Voluntary deletion?

[Liyun]

I was wondering if it was possible to delete a character without having to wait for the inactive deletion.

[Wobbler]

It is particularly annoying when characters who have been scheduled to delete !NOW! survive multiple reboots.

[Vortenos]

My experience is mostly in LPMuds, but there it was a simple 'rm <filename>' from an administrator. I am only recently returning to MUDing after a decade in graphic games, but I vaguely recall that Diku's store players differently (I never coded on a Diku). Perhaps one of the Valar can help.

[dianos]

I've asked to have characters of mine deleted a few times. From memory, the Valar never actually delete the characters, they just rename them. I think they are able to rename a character and even disassociated the character from its account, but not delete it. (So if I wanted "Dianos" to be deleted, he may be renamed to "DianosIsDeleted" and moved into an account that I can't see.)

I'd like to be able to delete characters myself, and I'm not really sure why it isn't an option.

[Mandor]

There are good reasons why we don't allow speedy deletions.

• Drunk people
• People playing "friends" account
• Hacked accounts

The list goes on... Now, if someone gets hold of your password, all you can lose is eq and maybe a level.

There have been discussions about allowing a speedy delete. Where speedy means a couple of weeks.

[Liyun]

How to delete your character in a couple of weeks:

Hit LOTS of guards.
Wait until you are "of sound mind"
repeat until level one.

How about 3-5 days?