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Potrero
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2010.05.30 19:04:00 -
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Was thinking of taking a long, long break. Maybe a few years.
What happens when you quit (Stop payment. Let your account lapse for a long time)?
Do your current skills continue? Maybe set carrier five and just split?
Does CCP eventually delete your character? Free up the name for someone else? I'm sure there's a waiting line for "Potrero."
Anyone else been away from the game for a year or more? Want to know your impressions and what it was like to come back.
Thanks
p.s. No you can't have my stuff. I have a feeling that Eve is going to be around for a few more years. I think it has huge potential, but I just don't think it's going to get any more interesting anytime soon. And rather than float around being bored I figure maybe I'll go do something else and check back in a few years to see how things are progressing.
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Psychotic Maniac
Caldari
Head Shrinkers
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Posted - 2010.05.30 19:06:00 -
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trolls never come back to eve
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Dan O'Connor
Cerberus Network
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Posted - 2010.05.30 19:08:00 -
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Under normal circumstances, an idle timer set to 60 days will automatically contract all your posessions to me. So if you don't play for 60 days but the account is present, the Posession Idle Protector kicks in creates contracts to me.
Seriously though, your skilling will stop - but all your items, ships, etc will remain where they are, including yourself. ISK amount will also remain. CCP never ever deletes characters - unless you decide to delete it (-> biomass it).
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CCP Zymurgist
Gallente
C C P
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Posted - 2010.05.30 19:15:00 -
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Hate to see you go Potrero but we will keep everything as you have left it. If you are planning on coming back I recommend keeping subscribed to our newsletter. One is sent out about every month that will keep you up to date on what is happening in EVE while you are away.
Just don't let CCP Adida know you are gone, she will get into your hanger and throw wild parties and leave a horrible mess! Quafe Cans may sound like they are easy to get rid of but I'm still finding them all over my ship from the last party she threw. 
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Cat o'Ninetails
Caldari
Rancer Defence League
Elysium Alliance
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Posted - 2010.05.30 19:20:00 -
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Pff devs are such lightweights. I only drink Quafe Ultra.
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Musical Fist
Gallente
The Unknown Bar and Pub
Elysium Alliance
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Posted - 2010.05.30 19:21:00 -
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Key ingredient in Quafe is garbage, how do you like your Quafe now 
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Cat o'Ninetails
Caldari
Rancer Defence League
Elysium Alliance
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Posted - 2010.05.30 19:27:00 -
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 Originally by: Musical Fist
Key ingredient in Quafe is garbage, how do you like your Quafe now
Still better than that Soylent stuff.
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Ekrid
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Posted - 2010.05.30 19:31:00 -
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Originally by: Potrero
Was thinking of taking a long, long break. Maybe a few years.
What happens when you quit (Stop payment. Let your account lapse for a long time)?
Do your current skills continue? Maybe set carrier five and just split?
Does CCP eventually delete your character? Free up the name for someone else? I'm sure there's a waiting line for "Potrero."
Anyone else been away from the game for a year or more? Want to know your impressions and what it was like to come back.
Thanks
p.s. No you can't have my stuff. I have a feeling that Eve is going to be around for a few more years. I think it has huge potential, but I just don't think it's going to get any more interesting anytime soon. And rather than float around being bored I figure maybe I'll go do something else and check back in a few years to see how things are progressing.
I quit for two years exactly, because they nerfed the classic client. Yep, thats two years CCP didn't get money because they wanted to save money. Irony. Borrowing a roomies computer to play temporarily. Everything is as I left it.
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Qoi
New Eden Warriors
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Posted - 2010.05.30 19:31:00 -
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Skills will train for 3 days or so and then stop. You will still gain Research Points (But that will probably fixed in the future). Otherwise, you are just a unused database entry and will probably not be deleted. That would break the records about you (market transactions, contracts, etc)
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zombiedeadhead
Minmatar
Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2010.05.30 20:09:00 -
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So, what crime did you commit, and what are your chances of an early parole?
