10-19-2003, 06:48 AM
When "pinging" my characters to prevent the dreaded 3 month(is that right?) deletion, I usually just walk them out of town to spam attacks(if they have no "townable" spells), or spam a summon/shapeshift till they run out of mana. An alternative would be to "adjust" equipment, especially + pools charms. If you have a +10 life charm, for instance, you could remove it, put it back on, and your character would now have 10 "missing" hp, give or take any regeneration. Basically, anything that might alter your "saved state"(as per emulators), will work. Walking around(unless done for the required duration of the timer), as far as I know, doesn't.