I've noticed many servers have kept the default 30 days for players to be inactive from a game before being deleted.

I think 14 days is more than adequate. This will clean up CLV's quicker among other reasons for wanting a shorter time period for inactivity.

Something to think about.

Some sysops like to keep the inactive players in the games because it looks better in the stats at the stardock. heh

One server not to be named uses 365 for that very reason.

Like the amount of players on a server would attract me to it. Right.

The edits are what attracts me to a server initially and if I like it, I'll stay there. So far I like Ice and will remain there even though it has mostly TK bots on it

So the amount of players on a CLV has no bearing on whether or not I decide to play there.

Again, 14 days is a good figure. If a player cannot play 14 days, he's most likely done anyways.

This will allow teams with an AWOL CEO to replace him sooner than later as well. A good example is Game W at Ice. Corp 2 there had a CEO that was AWOL for a month. They waited much longer than they should have before that CEO finally got deleted from the game, allowing a teammate with the highest ranking to be promoted to CEO., then asking another player to join the game. Had that game had a 14 day inactivity period, that CEO would be deleted sooner and his replacement could have joined the corp sooner than later.

That's why I like the 14 day period.

Toyman,...365 days??? Darn..that has to make for one long CLV with a lot of MC's and #SD#'s on the list. And that is exactly my point.

i guess it really depends on the game.

I agree and that is why I use 30, I would use 14 but the typical building game can last 6 months to a year and some people take vacations. Plus if after 14 days a corp made a request and all attempts have failed to contact the individual I would intervene and remove the CEO if they had a prospect ready to join.

Plus there are other ways to get rid of CEO that has gone MIA, claim all assets personal, create a new corp and then others join up. Waiting 30 days with no contact from a CEO, bah I would have removed him one way or the other.

Point taken, Toyman. I think tournament style games should use a shorter period such as 14 days. I thought I played in the WTC one year that had only 7.

And that's a good idea to ask a game op to delete a CEO if he has gone AWOL with no contact.

So, yeah, I guess 30 is good, given the fact that people do take vacations and come back.

Like Pig said, all depends on the type of game played.

Timber,

Inactivity is a global game setting. I learned the hard way during the great accidental deletion of '07.

Do I wanna know what happened? LOL.

Thanks for letting me know. I didn't realize that.

I remember that it was quite amusing for those of us that didn't get deleted

It was the first time I ran the Solo Game, had a requirement that people had to log in at least every 3 days or get deleted, and since the game setting was global... ooops. Luckily, I do not think any corps got deleted completely.

No worries anymore V'Ger. The setting is now local.

Good to know.

Then a sysop can have a tournament style game with like a 14 day inactivity...along with a noob building game on the same server with 30 days.

I thought it was global all along too..but I really didn't try it out yet as I rebang my games on my local machine a lot for script testing.

I'm assuming he meant in the beta version it's a local setting.

I know, yet another reason I cannot wait to get my hands on it when it is ready.