Hi folks. I have had a slight increase in my free time for at least the very near forseeable future. Hence I have started poking around the forums a bit, soon the game. One thing I notice folks still complaining about is the amount of rares in circulation and people hoarding them on fairly inactive characters and I came up with a possible solution. Rather than have a set amount of hours needed per month to maintain your set of rares in entirety, break it down into smaller parts. The time lines would change and adjust based on just how decked said character gets to be. You have only 1 rare? Same as it is now. You have 8 rares? Better be logged on more often, half of the standard monthly amount or more within the next two weeks. Decked in a full suit? You had better be on at least a few times a week if not daily to maintain that, or else a rare or two or three might just happen to randomly be purged from your arsenal. Just a thought.
Rares
Or change the purge happening twice per month, instead of once per month?
What about summer vacations, Christmas, business trips ect?
If we did that, there would be a lot of whining about active chars being purged.
Anume, how often have you been asked or have heard other people asking, "How many hours do I need to be logged in per month in order to not lose my rares?" I remember catching a slay/full sac from V for asking that (and pushing the issue) back in 1.0, but in a game like this there will always be that mentality. You work hard for that stuff and want to keep it.
I think we can all take a hard look at many of those powerhouse characters of old and say, "That's odd, they showed up and left ... just enough to keep their clothes." How many are doing that now?
That sort of thing could be gotten away with when the game was young, and there were lots of players. The rare counts wasn't a handicap but incentive. Now, dying is much more of a punishment than before. People are too good at pk, and due to a low player count, there aren't many rares to match the increased need.
While I might just be full ignorant opinion, I've always been in favor of a two tiered rare system. 1 would be purged weekly to biweekly, 1 monthly. Put the basics in the one purged weekly, and the intense stuff in monthly.
I agree rare circulation is a big deal and is a broken system currently.
Rare count doesn't have anything to do with the current player numbers though. It's set MUCH higher. So there are now much more rares about (total number) than there used to be. There are also cabal eq and merchant eq available now.
We're not against a further change, but it needs to be viewed with the total balance in mind. We have a couple ideas that might help there.
Rares are rares for a reason.
Besides, the current cabal outfit is more than adequate.
you say that Anume, yet I died yesterday on one of my characters and my minor globe crumbled....
so the system seems to be still removing rares.
That's odd. Checked the numbers for minor globe and they seem to be fine, pfile count as well, not sure why this happened. If there is more crumbling, let us know (prayer, best with log).
What about summer vacations, Christmas, business trips ect?
If we did that, there would be a lot of whining about active chars being purged.
Probably better than having many more players lose interest and log off or having players not being rewarded for putting in many more hours than those inactive decked players. Don't know about you guys but I think its much better to see active players rewarded than those that are inactive. I want to log in and see 5 players striving for that piece of eq that's on a mob or weaker player than 1 player waiting for weeks for that decked player to log in. In the end, (I'm sure you know this better than anyone) you can't make everyone happy, but its about making the majority of those who are still here, putting in the time and effort, happy. Who knows maybe it'll bring even more back to the game 
What about summer vacations, Christmas, business trips ect?
If we did that, there would be a lot of whining about active chars being purged.
There can be exceptions to the more frequent purges so long as said player posts on prayer about the absence and it is a week not an entire month or something along those lines.
My humblest of apologies, but why are we trying to turn this game into more of a job and less of a hobby? Avocation and vocation? Lest we forget that we do this for fun and not for the ego. I am much desiring to be part of this community, both in game and out, and would dare to ponder upon this midnight, as I am weary, that there are those who cannot grant you challenge as Kings of the Mountains of the Aabahranian Wastes if such implementations were to be made; unless of course, those who call for the reforms of purging to grant leniency upon those of us of the Moderate Tier. In which case you may all do as you wish and it would not affect me, and as such I would no longer care. I am the casual player. But I am yours none the less.
What about summer vacations, Christmas, business trips ect?
If we did that, there would be a lot of whining about active chars being purged.
Good point. 