{"id":1445,"date":"2009-10-20T09:21:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2009-10-20T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:19:42","slug":"co-the-penny-or-cryptic-point-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/10\/co-the-penny-or-cryptic-point-drops.html","title":{"rendered":"CO: The Penny (or Cryptic Point) Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" style=\"width: 124px; height: 93px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/money.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.champions-online.com\/store\">Cryptic Store<\/a> finally shows <a href=\"http:\/\/champions-online.com\/node\/594616\">what sorts of things you&#8217;re going to be able to buy<\/a>, with new items going on sale Midnight <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">tonight<\/span> <em>Tuesday (i.e., now)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Costumes <\/strong>appear to be going for 240 points a pop (and there are some nice ones there, if you just Have to Have them).<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Emblem packs <\/strong>are 80 points each.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Action Figures <\/strong>are 80 each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are the old news. Now for the new:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Character slots<\/strong>: 1200 for a set of 4 (beyond the initial 8).<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Costume slots<\/strong>: 400 for two additional (you get up to three plus one SG slot by lvl 40).<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Full respec<\/strong>: 1000 per hero for one respec\/retcon.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Rename<\/strong>: 800 for a single hero.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All are the above are for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.champions-online.com\/cryptic_points\">Cryptic Points<\/a>. In addition to any you may have picked up elsewhere (I have 400), they can be bought for cash for USD $6.25 per 500 (under My Account). So those four character slots will set you back $15, if I&#8217;m doing my math (though it may be more, since you can only buy them in 500 CP increments).<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the world of microtransactions.<\/p>\n<p>Are the prices reasonable? Hmmm. I suppose they&#8217;re not outrageous. It&#8217;s enough to make me think twice about doing them, though, which makes it problematic. Is it worth a month playtime (equivalent) to respec my hero? I dunno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cryptic Store finally shows what sorts of things you&#8217;re going to be able to buy, with new items going on sale Midnight tonight Tuesday (i.e., now). Costumes appear to be going for 240 points a pop (and there are some nice ones there, if you just Have to Have them). Emblem packs are 80 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/10\/co-the-penny-or-cryptic-point-drops.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CO: The Penny (or Cryptic Point) Drops&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-online","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}