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I've made several suggestions that Trial Accounts be given a temporary title that says Trial Account in a bright color over the characters head. That way players can tell at a glance who can respond to tells.|
Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
Temp accounts can Team chat and Local chat.
They should really put some sort of indicator on temp accounts so that the general player-base knows that they are temps at a glance, and can more easily render help. |
I'd also like to see a nice red warning in the chat box that warns the sender of a Tell that the person they are messaging is on a trial account and can't respond.
If the system can send a similar message to someone who is being ignored they can do it for trials.
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Other games have similar restrictions. Here's WoW's trial restrictions.|
Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Except Trial versions can't send broadcast, either, last time I checked..?
Basically, Trial versions are extremely, almost chokingly gutted on the communications front. I'm not even sure they are allowed team chat...or was that not allowed to invite people? While I realise all the safeguards in place to stop RMT and spammers...there is a line to walk between keeping them out and actaully scaring off potential paying players... And Im not sure where it stands right now. |
The following restrictions are placed on all Classic Trial Accounts:
A level cap of 20.
A maximum of 10 gold.
Trade skills are capped at 100 ranks.
Inability to trade via the auction house, mailbox, or player-to-player.
In-Game public chat channels will be unavailable. (Players will still be able to communicate using say, party, or whispers).
Characters will be unable to create or join existing guilds.
Accounts will no longer be able to whisper other players unless they have been added to those playersÂ’ friends lists or have received a whisper from them first.
Characters will not be able to invite players into a party.
Characters will not be able to join parties with other players above level 20.
Voice Chat is disabled on trial accounts.
Realms with login queues will give priority to customers with retail accounts.
Will not be eligible for any Character Transfer service.
LOTR restrictions
Trial accounts cannot access the mail box or the auction house, trade, or send tells to players that do not have the trial user on their friend list.
Eve
Trial account characters can not:
Post on the forums
Use the Contracts system
Use any ingame trade channel
Transfer money to other players
Rename cargo containers in space
Transfer corporation money to other players
Trial account characters can only:
Post a new eve-mail every minute, that is one mail per minute
Send roughly 3 messages in a row through ingame channels, a 7 second delay is then put on the user's next message
Guild Wars
Chat restricted to team, guild, and alliance chat, plus whispers.
No access to shared storage, player trading, dropping items or gold, or picking up things dropped by other players.
Not allowed to create PvP-Only characters or travel to the Battle Isles.
If this access key is added to an existing account, it will provide trial access only to those campaigns that have not had a previous trial.
The access key is for a maximum of 10 hours of game play over a 14-day period from the time the key is activated.
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And what you don't seem to understand is that most games don't have such a restriction as this is an online game and it's kind of odd to play an online game where it is nearly impossible to communicate with other players while on a trial as building friendships is part of being on an online game as is communicating and grouping with others which is rather difficult when you can't speak to anyone lol.| What you don't seem to understand is that a tell and a reply are the same thing. The game cannot tell the difference, it's not coded that way. There is no way to allow replies but not tells. |
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And to the rest of the conversation.
Trials cannot send team invites either so not only can trial's not respond to those who are broadcasting looking for team by sending a tell they can't send an invite either to show they are interested. They have to track someone down to be able to talk in local chat and when you're out around more or less anywhere that isn't Atlas I almost never saw another person that was actually within chat range.
And about the WoW thing, I played WoW and I thought that was reasonable. There was a lot of trouble with the gold sellers coming on and spamming so they added the restriction that you could only whisper people who were on your friends list/contacted you first which I thought was completely reasonable.
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I finally got the game last night so thankfully I am no longer restricted but still it was beyond frustrating to have so much trouble communicating with others...
Also to the people who like to say "Go buy the game it's 5 bucks at Amazon.com" they should read the fine print as it's actually $11. Still a good buy compared to $19.99 but it's not "Just 5 bucks" lol.
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^ Amen to a good suggestion
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I've made several suggestions that Trial Accounts be given a temporary title that says Trial Account in a bright color over the characters head. That way players can tell at a glance who can respond to tells.
