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[DavFlamerock]

[Euchre]

[EDGECRUSHER]

[Methusalen]

It *is* always possible that they'll just contact people in the game via our contact info from the Flynn Lives profile page... I know I've got my address, email, & phone number listed...

[punk]

Remember, too, that during the Why So Serious? viral the phones would sometimes be dormant for weeks or months between "missions." If I remember right, they only used the phones 2-3 times from their distribution to the end of the game almost a year later. They even handed out more as the game went along.

[Nighthawk]

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but they are able to add time to the phones REMOTELY without physically having the phone, even if the time has lapsed. Net10 (which I have for my personal use), Virgin Mobile, etc... all have web interfaces where you can add time to them without physically having the phone in your hand. All you need is the phone or account number, which they most certainly have.

So if they do come around to needing the phones and they've expired, I'm sure they can simply add whatever time they need and put them to use once again.

[thebruce]

[Euchre]

Yeah, it's been mentioned. I wonder who would've mentioned it?


When referring to expired, there's expired minutes and there's expired accounts. If the minutes expire (or one uses them all up) then you can just add balance to the phone. If the account expires (no balance or activity before the last top up expiration date), then the phone would have to be reactivated with a whole new number. The former would be a far easier process for the PMs, the latter a much more tedious one. For the latter they would have to have kept record of the phone's ESN (for the V-Mo phones) so they could have them reactivated - however, if the phone also requires programming* (and most CDMA V-Mo phones would after the initial activation) they'd literally have to contact the player some other way and give instructions of how to reactivate the phone.

Considering all of that, if the phone doesn't get balance added and expiration extended, I don't think they'll bother to use them again.

*[Many newer V-Mo phones do 'OTA' (Over The Air) programming, but this requires the user to enter a code to invoke it on a phone that's already been activated before. If the code is entered incorrectly or too many times, the phone can become a brick. I don't think the PMs want to deal with that.]

[Nighthawk]

[FSURobbie]

There is waaaay too much winking going on in this thread...

[VanGoghX]

[NWinTN]

wow, people get bored really easily on here. I don't think many people on here can take much more of this down time.

[MasterLuke]

nice yall - real nice

[badhand77]

Drop Phone Update

[eblkheart]

Re: Drop Phone Update