Can't access account bank

[shonuff]

Hey it's been awhile since I played, 2017 to be exact. I came back and made a new character but I'm unable to access my account bank with the new character. My main can access it, haven't tried with any other of my old characters but when I try with my new one it's empty, no available slots and doesn't even give me the option to purchase new slots, the only thing I can do is back out of the account bank...

Any reason this has changed? I remember being able to swap out money and items between characters, did something change?

Thanks in advance!

[Running-Target]

If you are a Romulan captain before you have chosen your side, yeah you are locked out of account bank, not sure why. What exactly is your captain that has the problem?

[cyäegha]

the same thing happens to pre-timeskip ToS/discos and jems that haven't picked a side yet

i've heard that one of the reasons was because people were using ToS' that 'elected' not to move to 2409 to mule ToS-era goodies to their other characters for cheap, though i'm sure that's not the full story

[Jivebot]

Originally posted by cyäegha:

the same thing happens to pre-timeskip ToS/discos and jems that haven't picked a side yet

i've heard that one of the reasons was because people were using ToS' that 'elected' not to move to 2409 to mule ToS-era goodies to their other characters for cheap, though i'm sure that's not the full story

I mean...you could still farm a crapton of them and then advance to 2409. And keep deleting/remaking toons to do so again. lol. It ain't terribly hard to advance the gear itself if memory serves

[cyäegha]

true, but the advancement to 2409 cuts that off, and i presume the idea is like 'what if i want more ToS stuff?' without the additional hassle
of course, now they have the additional steps required to do that without access to the account bank, but it does seem awfully petty considering that the process doesn't really have any actual advantages beyond a minor time-save

hence why i believe there had to be other, more pertinent reasons for it, but that's the main one i've heard circulating

[cap-boulanger]

Yes there was a change about three-ish months ago.

Now only standard (2409) Feds and KDF have access to account bank immediately.

Romulan and Dominion characters have to wait until they choose an alliance.

TOS-Fed and Disco-Fed characters have to wait until the timeskip.