it is not one or the other it is both NOT LOGGED IN FOR 60 day with less than 60.

if you looged in yesterday to day 50 days ago and have not posted you will not be deleted. why becuase you logged in.

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oh, ok

i had to reread prof's first post

i misread too :/

also, you should delete all accounts older than 2 weeks with 0 total points, that way we clear out most recent inactive noobs

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i'd play both, but the new one sounds like fun

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Why are BOTH not playing AND not logging in to the game required for account deletion?

There are some historical posts from active players like AD that are worth saving even if the player is long gone. People who were once very active in the community, even if now gone, are more likely to someday want to return, and even if they don't, deleting their posts might be bad. It is not possible to clear a name out of the database without clearing out all posts as well, so there is a threshold of number of posts beyond which we assume a player is part of the community history at least even if they are not now playing the game.

As for active versus inactive players, a player with no points might still be active. Not very active, admittedly, but when they come from newbie mission to real arena, they lose their points, so they might just be holding 25 planets from newbie mission and not yet have been attacked and found yet since coming to real arena. Thus, I think we can wait at least 60 days before we consider anyone inactive enough to delete their account, and most recent log in time will be a better measure of activity than recent points earned.

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nut WHY you want to delete planets?

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Don't want to delete planets. Want to delete inactive player accounts. Part of clean up of system. Working on it now. Various efforts to clean up a database which has gotten too large to work efficiently.

Abe's urban renewal efforts with deleting AiDG have helped to speed things up, and early efforts to eliminate some completely inactive and long gone player have helped as well. Speed is improving via cleanup efforts, and deleting old and inactive accounts is making it easier for new players to join and have a good experience in Skylords.

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well, the best cleanup is to clean all forums and all planets

but indeed I think there is no sense to delete accounts if they still have planets - I doubt there is more than 1-2k of such players, so in comparison to more than 50k overall acounts this is not much.

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Adding another querry table join onto a search will take a long time. Since there are likely to be very few players who meet your criteria who have also been inactive for a few months, I think it is not worth the cost in additional time to do an additional database join on the search. I would estimate that adding in the constraint you have suggested would add on about 5 seconds per user onto the querry time, which has to be run approximately 10,000 times. So, 50,000 seconds of processor overhead is a lot, and it will slow things down. I do not think it is worth it to save a few planets which no one has found so far, which no one is using, and which are of little defense or point value (since they have not been active for a long time anyway).

If you must have a few such planets, it is easy to create a new user account and sprinkle in some planets at random with random production points on them (or even all 20x if we wish to do so), and these can replace the planets "lost" that belong to players who have been inactive for a long time. We can even make some large in defense and some have massive turrets if you wish, of players who are not active but essentially non-player planets.

This is a better solution than slowing down cleanup processes to preserve a few planets of a few players who are inactive and who have not been active in forums or the game for a long time.

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Go on prof kill them all off

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