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Hey Peeps,

I can't find the old topic/s that mentioned having the IC ability to set a inactive member to vac mode at the cost of perhaps a % of the alliance bank. I was wondering if someone could enlighten me if an outcome was reached on that while I was away or did it slip into nothingness while I was away from the game last year? Or was it shut down while I was still around? (I can't remember lol).

I think this is a hugely important update that could help alliances.

1) Only the 1IC can set a member to vac mode if they have not logged in for 7 days?
2) Do activate this it will cost a % of the alliance bank, something decent to avoid it being done willy nilly...perhaps 15%?
3) It works just like regular vac mode although allow an altered message to appear in case the player logs in before the mandatory 48 hour vac mode kicks over so they know what happened.

I think that would be the basics of it, keeping it simple etc.

Odie

No, this suggestion is irreconcilable with account sovereignty.
No one but the owner of the account will have the ability to affect their account's activity state (i.e. whether or not they are on vacation mode).

If a player is not in a position to log in to their account due to circumstances, but can provide proof of ownership, they can request vacation mode be set by e-mail to gameadmin@gatewars.com - provided the regular conditions are met. A request from anyone but the account owner will not be executed.

So no middle ground regarding this issue could/might be met?

It seems like that's a no odie

~Odin~ wrote:So no middle ground regarding this issue could/might be met?

a good middle ground for this would be to have the option for an emergency full PPT

The account must have PPTs left
This will use Market Turns like any other PPT (3 MTs like the button Does)
Person Must have given previous authority to the alliance leader by check box in account settings similar to the Accept Upgrades Bought by Others Accept? (checked for yes)
Can only be used by alliance leader
Can only be used once per week


I know sometime i need a little help as my timing suck for ppts so i would say your onto something here

Not going to happen guys, It's far too easy to exploit/abuse and could easily mess with players schedules (more so than now) because we all know how some peeps like to troll

Anyway, at the end of the day the absolutely worse thing that could happen is the absent player gets massed and loses some planets, thats hardly the end of the world is it.

Support has explained the process for getting an account placed on vac should it be required.

honestly i dont see how it can get abused? as the person has to be inactive for a whole week before anything can happen so in that week all his **Filtered** can be gone already, but i think it was a no before as well and i am not rly surprised its a no now again

Probably need an alternate functionality. Why not just kick em out of the alliance? Downside is I guess the membership period is lost, can't see any other downside.

Potentially you could have an "alliance vac mode" option. That suspends alliance membership but when they logback in again automatically reinstated with their previous alliance permissions.

Just throwing it out there, can't see how externally applying vac mode is going to be done given the account sovereignty issues.

D3ath wrote:honestly i dont see how it can get abused?

My thoughts exactly.

Perhaps a middle ground of forcing said week long inactive player to full crit and nox? I am just spit balling some idea's here that's all.

well imo sovereignty also isnt a problem if you do that checkbox like someone mentioned in settings that you agree that your alliance leader can put your account on vac mode if you are inactive for a week or more

as that would be called trust and team work, cause all this game should be based on teamwork and not individuals as otherwise why we are having alliances? and why there is weps repairs in there? why is there ppts? doesnt it break the sovereignty of someones account? cause imo it sure as hell does that, especially with alliance ppts as if someone puts alliance on ppt it **Filtered** up my authority on my account and i cant go on vac mode for another 24h even though i had that planned and maybe had just another half hour till i could do that but now someone with ic powers in alliance removed that thing ability from me for another 24h.