Morgan Reed

I fully expect it to be affecting both brands equally.

And while it may not be the driver itself... The crash report does mention an ATI .dll. In my case, I forget which one. But it is similar to the one in this post.

If they fill tier 3 completely, accounts get access to all chat channels.

Good. It has been verified.

I suspect the one person reporting an "error message" when trying to post to the Friends channel as a Free player was trying it like me with "/send Friends."

Maybe they and I are the only two who will get confused like that, but it is worth noting. I took the "/send <channel>" command to be the formal command that would work with any channel, and the only reason no one used "/send local" or "/send broadcast" was because the easier and less formal commands already existed.

I think this needs a little clarification.
I just tested this out with a Free account (not Premium) and I found out that:

1. Free accounts can not "/send Friends", and receive a message that they need to be VIP or Reward Level 4.
2. Free accounts can post to the Friends channel if it is selected as their active chat box.*

*I picked a random stranger to add to my Friends list, and didn't receive any response back for verification. (Didn't expect any.)

There might be other clarifications that I was not aware to check.

EDITed to add:: I just double checked Paragon Wiki, and dug a bit deeper. The slash command I should have tried is "/F <message>". I'll try that later, and report back.

Good to know... When I was running my trial account, getting the "so-and-so has invited you to be a global friend" (or whatever the pop up window was) repeatedly by my out of game friends for about 2 weeks without being able to actually have the Accept option work was less than pleasant.

There is another thing to try that might fix your problem. Admittedly, it was for nVidia users that would get stuck at the loading bar... But I think it might fix you up. And it shouldn't cause major problems if it doesn't work.

Give this a try:

Hrmm.... That didn't help.

My next suggestion is uninstalling and re-installing your graphics drivers.

This outline should give you the details... Although, ignore the part about ATi and Catalyst. That was for another poster. Look for the nVidia stuff (that I am not familiar with so I can't give you better details).

Try not to skip the Driver Sweeper (or your program of choice) steps.

Just a note Tex, I was receiving the same crash "Quiting to Character Select" last night with the latest drivers.

Something in the last patch isn't playing very nice with ATI 11.9. It isn't as bad as pre 11.9. But something is in there.

Probably not...

LaserJudas, have you tried running CoH Helper as Administrator?
(Right click on CoH Helper, and select "Run as Administrator.")

I think that will clear up all of the unknowns and give a better report.

Has this been verified?

I have seen one (and only one) report of Free players not being able to use the Friends channel.

Also, Trial accounts could not accept Global Friend requests (I know this one from personal experience), so I am wondering if that was carried over to Free accounts?

The_Ringer might be ending the Application, and not on the Processes tab.

Hopefully, the driver change will end the need to use task manager, so there might not be an answer forthcoming.

I'm not a nVidia user myself, so I can't even verify if it works.

That might be a naive stance. Let me repeat "might."

Non-VIPs can't really post on the forums. Sure, there are a few places they have been "stealth permissioned," but it isn't commonly know yet. There is a whole demographic that might not be heard from yet.

There really isn't telling how many (in percentage) of the whole player base isn't happy about the prices/market. Well, at least not for us.

I'm sure data from the Market is being looked at. Which accounts are buying, and are they the only ones buying, etc..

(Sarcasm alert!)

Well, several forumites were trying to convince those concerned about what Freedom meant for VIPs in the game that NCSoft is paying us $5 a month because they give us $5 in points, $5 in a signature arc, and $10 in a server transfer every month.

There you go. Your monthly payment is now -$5.

You should not receive a token for July, or August, for certain. Token accumulation does not start until after Freedom launched.

September is a bit iffy, but if I get what Zwillinger said correctly you won't be receiving September's Token until your vet reward date comes up in October. Because you do not get your Reward Tokens until the end of the month of time.

So your account should be correct.

That would be a good guess.

I try to only update one thing at a time, if for no other reason than to rule out questions like this.

I'd suggest updating your firewall/anti-virus first, then Windows, then CoH.
You should get much better speeds, enough to were updating separately will very likely be faster than trying to update at the same time.

You certainly aren't making it easy for players to answer other players questions... ;-P

But your response is fair. Thank you.

So, those of us that had extra points in September should chalk those up to "receiving them early." (Example: I started Head Start with an extra 400 points, and those were for September. I did not receive points on my billing date of the 22nd, because I had already received my points for September 22nd and I should expect my next stipend on October 22nd because I fall outside of the 10th.)
Those that reported not having extra in September should file a ticket with support to see what happened to their September points?

This one is even more odd. Is there any way for customers to find out what day they are currently slated to receive their Tokens? Obviously that day is subject to change after finding out...
And you state that it is based on "active paid game time." Does that include "free" months included with boxed sets? And does being administratively locked out of the game count as not active paid game time? (Example: My "free" months game time that was bundled with buying the Architect Edition, does that count for receiving tokens? If it does, since I was locked out of the game because of a payment dispute between NCSoft and PayPal for nearly the whole month, does it still count?)

I would point you to the VIP Beta forum thread that contained many of them, but that is no longer accessible.

From what I read here, the underlying problem is fixed, but sufferers haven't been repaired.

I think the bug referenced is that the options aren't always "sticking."