Toons gone

[ZoeF]

Today i finaly got some time of work to finaly check on the progress of the game (i got a email some time ago). I download the game - install - ... . I log in to find out my 3 toons of level 36 (or something like it) are gone. Do some searches on the forum to see that there is NO WAY of getting them back.

This is in my honest opinion a bad choice. Why?

I readed someones post that said "it is good as you can then learn the mechanics again". I have been playing mmorpgs for years started with DAOC (to give you a idee of how long). I realy dislike the leveling part in most mmorpg's. It is practicly the same in all of them. Run the quest dude click click click go kill XXX mobs - run - kill - return - rince and repeat. Bored of quest go do pvp - .... . You get my drift.

To then just delete all characters that are afk for months without any way of returning them to there original state is not benefitial at all. I honestly don't wanne start a new character and level it again from scratch. I quit the game because i could not level anymore it was capped back then if i recall corectly.

If there is no way of getting characters back why did you guys send out the email then to get old players back? Didn't you think some would like to play there characters they made before?

Top thinking

[Druin]

The character wipe happened 1 1/2 years ago. Wiped were all accounts that were inactive for at least 6 months. So the last time you logged in must have been at least 2 years ago.

The reason for the wipe should be quite obvious: too free space and character names. We also don't have the resources to make back ups all the time.

Top thinking.

[ZoeF]

I am no rocket scientist. But the storage of accounts should not be that significant. A copple of KB's at most. Mainly a DB dumb should have fixd that issue.

Also you could have kept a file with the accounts and there level of toons. If the person then got back you could have atleast give them a account with some medium gear and the level. That by itself could have been done with a txt file automaticly created when you purged the accounts. Any programmer with the knowledge of a DB could have done that. And we all know how big txt files are. And indeed if it where a 1.000.000 accounts with 3 toons each. That would mean 0.2 kb a person.

SELECT account, level, class, gearscore
FROM characters
GROUP BY account
ORDER BY account DESC

Dumb this shizzel in txt

But indeed great thinking of the developers. I love that the game is beeing kept alive. But this is not helping for returning players.

[Druin]

We neither have the time, nor the motivation to manually restore characters for everyone who returns to an alpha server after two years.

[ZoeF]

It is in alpha for over 3 years. So lets be frank it wil stay in a testing phase for way longer than that. And no one has a issue with that. But what your saying now shows me how smart you are. A CTRL + F in the txt file should have given you a search oportunity of creating a character in less than a minute with the right tool. I understand it is tedious and not the most fun thing to do. But if you send emails around stating the game has progressed alot and I or anyone else should return you should have atleast backupd my progress.

[Hargrim]

You have no idea what you are talking about, but as a food of thought imagine that tables storing characters were modified several times each past 2 years and restoring old dump with missing data would just break stuff. Fixing 100s of characters manually in sql is not a thing anybody wants to spend his time on when this time can be spend on developing new things.

It's not happening, stop shitposting, move along. See you in game!

[Sulorie]

It is in alpha for over 3 years. So lets be frank it wil stay in a testing phase for way longer than that. And no one has a issue with that. But what your saying now shows me how smart you are. A CTRL + F in the txt file should have given you a search oportunity of creating a character in less than a minute with the right tool. I understand it is tedious and not the most fun thing to do. But if you send emails around stating the game has progressed alot and I or anyone else should return you should have atleast backupd my progress.

Leveling process is better than ever, so no issues with that. I myself lost all toons, gold and event items, when I returned early this year. Don't you think this was no bad feeling? Get over it.

[Haskr]

I realy dislike the leveling part in most mmorpg's. It is practicly the same in all of them. Run the quest dude click click click go kill XXX mobs - run - kill - return - rince and repeat. Bored of quest go do pvp - .... . You get my drift.

You can level really fast during the 2x XP and Renown weekend, should easily get to level 16 in some hours, then you can got to Tier 2,3,4 since all are merged now and will get bolstered to play with everybody else from level 16 to 40.

To then just delete all characters that are afk for months

Years, not months

If there is no way of getting characters back why did you guys send out the email then to get old players back? Didn't you think some would like to play there characters they made before?

Maybe they thought that someone who played the game to some extend and might be comming back in the future would be so smart to log in every half a year or so for a minute.

But what your saying now shows me how smart you are. A CTRL + F in the txt file should have given you a search oportunity of creating a character in less than a minute with the right tool. I understand it is tedious and not the most fun thing to do.

I dont know if they could do that, but why should they make an effort for a whiny prick, who also seems to not be the brightest lightbulb in the storage because he has to blame other people for his own failures.

But if you send emails around stating the game has progressed alot and I or anyone else should return you should have atleast backupd my progress.

Nobody said you should return, in fact, i vote strongly against it, there is enough entitled dicks in the game allready.

[Keksi]

If this thread is any indication of the level of toxicity on RoR, I'm not interested in coming back

[Haskr]

If this thread is any indication of the level of toxicity on RoR, I'm not interested in coming back

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