I have 12 characters registered with PFS currently that range from -1 to -14 and for some reason -7 and -13 don't exist. If I try to make a new character, the system will number it as -15.
A while back I had created a new character concept that was listed as -7, but then deleted it before it was ever used (this was when I had 6 characters at the time). But then later when I wanted to reconsider a 7th character, it gave me the -8 numbering for it and skipped -7 completely. I'm not sure why -13 was skipped also.
This is really a minor issue, but is there any way for me to get -7 and -13 back so I don't have gaps?
Characters are virtually deleted, which is to say we keep the data even when you delete. This is because you may have reported sessions with those characters and we have to keep those relationships, even if the character is no longer viable.
So even if a character is deleted, their number is still "used up". If you create a new character you are given the next available number (your most recently created character plus one).
Interesting. When I created -7, it was several days later that I then deleted him. But he never played in anything and didn't have any chronicles or anything attached to him, so there wasn't any credits. Hence why I was surprised when I couldn't get it back.
But when I later tried to recreate him and saw I jumped to -8, I then immediately deleted -8 and tried again. That just brought back -8.
I don't recall what happened with -13, but I can only assume the same as with -7; created and then sometime later deleted, but all without any credits of any kind being applied.
Is it possible to get them reinstated?
Is it possible to get them reinstated?
And if not, can we make a feature-request for it?
I will add that to our backlog, but given the needs of data integrity the scope of where we would be able to "refund" those number would be fairly narrow.
Fair enough. Thank you for the explanation and the assistance.
Please keep me posted when/if this resolves. :)