invention System|Invention]] [[Invention License|License]]
*[[Consignment House]] [[Auction House License|License]]
*[[Controller]] and [[Mastermind]] Archetypes
*Additional Character Slots
*Post in "All Access" sections of the Official Forums
 
=== Paragon Market, VIP Status ===
 
The following features can be purchased from the Paragon Market. Additionally, VIP accounts automatically have access to all of these features.
 
*[[Peacebringer]], [[Warshade]], [[Arachnos Soldier]] and [[Arachnos Widow]] Archetypes
*[[Alignment]] system access
*[[Praetoria]] access
*Praetorian Character Creation
*Going Rogue Power Sets: [[Dual Pistols]], [[Kinetic Melee]], [[Electric Control]], and [[Demon Summoning]]
*Going Rogue [[Costume Sets]]
 
=== VIP Status Only ===
 
The following features are available to VIP accounts. These features are unavailable to Free and Premium accounts.
 
*Access to [[Incarnate System]] content, powers and drops
*Access to [[Server|VIP Server]]
*Ability to create or moderate [[Global Chat Channels]]
*Interact with the [[Super Group Registrar|SG registrar]] (create [[Supergroup|SGs]], pay [[rent]], exchange [[inf]] for [[prestige]], server's top SG list)
*Ability to access Tier 9 VIP exclusives within the [[Paragon Rewards Program]]
*Post in any forum of the Official Forums
*Priority [[Issue 16#Queue Server|server queueing]]
*Premium in-game customer support
*400 Paragon Points per month (or 550 per month, with [[Paragon Rewards Program#Tier 8 Bonuses|Rewards Tier 8]]), awarded monthly on the player's renewal date; these stack with themselves and any purchased points
*One Server Transfer per month, awarded on the first of the month; these stack with themselves and any purchased server transfers
*One [[Reward Token]] for every month of paid VIP subscription, awarded at the end of each subscription month
 
== See Also ==
*[[Reward Token#Converting from Veteran Rewards Program|Converting from Veteran Rewards Program]]

Latest revision as of 10:39, 25 October 2020

Overview

An account is required to play Homecoming: City of Heroes. There is only one type of account; any player can access all features of the game, and no fee or subscription is charged.

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