A Land Far Away

For discussion amongst players. Please leave your thoughts in this thread. I'll be posting it to Discord as well, but if you have strong feelings it's best to have those memorialized here.

Inactive Character Policy

To maintain server integrity and ensure that character vaults are properly managed, we have established the following guidelines for inactive characters:

Account Activity Requirement:
Players must log in with at least one of their characters every 3 years to maintain their character vaults and ensure continued access to their characters.

Character Vault Ownership:
If a player does not log in within the 3-year period, all characters associated with their account will be considered abandoned.

Disposition of Abandoned Characters:
Characters that are deemed abandoned will become the property of ALFA. The ALFA team reserves the right to use or dispose of these characters as they see fit, to include deletion, and/or to be incorporated into server events, questlines or lore.

Retirement
Players can request their PCs be made into NPCs as a form of permanent retirement, however, the inclusion of that character into server events, questlines and lore is wholly up to the server’s Head Dungeon Master.

Exceptions:
Special exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis. Players anticipating long-term absence should contact the ALFA administration to discuss possible extensions or preservation of characters.

Two weeks notice prior to all wipes:
All vault wipes will be announced at least two weeks prior to any action taken via the forums and Discord (or other primary real-time chat program), if possible

1) This is not at all within the PA domain.

2) The Charter wiki still hasn't actually been amended, so this is very much am IA (vault) /DMA (oversight of advancement and HDM and server and NPCs) and therefore LA cross domain issue, not even remotely within the scope of the PA.

2) Under the not fully implemented Charter amendment which was voted on but not modified on the wiki, this is squarely TA domain.

3) Are you planning to NPCify every claimed character, or just select ones? It's not much of a persistent world if the majority of the inactive characters don't become NPCs and only a select few do.

4) What about player agency? As a player, this plan removes all player agency by forcing NPC conversation on a timeout process, and requires people to get special exceptions just to keep their characters under their control, unless they log on and get an RPXP tick to update their .bic file once in a while.

5) You state "contact the administration". WHICH Administrator? (It should be HDM handling this anyhow, as they're the ones that have the server control for NPC DMing.)

Hard disagree with all changes proposed.

Better off retiring ALFA itself for inactivity than doing this.