so i just went gold...

warpgirl69

When do I see my monthly Zen stipend?

scorpagor

It usually takes a couple of days, maybe a week.

fudgemonsta

Should see it roughly a day or two afterwards. At least, that's what it was for me.

chalupaoffury

Varies heavily. Don't be surprised if it takes 2, they've been having issues with that recently.

atring

I did it on a Friday evening, the last time, and I didn't see it until the middle of the week, so "business days" could be a factor, too.

zahinder

I'm so sorry

warpgirl69

ok, thanks for the info...

next question maybe more complex. When I log in I see the characters I've made have to be converted to gold in order to play now. What happens if I go back to silver?

jonsills

warpgirl69 wrote: »

ok, thanks for the info...

next question maybe more complex. When I log in I see the characters I've made have to be converted to gold in order to play now. What happens if I go back to silver?

If you keep them as the same AT, you can turn them back into silvers again at that time. (If you convert them to paid ATs you don't already own, or into FFs, that uses up your free conversion, and you'd need to pay to turn them into silver ATs you can use.)

Note that even if you keep them as the same AT, any costume parts you use that you don't own as a Silver would go away (I had to pretty much completely recostume Happifun, everything but the head, when I lost my Gold). Also, if you tint a power, it'll go back to its default color.

Note that if you convert back to Silver, it's possible to turn more characters into Silvers than you technically have Silver slots available; should you do so, the extras will go into what can be thought of as "virtual" character slots, and if you delete a toon at that point, the slot will vanish too. For best results, should you have to go Silver again, be sure not to turn more toons Silver than you have Silver slots. (I've purchased enough that I now have a total of 11 slots as a Silver; I still have four Gold toons I can't use until I go Gold again.)

nextnametaken

Your best option is to simply start your characters over as gold free forms.
Level them to 40 and get a new free character slot.
When the time comes that you don't' want to sub anymore, convert to silver AT for free then.

There's no sense playing a free AT when you are subscribing.
Why pay for what millions of others get for free?

atring

My problem with that is from the other side. I have a couple of characters that I really like, but they are tied up in Gold, on Gold ATs. I would recreate them, but the name is tied up. Can I delete a character without being able to actually access it?

flamingbunnyman

Yes, but note that if the character is Gold and 40, they are granting you a free character slot, even if your account is Silver. Deleting the character or converting it to Silver will make you lose that slot.

If you have the money, or the time to spend farming Zen, you could always buy the AT, which would allow you to unlock the character.

nextnametaken

Don't delete anything while Silver. You could lose a slot entirely.

You have to buy out the slots they give you for gold before they are safe from a silver life deletion.

Converting it to a free silver free form when you are no longer subbing is not an issue.
So long as you didn't start with and AT then turn it to Free Form while gold, using your own free conversion.
Doing that process will find your free form costing zen for a token to convert to "free to play" AT later.

Make sense?

atring

Actually, it's a little bit simpler. I decided I wanted to make a FF, but I didn't look closely enough at the ATs. I've ground the Q to make the Zen to buy the first pair of additional character slots, and I'm about halfway back up to what I need to buy the AT that it turns out he really was in the first place.

I have a couple of "permanent" characters, one of which I'm concentrating on leveling to a point where I can really start hitting the alerts hard for the Q. One slot is a "swing," because, coming from City of Heroes, my regular group tends to have a "what theme are we doing this week?" mentality, so I had to get the additional slots just to be able to have more than one character that I liked.

Much as I enjoy the game, it's kind of interesting to see how much I can buy without ever spending a dime. I can't say I won't support the game, should it ever get decent support from Cryptic, but I'll have to make a second account if I decide to go Gold, again.