Originally by: Tessen

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Edited by: Tessen on 14/10/2009 23:29:00

Hello folks,

I recently read the story of a player who's account was hacked and his stolen character sold on this forum.
The true owner petitioned and CCP sayed the transaction was valid and couldn't give back the character.
CCP only gave him back his account why his 2 alt with basic SP. His 4 years character vanished.

I wil NOT comment about this and it is NOT the purpose of this message. But this gave me an idea CSM could support :

Because any one can one day become the victim of an undetected keyloger or whatever (sh... happen syndrom) and considering loosing stuf is not so dramatic, whereas loosing a several years/mouths char with millions of SP is different.
Any account owner should be able to lock any of his characters disabling possibility to sale his characters.

Of course you can still unlock any character on account management but there will be a 1 week timer before the char become available for selling.

I think this delay is enough for the true owner to declase this account was stollen if ever needed.
This would lock any transaction and alow CCP to investigate about a potential theft.

PS : sry for my poor english.

EDIT : correction about stolent character age : +80M SP represent almost 4 years...

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