charlemagne wrote:What perks other than a character created while subscribed will stick to my account if I go gold for a month and then back to silver? It seems as if buying cryptic points and spending them on character slots etc. seems like the far better option overall if I'd also lose stuff like additional bridge officers.
If it's implemented anything like Pirates of the Burning Sea which explicitly has Premium accounts and automatically gave them to any subscriber ever (as opposed to STO where there's only implicit and I don't know if former subscribers were rewarded with such), you'll keep all character slots, bridge officer slots, ship slots:
Characters will remain when switching from Gold to Silver. However, not all features that character had during Gold membership may be available to Silver players. Please note that we never delete character data. If a Gold Member cancels his or her subscription and decides to restart it at a later date, all of that Member's characters and associated items will be intact.
The "Features Matrix" describing the difference between Gold and Silver players also explicitly identifies the in-game chat, mail and forums functionality increases as being permanent for anyone who's ever subscribed
or bought from the C-Store.
Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:My situation might be different because I was originally a subscriber and now playing free after the change (as opposed to starting free, going paid, then back to free), but I have virtually everything I was used to as a subscriber. Obviously I'd have to buy points to get store goodies, but all my officers, ships, characters, etc are all there. I'm not feeling short-changed at all on a free account.
Ditto, started as a lifetime subscriber, although I'm regretting not coming back to it in the period right before f2p when they were giving out some exclusives that currently aren't up on the C-store... whereas right now I'm so into it that I bought a cheap GameStop Collector's Edition for about $11. While I didn't quite save $5 on the TOS Constitution because I already had it (I'd bought the original regular edition from GameStop), the DS9/TNG uniforms (regular versions, the "open jacket" costs more money
) would have come out to $11 together if bought from the C-Store, plus this CE alone had the Red Matter Capacitor.
RogueIce wrote:Edward Yee wrote:I understand that, what I'm wondering is whether I'll still have that token plus the subsequent ones, so that I could pick up one "free" ship from each tier even when I'd passed the lower ones.
No reason I know of that you couldn't, though I'm not sure why you would. But you can always try it out.
I'm intending to do it as one of those "is this possible" experiments I sometimes try, such as the time where I wanted to determine if one could unlock weapon attachments in Battlefield 3 through kills with "battlefield pickups" before unlocking the weapon itself (the answer is yes).
If you're gold and get the perks, you keep them even after you revert. So as long as you earned it while gold, they'll be there. Maybe not the EC cap, but really you're not going to need it anyway. Dilithium is more valuable there.
Not if you're like those people who are currently buying Galors and Mystery Package - Lock Boxes for EC... I ended up selling one for 60K EC only to be told that they were going for 250K EC.
So yeah, way I heard to do it is, if you have the free time, sub for one month and work up to VA, then let it lapse and you're good. Whether you'll get to VA in a month I dunno, depends on how many nights you can put into it I guess. It isn't that bad to level though, so I would imagine it's doable even for somebody working a normal "9 to 5" kind of job.
I presume that this is so that one can get all of the subscribers' "free" (normally $5 each) rank-up retrain tokens? I'm guessing that they only apply if the account is subscribed when the character hits that multiple-of-10 level.
It helps that unlike WoW, even old missions scale up both the enemy NPCs and mission rewards to your level
and (most of) the story missions are replayable, at least the Episodes / "whatever Front" missions.
EDIT: And I'm just glad I got the Advanced Heavy Cruiser (Excelsior CDR level) back when it only cost ECs. I even have the Universal Transwarp Console I can switch around.
Lucky you, I'm actually thinking of paying out for the Excelsior Cruiser Retrofit (yes yes equivalent to $20 or 4 months of C-Points) just for its Advanced Transwarp console...
P.S. Am I correct in understanding that the Thunderchild's console is time-sensitive (10 seconds / 3 minute cooldown) whereas the preorder "point defense" console was automatic and with no time limit?
They're my favourite EU non-canon ship.
