19.4 CREDITS
What are they?
--------------
There are two kinds of credits: Credits and Bound Credits.
What are Credits?
-----------------
Credits can be purchased from other players in Imperian, or can be purchased
with real money from our website (http://www.imperian.com/credits). Credits
are strictly non-refundable. Credits can only be used to transfer to other
players, to sell on the credit market for gold, or to be converted into bound
credits. You cannot use credits for lessons or make artifact or other purchases
for your character until you 'bind' them to your character.
What are Bound Credits?
-----------------------
Bound Credits are normal credits which have been 'bound' to your character.
Once a credit has been bound, it may be used for lessons or to buy artifacts
and tradeskills. Should you return an artifact, the credit refund will be in
Bound Credits. Basically, once you decide to bind a credit to a specific
character, it can no longer be traded, transferred, or sold to other players.
For more information on what you can use bound credits for, read HELP LESSONS
and HELP ARTIFACTS. In addition, you will gain additional bound credits when
achieving certain levels of experience. For more information see HELP LEVELS.
If you want to bind a credit to you, use the following command:
CREDITS CONVERT <#> TO BOUND CREDITS
Typing CREDIT REPORT will show you how many Credits and Bound Credits you have.
Registration Credits
--------------------
If you are an Iron Elite member (HELP ELITE), then you are given bound credits
attached to your registration when your membership is created, and every time
it is renewed monthly by PayPal. You can view how many membership credits you
have with CREDIT REPORT. Use the command CREDITS MEMBERSHIP TRANSFER <amount>
to transfer some of those credits to your current logged-in character. The
character must be linked to the same registration that you used when you
created the membership.
How do I sell Credits?
-----------------------
As stated before, you can only sell normal credits, not bound credits. You can
do this two ways. One, you can sell them on the credit market (See HELP CREDIT
MARKET) or you can sell them to a buyer you have found on your own with the
transfer command. Use the following command to do so:
TRANSFER <number> CREDITS TO <person> FOR <x> GOLD.
If you want to give someone credits for free, then specify 0 gold. If you
specify a positive number of gold though, the person will have to be online.
What are Bonus Lessons?
-----------------------
Normally you receive 6 lessons for each bound credit converted into lessons.
For the first 1000 normal credits you convert into bound credits, you will
receive 2.5 additional lessons per credit. This means you can receive 2500
free lessons!
How do I buy Credits?
---------------------
In order to purchase credits, go to our website at:
www.imperian.com/credits. Once there, you will be able to purchase them
with either Mastercard or Visa. In addition you can print out order forms to
send in checks and money orders.
Credit and Debit
----------------
All credit transactions are fully encrypted and secure, and are handled by a
third-party, reputable service. After you have purchased credits, they will
appear in your character's account within minutes. If, for some reason, you'd
rather not use the website, you may mail a cheque drawn on a US bank, or a
money order denominated in US dollars.
Checks and Money Orders
-----------------------
If you wish to purchase credits with cash, check, or money order, please go to
www.imperian.com/credits and select one of those options on the order form.
It will create an order form which you should print out, and mail with your
order.
Large Purchases
---------------
If you wish to purchase 2000 credits or more at once, please read HELP
BIGCREDITS and message or email Avasyu at avasyu@imperian.com.
Disclaimer
----------
It's important to remember that you are in a virtual world, and that things may
happen to your character in the world that diminish or enhance the real or
perceived value of the things you obtain via credits.
Imperian is a functioning world, and while we guarantee you will not lose any
of the credits you buy, no such guarantee can be provided for what you purchase
with the credits themselves. Naturally, we wouldn't be in business very long if
this happened frequently, but as it is a world, your actions have consequences,
and the actions of others can result in consequences for you. It's this
dynamism in the nature of the world that people enjoy about Imperian. Thus, it
is possible that the perceived or real value of the things you purchase with
credits, or your ability to use those things, may both rise and decline during
the course of play.
See also: HELP LESSONS.
