Deleting pirates

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Pirates in an account can be deleted by their owners, however there is a grace period after a character is deleted before the name becomes available for use again. This is to help in the case of a person changing his or her mind; characters can be retrieved from the dead by Ocean Masters during this time. The grace period is about 10 days.^[1]

How To

First log in to your account and click the "Delete Pirate" button located beneath the pirate you want to remove (highlighted here with a red box).

A confirmation screen will then appear asking you to confirm the pirate deletion. In order to complete the deletion, the account password needs to be typed in. This is to prevent accidental deletion.

Fate of Deleted Pirate's Items

When a pirate is deleted, most (but not all) of the pirate's possessions, positions, and stats are lost. Many questions are asked, on an almost daily basis, about what happens to them. The following represents the knowledge available through experience from other deleted pirates:^[2]

• Houses belonging to the pirate, as well as any of the pirate's possessions in them, are deleted. Furniture and pets that belong to other pirates are returned to them.
• Stalls belonging to the pirate are passed down to the first pirate on the manager's list. If that manager already has their own stall of the same type, on the same island, or if the shop had no managers, then the stall is deleted, and all of the pirate's possessions therein are lost.^[3] Furniture and pets belonging to other pirates are returned to them.
• All other items below assume that the item in question was not in a house or shoppe belonging to the deleted pirate.
• All the pirate's PoE is lost.
• Clothing, swords, mugs, bludgeons, and trinkets that were stored on a rack or in a chest are preserved, and continue to be available to anyone who had access rights to the rack or chest in which they were stored.
• Clothing, swords, mugs, bludgeons, trinkets, charts, pets, portraits, and furniture that were carried on the pirate are lost.
• Doubloons are stored on a per-account basis, and not on a per-pirate basis. Therefore, doubloons belonging to deleted pirates continue to be available to any other pirates on the same account.
• Furniture placed by the pirate in other people's shoppes or houses remains in place. The furniture can be picked up by the owner, a manager, or a roommate.
• If the pirate was captain of an autocratic crew, the crew politics automatically changes to oligarchic.
• If the pirate was the only remaining member of their crew, the crew is disbanded.
• If the pirate was the only remaining member of their flag, the flag is disbanded. If the flag controlled an island, the island status changes to Uninhabited until a new flag successfully blockades the island. The Governor, assuming he was not the pirate being deleted, does not change. Buildings already on the island remain in place.
• Any ships owned by the pirate are unlocked, and the deed is placed on the ship. The deed can be retrieved by any pirate in the deleted pirate's crew with a rank of Fleet Officer or higher, by going onboard the ship, and clicking the Market Bidding button on the hold.

Historical Note

• Originally, there was no grace period for deleted pirates, they were deleted immediately. This led to an occasional accidental deletion, and was changed at some point after a rather famous pirate was accidentally deleted. ^[4]

Purging

Occasionally, pirates who have gone inactive for more than about six weeks are deleted by the server.

The following actions are known to protect the pirates on an account from purging for an unlimited amount of time:

• Buying a subscription with real money
• Buying doubloons with real money
• Activating the CD key from the Box edition [5]
• Buying the StARRter Kit (no longer possible)