Greetings everyone,
We have just finished our first every inactivity cleanup. About 30,000 characters have been removed. Alongside with them, 28,000 ships have joined the sea bottom. If any of them had treasure buried, these still remain buried in Avonmora.
Characters removed will not be memorized anywhere. These were all characters with 0 gold, 0 cannons and 0 crew that have not logged in the last 30+ days. From now on, we will clean similar inactive zeroed players weekly.
You will all see now that there are about 12,700 active players. This is not true as about 4000 players of them seem inactive. Most of them however are characters with wealth and therefore we will not be removing them for now. We will see what to do with them in the near future.
Finally, the population we removed from ports, was because we wanted to add some realism to the Earthquake roleplay event. The affect is ineligible but the rp result is great.