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    Quote Originally Posted by Titor View Post
    I have posted a full post on this here, completely against reclaiming land.
    Tl;dr version:
    People go away for personal problems, illnesses, military, health issues, etc, with every intent to return.
    People who bought mediums/larges may have been saving up for months, and the amount for them is no trivial matter on a legacy server, so it would be a detrimental loss
    It would NOT solve the issue in the long-run. It is not even a good band-aid. It is unfair (thought the current system is unfair, this would just shift it in the other direction
    What we SHOULD be doing is asking for more wards, try to get SE to prioritize it, that way it could be fair for both current homeowners and people who want to buy homes now.
    Except that those people who leave with plans to return are in the minority, sure there is a population surge with every update and most likely even more come 3.0, but we have yet to see population hit the peak it did right after 2.0 launched. This shows that steadily, people who are leaving the game, are doing so with the intent of not coming back. They tried it, they didn't like it for some reason or another and cancelled their sub. How is it fair to paying customers for that persons plots to sit vacant for the rest of the many years (hopefully) this game will be around?

    As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm not against more wards being added, in fact I'd love that more than reclaim system being added. However, devs have already mentioned the reason for not adding enough wards was limited server storage. Reclaim would be easier to implement while we wait for SE to get more servers, since until they do get them, we are very unlikely to get any decent amount of wards added.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gralna View Post
    Except that those people who leave with plans to return are in the minority
    How do you know?
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    Determining inactivity is hard, though. A lot of people will bounce around MMO's for the latest patch content, I know a lot of FCs and people who quit after they 'beat' the current raids to move onto another game, then come back when there is a content update.
    Alternatively, life reasons do very much happen.

    If you set it to say, 31 days reclaim (even up to 6 months), that is far too short of a time to determine inactivity. If you set it to 6 months or even a year, then you will see far fewer houses open up than would be worth it, and you would be waiting a long, long time to see the first batch of force-relinquishes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gralna View Post
    Except that those people who leave with plans to return are in the minority,
    Even if they're the minority, doesn't mean they should be screwed. Not saying I'm actually against a land reclaim, but I think it should be done in a manner that has the least ill effects. For example, I'd personally think the time limit should be bigger than 31 days, maybe 45 or 90; and I support the idea of reimbursing them with a voucher for another house; and we should definitely be getting additional wards.
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