Yeah, the premium problem is unfortunate. We may be able to get some limited information from the character select screen, like the one costume that is displayed, but that still means losing a lot...Hopefully they'll unlock those characters, or make the store free which would let you "buy" character slots and get all of them except the ones on Exalted or over the 36 limit.
Yeah, I've posted in many places the 'Hope' that they'll do one last global unlock for all Preem players. I can't imagine it being too much hassle to flip the VIP/Preem switch. Obviously you don't want to up and make Free-2-VIP as then....(lost thought track)
The problem with costumes right now is that many of us who recently went Preem or simply didn't resub have tons of locked toons that we can't access. Granted, I have most of my toon's stuff backed up from before, but we won't get the chance to do one last CIT upload because of that unless by some miracle they actually unlock all toons.
-Can it handle multiple crafted incarnate powers, even if the slot may not yet have been unlocked?
Guy will have to field the question about incarnate powers, I believe so but I'm not sure.
<incarnate count="11"> <ability slotted="true">Incarnate.Hybrid.Support_Genome_6</ability> <ability slotted="true">Incarnate.Destiny.Barrier_Total_Core_Invocation</ability> <ability>Incarnate.Destiny.Incandescence_Total_Radial_Invocation</ability> <ability slotted="true">Incarnate.Lore.IDF_Total_Core_Improved_Ally</ability> <ability>Incarnate.Lore.Longbow_Total_Core_Improved_Ally</ability> <ability>Incarnate.Interface.Paralytic_Partial_Core_Conversion</ability> <ability slotted="true">Incarnate.Interface.Reactive_Total_Radial_Conversion</ability> <ability>Incarnate.Interface.Degenerative_Total_Radial_Conversion</ability> <ability slotted="true">Incarnate.Judgement.Pyronic_Total_Core_Judgement</ability> <ability slotted="true">Incarnate.Alpha.Spiritual_Core_Paragon</ability> <ability>Incarnate.Alpha.Nerve_Total_Core_Revamp</ability> </incarnate>
As for costume pieces, it will dump the raw representation of whatever you're wearing. It doesn't check to see if it's a valid entry in costumes.bin or not.
On the bright side, I noticed the other night that they appear to have added a little padlock icon in the upper corner of any costume with invalid options when you view the Costume window. Makes for very quick visual ID of any costumes that need to be fixed.