An Idea...Need Feedback

[Mydnight]

I have no clue if this is where to post this, but Mods feel free to move, lock, etc. if it isn't the right spot.

I have an idea. But I would like some feedback on it before going through the appropriate channels to see if it can (or even should) be done.

The problem:

One of the most frustrating things for me is going through the marketplace and seeing people with animals that are well over age limits, and owners that haven't examined their animals for 100, 400, or over 600 days. That's 4 months to over a year and a half of inactivity.
Some breeds are dying out because of people with inactive accounts. Some AE variations, colors, and details are no longer playable due to the account inactivity. That's particularly frustrating for people like me. Especially since I don't want to make another variation/color/detail that is incorrectly spelled just to resurrect that particular AE.

Possible Solutions:

1. Accounts delete after 100 days of inactivity
2. AE's that belong to deleted account owners are then allowed to be resurrected if you pay a set number of tokens (as in very expensive to resurrect, I was thinking like 4000 tokens, that's twice the number for making a new AE.)

I don't know how strong people's opinions are on SBF, but I do know that there are strong opinions out there about this. I would like to remind everyone to please be courteous. Thank you.

[Bezzella]

Well, I think the owners of the site could want to keep the accounts because it adds prestige to SBF. That is their personal thing and it doesn't affect us.

However, as far as 4000 tokens for resurrecting an AE, I would never do it. Why spend 4000 when you could use 2000 to create your own. Also, even if somebody did it, I would be mad that my AE was recreated when I wasn't told that this was possible.

So double veto I guess. However, I like where you are going with this.

[Mydnight]

Let's say I made an Leucistic sugar glider (which I have) and then quit SBF. Six months later, my animals have aged some but not enough to be beyond the age limits, my animals have had no care and someone wanted to create another Leucistic Sugar Glider.
I no longer play, and they had no way of contacting me. What would they do? Make another variation with the wrong spelling.

Not that I would quit without making sure someone carried on with my gliders, but I would rather see Leucistic (proper spelling) rather than All White with Black Eyes, Lucistic, or any of the other millions of spelling variations that could (and do) happen.

I am not talking about resurrecting AE's of accounts of people who still play! I am only talking about AE's of inactive (or deleted) accounts!

Now about the keeping of accounts, couldn't there just be a Account Total, Accounts Active, and Accounts Inactive list for the prestige of SBF instead of having any account ever made kept on the books, as it were.

I also had another idea, but I am not sure how people would react to this one. What about if animals, who are under the age limits, of deleted accounts go to an adoption agency, where folks would have the chance of adopting them?
Good Idea, Bad Idea?

[Kholran]

My vote would be no and no.

Accounts are not deleted on ANY Orbis game, as it messes up the game database as well as things like animal bloodlines (if there are animals on the deleted accounts, they in turn get deleted, leaving gaps in the pedigree). Inactivity does not necessarily mean that someone never plans to return either. There are people who take an entire year's break from the game to deal with business/personal lives/whatever...it would be less than fair for them to come back and find that all of their cash, animals, custom variations, tokens, etc had been deleted.

As for the AE species, they belong to the person who created them. If said person wanted to sell them/give them to another player before leaving the game, that's their choice. If they don't want to do that, that's also their choice. Again, how do you determine when an account is truly 'inactive' and the owner has no intention of coming back? The long and short of it is that you can't know what someone else's intention is. The point of an AE is that it belongs ONLY to the person that created it...if Nef had intended for others to be able to get the creation, she would not have made it exclusive.

[argenttree]

i think its brilliant idea!!! top notch and why not in life does an animal not breed to preserve the species must this game that is to mimic life be exempt from this?

[Kholran]

[koneko]

I would hate it if somone could buy my AE just like that.

[argenttree]

i believe that it is implied that the player must not be playing anymore for it to be even considered

[Misty Glen]

[Marlee]

[NeverwinterCC]

Okay, i know this is an old thread, but here is my opinion...


Instead of deleteing accounts and making all kinds of crazy codes and ressurecting AEs, i think the owners should keep their AE variations, have free pairs of them if they happen to return.

Also, in the fact of old animals, i think that the animals should disappear the moment they hit age. But.. instead of lurking until they hit exam never later to disappear, they should disappear right away and the player should be told once they hit 'exam'. This way, it doesn't clog up the marketplace, and the player still gets a notice they went to flordia. The accounts won't get deleted.. the animals won't ethier, they will go straight to florida, but they shouldn't get deleted. This way SBF keeps their prestiege, the owners of AE'S keep their breeds, and the aging animals don't clog up the message boards. (EDIT: What? Message boards? Marketplace, silly!)

I hopefully didn't do any bad with reviving this old topic..[/i]