IMPORTANT: Retiring a Player

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13 – RETIREMENT, RE-CREATING & DEPRECIATION

13.1 - Retiring Your Player

• All players are automatically retired after completing 8 seasons following their their VHL Draft.
  • i.e. A player whose draft season is S71 will be automatically retired following the S78 season
• If you wish to retire your player manually, you may do so through the Player Management section of the Portal, by selecting Retire Player.
• Any retirement that is manually processed will be considered final by the Commissioner(s).
• Any retirement from the start of the Pre-Season, as stated on the season schedule, through the end of the Continental Cup Finals, will be processed in the following off-season
• Any retirement during the off-season will be processed immediately

 

13.2 - Unretiring a Player

If you wish to unretire a player after manually retiring, you have seven (7) days from the time of retirement to do so, but will be penalized in escalating consequences for each day that passes, as follows:

 

• Within 24H of retirement: 1-Week Update Ban
• Within 48H of retirement: 2-Week Update Ban
• Within 3 days of retirement: 10% TPE and Attribute Reduction
• Within 4 days of retirement: 15% TPE and Attribute Reduction
• Within 5 days of retirement: 20% TPE and Attribute Reduction
• Within 6 days of retirement: 25% TPE and Attribute Reduction
• Within 7 days of retirement: 30% TPE and Attribute Reduction

 

13.3 - Re-Creating Rules

• Once you retire, you cannot make player store purchases with your retired player's balance. 
• If your previous player wins any awards after he is retired, you may claim the TPE for those awards on your new player.
• If you retire during the season, you may claim that seasons prediction points on your new player. However, prediction point multipliers bought in the player store are not allowed to be claimed on a new player. If you purchased one and retired, you will receive only your base prediction points.
• You cannot claim unclaimed point tasks or any other unclaimed contest/giveaway TPE on a new player without direct permission from a Commissioner.
• All players begin with 30 TPE, any adjusted starting TPE or carryover TPE is added to the starting 30.

 

13.4 - TPE Carry Over

• Any player retired with over 50 total TPE will earn carryover at a rate of 4% of the retiring players TPE, up to a maximum of 50 TPE.
• Carryover will be earned on top of the 30 starting TPE that all players receive. This means the maximum starting TPE is 80 (30 base + 50 carryover).