On Thursday, February 24 at approximately 12 noon ET, all character badge data will be wiped from the database. Verified and unverified badge data will all vanish and badge totals will be reset to 0. However, all other character information will be preserved. I will post a follow-up notice once the maintenance is complete and it is safe to re-verify badge data.
After the release of Going Rogue, CIT suffered from a number of bugs that led to inappropriately verified badge information. Despite our best efforts to clear as much of the invalid data from our systems as we could, we undoubtedly have missed some. More recently, Titan Sentinel also had an unexpected manifest problem that contributed additional invalid verification data. We've worked hard to fix the problems that caused these situations. A clean slate will allow our users to re-verify their badges and have confidence that the information on the site is once again valid.
We're also taking this opportunity to make some architectural changes to the part of the database that stores character badge data. These changes should improve the performance of that table, contributing to a more responsive site.
We sincerely apologize for this necessary inconvenience. Please bear with us as we continue to make CIT better.