A Galactic Quest

Post by **Fooli** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:33 pm

Ok. Magic's checked the code, and there is indeed a galaxy inactivity limit. It's not a couple of weeks though, it's 60 days :)

So:

- given that this is sort of a special case, in that it's the first time this has been pointed out, and also that it's one of the few players who've invested a (really quite staggering) amount of time in the space game, I'll happily compensate for lost stuff in this case if you let me know roughly what there was.

- and we need to make the 60 day limit clear on the site, which I'll sort out as soon as I'm able (to work out where the feck the relevant web pages live, etc)

- i kind of feel that any limit is against the spirit of the space stuff; however it's down to mit really. The way the galaxy server works is, whenever a new player creates an account, it scans all records for inactivity beyond the 60 day limit, and if it finds one, it allocates that ID to the new player (effectively wiping the old one). I imagine that's so the server doesn't fall over because of huge volumes of pointless dead player records, so that's prolly fair enough. Anyway mit's been informed and blah blah blah :)

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VDZ · Post by **VDZ** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:39 pm

zaroba wrote:or a player becoming #1 wealth on an economy world, then only logging in once a week to avoid the inactivity timer just so they stay on the wealth list. thiers no point in having something just for the sake of having it or if your never going to log in and make use of it. let the people who actually play and are active take over.

Who are you referring to, Zaroba?

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:09 pm

nobody actually. its just a general statement towards how i feel about the situation.

its happened on nearly every world though.
in the past it even happened when it came to running a world, somebody let somebody else have thier world and after a month he went mostly inactive. the origional owner wanted the world back since the guy he gave it to wasen't really taking care of it. he woulden't give it back simply because he wanted to own one, even though he rarly ever visited the game.

smithy953! · Post by **smithy953!** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:17 pm

so the alians tht want a good ship, what ship they wnt?