1. How can you tell HOW MANY Activations I have left/remaining?
We obviously know, the user can't but, it's really necessary ? If you exceed them, there would be a message about reaching your activation limit so, you will know it's time to send us an email.
2. Will I have to re-purchase items, if their activation is past 90-days (and/or past 6 activations) and I install them on a Brand NEW system?
You never, ever, have to repurchase anything because of activation.
I don't think you understood the 90-days thing correctly: if 90 days have passed since you got the last activation, the oldest ones will be forgotten so, a new activation (that might be even the 7th or 8th you got in total) will be AUTOMATICALLY granted from the system, without having to contact us.
There's no limitation, even past 6, of how many times this can be done. An user that always upgrades his hardware every 91 days, will keep getting new reactivations indefinitely, without ever contacting us once. The activations are not really "consumed" this way: they ROTATE.
The only time one needs to contact us, is when all the 6 activations are used, and the last one was obtained less than 90 days earlier. In this case, we need to act manually to add a new activation.
However, we usually never refuse to do a manual activation, it might happened only a couple of times during those 2 years, but we had a clear case of abuse, like multiple activations for the same serial obtained during a few hours, from IP numbers belonging to different ISP in different cities and different countries so, it was a clear case of a shared serial. As I've said, it happened only 1-2 times.
3. Does Cloning HDD's take-up activations?
I'm not sure, but it might. Note that, Esellerate makes a difference between minor and major hardware changes so, it might happen that some hardware changes requires you to re-confirm the activation (because you will see the request from the Addon Manager to activate the scenery), but the minor ones will not really take from your remaining total.
I intend to setup a BRAND NEW system and leave the current system with all the sceneries as well; Does this affect activation in any way? If, so, how?
No, it will just use one more activation of the 6 you have available.
