I would like to see more warning boxes.

For example, when deleting a character I would like to see a warning dialog box saying in these words, "You will be erasing 'x' amount of items as well as not recovering this account in the near future." Through my studies in Neuro-linguistic Programming this sentence ultimately makes the user understand what is at stake and will then exercise proper care.

I would have to say that this is a lot better considering what I previously thought. It was when you delete a character you will have 48 hours to change your mind and recover it. I find that the warning box is more practical and helpful.

I've always thought that having to type the name of the character you're trying to erase was a pretty good guard against accidental deletion of the wrong character. If you don't check to see what's on the character your about to delete, no amount of warning boxes are going to save those items. Waiting periods can be nice, maybe for level 20 PvE characters, or ones with a high age. In cases like PvP characters or a new character changed my mind about the face in game, it's just annoying.

It already says "are you sure you wish to delete X character?", then you haev to type in the name of the character. If that is not enough time to realize "oh, i don't wanna delete him" then theres something wrong

/notsigned

Hmm, Anet could spend their time doing better things. But because of my stupidity i've deleted some nice weapons / alot of money through not properly checking (Usually because the nice weapons are on heroes i forgot about ¬_¬) /signed.

Can you please tell me where you got the 48 hours from? It's common sense, if it asks you are you sure you want to delete the character obviously it means permanently, that and check your character for items before you delete it.

Or, from now on, think about what stuff is on your character before deleting it.

If Anet added a few warning boxes, people would just click through them after they've seen the message pop up when they deleted other characters.

Agree with this. Unless you're deleting shit while stoned or something. More warning boxes wouldn't make a difference anyway.

Agreed, but only if there's a warning sign when you go to enter Kamadan and Random Arenas.

I think it would be a better idea (for the more careless among us) if it were just impossible to delete a character that had any gold or items whatsoever. That way you would have to empty a character's inventory totally before you were able to delete it.

it would be nice if it warned us of having items etc on the character before deleting

Snograt and Eragon knows what I mean.

Is it so hard to look on that character before you decide to delete it?

/signed

there have been nights when I play for hours on end until the wee sun comes up.
and me, being the dumb ass that I am, in a sleepy stupor almost deleted my Pve Mesmer instead of my Pvp mesmer. [I don't know why I have two]

Needless to say, I realized what I was doing half-way, but it could happen.

Methinks the real problem here is you playing until you're zombified. Like others have said, when people are stupid (for whatever reason), no amount of warning dialog is going to prevent mishaps from occurring.

I could sure go for a better warning system when salvaging player armor, a couple days ago while moving runes from hero to hero I foolishly salvaged my own primeval leggings xD xD xD (late night GW is dangerous) even my collector title couldn't save me they were broken.

Signed for that.

I delete guys that have books or pre-order weapons or other crap on them.
I can't be bothered to trash the items.

So, I am not in favor of this suggestion.

Why not log onto the character to check out its inventory before you delete it?

This really is not necessary.

No thanks.

This is just laziness, they have better things to do.

although i deleted a couple of zkeys and halls drops last time because they wanted me to reroll ro a different character not signed. But i like snorats suggestion but make it so that pvp weapons dont count.

/not signed.
I want LESS not more. If youre that worried about selling items then put them behind something unsellable.
and characters well if you delete them on accident...no comment.
I get tired of having to always say yes I want to sell something. I clicked sell didnt I?