DDO Point

Turbine Points are a way to pay for various content within the game using the ingame DDO Store, whether you be a VIP, Premium Free To Play or just a Free To Play user. Turbine Points were introduced in Module 9. You can gain Turbine Points in several ways.

Gaining Turbine Points
Gaining Turbine Points depends on what type of account you have.

VIP
There are three methods available for gaining Turbine Points as a VIP Subscriber:
 * You get 500 Turbine Points every month.
 * Earning Favor within the game.
 * Purchasing Turbine Points using real money.

Premium Account
Premium Accounts are accounts that have registered a Dungeons & Dragons: Stormreach retail account key, purchased at least one month of VIP status, or purchased Turbine Points in the DDO Store.

There are two methods available for gaining Turbine Points as a Premium Free To Play account holder:
 * Earning Favor within the game.
 * Purchasing Turbine Points using real money.

Free To Play
There are two methods available for gaining Turbine Points as a Free To Play account holder:
 * Earning Favor within the game.
 * Purchasing Turbine Points using real money in-game.
 * Note: Purchasing any amount of Turbine Points immediately upgrades your account to a Premium Account.

Bonus Turbine Points for previous play or participating the beta
Players were given free/retroactive turbine points if they participated in the module 9 beta, or paid for the game prior to Module 9's release:
 * Retroactive Turbine Points if you were a previous subscriber (now known as a VIP). Amount was based on length of membership.
 * Retroactive Turbine Points based on the highest amount of favor you had on one character.
 * Bonus Points if you participated in the Module 9 Beta.
 * Bonus Points if you used the DDO Store in the Module 9 Beta.

Purchasing Turbine Points
These rates were correct as of the March 23rd, 2012.

The turbine webstore offers some alternate methods of payment the ingame purchase does not allow. It can be found here.

On occasion DDO will have special offers to purchase Turbine Points at a cheaper rate. Promotions on going now:
 * If you order the Base edition of Menace of the Underdark, You can get during checkout: 2,500 Turbine Points for US$23.19 = 107.80 TP/$1
 * If you order the Standard edition of Menace of the Underdark, You can get during checkout: 5,000 Turbine Points for US$34.99 = 142.89 TP/$1

These were described as pre-order bonuses, but were still available as of September 1, 2012.

Up through June 25, when the Collector's Edition was available, it also allowed ordering 11,000 Turbine Points for US$59.99 = 183.36 TP/$1.

Earning Turbine Points
You gain 25 Turbine Points for each full 100 Favor gained by every character you ever make. Each character is tracked separately. Deleting a character does not erase the TP he or she earned.

Special Rewards
You gain bonus Turbine Points the very first time you reach certain total Favor thresholds on each server. You can gain each bonus only once per server. (The first bonus may not be awarded until you talk to Dax Boon in Korthos Village, check your award mail in-game in Stormreach, or both.)

A common recommendation for earning TP is to reach 100 favor on each server.

For each server you will earn 100 bonus TP for reaching 5, 25, and 50 favor for the first time on the server, 25 TP for reaching 100 favor, 100 TP for reaching 1000 favor, and an additional 100 TP for every 1000 thereafter.

Monster Manuals
Turbine points can also be earned by purchasing volumes 1 and 2 of the Monster Manual. For each of the 10 monster types in volume 1 and the 10 monster types in volume 2, 15 turbine points can be earned as a mid-progress reward and 35 turbine points as an end reward. These awards are for total number of monsters slain in the category per server. This gives a potential for 1000 turbine points awarded per server via monster manuals.

Spending Turbine Points
The only method of spending Turbine Points is using the DDO Store from within the game. There are many things available that you can spend them on, from Adventure Packs to XP & Loot Boosters. Go to the DDO Store wiki page for a list of items.

DDO Turbine Points and LotRO Turbine Points
Unlike the name suggests, Turbine Points are not unified Turbine wallet among various games they are running. Back when Lord of the Rings Online went F2P (fall 2010), Turbine stated that they wouldn't combine the points for both games. Points you have in DDO cannot be spent in the LotRO Store (LotRO wiki article).