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.
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
Subscribing players are given several monthly rewards for maintaining an account. For example, let's use an account whose renewal date is October 5.
- Server Transfers: one server transfer per month is awarded on the first of the month (i.e. October 1)
- These server transfers stack with themselves and any purchased server transfers.
- Paragon Points: 400 Paragon Points per month are awarded on the player's renewal date (i.e. October 5)
- These points stack with themselves and any purchased points.
- Players who have completed Tier 8 are granted an extra 150pp per month.
- Reward Tokens: one Reward Token is awarded on the last day of the player's subscription (i.e. November 4)
- This is a stopgap measure until the developers can figure out how to award tokens up front, even for multi-month subscriptions
Features Accessible
VIP Exclusives
- Access to Incarnate content, powers and drops.
- Access to VIP Server
- Ability to Create or Moderate Global Chat Channels
- Interact with the SG registrar (create 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 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
- Edit Supergroup Bases
- 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.