Character Names recycled

[TOB1]

I think I saw a post or question recently about character names being recycled.  Something like levels 1 to 5  - names are available to be recycled after 30 days of not logging the character in.  But am not able to find it 😕  wondering if someone else has seen it or if I am crazy.

[Shadowsleuth]

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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.

 

May 20th Patch Notes

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/1913-homecoming-server-update-may-20th-whats-next/

[Oubliette_Red]

And regarding the policy...

 

 

[GM Fiddleback]

As it stands now, it is the proposed policy but not implemented yet. That being the case, I imagine they are still taking input and feedback about it.