I'm completely baffled at the fact that a few whiners forced SE's hands not to implement such a feature. It's completely reasonable in general, to be honest; and especially with the housing system this game has, how limited and poorly executed it is in its mechanics, I think it's absolutely vital to have an auto-relinquish feature.

If you make an investment as big as buying a plot, I'd imagine you actually play, anyhow. I'm not sure why logging in every 30 days (for example) is such a big deal to some.