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Originally Posted by Nagoya
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Thanks Daud, for a second here Loramin erased me from existence lol.
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My apologies Nagoya, I did not mean to "erase you from existence", I just got caught up in talking to Daud and forgot you had chimed in.
Now that there are a whole
two of you who sincerely believe that having names sit unused for(literally) years at a time > people actually using them to play a game ... I guess I can't use the word "freak" anymore (which, to be clear Daud, was meant in the "freak storm" sense, not the "you're a freak for your beliefs" sense ... because I previously believed you to be a lone outlier ... not as name calling).
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Originally Posted by Nagoya
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Loramin there is one thing that you put absolutely no value in, and it is staff time.
How much time does it take for them to purge any kind of name base you want them to purge with all your super good filtering ideas?
versus doing absolutely nothing more than what they have already done.
It is their free time bro. Give them an easy solution:
a) do nothing more than what you have already done to protect blue99 toons' reputation, incl. the tiny flaws in the plan. thanks for thinking about something btw!
b) do nothing more than what a completely new server would do: all names available, good luck have fun. thanks for the new server btw!
if you had a tiny bit of respect for the staff you would be super okay with either.
you're asking people to work for you for free Brent.
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Ok first off, I'm pretty sure someone reported that the staff said they were going to do a wipe, so you're literally arguing that the thing they're saying they're going to do is too hard for them to do.
But also ... I'm a programmer. Databases, whether on precision medicine web applications, or in 20-year old elf simulators, work the same way. If you can write a SQL query (and I'm 99.9% certain P99 uses a SQL database and not some fancy new NoSQL one like Mongo) to identify the records you want to get rid of, then that plus one second to execute it is all the time it takes.
Now
of course I'm oversimplifying a little, and obviously no one on the staff is going to run any kind of mass-character-altering query without spending some time double-checking their work first ... but the point is, unless you get super complex in how you identify unplayed characters, the tech of performing this clean-up is
not difficult.