Retired character issues (in General)

I have a character FantasyFootball2008 who is my holder for the fantasy football prize money. He was auto retired but there were some problems / possible bugs.

1. I received the email that he was going to be retired, I went in and trained so his ratios were good he was valid after the train.

2. he still had items in rentals and was retired while items were in rentals, below is the message that I received while he was retired.
From: system
Sent: November 20 8:42 PM EST
A Pair of Spellboosters has returned to FantasyFootball2008 from rentals

Those were the only 2 issues that didn't make sense about his retirement, I understand the auto retirement but seems like there may be issues. Also in my opinion if any character in your team has any activity then all character should be exempt from auto-retire, i think auto retire should be on a whole user thing and the items should be thrown in auctions when user is retired... seems like that will circulate some of the items around more.

I second the idea of characters being auto retired only if you have no active characters, it seems to me that an active player would retire his own character. Don't know if this is possible though.

hmm, you have no alternative method for dealing with the actual problem that the auto-retire system was implemented to avoid though.

it was created to keep people from unequipping and unlearning to allow others have a free high challenge bonus target. iirc that is! ; )

dudemus -
but by the time the auto retire kicks in, the character that was giving the huge awards would already be knocked down to a level where it wouldn't matter any more, so I don't see how the auto-retire is even a fix for that.

it is the cycle that it stops. untraining and unequipping, letting someone farm ya down, then re-equipping/training and fighting up again (and thus draining everyone above you lower) and then doing it all again, over and over.

yeah but the cycle can still happen if someone really wanted to put that much effort into it... still doesn't answer my questions though...

why was he retired with items in rentals, and why was he retired after I fixed the ratio...

I have already spoken to an admin about this it would be nice to get some of the developers points of view to see if there is a bug..

thanks