I don't know if this is possible, but I like it.
+08!

 

If you haven't used/interacted with a lock in 6+ months, why do you need to keep it?

 

I have a locked obsidian layer under the floor to my main city. I never interact with it for obvious reasons, but it does make it nearly impossible for new builders to grief the farm/vaults below it. That is an example that comes to mind. Now every six months I will have to left click 40k. Blocks.

 

For people like us that just like to hoard hundreds of thousands of ECC dollars worth of stuff

 

How about we have different clean-up times depending on the person? I've got 2 ideas for this.

1. Non-donators get their locks removed quickly, but donators don't get their locks removed as quickly (and maybe a certain donation/donation amount could guarantee the locks never get removed at all)

2. The time it takes to wipe locks could be dependant on how many locks the user has (similar to wiping a users balance). Less than 10 locks could be 2 weeks, 100 could be 3 months, 1000+ would never get wiped etc

 

+1

 

+1

 

This. I would like to add to it the following:

Sure a massive database search is a source of lag. but the thing is, every access to this database is what actually causes lag. (Unless the only lag is to the player trying to access the lock, in which case the first half of this statement is irrelevant) and making people constantly interact with their locks will cause more requests.

Step two as has already been mentioned this will remove a LOT more locks in a much more understandable and clear way to the playerbase. It causes way too much fear for no reason when there is another, much more elegant solution

 

+1 This is probably possible and sounds like a good idea, there are plenty of people that have locks they need but don't use often and I think it would be smart to change the policy this way.