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Suggestion: Vacation & Inactive System

I guess everyone knows the situation when a player becomes red marked and is offline for weaks without notification. The guild leaders often don't know when and if the player will come back at all.
At that point the red button can be a bit confusing. Was he away for 1 or 3 weeks now? I would like if you could add a new button, maybe a "red X" if the player was inactive over 1 month.

Also i would like to have a button for vacation so everybody knows that you'll be back after a while and that you're not inactive.
This vacation mode should last at least for 3 weeks. When the 3 weeks are over the normal online/offline system should take its place again.

I would like to know your opinion about that :)
Post edited by Tahira Aiedail (IN1) on

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  • Yakoska (US1)Yakoska (US1) Posts: 1,631
    edited 12.07.2015
    Both good suggestions. Though our Co-op rule is if you go on vacation, notify the leader or deputy, or you'll be treated as 'absent'. So that's less of an issue.

    -Y
  • Gwendolen (US1)Gwendolen (US1) Posts: 1,268
    edited 12.07.2015
    Yup, same here. Go away for a bit, notify leadership. We also keep people in the coop for a while if their dot turns red, because real life apocalypses can happen.

    The other one, the longer than a month button would be very nice! Although I now have a very perceptive deputy on that task. He's very good at it and keeps track of everything.
  • edited 12.07.2015
    Well we have some very young players in our cooperative who often forget to tell if they go away for some days. Especially for them an easy reachable vacation button would be nice.

    Thinking about it I would also like when the leadership could see the activity of a player before recruiting them. So if they apply for membership there should be also the active/inactive buttons be shown.
    Especially by little players it's often hard to see if they did something on their farm or not.
  • Yakoska (US1)Yakoska (US1) Posts: 1,631
    edited 12.07.2015
    Yeah, best thing there is to look at the weekly rankings under Experience. That can give you some idea.

    -Y
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 12.07.2015
    It would be nice to have a colour that the leader could set, maybe blue or purple, to put on inactive players where they know why the person is inactive... Such as vacations as suggested, but also sickness, moving house, broken puter, having a baby, jury duty lol :huh: ..... That way all the members could see the ones that were really inactive, without having to know the reason a particular member is away.
  • adoptapetadoptapet Posts: 55
    edited 12.07.2015
    All great suggestions and a good tip about checking the weekly rankings.
  • Data King (US1)Data King (US1) US1 Posts: 7,994
    edited 12.07.2015
    In our Co op we have a set rule - notify in co op message that one will be away for more than 7 days in a row. Then you will remain a member. No notify - go red - get removed with an option to reapply. We have used this for almost a year now and it works for us.
  • Uncle John (GB1)Uncle John (GB1) GB1 Posts: 11,004
    edited 12.07.2015
    Nice idea Scissors :thumbup: Communication with discretion. Like it!
  • Raven68 (US1)Raven68 (US1) Posts: 101
    edited 12.07.2015
    I like the idea of a different colored dot to represent some kind of 'out on leave' status - assigned by leader or by deputy - with an auto expiration timer after 3 weeks. Like RunsWivScissors pointed out, we've had people who've moved, had broken computers or hit finals week at school.
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 13.07.2015
    Raven683 wrote: »
    I like the idea of a different colored dot to represent some kind of 'out on leave' status - assigned by leader or by deputy - with an auto expiration timer after 3 weeks. Like RunsWivScissors pointed out, we've had people who've moved, had broken computers or hit finals week at school.

    You hit on a nice improvement there.... When setting the colour, you could get a pop-up to set how many days you want it to last before reverting to inactive, leave blank for default time. :thumbup:
  • Latten (DE1)Latten (DE1) Posts: 6,246
    edited 13.07.2015
    While I'll be happy to bring it forward, I don't think its super reasonable and probable that this will be added anytime soon :) It's a really cool idea, don't get me wrong, but it's a lot (and I mean a lot) of hours that would have to create the additional graphics, programming, menus, making the color appear on all other players' lists as well, and so on. But yeah, I'll try!
  • Yeah, best thing there is to look at the weekly rankings under Experience. That can give you some idea.

    -Y
    The only problem with that is I only do missions at night for the two extra items, And during the coop cooperative mission event. I find the missions to be an exercise in futility when you lose a couple thousand crop lead at t the last instance due to someone deciding to buy the prize.
  • Yeah, best thing there is to look at the weekly rankings under Experience. That can give you some idea.

    -Y
    The only problem with that is I only do missions at night for the two extra items, And during the coop cooperative mission event. I find the missions to be an exercise in futility when you lose a couple thousand crop lead at t the last instance due to someone deciding to buy the prize.
    I think you mixed up XP and RP.... Yakoska said check weekly XP, to get some idea about how active someone is.
  • Niryn (INT1)Niryn (INT1) INT1 Posts: 255
    Vacation mode overall sounds like a good idea. I'd like something that essentially de-lists a player from everything such as being able to be challenged to horseraces, being gifted/pranked and everything in between.
    This would help with when someone goes away, people can sometimes figure that out and place pranks on everything on all their farms so that they have a very nasty time coming back. Depending on how high up in the rankings someone is, but I'd imagine taking a vacation on a large server as a high rank can be hell to come back to. Especially since karma is now freely available from the organic market. =)

    One can dream, but pretty sure it's too extensive a change for a flash game especially now that flash is so outdated and vulnerable to everything.
  • No thanks, that would be awful to do to a player because they are on a vacation.

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