Deleting Level 1 Characters on Accounts That Haven't Played in 90 Days – Tue. Feb 21

[Samhayne]

Have you ever been a little frustrated trying to get the name you want for a new character? We feel ya! It’s cool that there are so many people playing Spacetime's Legends Mobile MMO Franchise – enough to break over 100 Million Play Sessions! (read more about that amazing milestone here: http://www.spacetimestudios.com/cont...-Play-Sessions). However, there are a lot of characters out there that are not being used, gobbling up a lot of name possibilities.

To help address this situation, we're going to be deleting level 1 characters that haven't played in over 3 months and making their name available again. If you have logged in and played your account in the last 3 months, no worries – none of your characters will be touched. If you have a 2nd account that you haven't played in a while with level 1 characters sitting on names you want, it might be prudent to log into that account.

We will be clearing up these names on Tuesday, February 21st.

If all of the above was a bit too long to read, here's the one sentence recap:

Level 1 Characters on accounts that have not logged in for 3 months (90 days) will be deleted on February 21st.

[JaytB]

Great idea!

[octavos]

Fantastic...maybe i can finally be Ghost in PL lol ...but with my luck, someone will take it lol

[wvhills]

+1 good idea. It may also be good to make an in game announcement (like where those tips show up at). A lot of players don't check forums and may have a second account they don't play.

Just for clarification, if I have a several toons I play a lot but have a level 1 that I never play will it be deleted since I have played that account but not that character?

[JaytB]

Just for clarification, if I have a several toons I play a lot but have a level 1 that I never play will it be deleted since I have played that account but not that character?

As far as I understood, it's only for lvl1 chars from an 'account' that has been inactive. Not the char itself.

[Skeletonlord]

This is an amazing idea sam! So, the character must be deleted if untouched because without a name, you cant have a character.

[wvhills]

As far as I understood, it's only for lvl1 chars from an 'account' that has been inactive. Not the char itself.

Cool! That's what I suspected but wasn't sure!

[Flip]

As far as I understood, it's only for lvl1 chars from an 'account' that has been inactive. Not the char itself.

That's correct, logging into your account is all you have to do to preserve your lvl1's.

[octavos]

That's correct, logging into your account is all you have to do to preserve your lvl1's.

Awww great....*Hopeing to self* hope that guy dont log in lol

[Bilaxman]

Does this only affect inactive level 1 characters?

[JaytB]

Does this only affect inactive level 1 characters?

Lol, read comments above

[Flip]

Does this only affect inactive level 1 characters?

Not exactly. It only affects lvl 1 characters contained on inactive accounts.

[Fyrce]

I'm not sure how many names this will free up, but on Feb 21st I shall be trying a bunch of names

There are prob lots of more names on inactive accounts, but yeah, it's hard to say whether to delete those since sometimes people come back. Oh well.

Oh yeah, will there be an email burst to account emails? Cause maybe there ought to be.

Don't forget! This applies only to inactive ACCOUNTS!

It only affects lvl 1 characters contained on inactive accounts.

It's NOT the inactive character! It's that the ACCOUNT is inactive + has a level 1 character. The ACCOUNT though will not be affected. The ACCOUNT will still be there and non-level 1 characters will still be there.

I actually think this might be because old accounts started w/ multiple character slots, so people might have started multiple characters, just tried/leveld ONE character, then quit, thus taking up another name. This action will free those 2nd, etc. characters up.

[Whirlzap]

Anyone who had a good name and played seriously wouldn't be level 1.
Unless they were a level 1 PvE twink.
QQ for those twinks that quit.

[Gluttony]

I can get behind that, there is going to be a large rush to gain an epic ign come Feb 21st, but I have to agree that I wonder how many names this will actually free up. I'm going to assume that STS is either testing the waters for a greater purge, or the number is much larger than I anticipate. I have the three igns I want in both games so I won't benefit from this experiment, but it is intriguing nonetheless. I have heard of the phenomenon where players rush to "reserve" the best igns during the beta or initial launch of a game, and then never return so this could be a pretty sweet chance to change your persona.

[worldpeace]

Question, what if you made a character just to reserve your name in dl. Now the new made character is still lvl 1... if you delete this character will your name still be reserved in dl?

[Otukura]

Will this be rolling, and every time a level one goes in active for 90 days it will be deleted?

[OvigorothO]

Aww....i thought this was about stash and cs access...

[CozzaFrenzy]

As I have posted on facebook, I myself have nothing to worry about regarding losing an unused character but felt that I should post here too. I'm just looking out for my inactive friends who may not neccissarily have access to Internet, the games, or forums at this time for whatever reason but one day might return to find a character deleted. seriously this is a waste of time and STS will find themselves dealing with constant complaints of lost characters, items, platinum,etc... And for what reason? Cause someone used a name before you did? I like many others have noobs that I use for storage. Most of these names that will become available will be what? StorageBob? VanitySmurf? LvloneNoob? Most likely a majority of the names that will become available will be the generated ones. I don't think this is a good idea and people, just be creative and come up with a new name!!! Or just add xX's like everyone does in every other game! Get over it. It's not worth the trouble!

[Gluttony]

@CozzaFrenzy, this is only going to matter to those with accounts that have a level 1 (L1) toon on an inactive account (90 days or more) and it isn't going to affect anyone else. I believe this is a good move since it is basically a countermeasure to the rush a MMORPG going online generates during the first few days of players logging in and getting every original/epic in-game name (ign) they can think of, only to find out they don't like the game and quit. Anyone who has played the game for even a few minutes on each of their characters has leveled past 1. So unless some of your friends reset their character, recreated them and left them at L1, there is really nothing to worry about.

As for the items, they will probably be moved to stash. The only point that I can see coming from your post is the idea of a premium character being left at L1 in an inactive account, somehow I don't think that toon would be deleted. So again, this idea may have been implemented because of complaints but it's probably complaints move revolving around the fact that players were squatting on igns that they were planning to sell at a later date but eventually (rage) quit instead.