The idea being to make the option to retire a character available from the connection menu. Speedier than email the account and less work for the staff.

I think that would be a great idea. If your pc is clanned though, I think it should send a notification to the staff in charge of the clan.

I think the reason retirements need to be approved is that if your PC is involved in plots, either you or the immortals running those plots may need to make arrangements to extricate you from them.

For what it's worth, it is an option on the request tool.

There's a retire section in the Request Tool.

The Request Tool seems to speed up things faster than email, and keep things organized...  so people don't respond to the same email address.

Quote from: "flurry"For what it's worth, it is an option on the request tool.

Curses!  I was 12 seconds too late.

I think he means that it'd be nice to be able to instantly retire your PC, without having to use the request tool.

Quote from: "Mood"I think he means that it'd be nice to be able to instantly retire your PC, without having to use the request tool.

>kill soldier

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Quote from: "mansa"kill soldier

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Not an approved method of retirement. Although probably not too uncommon.

I've thought about this before.  For a lot of characters this would make a lot of sense.  It is possible this could happen but there would be issues to work out first if it did.

If it happens, I'd like to ask that there be some kind of confirmation for doing it, to stop folks from accidentally storing their beloved characters... perhaps entering your password?

I agree, add a storage option in the login menu.

Also, make a flag that staff members can place on PCs who are too involved in a plot to store so that they can't do it themselves.

Probably anyone who has above Rank X in a clan shouldn't be allowed to store themselves. Like Byn Sergeant and above; military Corporal and above; merchant house Merchant or Agent and above; etc. Not sure if it would be possible to set that globally or not.

Anything's possible!

I like the idea.

Myself, When I am ready to retire a PC, I am ready to do it NOW...not ten hours from now, not 1 hour from now. This moment, I care not for rank etc. I am Done, sick and tired of the PC and unwilling to go any farther. So, my retiring a PC normaly looks like this.

Wish all Excuse me, I would like to have this PC stored...NOW...I will wait 15 minutes for a response, if not, will begin walking to the silt sea...Thanks and sorry to bother.

QuoteAlso, make a flag that staff members can place on PCs who are too involved in a plot to store so that they can't do it themselves.

Why? If they are done, store them...if staff needs the PC they can animate it themselves...thats the only reason I even ask to be stored instead of simply walking out to become mekillot food. If I had a PC who was involved in every plot in the game and I was so sick of him that I wanted to store. Nothing anybody can say is going to get me to play that PC even 1 more minute. If I was willing to play them long enough to resolve things, I would not have asked to store. My thought on storage has always been donating a PC to staff anyway:)


Besides, Menu retirement option means a bit less work for staff.

Good idea. I'd add a simple security measure like a secret question/answer in order to retire, both as a precaution against doing it accidentally and to avoid malicious use.

I approve, but I do see ONE drawback.

I've sent in emails before asking to retire, only to regret it the next day and send another email after checking to see whether it's been done.  It could be just me, but sometimes I have a mood swing or something that after I recover, I really would just like to continue the character I have.

If it's instant retirement, do so at your own risk and don't bug to have it reversed

Give it to people with karma over 3?

Quote from: "Rhyden"Give it to people with karma over 3?

Why? Like X-D said, if you don't want to continue playing your character, why should you have to?

You don't ever have to continue your character.

But the current process is to ensure that those in your clan have enough warning to write you out of the story.  They're just trying to think of a good way to make it convenient AND fair to everyone else.

Thats the thing, I'm not here for you...I'm not here for the staff...I'm here for me.

Just so happens that for the most part, playing in a manner that allows you to have fun and enjoyment is most likley going to enhance mine as well...So...I normaly attempt to do so.  But Once my PC is no longer fun, well...enhancing your enjoyment is STILL not making my PC fun for me.

Like I said, If staff needs the PC written out in a different manner, Store my PC, copy it, dupe it, whatever you need, and animate it to suit needs...because I will not.

To tell you the truth, if I could retire from menu, I would actually be more likley to take that 15 minutes to an hour that I am willing to wait on staff to store after a wish in order to wrap things up, appoint successer...whatever. And still the PC would not be "dead" So if staff still needed him for something they could use them...win win win situation.

I think I would put 1 limiter on storing from menu though...either have it be karma 1 or not be able to use it till the pc had say 24 hours played.

That way people would be less likley to store on stats...I know, they can still suicide. But I think staff catches on to that pretty quick.

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Quote from: "Rhyden"Give it to people with karma over 3?

Why? Like X-D said, if you don't want to continue playing your character, why should you have to?

I'm just saying the ability to retire your character on the spot should require some amount of trust from the staff, or else you'll get players who continue retiring their characters instead of suiciding.

Quote from: "Rhyden"I'm just saying the ability to retire your character on the spot should require some amount of trust from the staff, or else you'll get players who continue retiring their characters instead of suiciding.

I disagree. We're all here to play a game and have fun. If you're not having fun with a role you should be able to get out of it without having to resort to doing something unrealistic like suiciding your character.
I think people being able to retire their characters on the spot that they're not enjoying play with is a much better alternative to suiciding.

But who's gonna feed the scrab?

Quote from: "Rhyden"But who's gonna feed the scrab?

Newbies.  :wink:

Newbies and the unlucky.