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Characters kept by EVE forever?

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Casandra Laur
Bleu Femme Felis
#1 - 2016-11-30 21:35:13 UTC
I had heard that on paid accounts, the characters will be in the data base forever. Even after the subscriber quits EVE.

What about the Alpha characters? Will we be kept?

Just curious. Thanks.

Cassy
Paranoid Loyd
#2 - 2016-11-30 21:45:03 UTC
AFAIK they have only purged the DB once, they removed the trial account names. As alphas are more or less trial accounts they would probably be purged if necessary.

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Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2016-11-30 21:56:38 UTC
So far, CCP always have kept the old characters around - and why not, really? So from all I know, your characters will be kept. They stripped inactive characters of their names recently, but the characters are still there. I dug up old trial accounts I never once upgraded to full from 8 years ago, and except for the name change, they seemed just the way I left them, complete with ridiculous failfits and drone alloys in the cargo bay. (I found a Caracal with a mix of heavy, rapid and light launchers and a mix-tank with extenders, boosters and shield power relays, as well as an Osprey with mining lasers. The latter one made sense, though, considering the year).
2Sonas1Cup
#4 - 2016-11-30 21:59:38 UTC
You never lose your character, they might just remove your character name in 6 months inactivity, but all you need is to log in once every 6 months just in case if you don't wanna lose that name.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#5 - 2016-11-30 22:29:45 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
AFAIK they have only purged the DB once, they removed the trial account names. As alphas are more or less trial accounts they would probably be purged if necessary.



They didn't purge the characters. Just the names.

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Mark Marconi
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2016-12-01 05:38:30 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
AFAIK they have only purged the DB once, they removed the trial account names. As alphas are more or less trial accounts they would probably be purged if necessary.



They didn't purge the characters. Just the names.

A CSM member posting on the forums.

Are the elections in the next few months?

The CSM gets in the way of CCP communicating properly with the players of this game.

After all we are not just players, we are customers.

Time for the CSM to be disbanded.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#7 - 2016-12-01 06:15:32 UTC
Vigirr
#8 - 2016-12-01 08:36:46 UTC
Mark Marconi wrote:
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
AFAIK they have only purged the DB once, they removed the trial account names. As alphas are more or less trial accounts they would probably be purged if necessary.



They didn't purge the characters. Just the names.

A CSM member posting on the forums.

Are the elections in the next few months?


Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#9 - 2016-12-01 10:24:31 UTC
Nana Skalski wrote:
Steve posting is not a rare sight on these forums.

Steve is known to be one of the hardest working CSM members, even by other CSM members.
Mark Marconi
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2016-12-01 10:33:25 UTC
Nana Skalski wrote:
Steve posting is not a rare sight on these forums.

Ok in fairness yes Steve does post a bit
Specifically in the last week

Steve Ronuken - 9 posts
Aryth - Nil, Last post 2 months ago
Mr Hyde113 - Nil, Last post 3 months ago
The Judge - Nil, 2 posts 2 weeks ago, previous 2 months ago
Innominate - Nil, last post 2 years ago
NoobMan - Nil, last post 2 months ago
Jin'taan - 1 post, 3 the previous week
Fafer - Nil, Last post 5 months ago
Kyle Aparthos - Nil, Last post 5 months ago
Bobmon - 4 posts, 4 posts 16 days ago
Xenuria - Nil, 1 post a month ago, previous 3 months ago
Mr Hyde113 - Nil, Last post 3 months ago
Gorski Car - Nil, 1 post 2 months ago, previous 6 months ago
Nashh Kadavr - 1 post, 1 post 2 months ago, previous 5 months ago
Sullen Decimus - Nil, 1 post a month ago, previous 2 months

As I said Steve is the prolific one, yes but seriously the CSM has

  • no real communication skills to the community,
  • no longer controls even its own white paper,
  • has for years now done more harm than good as CCP listens to them rather than better communication with the rest of the playerbase
  • Is little more than a lobby group for Null sec
  • Now represents the smallest number of people since the CSM had 12 month terms


It is time for the CSM to be old yellered.

The CSM gets in the way of CCP communicating properly with the players of this game.

After all we are not just players, we are customers.

Time for the CSM to be disbanded.