Okay I guess I have to address this as visibly and as publicly as I can. Because the ever growing level of requests for this has become almost disturbing.

Every day I am greeted by more IMs than SL will allow me to retain while logged off, so while I log in I tend to go through my notecards and emails looking for stuff that people sent but I got no IM for.

And every day I am getting 3 - 10 requests from various people to get their XP transferred from one avatar to another.

There are multiple reasons why people are asking, some have been banned by Linden Labs, legitimately...and expect us to transfer their XP for them, others broke up with their SL girlfriend/boyfriend and are having issues there and want to hide from it, and still again, others have had their accounts "hacked" somehow and beg us to let them change their old avatars XP to a new avatar.

The unfortunate answer I have for you all in this case is that unless the situation is extremely individual and is a matter of life and death, the answer is going to be no, and I will explain why.

Approximately one year ago, a whole group of people were taken down by Linden Labs for credit card fraud, before I became aware of the true facts of the matter they came to me and said they got their accounts "hacked" and weren't responsible. And of course, me, being the trusting, gullible fool I am, I trusted them, and did 20 XP transfers, only to be pulled up short by Linden Labs themselves who told me I just reinstated multiple accounts that were supposed to have been permanently banned from SL for blatant credit card fraud.

Also of late it has come to our attention that there are groups of people "growing" avatars in sims where GM monitoring may be somewhat lax then attempting to sell the XP of these avatars to other players, or sell the avatars to other players for the Linden Dollar equivalent of $45.00 - $60.00 USD.

This puts us, the CCS administration, in a position where we cannot, really, accept all these stories of "my account got hacked" or "my girlfriend/boyfriend is stalking me" or whatever else. Because there are no ways to prove any of these things. We either take your word, and become dupes to people who were banned for legitimate reason, or get defrauded by fraud artists who are selling characters for money in violation of not just CCS Policy but the Second Life Terms of Service as well, or we simply say no...and thats the end of it.

So, with that said, I'm sorry, I realize that a lot of people feel invested in their characters and their experience and levels are important to them and I can completely understand why you would want to keep them, but we, as a service provider have been put in a position where we simply cannot concede to the demand for these transfers, especially given the ever growing nature of their frequency, simply due to the fraud and lies going on in the "underground" of the game where people are making shady deals in regards to selling pre-leveled characters or violating the Second Life Terms of Service and expecting us to allow them to retain their previous levels regardless of that.

As stated, this does not mean every answer is a no, if there is legitimate proof available (notecards of "conversations" are not proof), such as .pdf files of filed tickets with Linden Labs in regards to hacked accounts or abuse reports filed in reference to instances of harassment, we may be willing to concede a transfer on rare occasion.

But in simple words, we do not transfer XP from one character to another under any normal circumstances. And that has been our policy now for well over a year, and will continue to be the policy given the growing underground market in pre-leveled CCS characters.

Thanks all, now I'll get back to work on 1.0.1.