SC Goods Account-Wide

SC bought item should be faction wide.
How can you defend making us buy twice the same item? LoL that smed is often referin to, doesn't make you buy twice the same hero.

yep definitely would be nice if stuff i buy would be for account(dont need that it would be used for all factions, but if i buy sniper rifle, i would like to hawe it forewer no matter what i do). sure if u spend 100+++ dolars that might be not an isue, but when u hawe only few and need to pick something .... its hard since incase u delete char, items are gone?. actualy would be cool if u would create only 1 char which can then chose which faction in what server to be.

sugestions that it would giwe some sort of curency to all chars coresponding purchase is kinda bad for players that doesnt spend that much(since if u spend alot u get ewerything unloked) and for company since u would need less to unlock all.

Well stuff like decals and camo I think should be unlocked for all your characters once you buy them on your station account. Also, say I have two Terran characters on either the same or different servers ( I don't think cross-server should matter) If I buy a Terran-specific gun on one character I think it should also be available on the other Terran character. The same logic goes for the other factions obviously, and needless to say if you buy a Terran weapon it shouldn't be usable on your Vanu character lol. Again, this is all based on the assumption that the characters in question are under the same station account, I can definitely see room for exploitation if players try transferring SC and SC goods cross-account.

I support only the cosmetics being like that, at least faction wide.

I appreciate the support, why is it that you feel only cosmetics should be like this?( just trying to expand the discussion as much as possible to be of greater aid to the staff ).

I see that if you could just carry the weapons from character to character it would get lot of people very frustrated and get less people supporting you. I'd rather take the more moderate position here, that would make less people mad, because that means it's easier to get your voice heard due to more people supporting you, rather than taking the more extreme stance which would turn some people off.

Please keep us posted Alex.

My friends blew it and accidentally created toons on a US East server (We're about as far West as you can be in the continental us) and already threw money at some shiny guns.

As soon we found out (and found a 112ms ping to Virginia) we realized that even if they create brand new Terran heroes they still don't get the guns they paid for?
I would really be surprised to find that this was a design decision instead of merely an oversight, but I'm tacitly monitoring the situation before I start dropping my own Station Cash. God knows I'd never spend $7 per toon per server to bring my fancy-pants assault rifle around

It would be nice if you could at least get a refund on all SC when deleting all characters on a server, or something. I dunno. I understand not wanting things to be account-wide, it keeps people loyal to servers. But compared to most games with cash shops, it's easy to feel like I might be wasting my money.

So yeah. If I want to change servers to play with a friend we shouldn't have to do math to find out who would lose the most money by doing so. I accept the loss of cert points - I don't expect a full refund there. But in terms of stuff I spent money on? I feel like I should get that back. Although some players might be willing to spend the money all over again to rebuy cosmetic stuff, I think for most people it's just an incentive not to spend money in the first place.

I would really like to see this sorted out ASAP.

At the moment, incentive for buying stuff is very, very low. Making items account wide and work for multiple empires would be ideal and convince me to purchase plenty of SC.

E.g. If I get the vehicle starter kit on my NC character in the EU server that I play with some EU buddies, then I switch to US-East to play with some American friends on a TR character, I should get the vehicle starter kit on him as well. If I buy an engineer skull helmet on my TR character for a specific class (this already grinds my gears) then my NC engineer should be able to use it too. Even just having common pool items would be great (such a liberator guns or Sunderer guns).

Arbitrary, non-benefiting limits like this are frustrating. It would also save customer support plenty of time if an account got hacked, as items wouldn't need to be restored, and if people wanted to move servers...

Seriously, I view this as the highest priority right now. Fix this, and you could be raking in the cash. If this was a single, unified server I'd understand the limits more. But I cannot understand this.

Whats worse, is that for Alpha Squad its account wide, but store purchases aren't. Why the hell would you double back on this decision? Why would you allow all characters Alpha gear, but not purchases?

And, keep in mind that certs are still needed to unlock and awful lot of stuff. This wouldn't undermine the system at all.

Signed. Everything else is greedy and lame.

Completely agree I spent £50 before unfortunately deciding I'd had enough of the constant disconnects and crashes on miller, so rerolled on another server, unfortunately that now is money I could have used on another character if the sc was cross server

If unlocks were faction wide to all my NC I bought items for on all servers... I would probably throw down a bit more money. As it stands I am being really picky since I don't want to spend money with the potential of moving to another server to play with others looming over me.

I doubt this will happen in any large capacity, they wouldn't make as much money if it did.

I would spend way more money on cosmetics if I got them empire wide. Man with this and the tease of possibly being able to transfer characters around servers, this would be the most awesome present from SOE before the holidays ever. Probably. Did I mention that my birthday is coming up, too?

The vast majority of cash shop MMOs do not apply purchases account-wide except in specific cases. I have no idea why you'd expect that to be different here.

il toss in my support.

Same. So far I've been deciding where to play based on the population of the server. Who wants to play by themselves? Being basically locked into a server once you spend some SC though is really messed up.

TBH it annoys me it's the same deal if you want to try another faction. To bad if there's only one server with more than low pop in your TZ and you wanna play something different. (Am aware of side swapping and cheating... Just do the usual, once you spawn in you can't swap on the same server for 3hr or somthing).

Real no brainer stuff and as it would seem the main benefactors are the corporations pockets it leaves a sour taste to say the least.

I don't game online much anymore but... Do they rely as heavily on server pop for their gameplay? In PS without other people to fight there is no game.

Honest question.

kaos

If someone purchased 3000 SC and spent it all on one character/server, they should be able to have that 3000 SC also waiting whenever they create a new character on a different server/faction.

It's only fair.

That doesn't seem to be the case - buying permanent account-wide things means I would have spent my 40 bucks worth of SC and be considering further purchases. Right now I'm stuck thinking about whether I really want to play this one character on this one server etc.