large accounts just sitting there

one of the great things about illy is that you dont need to play everyday. You can take vacation or whatever you choose and not worry that your years worth of work is gone. Being able to play at your leisure is fine 

Im not really sure thats a good thing DD - twillights does have a point. Being inactive should involve a risc of loosing something - but if alliances are too protective and opponents too timid its all gonna end up as a big sleepy social club where nothing really happens. Not in my opinon what Illy was designed to be originally.

In Ogame they had to automatic markers on a given colony (city in our case) (i) meant they had been inactive between 14 and 30 days and (I) meant that they had been inactive for more than 30.

I think we should adopt a similar system in Illy, revealing to players when an opponent is vulnerable.

Now since cities are most commonly protected by their alliances, we could open up for abitious players to practice more theft and subterfuge in the game - to add to it a littlefriction.

Slow play is a valid way to enjoy the game. I get tired of MMO RTS where I can't take a long weekend to go camping. Chronicles of Merlin was like that. If you were away for a few days, you returned to find that your armies had been destroyed by bigger players, and in the absence of your immediate rebuilding, a swarm of weaker players had battered your production structures down a bunch of levels.

There are many games that heavily penalize you for not being online every waking moment. I'm glad this isn't one of them.

Daufer wrote: Lately I've been one of those players that doesn't log in often, mainly because after working eight or ten hours and then taking care of my disabled wife I don't feel like logging on to see if any critters worth killing have appeared.  My cities are all just about fully built to my satisfaction so I don't have to show up every few hours to set a build order.  I have another alliance mate, a long time player like myself, who only drops in from time to time because she is busy with law school for eight months per year and internships the other four.  Does this mean we have no right to "tie up good spots on the map"? I don't think that Illyriad should be a game where only the single, unemployed or disabled can feel welcome because they have unlimited time to spend here.

The game has its own method of dealing with inactive accounts, ultimately after a certain period they disappear. The sitting option is part of Illy gameplay, open to everyone to use (or exploit if you want to run that argument) so there are no unfair advantages. This thread is just a copy of several others, rehashing the same issue, this issue is accepted by the majority of Illy and despite these repeated attempts to get more people on board to make changes, it simply is flogging a dead horse. Making this game dependant on 24/7 commitment will drive out many of your "live" players, leaving you with your so-called large accounts as the major population, until you attack and pillage them all into dust. Illy is not perfect, nor is any other game, this one you can play at whatever pace you like and for the most part can achieve, in time , exactly the same things as everyone else.