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[Dsherman]

Oops... yes I did miss that line in the announcement about the character data being deleted.

And yes, they have deleted character data before, and when they have done that, it was always necessary to re-apply for access to the test server.

But the pattern with which they did that this time is not the same. This is the first time they have forced a re-copy of character data as part of just a downtime of the test server for an update.

In the past, deletion of character data has always been accompanied by a complete shutdown of the test server for 3 weeks or so. In addition, the character names were removed from the server so that character renames did not need to occur unless there was a collision of names from people re-applying with their characters sourced from two (or more) different worlds with the same name. And that is not something that could occur with my name since I have my character name set up on all 16 worlds. No one else could have it.

They did not have that 3 week or so shutdown this time. They also have failed to clear the character names from Undine. They just cleared whatever they have set up as the equivalent for the Playonline Account for the test server without actually clearing the character data on Undine (the name of the test server world).

I suspect this clearing was something that was done because of some problems that were occurring in the addition to Seekers of Adoulin to the test server. People needed to recopy character data to fix that problem, so they forced that recopy to occur by doing this. But they didn't clear the data on Undine. They just forced the re-copy.

Messy, but it still works. And I suspect they will not fix it either.