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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bloodburn on March 16, 2005, 05:08:03 am

Title: Deleting Names?
Post by: Bloodburn on March 16, 2005, 05:08:03 am

I have a couple charactors I dont want to use, but I see no option to delete those charactors, and free up those spots.

Is there a way for me to delete a charactor I have?

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Post by: Psycon on March 16, 2005, 12:45:28 pm

Have you asked a GM to delete you?

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Post by: Kwip on March 16, 2005, 02:20:42 pm

The devs at this point do not want people to be deleting chars or else they would have provided an option.  You could either beg a dev or start a new account if this one is full.

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Post by: Bloodburn on March 17, 2005, 07:02:41 am

Why would the devs not want someone to delete a charactor, let alone put an option in for someone to use?!

If anything, it would HELP the game\'s server lighten the load, by eliminating unused charactors that are just piling up in the database.

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Post by: Androgos on March 17, 2005, 07:59:27 am

One character takes 1 DB slot (and 1 for items and 1 for spells and so on).

1 slot is fragments of a kilobyte

Space is cheep

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Post by: Bloodburn on March 17, 2005, 09:14:24 pm

True, but its pretty standard to have a \"Delete charactor\" button for users to use if they decide they dont want that charactor anymore.

If a charactor only takes up 3 slots at most in the database, thats 3 queries that is run to delete the charactor when the button is pressed. Disgustingly easy to add to the game.

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Post by: Moogie on March 17, 2005, 09:25:26 pm

Admin-level GMs can delete characters. You cannot. We don\'t want people to suddenly disappear for no good reason- such a thing can totally ruin RP.

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Post by: Kwip on March 17, 2005, 09:26:57 pm

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Originally posted by Bloodburn
Disgustingly easy to add to the game.

If they wanted us to be able to delete our characters at this moment, then they would have made it possible.

Edit: Upps, Moogie beat me :P

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Post by: Xordan on March 17, 2005, 09:39:34 pm

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Originally posted by Bloodburn
If a charactor only takes up 3 slots at most in the database, thats 3 queries that is run to delete the charactor when the button is pressed. Disgustingly easy to add to the game.

Characters take up multiple slots in multiple tables. :)

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Post by: AryHann on March 17, 2005, 10:09:45 pm

I think that, considering that this is an alpha, it is a bit pointless to have a delete option.
At this point of the developing, when there is the goal of reaching a db-wipe, it doesn\'t have so much sense.

I guess in the future they will provide something, because it will become a bit hard to listen to everybody that wants to have for some reason a character deleted.

And, I don\'t think it is \"RPG problem\", considering that the death is followed by resurrection, there could be death followed by.. delete of the character.

Ary

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Post by: Bloodburn on March 17, 2005, 10:58:53 pm

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Originally posted by AryHann
...there could be death followed by.. delete of the character.

Ary

I would pray soo hard for something like that, my insides would fall out.

I want to play an Online RPG that has perma death soo bad but I cant find any!!