if it's on 6c no one cares... if it's a 15/9c two weeks is more than enough time.
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And that is already what happens... I guess the times we have now in place is what you want to shorten, right?
What do you think is a good enough time frame for the player to be able to come back to his/her account?
Why?
I have an alternate way to think about it. There are a large number of players who are quite dedicated to the game, making sure their accounts are solid, and to helping their team at every opportunity. The time for inactivity is already quite long.
The game should favor the active players who contribute to the game, not the players who don't. I feel quite bad for those who go grey, but what percentage of those return? Not many of those with a nice 9c or 15c really do return...
What's a good way to prevent this? Extend the amount of time that sitters can keep accounts active. Perhaps 2 weeks instead of 1.
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I have an alternate way to think about it. There are a large number of players who are quite dedicated to the game, making sure their accounts are solid, and to helping their team at every opportunity. The time for inactivity is already quite long.
The game should favor the active players who contribute to the game, not the players who don't. I feel quite bad for those who go grey, but what percentage of those return? Not many of those with a nice 9c or 15c really do return...
What's a good way to prevent this? Extend the amount of time that sitters can keep accounts active. Perhaps 2 weeks instead of 1.
I think it is already 21 days of owner inactivity, which is pretty long (and sitters/dual login each 3 days). The problem is that there is no reason to not consider duals as owners as they have the same "powers" and are "the facto" owners themselves....
As for how much time before the account gets canceled I think may be good to link it to the overall population, with a very short duration (3 days?) for a 0 pop account. So if the only village left gets zeroed it would be like a delete was launched on that day, or if some time was already passed (i.e. 4-5 days) it would scale down to 1 day left or so.
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1 week is plenty. 3 weeks is basically OTT.
If they want to keep it inactive for longer than 1 week they can use the vacation which should maximise their time off to the current 3 weeks. (2 weeks of vacation, 1 week of inactivity)
As others have said, if they need more time than that they may be better off with a new server.
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Thank you very much for all the comments, please keep them coming while we talk about it in the team.
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Just so you know, we are still studying it in the team.
There are some legal restrictions that affect what we can do in this front, so we are not certain how and if it can be changed.
Thank you all for your comments!
