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| − | {{Otheruses4|the account level in the tiered Free-to-Play system introduced in [[Issue 21]]|the accolade badge|V.I.P. Badge}}
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| − | == Overview ==
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| − | [[File:Icon vip.png|left]]
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| − | '''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 Program|Veteran Rewards]] they may have accrued.
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| − | 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).
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| − | Nicknames include ''veeps'' and ''elites''.
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| − | == Subscriptions ==
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| − | Subscribing players are given several monthly rewards for maintaining an account. For example, let's use an account whose renewal date is October 5.
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| − | *[[Server Transfer]]s: one server transfer per month is awarded on the first of the month (i.e. October 1)
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| − | **These server transfers stack with themselves and any purchased server transfers.
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| − | *[[Paragon Points]]: 400 Paragon Points per month are awarded on the player's renewal date (i.e. October 5)
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| − | **These points stack with themselves and any purchased points.
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| − | **Players who have completed [[Paragon Rewards Program#Tier 8 Bonuses|Tier 8]] are granted an extra 150pp per month.
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| − | *[[Reward Token]]s: one Reward Token is awarded on the last day of the player's subscription (i.e. November 4)
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| − | **This is a stopgap measure until the [[developer]]s can figure out how to award tokens up front, even for multi-month subscriptions
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| − | {{divbox|1=navy|2=Freedom Launch and VIP Paragon Points|3=Freedom launch was frontloaded with extra PP, so if a player's account was active during launch, they got extra PP. Therefore, if a player's billing date is before October 11 ([http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showpost.php?p=3914737&postcount=24 according to a GM]), they won't get their PP until October 11. This means that anyone whose billing date is October 1 through October 10 won't get PP until October 11.}}
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| − | == Features Accessible ==
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| − | === VIP Exclusives ===
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| − | *Access to [[Incarnate]] content, powers and drops.
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| − | *Access to [[Servers|VIP Server]]
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| − | *Ability to Create or Moderate [[Global Chat Channels]]
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| − | *Create [[Supergroup]]s
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| − | *Edit [[Supergroup Base]]s
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| − | *Ability to access Tier 9 VIP exclusives within the [[Paragon Rewards Program]]
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| − | *Post on the [[Official Forums]]
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| − | *Priority [[Issue 16#Queue Server|Server Queueing]]
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| − | *Premium In-Game Customer Support
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| − | === Included ===
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| − | *Immediate Access to 10 [[Archetypes]] ([[Blaster]], [[Brute]], [[Controller]], [[Corruptor]], [[Defender]], [[Dominator]], [[Mastermind]], [[Scrapper]], [[Stalker]] and [[Tanker]])
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| − | *Access to Epic Archetypes: [[Peacebringer]], [[Warshade]], [[Arachnos Soldier]] and [[Arachnos Widow]] Archetypes (once unlocked)
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| − | *150+ [[Power Set]]s
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| − | *12 [[Character Slot]]s on each [[servers|server]]
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| − | *Create [[costumes]] from billions of combinations
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| − | *Play as a [[Hero]] or [[Villain]] from [[Level]] 1 to 50
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| − | *Play in 50+ different game [[Zone Overview|zones]]
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| − | *Join Supergroups
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| − | *Access all [[Communication Channels]]
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| − | *[[Inf]] cap of 2 Billion per character
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| − | *Player-to-Player [[The Players' Guide to the Cities/Trading|Trading]]
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| − | *Reward Drops including small, medium and large [[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]]
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| − | *Ability to earn [[Merit Rewards|Reward Merit]]s
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| − | *Ability to earn [[Vanguard Merit]]s (subject to Prerequisites)
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| − | *[[Invention System|Invention]] [[Invention License|License]]
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| − | *[[Mission Architect]] [[Mission Architect License|License]]
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| − | *[[Auction House]] [[Auction House License|License]]
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| − | *[[Alignment]] system access
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| − | *[[Praetoria]] access
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| − | *Praetorian Character Creation
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| − | *Going Rogue Power Sets: [[Dual Pistols]], [[Kinetic Melee]], [[Electric Control]], and [[Demon Summoning]]
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| − | *Going Rogue [[Costume Sets]]
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| − | *Ability to buy anything from the [[Paragon Market]]
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| − | *Read the Official Forums
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| − | === Returning Players ===
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| − | *Retain nearly everything you already purchased including [[Super Booster]]s, [[Mission Architect Story Slot]]s, and directly purchased [[Character Slot]]s.
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| − | *Retain all the [[Veteran Rewards Program|Veteran Rewards]] you earned including character slots and [[Paragon Rewards Perks#Respec Tokens|respecs]]/character [[Power Respecification|power respecification]].
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| − | *Retain all the [[Veteran Reward Badges]] previously earned.
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| − | == See Also ==
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| − | *[[Free Player]]
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| − | *[[Premium Player]]
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| − | *[[Paragon Rewards Program]]
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| − | *[[Veteran Rewards]]
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| − | [[Category:Needs Categorization]]
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The Paragon Wiki Archive documents the state of City of Heroes/Villains as it existed on December 1, 2012.
