So, I was playing a character a while back and disarmed one of my opponents, grabbing the weapon. It was a weapon I couldn't use, but I forgot I even had it when I logged off. I never got back around to playing that character. So, unintentionally, I was preventing active characters from getting a weapon because I held it. Which is fine, but I couldn't use the thing anyway.

Should Chromatic Flame work more quickly on weapons you can't use or armor you can't wear because of alignment/race/whatever restrictions?

Just a thought. Not one to worry over much about limits or pretty flames.

The chromatic flame thing and the eq purge thing are different mechanics... the chromatic flame happens when the overall player population goes down, so the limits are adjusted down. When a player dies, any limited item that is over the limit goes poof.

The equipment purge is a cron job type of thing that just sweeps limited equipment off people that aren't logging in.

Shows how often I actually get purged to not even realize there was a difference.

Well, same idea, only applied to equipment purging.