if they aren't going to be used and don't have any enhancements in them then just delete them. we don't need anything clogging up the servers with useless info.
if you must have a personal trophy space, take pics and photo shop them into a background and store them on your comp. voila, instant trophy room at no cost to the dev's and no taxing the servers.
While it sounds interesting, I can't see myself retiring a character and having to pay 5.99 to bring it back. I'd level it all over again.
I also would like to mention as a temporary option, you could transfer some characters to a different server, since it's currently free to do this. Pick a server you don't play on, and make that your 'trophy server'. Now you've isolated those characters away from the rest of your account, and they can sit there in virtual retirement.
Hello.
I am hoping this suggestion won't fall on deaf ears.
My suggestion is to add an Extra Character Select Screen that holds up to 24 characters. For characters that are level 50, that will never be played again. They won't have anything in their slots (no enhancements), all they will be is their "Personal information" and the avatar it's self.
The idea is, atleast for me, that at this point I have some obscene number of 50s, most of which no matter how much new content they bring out, I will never play them ever again. I don't want to just delete them, as at one point they were my super awesome alt... but now as time has gone on all they do is just take up space on my main server.
When a character is placed in the "Hall of Trophies" they will be permanently slotted in, with no chance of removal ever... unless you pay 5.99$. You could mouse over the character and see all sorts of information about it, like between what dates you actually started and finished playing the character. all the badges it has gotten. what story arcs it completed.
When you move a character to this trophy room it would cost no real money... but it would free up one space on the server you removed it from.
It would be cool if you could somehow link your Hall of trophy's to your current characters badge/personal information so when other people click on you to see your info they can look at all your retired heroes and villains.