Auto Demolitions Need to be Reactivated

[Shibi]

Why is the Ukraine/Russia conflict turning auto-demolition off for all DCs?

SE seems to apply policies with very little consistency or logic.

We can agree on the second part, the first though is a "player-made-up" fact. SE never claimed that demo was off for the war in Ukraine. They said "current world situation", which is a bit nebulous, but players assumed that this meant Ukraine despite them not saying this.

That it includes the other three data centres - most importantly including OCE where few Europeans can play due to the 240+ms ping - one has to conclude that while the war in Ukraine is a factor, it's not the entire reason. There are other factors here, like multiple one-in-a-thousand year weather events, inflation, and more. There is also likely a desire by SE to fill the "multiple new worlds" in the game up a bit too.

Not having demo turned on is still a fairly large impetus for a relative small number of people to free-transfer and change the "current world situation" where too many are on Balmung and Mateus, while relatively few will be on Halicarnassus, and Seraph.


My thoughts. Keep it off for the immediate future. Let all worlds housing fill up and don't let the shortage on Balmung influence what happens on Halicarnassus.

[dspguy]

We can agree on the second part, the first though is a "player-made-up" fact. SE never claimed that demo was off for the war in Ukraine. They said "current world situation", which is a bit nebulous, but players assumed that this meant Ukraine despite them not saying this.

True. They don't explicitly say it but the timing of it clearly lines up with the escalations of war in Ukraine.

What's the point of auto-demolition if it is turned off for 7.5 months?