Ah, strange they send it via the post rather than in email, but perhaps that's their way to ensure it's secure so fair enough.
Your house will definitely be gone, I recently restarted after 1 year away and my house was occupied by someone else :eek: I expected to lose it when I took a break, so had put all the contents into personal vaults, so it didn't turn out too bad.
If you're concerned about the possibility of having lost gear due to GOA's database crash that happened last year, you can email RightNow with your character names and they can tell if you were affected by cross-checking their list. I was told all my characters were fine before rescubscribing and indeed they were.
As for the state of the game. Well, it's a mixed bag. The fun things are still fun and really nice to experience them again (was really nice getting back into RvR after the debacle that is WoW PvP). But the less fun issues are still there, though they made a lot of things better. I think I'd describe it like putting on a pair of comfortable old shoes which feel great, then you realise those old shoes have holes in the soles that let the rain in, and you remember the reason you stopped wearing them
I've mainly been playing Thidranki toons as don't have enough spare time for big boy RvR (too much standing around choosing the perfect classes and buffs etc, that nonsense still persists). Been fun levelling up some Catacombs toons from level 1 (without powerlevelling!) and I've actually met some people who are playing DAOC for the first time, some of them it's their first MMORPG.
The Prydwen-Excalibur cluster seems rather quiet. It's not too bad at peak time, but offpeak it's dead (trouble is for me, I can mainly only play offpeak). But everyone expecting an influx back from the classic server once 1.82 is patched tomorrow, with all the ToA changes and stuff, so I'm going to give it another month's subs and see if things pick up.
If you do decide to resubscribe and need help with anything, give me a shout.