Suggestions

@Kirudon I don't blame you, I've done the same thing before! And you are allowed to necro in the suggestions forum c:

I support being able to delete your own account.

Personally, I have a lot of anxiety about abandoning accounts. I haven't touched Neopets in years, and I couldn't get into it now even if I wanted to, but I still feel anxiety over abandoning that account. And I would feel the same about FR.

Some people have impulse control issues and the ability to delete their account would give them a way to break a cycle. I had a friend once who had to completely stop RPing because she couldn't manage her time well enough, and was failing classes because she spent all of her time RPing. While this is sort of an extreme case, the ability to remove herself from the situation helped her get herself back on track -- for FR players with the same/similar problems, being able to delete their account would be a valuable asset.

Freeing up used names is also a good reason.

I don't support the Admins just deleting inactive accounts, as people go on hiatuses, but if a player legitimately wants to delete their account for good, for whatever reason, then they should be able to do that. It's their account to do what they want with, and that includes deletion.

I don't support deleting or 'recycling' inactive account names, but I do support a delete your own account type thing.

I think the best way to go about it (or at least a good way) would be something like this:

1. User hits Delete account button.

2. User is directed to a page that tells what will happen : Email sent, Six Month 'inactive' period in which the person can reactivate the account, no fee, just click a button, at the end of six months, dragons are exalted, and everything else is just deleted. User name freed. User clicks Accept.

3. Email gets sent to user with the standard message "Someone has requested that your account be deleted. If this was not you, please ignore this message' or 'Please get in touch with the Admins at XXX if you did not delete an account deletion' (or something like that)

4 User clicks Yes.

5. User account enters a 6 month 'inactive' period in which the account is basically locked down. The user cannot access the account or do anything with the account (basically the account is marked inactive with a redirect that sends the user who logs in to a page with a 'Do you wish to unlock this account?)

6. At the end of the six months, as stated above, the account is finally deleted with all dragons being exalted to which ever deity the admins decide (user's, first one listed, dragon's, just random) and all items and treasure and gems are just deleted along with the account.

Being able to delete an account comes with too many risks. Maybe a 6 month "inactive" period after the user clicks to delete their account I can agree too. Maybe making it like facebook where if you even dare to log back in you'll be forced to redo the whole process starting with day one. (If you really wanted your account deleted you wouldn't relog back in.)

@Kirudon I was definitely confused, haha, but I figured it out quick. No worries, happens to the best of us ;) The information would've been more appreciated had I not already known it too.