Retire

There are two reasons for you to retire: to prevent auto deletion of your character or to obtain a limited reroll or practice reset. It is also possible for you to obtain an age reset after you've been retired for a real year.

Your characters have a limited lifespan after you log off, before they are deleted, irrespective of how much gold or equipment they have for renting. This time period is approximately (Level - 1) * 5 Real Life days. If you will be unable to log in for an extended period and yet want to return at a later date with the same character you need to retire him/her.

In order to retire you must go to a receptionist and type "rent retire" twice. There is currently a requirement that you have at least one item such as a loaf of bread and 1 coin such as a copper (a busc in the Elven tongue). This restriction might be lifted in the future. Also note that you still need to have enough money to rent for 30 days to be able to retire.

The cost of retiring is the same as 30 days of rent. However, once you have retired there will be no further cost. If you wish to check the cost of retirement before you actually retire you may do so with the command "offer retire" at a receptionist.

To leave the retirement home you use the "leave" command. If you leave before you can reroll or pracreset, you will not get a refund and you will not be able to use the "pracreset" and "reroll" commands.

Pracreset allows you to reset your practices, "reroll" lets you make small changes to your statistics. They may be used any time after 30 days of retirement*, but they must be used WHILE YOU ARE STILL RETIRED. Please do not "leave" before using "reroll" or "pracreset". If you do so the gods will not grant you a reroll/reset and you will have to retire for 30 more days* to obtain it.

• NOTE: for legends who retire(d) on or after February 1, 2004, it is ONE YEAR, not 30 days!

If you have been retired for a real life year, "agereset" will allow you to reset your age to base age. Similarly to pracreset and reroll, this command has to be used before you leave retirement.

When you log on in retirement, you are told how long you have until you can leave, reroll, pracreset or agereset (if you were retired normally and can obtain these without the help of a V+).

People who retired before this change have two options:

1. If you want prac-reset or reroll: Do not do anything, wait until your retirement expires, then do "pracreset" or "reroll" and "leave".

2. If you do not want prac-reset, but want to play right now: Type "leave".

Some special notes:

1) BNs can now "camp rent retire" or retire at Karash (in Dark Tower) and gaunt man.

2) Low level retired characters might get deleted after long periods of inactiveness. While the details of this purging is not specific it is generally safe to assume that "long" is greater than one year and low level refer to characters under level 20.

3) Characters under level 6 cannot "rent retire."

4) Retired Istari cannot get an age reset.

5) Sauron-listed people cannot rent retire and can only be retired in exceptional circumstances.