Cardea is free of charge. There is no cost at all for playing Cardea beyond those normally incurred for using the Internet.
There is an option to pay for some enhanced
features, but this is by no means necessary as every character has 60 minutes
per day with these benefits. This period will come into effect at 12am GMT each
day.
During this time, your account will be treated as a preferred account.
In addition, if you have chosen to purchase credits, they will not tick down
during this time.
At present, there are benefits to having credits, even in this beta test stage. Those with credits gain lessons (which can be spent training and learning new skills for your character) significantly faster than those without credits. Those with credits are slower to forget skills learnt in previous careers. Also some people may find it useful to SLEEPLEARN in order to advance their character whilst not online; this service is only available to character accounts with credits.
one credit per hour. Credits can be purchased either via cheque or by using our secure website using a variety of cards including American Express, Visa, Mastercard, Diners Club and Switch (details of all cards accepted are on the web site). Details of how to do this follow at the end of this file.
When your credits have expired, you can continue
to enjoy Cardea free of
charge without the added value or you can type CREDBUY to borrow some
credits from Cardea. This
will give you 48 hours to pay the amount due to
Cardea. Your character will
be suspended pending payment if any monies
owing is not received in this
time. You can see your credit status by type
STATUS or CREDITS. It is possible to manage your credit usage
with the
CREDUSE command.
Depending on the amount of credits you purchase,
credit prices vary.
All prices below are quoted in United Kingdom Pounds and
you are advised
to find out what the current exchange rate between your own
currency and
pounds is before purchasing credits.
Credits.
Cost (UK
Pounds).
10
10
25
20
40
30
50
35
75
50
100
60
150
83
200
100
300
144
400
180
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
How
to purchase credits:
Credits can either be purchased by sending a
cheque for the correct amount
in UK Pounds or US Dollars to:
Cardea Credit
Purchase,
Alchera
Limited,
Business & Innovation
Centre,
Innova
House
Mollison
Avenue,
Enfield,
Middlesex,
EN3
7XU,
United
Kingdom.
Please mark the back of all cheques with your character name and allow time for cheques to clear before credits are added to your character.
Alternatively, you may prefer to take advantage of the secure online credit transactions system. Using a browser, you can go to "http://www.cardea-rpg.com/credits.htm" where the mechanism will be explained to you, and from there you can proceed to purchase credits if you wish. If you proceed, you will be asked to submit some credit information over a secure link (provided by a credit clearing company authorised by one of the UKs largest clearing banks), you will be told within seconds of the acceptance of your transaction. Cardea itself will normally update your characters account within 1 minute of this acceptance been given. In unusual situations (a crucial part of the Internet been down for example), it may take up to 24 hours. Please be sure to correctly type your characters name the same as you would to log into Cardea and make a note of any authorisation code given to you, for your benefit in the unlikely event of dispute.