Zorg did change the way the game works by putting long term inactives in vmodus, this has already has happened in the extreme. The game did not improve by this decision.
People who left the account probabably did this willingly to aid the community.

My suggestion is:
After (45 days - vmode free period) without logging in, charge 1 ruby per week for being inactive.
Delete account with a negative ruby saldo.

In this way an account without rubies will automatically disappear wether it is in vmodus
or inactive or banned it makes no difference.

Leading to a healthy cleaning up of accounts over time.
An account with 50 rubies would last around 2 years and after it will disappear in the normal clean up cycle.

I think this is an excellent suggestion, Thor. This would still keep some more developed inactives around, so there would still be space in the game for raiders (who are a vital part of the Zorg ecosystem). I know many raiders have stopped playing in X because of the recent changes, and I believe something like this has strong potential to bring them back...

If people truly have concerns about inactives being gifted rubies and kept around forever, I'm sure Zorg could prevent the gifting of rubies to inactive players.

I really hope Zorg considers this option; I believe it makes a lot of sense and would help engage and bring back many players, especially if it were applied to the recently v-moded inactivates.

good idea....
this way Zorg makes money...
and even if players gift an inactive...there is no way they know how many rubies exist on that account..
Zorg could make loads... and inactive could have 300 rubies...
or be down to last one...
noone will know...
this way they will be deleted over time..., naturally...
and its a fair way to do it..
....Good money making idea for Zorg ....

and delete all the moons on those inactives..., if thats the main problem... or if its possible...

This is a good idea Thor.

One flaw is that someone can still feed rubies to inactive accounts. Make it so inactive accounts 'cannot' accept rubies. That way, the inactive accounts are not allowed to remain with support from active players.

ah but with out support No Rubies get bought.

i completely agree. some may even come back online just to add rubies "in case" they want to come back later. Agreed that all inactive/vmode should not be able to receive ruby gifts from other players

let's see if I understand correctly;

- first 45 days are free for Vmoding/inactivity for anyone, same as it is today for any account
- after one account has been in V (or inactive) for 45 days, Zorg starts charging 1 ruby a week for inactivity
- a "free" account starts with 10 rubies by default, so total duration for such account is max 45 + 70 = 115 days, about 4 months
- any account to have 50 rubies for any reason, is then present for a year and a month or there-about

I think this is both a sound idea and reasonable business model!

I left another game , cause V moding cost rediculously huge amounts of ingame credits there, so I like the first free period!
I do agree on "refreshing" the actual accounts present on a server ...why?
An account being in V or inactive for more than a year (yet beneficial to others), is in all reasonable assumption, not likely to return and therefor candidate for deletion

To me if VM has been going on for over a year with no activity on the account then it should leave VM and inter inactive status and follow the rest into being deleted.

I would suggest that entering the account in vmodus would reset the the activity count.
After all even if a person is in vmodus and enters his account the activity star is show for the rest of zorg to be seen.
In this way you can can stay in vmodus without additional charge.

It is a way to clean up the server from inactive people.
Not a way to clean out people of their rubies.