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On EF, we rarely delete established characters. Once you've made an in-character post with them, we consider them to be part of our world, so if you want to come back a month — two months, six months, a year or even three years — away, you're very welcome to do so.
However, we do have a retirement system to measure activity so that other players know who is and is not available for roleplay. How does this system work?
The Stages of Activity
- Active
- We ask that you make at least 1 in-character post per week to be considered active.
- Missing
- If you haven't made an in-character post for two weeks, you are considered Missing and will automatically be notified via private message (PM).
- Forcibly Retired
- If you haven't made an in-character post for a full four weeks, your character will be automatically moved to the Retired usergroup and alerted via email.
- Self-Retired
- If you know you'll be away, you can self-retire your character by contacting an admin and asking them to change your usergroup.
- Semi-Retired
- If you lose interest in a character, or don't feel that you can play them for a while for whatever reason, you can ask an admin to semi-retire them for you. You need to have made 100 IC posts on the character you wish to semi-retire, and to purchase a Semi-Retirement ticket from the Prize Shop.
Reactivating a Retiree
- Self-Retired
- If your character was self-retired, you can just make an in-character post with them and they'll be automatically reactivated. (Please wait at least 2 weeks after asking for them to be retired, though. We don't want yoyos!)
- Semi-Retired
- Once you've purchased a semi-retirement ticket, you no longer need to worry about reactivating that character. We prefer that you maintain an active character whilever you post with your semi-retiree, but they circumvent the retirement system (within reason) so you can post with them whenever you like.
- Forcibly Retired
- Reactivating a forcibly retired character is a little trickier. You'll need to earn them back, and how many posts you have to make depends on the number of active characters you have currently.
- Once you've posted the necessary number of times on your active characters, you can ask an admin to update the character you wish to reactivate.
- If you have 1-2 active characters, you need to make 1 in-character post on each.
- If you have 3-4 active characters, you need to make 2 in-character post on each.
- If you have 5-7 active characters, you need to make 3 in-character posts on each.
- If you have 8-10 active characters, you need to make 4 in-character posts on each.
- If you have 11+ active characters, you need to make 5 in-character posts on each.
If all of your characters are retired, you can just post with the one you wish to reactivate and they'll be updated automatically.
What Does Retirement Mean?
- To you
- Retirement gives you chance to stop playing a character, for however long, without losing them altogether. The various options for retirement also means you have a lot more freedom for switching between characters as your muse comes and goes.
- To other members
- The "retirement" label is an obvious way to know who's currently available for roleplay. It's a clear-cut system designed to prevent us from hanging around waiting for people to post when they're just not there.
- As a result, players are given permission to "blanket godmod" Retired and Missing characters so threads don't stall unnecessarily.
- However, if a member wishes to continue a thread with you, they can request that it be placed in Limbo instead.
- To the staff
- "Retirement" means that a character is inactive. Their journal, shop and house threads may be archived until they're reactivated. If the character was forcibly retired, and you have not posted a leave of absence, then any staff or IC positions will also be removed.
