90 day deletion rule a joke?

90 days they just sit there, taking up space, doing nothing,just sitting giving the impression that the game is full of non players, giving hope that maybe, just maybe one or two might change their mind and reenter the game and to give a false impression that that they is actually more playing this game then really are? how many others think this does more harm than good? how many others think that this promotes a slacker play where truely active players are turned off by this game policy? what is the game going to look like after the new sitting rule takes effect? when are the devs going to wake up and realize that this poilcy might actually be turning off players that are active? what do others think? how much time should there be before deletion, suggest 30 days here.

Good arguments. I too think the 90-day-sitter-rule can be changed or re-altered to something more suitable for the community.

Maybe adding a Vacation mode function, that you can pay for, to extend from 30days to 90days. If the account means enough to the person, they can invest in this Vacation mode. This will I think not only increase the income of the game, but might weed out even more inactives.

GM ThunderCat  wrote: We are changing our auto-abandonment policy from tomorrow. Rather than a "one in one out" policy we are moving to an strict enforced time criteria. Every 6 hours ALL accounts that fail these tests will be abandoned. Pre-warnings will be issued via registered email in the circumstances noted: 0 population, last active 4 days, [non-prestige purchaser] = deletion. (No email) Less than 20 population, last active 7 days, [non-prestige purchaser] = deletion. (No email) Less than 100 population, last active 14 days, [non-prestige purchaser] = deletion. (Emails sent at 7 and 1 days) Between 101-500 population, last active 30 days, [non-prestige purchaser] = deletion. (Emails sent at 14, 7 and 1 days) Between 501-1000 population, last active 45 days, [non-prestige purchaser] = deletion. (Emails sent at 14, 7 and 1 days) Over 1000 population, last active 60 days, [non-prestige purchaser] = deletion. (Emails sent at 14, 7 and 1 days) Any population, last active 90 days, [prestige purchaser] = deletion. (Emails sent at 14, 7 and 1 days) You can change your email address in the accounts and preferences page in game. Player suspended accounts will not be contacted. Accounts under siege etc will not be abandoned; until it has finished. The in-game account sitting mechanism is the method to use to keep your account active if you need to be away for an extended period of time.

It is 60 days or less for those who have not ever bought prestige. For small players in particular, their accounts often go poof quite fast. Being able to take slightly longer breaks without worrying is a minor benefit of prestige buying, but an important one for some people. I myself am a very active player but I was once effectively gone from the game for medical reason for a couple months. I am glad I didn't get deleted.

90 days is actually not long in this game considering all the players who have played for many years and the time it take to, for example, get to 9 or 10 cities. I think it is a good compromise, I would not want it lessened. It also gives people time to siege and capture towns they know are on dead accounts.

There will always be some inactive accounts slowly dying. As well as a ton of towns appearing and dying 10 minutes later as people sample the game. The majority of the players in the game are still active though. And there is enough land area for now that a few inactive towns don't stop new players from finding nice spots.


As for 'slacker play'... why is it bad to have a game you can play at your leisure, take break forms occasionally and generally have fun with without making it a full time job? To me, that is one of the best aspects of the somewhat slow pace of illy.


Edited by Alcie - 16 May 2015 at 05:06