How about a new donation feature that would allow you to "lock" your town, preventing other people from claiming it? This new feature would prevent people from claiming your town, regardless of how long you may have been inactive (does not apply if you are perma-banned). Buying this feature would allow you to lock 1 town that you own (must be original owner of it) and you could buy this feature multiple times to lock any additional towns.
There needs to be more limitations, perhaps you can only lock one of your towns if you're tycoon+ or make it a 100k application
-Or, how about you don't get permabanned. -Also if you were to quit then it doesn't matter what goes on with your town. -The rules of claiming towns are fine as they are, there is no need to change them. I'm not flaming your thread. I'm just stating the obvious. (This comment isn't directed to you... Just for people to think about on a further notice)
Phoenix put it perfectly, your town will only be claimed if there is a good reason, it's not hard to not be perma banned or offline for over 6 months.
-1. If you're offline for six months, then why would you care so much about your town? I understand if one HAS to be offline for that long, but if it mattered as much as a feature, then just get on the computer really quick/minechat. So, if you cared that much, you could get on for literally three seconds.
I'm really seeing a lot of impatience with this, and at this point Tycoons+ are being very selfish. The "less than 6 months" suggestion is hard enough, but this really breaks it. You guys should be thankful you even get the opportunity to steal towns from other people, other people's hard work, money and investment. It is incredibly unreasonable to say: Considering I know if you invested 200k+ into making an amazing town or farm, for you to go on a break and to come back to see that a user has stolen it. I don't see how someone being able to buy insurance, taking money out of the economy, to keep their own hard work theirs, whether they go inactive or not is such an awfully big deal. Town claiming is already unfair considering tycoon+ was originally just meant for show, and you people are being extremely wanty and selfish over it. Again, look at the situation and just imagine if you were them. Permabanned is another story, but inactive?
It takes literally 1 minute to get in-game and log back out to prevent people from stealing your towns. You only have to this every 5 months or so. If you want to keep your hard work yours, then you should at least be willing to spend that little time to make sure it stays yours.
What if your laptop is broken and you can't get a new one? I really don't think its that much of a big deal considering we are getting a new map AND there is plenty of towns to allow users to choose immunity to this feature.
Even if your laptop's broken, there are many different ways to connect. One of them is using a mobile chatclient, I'm assuming that almost everyone has a computer or smartphone. And if you don't, you'll never even realize your town was taken and you obviously have no way of playing minecraft in the near future. So it doesn't matter.
-1 So this feature is for people who: Have something happen so suddenly they don't plan on being away for 6+ months. Have no one as co-mayor to help those poor defenseless residents during the absence. Are not able to log into ECC minecraft for 30 sec in that 6+ month period. Are not able to log into the Forums for 30 sec in that 6+ month period. Are going to come back, see their original town gone, and be upset because it wasn't saved for them for the 6+ months "just in case they would be coming back years down the road." I don't see a lot of potential customers for this feature. If someone was really that attached to their town, I would think they would find a way to log in once every few months. This also puts the burden of proof back on the staff to try to find these apps/donation ftrs and see if they have been applied to the town in question. I don't like that. I mean think about this, and it is JUST food for thought: You are gone for 6 weeks (not even months) and your residents grief your town/farm. The logblocks are cleared and you get nothing for your troubles. I don't see how you can just "expect" your town to be there if you don't care enough to check in on it.
At this point it seems that the general consensus is that the proposed feature is not necessary. While it would be disastrous to have someone claim your town, the current rules are written in such a way that it would be incredibly easy to prevent people from doing so (and honestly a lot easier than shelling out $15 or w/e the price would be). I appreciate your feedback and respectfully ask that a mod please lock this thread.
