What happens if i get another character when my 10th character is up for trade?

[iAmAppleSlize]

So, I have some characters I want to get rid of, but not Delete, so I've put them up for sale, but now I find myself with 9characters and 2 being up for trade. What happens if I get a 10th character while 2 being up for trade? What happens when the trade-chars gets back from the website?

[LikeDwind]

A black hole will happen

[Islingr]

A black hole will happen

it's not like someone's dividing by infinity...

there IS some type of character buffer in place (as seen by the char merger between Rag and DW)

don't know what would happen with characters in that buffer however

[Edifice]

So, I have some characters I want to get rid of, but not Delete, so I've put them up for sale, but now I find myself with 9characters and 2 being up for trade. What happens if I get a 10th character while 2 being up for trade? What happens when the trade-chars gets back from the website?

Unfortunately if you consume the open slot (by creating another character), your character trade will never expire, it will be stuck in a closing state.

As such, as soon as a free slot opens up again, the trade will fully close and the character will return to your account.

[Islingr]

it will be stuck in a closing state.

but can people still buy characters like that or are they unavailable for either party to 'use'?

[Edifice]

but can people still buy characters like that or are they unavailable for either party to 'use'?

These characters that have gone past their expiry time in the trading system and cannot return to the account due to the aforementioned 10 character limit, are in closing state, they are not available for purchase, and they cannot be used until a free slot opens up.

For obvious reasons, there is no way around the 10 character limit short of creating some custom "enable/disable" character system through the website.

[Islingr]

These characters that have gone past their expiry time in the trading system and cannot return to the account due to the aforementioned 10 character limit, are in closing state, they are not available for purchase, and they cannot be used until a free slot opens up.

For obvious reasons, there is no way around the 10 character limit short of creating some custom "enable/disable" character system through the website.

so they are, essentially in 'limbo'... but in fact the 'enable/disable' system is already in place... just consider this situation:
ToasterStrudelCupcake has 10 chars, puts an unwanted char on trade, noone buys it, meantime he creates a new character and plays it for some time before getting bored of it, putting this one on trade in turn, getting his original 10th char back on his account and putting the new alt #11 onto trade to be in 'closing limbo'

all that still has to be done is a new database created that isn't included in the trading marketplace and using the same functions with a slightly different layout to 'remove char from active account' and replace it with a 'saved' character... nice idea for a new donor perk, haha