Opeila Winters wrote: 27 Apr 2024, 22:31

Kiera Roseline wrote: 27 Apr 2024, 21:51

Opeila Winters wrote: 27 Apr 2024, 18:12 You won't be able to deactivate for another 4 months anyway, that gives you a lot of time to think about it and maybe find something that makes you change your mind

I have seen people who haven’t been here for 6 months yet deactivate and just not be able to return for another while until 6 months are up though?

We don't let people deactivate before 6 months are up, ever. I am also pretty good at keeping up with our deactivations thread and I did not see anyone who was deactivated before 6 months. What you may have seen are soft deletions, which can be requested at any time but these people are also banned from returning.
People who simply disappear before 6 months are up, who you also can't find in the deactivation thread, were most likely banned, not deactivated.

Deactivating at 6 months is a much easier way for staff to keep track than only creating a new character after 6 months. Say you deactivate at 2 months and give us a name for your next character now, it is unrealistic that we'll remember that in 4 months. Or even in 2 months, making it very much easier to sneak in. The alternative would be checking the deactivation thread every single time we get a new profile. We get a lot of new profiles every day.