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    Clearing locked character names

    in General Discussion

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    On 5/20/2019 at 7:18 PM, Jimmy said:

    Name Release Policy

    With 1000 character slots per shard, we expected you to make a lot of characters, but we’ve been blown away by quite how many… To date, you’ve made a total of 399,501 characters across 64,519 accounts. In fact, one of you has made a total of 277 characters!

     

    Now, some of you have voiced concerns that many names are simply being sat on by level 1 characters that’ll never be played again. This is a fair concern, so we are implementing a system that will allow names of unused characters to be released back into circulation for use by new characters.

     

    Characters will be flagged as ‘inactive’ when the following time thresholds are met:

     

    • Level 1-5 characters will be flagged as inactive if they have not been played in the last 30 days
    • Level 6-20 characters will be flagged as inactive if they have not been played in the last 90 days
    • Level 21-49 characters will be flagged as inactive if they have not been played in the last 365 days
    • Level 50 characters will never be flagged as inactive

     

     

    When a character is flagged as inactive they are not immediately renamed. Instead, their name is simply no longer locked. This allows another player to create a character with that name, at which point the original character will be renamed.

     

    You can remove the inactive flag on a character at any time simply by logging them in.

     

    We will not be activating this policy for at least a two weeks (possibly longer), so if there are any names you don’t want to lose, please ensure you keep the above guidelines in mind!

     

    This is a first pass on this policy, and we may modify it at a later date, however we will give at least 30 days notice for any changes related to releasing names.

     

    This was the policy we released two years ago, and it continues to be the policy we intend to implement Soon™. (Though you may well want to think of it as One of These Days™ at this point. It requires someone to actually code the system and we have, frankly, higher priorities than this.) Now, please stop attacking each other.

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    Maintenance Notices

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    dusts off thread

     

    Hello, forums. As you may have noticed, there was not maintenance on Tuesday. It will instead occur tomorrow, Thursday, at the usual time. If you find yourself unable to log into the game at that time, please do not be alarmed. If my telling you not to be alarmed does not resolve your alarmed feelings, try rereading this post until alarmed feelings subside. Thanks!

     

    (next weekend is not a holiday weekend in the US, so I presume we will return to the normal schedule then, in case any of you were wondering)

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    The Good, the Bad, the Fugly [ issue 27 ]

    in General Discussion

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    12 minutes ago, Troo said:

    Frankly, I'm not sure this helps very much.

    I didn't see any name calling or insults. Let folks voice their opinion. It's disappointing to see posts constantly removed while other remain. See the derailment post still on the first page of this thread with giant orange letters.

     

    Too heavy of moderation could have the opposite effect than intended. @Jimmy @Captain Powerhouse etc. Effectively driving players away (players who obviously care) for voicing opinions that differ is no bueno.

     

    I'll take my point and retire for the day..

    We're not interested in any further meta-arguing. Frankly, we've allowed too much of it. If you want to talk about the topic, go ahead. If you want to argue about the conduct of your arguments over the past month, go somewhere else.

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