Inactive Character Wipe

[Sarkhan]

I see a lot of old inactive mules being wiped but in the end they will bring them back through petitions so not truly lost, just more of an inconvenience.

I wonder what kind of cool names will be freed up, hopefully people don't just make account after account of names they then attempt to sell.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Sarkhan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

hopefully people don't just make account after account of names they then attempt to sell.

Heh, well if they do they'll likely get caught, and then the names will go into the banned pile to be freed up in another future wipe ... maybe ten years from now [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Honestly I think the staff should auto-free up banned names, but only after a certain period of time. You don't want a situation where Bob defrauds Fred, then Fred sees Bob a couple months later and starts cussing him out ... but really Bob isn't Bob, he's Ted, who just took the name Bob (after the original Bob got banned for defrauding).

But if they wait (say) a year to "auto-free-up" a banned name, it would avoid that.

[Canelek]

Originally Posted by Sarkhan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

hopefully people don't just make account after account of names they then attempt to sell.

There have been a few queries in the past from people regarding the selling of "cool" names.

But, names are like children, sometimes; they are really only interesting or clever to the makers. Everyone else kind of just deadpans, "heh".

[Baler]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Additional Notes:
Any character that is deleted by this can be requested to be restored via the Petition forum.
There will be no downtime on the Blue server to perform this.
We will still be allowing early character creation on the Green server prior to the official launch.
The blue-green name sharing functionality is not currently implemented on Green Beta at this time.

What if the name is already taken prior to the restore.

[dekova]

Originally Posted by Baler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What if the name is already taken prior to the restore.

you'll get a new name.

[Baler]

Originally Posted by dekova [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

you'll get a new name.

thank you for replying

[slowpoke68]

Fantastic news. Thank you so much!!

[Sinistria]

Thank you very much.

Hopefully it works out for me.
Otherwise i petiton to you to set my name free and if you do not so i send you a horde thirsty ogres who will drink your energy drinks.

/JK

Thank you very much again for the chance to get a beloved name back.

[Jimjam]

I appreciate a part of the point of this exercise is to make fresh names available for blue/green.

That said, does the wipe also apply to red?

[ALLWILL]

NOICE!