[Update from the Homecoming Team (April 26th): Excelsior!]

Permanence

The question of permanence of the servers and characters is being brought up again since Excelsior’s launch. The statement that we made on this topic yesterday still stands true for both shards; the short answer is that we do not know yet.

 

Our primary long-term goal is still to ensure that the community has a stable server that we can all enjoy together in perpetuity. Right now we cannot say if his server will be that, but we are not closed off to that possibility. If for whatever reason that primary goal requires us to shut this server down or wipe the character database, then we will do that.

 

Outside of fulfilling that goal, we don’t foresee any reason why a character wipe would need to occur.

 

On the note of this, I've noticed there is a command called "packageent" it requires access level 9 to execute but it dumps characters to a text file, was curious, if its possible to allow anyone to access it? just thinking it would be nice to at least keep a local backup of characters if something was to happen.