Free Player

Overview

Free Players are non-subscription account holders who have never spent money on City of Heroes. Free Players have extremely restricted in-game options, much like the Trial Account had prior to moving to free-to-play. 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.

Features Accessible for Free

• Access 8 Archetypes (Blaster, Brute, Corrupter, Defender, Dominator, Scrapper, Stalker and Tanker)
• A total of two Character Slots across all servers
• Create costumes from billions of combinations.
• Play as a Hero or Villain for up to Level 50.
• 105 Power Sets.
• Play in 45 different game zones.
• Access to Local, Team, Help, Friends, League, Arena, Leveling Pact, Looking for Group, Emote, and Architect Communication Channels
• Reward Drops including small Inspirations, Training [TO], Dual-Origin [DO], Single-Origin [SO] and Special Enhancements
• Inf Cap of 25 million inf per character
• Limited Inventory
• Ability to buy anything from the Paragon Market.
• Read the Official Forums

Features Accessible through the Paragon Rewards Program

• Access to all of the Communication Channels and Ability to Join Global Chat Channels
• Join Supergroups
• Inf cap of 2 Billion per character
• Player-to-Player Trading
• Ability to earn Reward Merits,
• Ability to earn Vanguard Merits (subject to Prerequisites)
• Medium and Large Inspiration drops

Features Accessible through the Paragon Rewards Program and/or the Paragon Market

• Invention License
• Mission Architect License
• Auction House License
• Controller and Mastermind Archetypes
• Additional Character Slots

Features Accessible through the Paragon Market and/or VIP Status

• 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

Features Accessible Only Through VIP Status

• Access to Incarnate content, powers and drops.
• Access to VIP Server
• Ability to Create or Moderate Global Chat Channels
• Create Supergroups
• Edit Supergroup Bases
• Post on the Official Forums
• Priority Server Queueing
• Premium In-Game Customer Support

See Also

• Premium Player
• VIP Player
• Paragon Rewards Program