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Darth Skorpius
352 Industries
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Posted - 2010.05.30 20:20:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Zymurgist
Quafe Cans may sound like they are easy to get rid of but I'm still finding them all over my ship from the last party she threw.
pfft, just blow the ship up, problem solved
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Clair Bear
Ursine Research and Production
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Posted - 2010.05.30 20:23:00 -
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Copying, blueprint research and industrial jobs also continue after your account expires. Quite handy, really. Who cares if there's a 2 month ME wait queue when you know you won't be touching the account for at least six months?
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Potrero
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2010.05.30 20:29:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Zymurgist
Hate to see you go Potrero but we will keep everything as you have left it. If you are planning on coming back I recommend keeping subscribed to our newsletter. One is sent out about every month that will keep you up to date on what is happening in EVE while you are away.
Good advice. Thanks.
Originally by: Ekrid
I quit for two years exactly, because they nerfed the classic client. Yep, thats two years CCP didn't get money because they wanted to save money. Irony. Borrowing a roomies computer to play temporarily. Everything is as I left it.
This is what I needed to know. What was it like to come back? Game changed at all?
Originally by: zombiedeadhead
So, what crime did you commit, and what are your chances of an early parole?
There was no crime. Honest.
It's actually the realization that the "sandbox" isn't the one we think it is. A real sandbox changes as you play with it. You're able to modify the fabric of it. Not just the cosmetic elements.
The real "sandbox" belongs to the devs. They're the ones who get to shape the world of Eve. They're the ones who get to build and shape this story. We're just ants in the ant farm. Pretending to be the farmers.
The devs are playing their game very slowly and charging us admission to sort of hang out.
In a few years maybe they'll get bored and really break the mold. Dust is an interesting idea. Walking in stations has potential. But both of those will take years.
I want to play the way the devs do. I want to be able to add jump gates and open up new regions of space. Get down onto planet surfaces. Create new ships that no one has ever seen. Do things that no one has ever thought of.
To do all that stuff you need to be a dev. They've got to find a way to open up actual game development to the players.
That's when you've got a "sandbox."
Maybe if I left and came back in few years more of that flexibility will exist.
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Rashmika Clavain
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.05.30 20:30:00 -
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Originally by: Darth Skorpius
Originally by: CCP Zymurgist
Quafe Cans may sound like they are easy to get rid of but I'm still finding them all over my ship from the last party she threw.
pfft, just blow the ship up, problem solved
Unfortunately they nerfed insurance 
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Ekrid
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Posted - 2010.05.30 20:33:00 -
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apart from seeing a few new ships, the rebalancing, and having to find your footing again in terms of recalling how to use the market and assets to find your stuff, relearning your routes and the shape of the univervse in terms of travel by recalling memory as you experience it, other than that not much, apart from also the big amount of large ships crowding newbie solar system stations.
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SIWETH
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Posted - 2010.05.30 20:52:00 -
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Originally by: Psychotic Maniac
trolls never come back to eve
lies
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Ekrid
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Posted - 2010.05.30 21:23:00 -
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additionally not everyone pretends to be farmers. some people are actual farmers, for iskies into real world currency. Also, I couldn't care lessor give one whit about dust. hopefully some MMO company like blizzard creates a competitor to Eve online soon, taking all the good points of it whilst leaving the bad, such as dev cheating, bad management desicions, etc.
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Atticus Fynch
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.05.30 21:26:00 -
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if you suddenly quit, you may experience:
* Anxiety
* Restlessness
* Irritability
* Insomnia
* Headaches
* Poor concentration
* Depression
* Social isolation
* Sweating
* Racing heart
* Palpitations
* Muscle tension
* Tightness in the chest
* Difficulty breathing
* Tremor
* Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea
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Ferdio Ricotez
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.05.30 21:47:00 -
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I believe that officially, CCP will not delete your characters for 12 months after your sub ran out. However, in practice, I don't think that they ever deleted any characters at all. There's a character I used in my first trial way back that hasn't been subbed for around two years. He still exists, and he was only a trial character.
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