Saving your own accounts...

[pipsqueak]

Well so an interesting thing happens when peep leave.
After a certain amount of time their accounts get deleted.

I have a suggestion which may helpful to the community.

1. Allow peep to get a copy of their characters if they are leaving for an extended period of time.

Pros and Cons:.
CONS
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1.Admins get overwhelmed with requests of a character copy (though they will not have to look for characters that have been zapped in a wipe).
2.Modding issues? (Yeah that could be a little problem)
PROS
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Peep who like their characters will not lose them.

Some stipulations that could be done to make sure that admins do not get overwhelmed.

1. You are only allowed to request a backup once every 6 months. (Frankly I just need one copy of my char since I know my bomber class player is going to remain that as long as the server is alive etc etc).
2. You have had to be a member of this community for atleast 2 years to request this. Also a relative trouble free past will help.


Please discuss.....

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[Aurigae]

Entrust your characters to a friend so he'd update them. Admins have enough things to do as it is.

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Discovery's Resident Lagnom

[Banris]

What's the main reason behind the inactivity deletion anyways?

Is there a maximum limit as to how many characters can be maintained on the server?

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[elrica]

The more accounts there are, the longer the server takes to restart. Considering the thing always crashes anyway...

[Boss]

Considering that Cannon's fixed about 99% of the things that make it crash...

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[teschy]

Active characters 26025
Deleted characters 150461

Now you see why it's needed?

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[Veygaar]

Entrust your characters to a friend so he'd update them. Admins have enough things to do as it is.

this,

don't bug the admins, they are so nice and are already 'hands full'

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Veygaar for Admin Moderator 2013!!!

[gafwmn]

I would only concider it IF there was a 125% guarantee that NOBODY could alter the files.

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[trekky]

No, modders can edit the account with no problem.
you cant do anything about modders


if they do this if i wanted to, i get get 2 bill credits in a day



sorry bad idea

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Im back baby! may even start CODEYs again but will have to see how Bases affect that who know maybe i will save for a base

[Banris]

Active characters 26025
Deleted characters 150461

Now you see why it's needed?

Not really no. Unless there is some kind of variable size limit pertaining to the maximum number of characters.

Like if they defined numberofchars as a short int or something...

As to the server start up time, I find that hard to believe. This game was released back when the minimum and recommended hardware was as follows:

Minimum Requirements
The minimum system requirements for Freelancer 1.0 are:
One of the following Microsoft operating systems:
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
A 600 megahertz (MHz) processor.
128 megabytes (MB) of RAM.
A 4x CD or DVD drive.
1.3 gigabytes (GB) of available hard-disk space, plus space for saved games. Additional space is required for the Windows paging file and for the installation of DirectX 9.
16 MB video adapter with DirectX 9 compatible driver.
A sound card that is compatible with DirectX 9.
A keyboard.
A mouse or other compatible pointing device.
An Internet Connection for multiplayer games.
A 56-kilobits-per-second (kbps) v.90 modem.

Recommended Configuration
The recommended hardware and driver configurations are:
1 Gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor.
256 MB of RAM.
An 8x or faster CD or DVD drive.
A 32 MB video adapter with a DirectX 9 compatible driver.

Just curious, as always.

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La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid.