1516 has two regular down times... Purge question

[CodeMage]

@Super_Fluous

And when the purge was explained to me, I was told it can happen even if you are offline…

Correct, you don’t have to be online for the Purge to happen to you. The server setting that controls it is inadequately documented and a source of confusion.

Here’s an explanation I posted once and I tend to link to it so I don’t have to keep copying it:

Purge difficulty settings still screw with purges

The in-game documentation for this setting is not clear enough and it always causes confusion. If it’s set to a number greater than 0, it indicates how many players from a clan have to be online for that clan to be eligible to be Purged. For example, if you set it to 2, and there’s only one player from clan Foo online, then clan Foo won’t be Purged. However, if it’s set to 0, there needs to be only 1 online player on the whole server, regardless of his/her clan, for a Purge to happen. That mea…

That setting is set to 0 on official servers, so that’s why you don’t have to be online for a Purge to happen to you, but someone has to be online on the server for the Purge to happen at all.

I hope that helps