^^ this ^^

Devs, read this and and patch-the-patch.

You shouldn't have created fluff chars tbfh

I'm quite looking forward to your JOKE spy, M2S spy etc alts costing you ep to delete. Serves you right lol.

They're called Extension Points not 'a figure increasing at a linear rate of 1 a minute used to perform multiple activities in the game'. This just sets a dangerous precedent of using EP to perform other non extension related activities. This is bad for the game and its future.

Trying to fix broken mechanics (such as farming light bots on new characters) by going against the principles of gaining extension points (the most integral part of the game) and what they should be used on is just a sign of bad developer foresight and the inability to come up with better and more appropriate changes to combat such exploits.

It only took 5 people to change this?

F*ckin pushover.

Kind of surprised and impressed, that it was changed that fast.

Surprised because it only took a handful of people to get it changed.

Impressed at the fact a DEV responded to it that quickly.

A much needed change if you ask me.
I don't have any problem at all then it will cost EP to deleted characters.

Awesome with the quick change to giving us all 3 days to delete all our fluff characters.

That made me laugh. I think you guys realised it was on the unreasonable side when you did it, hence why it took only a few to confirm it and make you change.

I am however, surprised you have chosen to make it cost EP rather than Nic. Care to share the logic on that?

I am however, happy (and grateful) you decided to give us a chance to delete useless alts, as I made 1 purely to test out something on the base extensions and another to redo the tutorial to get another Yagel to replace the one that I lost due to a game crash

I think the main purpose was to halt people from grinding the tutorial missions, which was very easy money/items for the amount of time it took to do them.

I dont mind that they're doing it this way, but I'd rather them just balance the missions more.  As it stands, you get this huge boost to start, getting tons of ammo, all the modules you need, 150k NIC, and a 400k NIC bot to boot in all of an hour or so.  After that you're stuck with farming spawns for kernals and drops and doing assignments for very poor amounts of NIC.  If I wasnt a veteran and played in beta, I might get discouraged at this point and not play too much because of the sudden curve that is put on you.

At least before you had to work for everything you got, and were not just thrown into better stuff for doing some simple missions.

I'd rather you guys just limited it to 1 (or 2, just a max) tutorial mission per account.  Not sure how easy that would be for you to do, tracking missions across multiple characters on an account, but it would prevent the tutorial spam which I'm assuming this is supposed to fix.

EDIT: OP updated.

It's not like "Tutorial spamming" was the fastest way to make money.  There are faster ways to make NIC on a 0-day character.

I think this was the right move.

I would personally have two free deletions with a warning after the second that all subsequent deletions will cost 2000 EP or whatever.