Dead Cities

[Naughty Pixie]

I was told that you don't remove the cities of players who have spent money on the game. Why not take all the inactive dead cities of those players and move them to their own server and then move active players into the now empty spots.

 

[StarLoad]

Hehehe hahaha you expect logic. Asked and answered, as INNO thinks there way is better. Slow push of some cities to the outside or off map and then refill with new players that may or may not stay with the game and the occasional existing player that might get moved.

 

[samidodamage]

They developed a new system for city movement this past winter. Here is a link to the detailed release notes in the beta forum when it went to the beta server in February (it came to live sometime after that, can't remember when and can't find it in our release notes but didn't really dig in here very hard, lol):
Beta Forum Release Notes

 

[Deleted User - 1178646]

We can share the minimum amount of days of inactivity that must have been passed. Please keep in mind that it could always take longer (not shorter) to get moved, though (e.g. if it would take a minimum of 3 inactive days, it could also happen that the movement would take place only after 5 or 6 days if any "blockers" occur. The aim is to strike a balance between no interruption and a fast as possible movement. These are the minimum amounts of time needed:

Chapter 1 AND Non Premium User : 3 days
Chapter 2 AND Non Premium User : 14 days
Chapter 3 AND Non Premium User : 30 days
Chapter 4+ OR Premium User : 60 days

A "Premium User" means someone who has purchased diamonds at least once.

From the discussion topic of the above link.
Those 60 days means that player should not have logged in even once in that period, just because there is 0 activity if that player even slighty peeks at the (former) city every some odd weeks it will never be put into storage.