Is there is a command to help deterine character's existance?

thistleswift1

So i was doing some SG maintenance the other day, purging characters that had not logged in for months and months and months, to make room for new recruits and alts for current members. As i was doing this, a lot of the characters i was bumping showed no name on the system announcement. I am theorizing that these characters have probably been deleted from their player's account, but are still showing on the SG roster. It got me thinking/wondering if there is any command(s) or process(es) which will let me know if a character is still in existence or if it has been deleted. All it shows on the SG screen is name (and @handle), level, SG rank, the last time they logged in and that they are offline (unless of course, they are online, in which case, the character is obviously not deleted, no?).

If anyone has any knowledge of such things, either that is exists and how to do it, or that it does ~not~ exist, can y'all help me out and let me know? Also, if there isn't such a command/process, would such a thing be desirable/helpful/exploitable? Please lend me your knowledge and/or your thoughts on this matter.

Thanks!
@Nimashet

flyingfinn

You could use Champedia.

Oh wait, they deleted it....
You could allways send mail asking the person. If not answered, delete.​​

themightyzenith

I feel your pain Piff. Cleaning up the roster can be a pain in the butt. AFAIK there is no actual command for what you are asking.

However, your theory is correct. When no name comes up when kicking a toon from the roster that toon doesn't exist anymore.

It would be a nice QOL update for toons that don't exist anymore to not show up on a SG roster.



Now get back to your cleaning! *hands feather duster*

thistleswift1

Thanks for the responses. Maybe i will post a suggestion for such a command. But until then ...






back to the dusting.

themightyzenith

thedeck

That looked cool

draogn

Perhaps the /anon flag is set for those characters and preventing the boot announcement. I'm not sure if it works that way, but I do know that the flag can be used to not show up in the sg roster when online.