Suggestion: Add a proper admin option to delete inactive characters

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As a server admin, I would really appreciate an official way to fully delete inactive characters from a server.

Right now, admins can kick players, but that does not really solve the problem. The character still exists in the server database, and all related buildings or placed objects can remain on the map. Over time, especially on long-running private servers, this creates unnecessary clutter, abandoned bases, and database bloat.

The only real workaround seems to be manual SQLite modifications in the game.db, which is risky, complicated, and can easily break the server if something goes wrong.

It would be extremely useful to have an official admin feature that allows us to:

  • Delete a character from the server

  • Optionally delete all buildings and placed objects owned by that character

  • Use this for inactive players after a configurable amount of time

  • Avoid direct and dangerous database editing

This would help server admins keep their worlds clean and stable without having to rely on unsupported database manipulation.

Ideally, this could be available through the admin panel, RCON, or a server command.

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Just use Pippi.

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For buildings you have the decay system. But characters you would need to delete manually.

Could be a useful addition. But the devs have other way more serious problems right now.

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I know and use Pippi, BUT it can only track and edit characters who have been online SINCE it was installed. And some of the inactive characters were last online before the enhanced update. ^^

I could put together my own queries and modify the sql lite gamedb, but my last attempts resulted in characters suddenly reverting to their starting stats, for example. That’s too risky for me; the database structure isn’t implemented very well.