I'd also like to see a nice red warning in the chat box that warns the sender of a Tell that the person they are messaging is on a trial account and can't respond. If the system can send a similar message to someone who is being ignored they can do it for trials. |
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Sorry to disagree with you but you didn't check the prices of all the editions being sold at Amazon.|
Originally Posted by Genie of Flame
Also to the people who like to say "Go buy the game it's 5 bucks at Amazon.com" they should read the fine print as it's actually $11. Still a good buy compared to $19.99 but it's not "Just 5 bucks" lol.
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City of Heroes original
$1.44 + $3.99 S&H Total $5.43 - New in original shrink wrap.
$4.95 +$3.99 S&H Total $8.94 - New in factory sealed box.
City of Villains
$.99 + $3.99 S&H Total $4.98 - Three sellers all advertise never used, never opened, and factory originals
$1.99 +$3.99 S&H total $5.98 - Factory seals intact.
Four more copies from $2.89 to $2.99 with S&H totaling $6.98 - all advertised as new with factory seals.
Another nine copies with S&H total no more than $8.99 - all never opened with factory seals
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=new
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=new
They currently have copies of
http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=12767837...0heroes&page=1
Good vs Evil
Architect Edition
Original CoH
Original CoV
CoV Collector's Edition
CoH Collector's Edition
The old CoH/CoV Bundle
On Page two they have 2 new copies of the UK version of the CoH/CoV combined Edition
Page three has another 6 new copies of the original CoV
And 9 new copies of CoH starting at 1 cent to $3.25 with S&H $4.00 to $7.28
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=new
So if you took the time to look at everything that is available you would have found several copies for sale under $5 bucks.
Might as well throw in my two cents here. I agree that there should be an automated message that works the same as the being ignored message. Or anything really to make it clear that the person you are attempting to chat with is on a trial and can not reply.
Now as to buying the games.
You can buy the original City of Heroes
City of villains
Collectors DVD version of CoH
Collectors of CoV
Good vs Evil edition
Mac edition
Architect Edition
And soon the Going Rogue edition.
You can upgrade your account with each of these and each of them will come with a free month. That's over six months of play to be had very inexpensively. Plus every edition except the basic CoH and CoV come with extra goodies.
Don't count your weasels before they pop dink!
I should check to see what versions I don't have and get a few discount months...
Back on topic {and in case nobody mentioned already}, I'd suggest an auto-reply along the lines of {this character is using a trial account and cannot reply to private messages. Thank you for understanding.}
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Yeah it's a good idea. |
Originally Posted by Quinch
Back on topic {and in case nobody mentioned already}, I'd suggest an auto-reply along the lines of {this character is using a trial account and cannot reply to private messages. Thank you for understanding.}
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| I'd also like to see a nice red warning in the chat box that warns the sender of a Tell that the person they are messaging is on a trial account and can't respond. |
Welcome to the City.
Remember when you get your full version UPGRADE your trial account and not just make a new one. That way you keep the names and characters you already made.
They need a badge under the name that saids "Trial Account" as well. That way we can see right away it's a new player.
You might want to use /bind enter "afk Trial Account can't reply to tells$$startchat"
That bind will make a message appear over your head when ever you type or just press Enter. It will also send the message to who ever tells you when you are typing.
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That's a useful bind but I'd like to point out that brand new players probably aren't going to know how to make a bind like that, or even that they can make a bind that does that.|
Originally Posted by RottenLuck
Welcome to the City.
Remember when you get your full version UPGRADE your trial account and not just make a new one. That way you keep the names and characters you already made. They need a badge under the name that saids "Trial Account" as well. That way we can see right away it's a new player. You might want to use /bind enter "afk Trial Account can't reply to tells$$startchat" That bind will make a message appear over your head when ever you type or just press Enter. It will also send the message to who ever tells you when you are typing. |
So while it is very helpful I still think the best idea would be for the devs to create an automatic response to incoming tells.
Temp accounts can Team chat and Local chat.
They should really put some sort of indicator on temp accounts so that the general player-base knows that they are temps at a glance, and can more easily render help.
Angel Red
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