VIP Player

This article is about the account level in the tiered Free-to-Play system introduced in Issue 21. For the accolade badge, see V.I.P. Badge.

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Overview

VIP Players are subscribed accounts 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 they may have accrued.

VIP Players that unsubscribe for any reason are downgraded into Premium Players, 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).

Nicknames include veeps and elites.

Subscriptions

It has been confirmed that multi-month subscriptions will recieve all Paragon Reward Tokens upfront/at the time of billing, while the Paragon Points for the Paragon Market will be doled out on the monthly "bill date".(Discussion: Freedom Fridays on Facebook!)

Bug! Known Issue: Reward Tokens will be doled out on the bill date until upfront awarding is working correctly.

Features Accessible

VIP Exclusives

• Access to Incarnate content, powers and drops.
• Access to VIP Server
• Monthly Stipend of Paragon Points
• Ability to Create or Moderate Global Chat Channels
• Create Supergroups
• Edit Supergroup Bases
• Ability to access Tier 9 VIP exclusives within the Paragon Rewards Program
• Post on the Official Forums
• Priority Server Queueing
• Premium In-Game Customer Support

Included

• Immediate Access to 10 Archetypes (Blaster, Brute, Controller, Corruptor, Defender, Dominator, Mastermind, Scrapper, Stalker and Tanker)
• Access to Epic Archetypes: Peacebringer, Warshade, Arachnos Soldier and Arachnos Widow Archetypes (once unlocked)
• 150+ Power Sets
• 12 Character Slots on each server
• Create costumes from billions of combinations
• Play as a Hero or Villain from Level 1 to 50
• Play in 50+ different game zones
• Join Supergroups
• Access all Communication Channels
• Inf cap of 2 Billion per character
• Player-to-Player Trading
• Reward Drops including small, medium and large Inspirations, Training (TO), Dual-Origin (DO), Single-Origin (SO) and Special Enhancements
• Ability to earn Reward Merits
• Ability to earn Vanguard Merits (subject to Prerequisites)
• Invention License
• Mission Architect License
• Auction House License
• 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
• Ability to buy anything from the Paragon Market
• Read the Official Forums

Returning Players

• Retain nearly everything you already purchased including Super Boosters, Mission Architect Story Slots, and directly purchased Character Slots.
• Retain all the Veteran Rewards you earned including character slots and respecs/character power respecification.
• Retain all the Veteran Reward Badges previously earned.

See Also

• Free Player
• Premium Player
• Paragon Rewards Program
• Veteran Rewards