diff --git a/app/main/controller/api/user.php b/app/main/controller/api/user.php
index 7b44ed80..5b2d6431 100644
--- a/app/main/controller/api/user.php
+++ b/app/main/controller/api/user.php
@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ class User extends Controller\Controller{
                 [
                     'ID' => $character->_id,
                     'NAME' => $character->name,
-                    'TIME' => (new \DateTime('now', $timezone))->getTimestamp(),
-                    'UPDATE_RETRY' => 0
+                    'TIME' => (new \DateTime('now', $timezone))->getTimestamp()
                 ]
             ];
 
diff --git a/app/main/controller/controller.php b/app/main/controller/controller.php
index 8e9c6797..beb5557d 100644
--- a/app/main/controller/controller.php
+++ b/app/main/controller/controller.php
@@ -949,9 +949,9 @@ class Controller {
      * get a Logger object by Hive key
      * -> set in pathfinder.ini
      * @param string $type
-     * @return \Log|null
+     * @return \Log
      */
-    static function getLogger($type){
+    static function getLogger($type = 'DEBUG') : \Log {
         return LogController::getLogger($type);
     }
 
diff --git a/app/main/model/charactermodel.php b/app/main/model/charactermodel.php
index 8b7810d5..a33c63a2 100644
--- a/app/main/model/charactermodel.php
+++ b/app/main/model/charactermodel.php
@@ -580,9 +580,9 @@ class CharacterModel extends BasicModel {
     /**
      * checks whether this character is authorized to log in
      * -> check corp/ally whitelist config (pathfinder.ini)
-     * @return bool
+     * @return string
      */
-    public function isAuthorized(){
+    public function isAuthorized() : string {
         $authStatus = 'UNKNOWN';
 
         // check whether character is banned or temp kicked
@@ -923,35 +923,8 @@ class CharacterModel extends BasicModel {
             $deleteLog = true;
         }
 
-        //in case of failure (invalid API response) increase or reset "retry counter"
-        if( $user = $this->getUser() ){
-            // Session data does not exists in CLI mode (Cronjob)
-            if( $sessionCharacterData = $user->getSessionCharacterData($this->id, false) ){
-                $updateRetry = (int)$sessionCharacterData['UPDATE_RETRY'];
-                $newRetry =  $updateRetry;
-                if($invalidResponse){
-                    $newRetry++;
-
-                    if($newRetry >= 3){
-                        // no proper character log data (3 fails in a row))
-                        $newRetry = 0;
-                        $deleteLog = true;
-                    }
-                }else{
-                    // reset retry counter
-                    $newRetry = 0;
-                }
-
-                if($updateRetry !== $newRetry){
-                    // update retry counter
-                    $sessionCharacterData['UPDATE_RETRY'] = $newRetry;
-                    $sessionCharacters = self::mergeSessionCharacterData([$sessionCharacterData]);
-                    self::getF3()->set(User::SESSION_KEY_CHARACTERS, $sessionCharacters);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
         if($deleteLog){
+            self::log('DELETE LOG!');
             $this->deleteLog();
         }