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Ashrem
Oh Wise One
Procedurally clear/replace city descriptions during weekly city maintenance.
Cities are already assessed for movement every week. Tack onto that process clearing the description of the city to default if the account is a lesser-degree of inactive. I.e., any city not accessed in more than 7 days has the description cleared to either blank, Some default designation such as "Townville") or to the account name.
Benefit:
People use their city description field for a lot of things, including hints as to their preference for neighbourly help. Trying to honour people's wishes is worth a little effort, but often when you are helping a hundred or more neighbours, the ones that aren't actually active cause enough noise to make it harder. If inactive cities (for whom where the help is falling is mostly irrelevant anyway) had extraneous information removed, it would simplify the actions of active players. This change benefits anyone in any market who likes to help a large number of neighbours on a regular basis
Downsides: a little extra server maintenance processing and (from a PR perspective) players might more easily have a truer picture of how many inactive cities there are if they really want to analyze it.
Cities are already assessed for movement every week. Tack onto that process clearing the description of the city to default if the account is a lesser-degree of inactive. I.e., any city not accessed in more than 7 days has the description cleared to either blank, Some default designation such as "Townville") or to the account name.
Benefit:
People use their city description field for a lot of things, including hints as to their preference for neighbourly help. Trying to honour people's wishes is worth a little effort, but often when you are helping a hundred or more neighbours, the ones that aren't actually active cause enough noise to make it harder. If inactive cities (for whom where the help is falling is mostly irrelevant anyway) had extraneous information removed, it would simplify the actions of active players. This change benefits anyone in any market who likes to help a large number of neighbours on a regular basis
Downsides: a little extra server maintenance processing and (from a PR perspective) players might more easily have a truer picture of how many inactive cities there are if they really want to analyze it.
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