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Clean up dormant accounts

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FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#41 - 2011-11-01 22:59:41 UTC
CCP makes a big deal out of reputation in Eve. For that reason, I don't think past subscribers should lose their names. There might be some previously-notorious names in that last that haven't played in years, but their names should forever be associated with their characters.

Of course, wiping out characters would wreck things like killboards that rely on being able to look up character names.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#42 - 2011-11-03 10:46:36 UTC
Supported.

NBSI shall be the whole of the Law
Jonas Xiamon
#43 - 2011-11-04 23:56:04 UTC
This is for the best, you have all my plus ones.

I usally write one of these and then change it a month later when I reread it and decide it sounds stupid.
Rico Minali
Sons Of 0din
Commonwealth Vanguard
#44 - 2011-11-05 13:08:04 UTC
As long as it is only trials that never activated.

+1

Trust me, I almost know what I'm doing.
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#45 - 2011-11-05 18:50:52 UTC
Trial accounts that haven't been activated after a month after their trial expired should be purged automatically. A trial is there for you to see whether you like the game or not, not to reserve yourself a character name in case you decide to play it three years from now.

I am not sure about paid accounts which went inactive a long time ago. I would like a solution where you keep your name unless someone else actually creates another character with the same name. When that happens, you get renamed to Caldari Citizen 1234567, and get a free character rename ticket. Either way, there definitely needs to be a long timer on it, a year, maybe two after your account went inactive.
Selinate
#46 - 2011-11-06 00:07:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Selinate
Confirming that I couldn't come up with a name that hadn't already been taken for this character, and for some reason the word "Salinate" popped into my head, and I changed one letter....

I support this.
Endovior
PFU Consortium
#47 - 2011-11-06 06:35:55 UTC
Reputation IS important, so don't wipe accounts that were ever actually paid, even if only for a couple months. If someone paid to subscribe once, they might just pay again, after all...

Trial accounts, on the other hand, can safely be deleted a year after they've expired. Really, that's probably more then enough time.
Zleon Leigh
#48 - 2012-01-29 23:15:16 UTC
+1 Supported

Incarna - Newest business example of mismanaged capital. CCP - Continuing to gank independent PI producers every day

PvP's latest  incentive program ** Unified Inventory **  'Cause you gotta kill something after trying to use it
Vaurion Infara
Doomheim
#49 - 2012-01-30 20:36:40 UTC
+1

this is it
Voddick
AFK
#50 - 2012-02-01 01:27:53 UTC
+1 Trial only
Nicolo da'Vicenza
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#51 - 2012-02-01 10:42:14 UTC
Supported.

Because this is going to be a big problem when people from DUST start trying to register names in this shared universe.
Tallian Saotome
Nuclear Arms Exchange Inc.
#52 - 2012-02-01 11:32:46 UTC
+1

I actually want my own name that I took with a trial account attached to an email, at a place I am no longer employed. I think.

But if names were freed up, I could recover it :-D

Inappropriate signature removed, CCP Phantom.
serrie
Stellar Lancers
#53 - 2012-03-27 20:17:48 UTC
Thumbs up to all the posts..let's get it going again.
New CSM...new chance to be noticed!
ganks theman
Universal Exos
#54 - 2012-03-27 22:20:49 UTC  |  Edited by: ganks theman
player not play/log on eve online.com for 4yrs delete the account

ganks theman =  gangster man :P
Jint Hikaru
OffWorld Exploration Inc
#55 - 2012-03-28 09:36:54 UTC
+1 I support the removal of trial accounts.

I'm not so sure about messing with account that have paid at one time or another. As someone else mentioned, names and reputations mean a lot in Eve.

If you put a timer on those accounts, can you imagine the rush to snag a famous name, 1 year (or whatever) after someone famous has left the game.

Jint Hikaru - Miner / Salvager / Explorer / SpaceBum In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Servjen
Giant Industrials
Center for Digital Chemistry
#56 - 2012-03-28 13:39:53 UTC
+1

This is where I put my signature, right?
Hailey Sunweaver
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#57 - 2012-03-29 05:19:23 UTC
I agree with this.
Scarabeus Sacer
Vassagon
#58 - 2012-03-29 14:12:31 UTC
+ 1
BUT - trial accounts only. Not dormant accounts. Some people may have lives and things worry about for a bit other than EVE. I have a dormant industrialist account that I play 3 months of the year ....
Dheeradj Nurgle
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#59 - 2012-03-29 14:38:55 UTC
+1

Purge them Trial Account's, Leave Dormant Accounts alone.

Katy Ling
Crimnson Concept Flame
#60 - 2012-03-29 16:42:27 UTC
to be short ... +1