Inactive Cleaning Resumed - Discussion
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:30 pm
I find myself of a quite favorable disposition towards most of such criteria -Taking in mind game-play and probable personal reasons that may drive a player to inactivity, the next deletion cycle will be different than current one. Most probably, the full criteria will be as following:
-Any player with 100 points or less, who has been inactive for 45 days or more -> Deleted
-Any player with 100 000 points or less, who has been inactive for 180 days -> Deleted
-Any player with 100 000 points or more, who has been inactive for 45 days or more -> VMODE
-Any player with 100 000 points or more, who has been in inactive/VMODE for 180 days or more -> Deleted
Any player that has 50 rubies or more -> Put in vmode for inactivity of 30 days or more. Such players won't be deleted.
As it is certainly clearly stated in rules that inactive accounts may be deleted after 45 days unless ruby laden, I cannot take issue with such deletion. As it seems to be manual, rather than automatic, my concern has been with its sudden nature - since any sudden deletion allows surprise lanxing, and a surprise interruption of schedules and routines that some players have meticulously planned.
The new criteria seems to make allowances for this, and I'm grateful for the gesture.
For the ruby laden to be put into v-mode after some period of inactivity furthermore remedies another concern I have seen expressed, which is that of some shifting rubies into favored inactive farms to keep them alive and retain competitive advantage. I'm grateful this is being addressed.
Remaining concerns:
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This worries me. My concern is that this provides a competitive advantage to fleeters vice miners and turtles.-Any player with 100 000 points or more, who has been inactive for 45 days or more -> VMODE
For, where Zorg has argued the following:
-The game is not about FREE food though but it is about conquest. If you want lots of free food, you need to create it with your all mighty fleet.
It has previously been suggested that all styles of play within the game are encouraged. The note currently being sounded seems one that we should all be fleeters. Why not allow those dormant accounts not ruby laden to remain 'raidable' until point of deletion? I may be well off base in what I surmise could prove its impact on game-play - but, if so, then I do hope to learn why?
Many thanks.