[chongjasmine]

If a person pays $10 a year, a person will be given an upgrade for the nation to special status account.
A special status cybernation account will not be deleted after 20 days of inactivity.
The $10 a year fee is used to pay for the server to host that nation for a year.

Special peace-mode: This is for nation who does not want any war-feature at all. They can change their nation to special peace-mode. Once a nation is changed into special peace mode, the nation is not allowed to be changed back to the normal mode anymore. This is for people who want to play the game only on the infra level without having to worry about wars.

CPU players: A few cpu-programed players will be created for nations who want to go to war to target on and attack as an alternative to taking down a human player. This will allow for more wars, and allow for tech-raiding of non-feeling computer players, who will not bother about their infras.

[Smallfrog]

chongjasmine, on Sep 29 2007, 11:16 AM, said:

If a person pays $10 a year, a person will be given an upgrade for the nation to special status account.
A special status cybernation account will not be deleted after 20 days of inactivity.
The $10 a year fee is used to pay for the server to host that nation for a year.

Possible, but why? If you are going on a holiday that long most would just delete the nation and start again in a years time.

chongjasmine, on Sep 29 2007, 11:16 AM, said:

Special peace-mode: This is for nation who does not want any war-feature at all. They can change their nation to special peace-mode. Once a nation is changed into special peace mode, the nation is not allowed to be changed back to the normal mode anymore. This is for people who want to play the game only on the infra level without having to worry about wars.

Repeat suggestion. War is part of the game. Without war, you are not playing the game properly

chongjasmine, on Sep 29 2007, 11:16 AM, said:

CPU players: A few cpu-programed players will be created for nations who want to go to war to target on and attack as an alternative to taking down a human player. This will allow for more wars, and allow for tech-raiding of non-feeling computer players, who will not bother about their infras.

No. Just no.

[Captain Ikarius]

I absolutely agree with Smallfrog.

And the programming on the CPU 'player',would be time consuming.

Plus... would you want to miss out on your target posting threads on the forums about "I R raid'd send halp!plz"

[fuzzycat]

Well he got one point right IMHO, IMHO once you donated your nation should be permanent.

I mean 20$ guarantee enough expenses these few bytes will cost forever (if you are not going to use bandwith anymore).

[BamaBuc]

I just agreed with Smallfrog. The world is coming to an end.

-Bama

[BrilliantGenius]

chongjasmine, on Sep 29 2007, 06:16 AM, said:

If a person pays $10 a year, a person will be given an upgrade for the nation to special status account.
A special status cybernation account will not be deleted after 20 days of inactivity.
The $10 a year fee is used to pay for the server to host that nation for a year.

No. If you go away for a year then you are just wasting the system's resources.

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Special peace-mode: This is for nation who does not want any war-feature at all. They can change their nation to special peace-mode. Once a nation is changed into special peace mode, the nation is not allowed to be changed back to the normal mode anymore. This is for people who want to play the game only on the infra level without having to worry about wars.

This is a NATION SIMULATION GAME. Peace mode as it is was only created for the fact that this IS a game and to give another option. In the real world, you can't turn off attacks against you. That's ridiculous. Switzerland can't put up an invisible barrier to protect them from incoming cruise missiles. The only reason there is the peace mode we have now is because the game wouldn't work as well without it.

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CPU players: A few cpu-programed players will be created for nations who want to go to war to target on and attack as an alternative to taking down a human player. This will allow for more wars, and allow for tech-raiding of non-feeling computer players, who will not bother about their infras.

........
seriously, why did you suggest this?

[Magicman657]

BrilliantGenius, on Sep 29 2007, 11:58 AM, said:

No. If you go away for a year then you are just wasting the system's resources.

You're assuming that not paying bills is the same thing as not playing at all. I myself am close to 20 days inactive due to loss of trades. Does this mean I'm not active on my nation? I'm wasting system's resources by trying to replace those trades so my bills will be cheaper?

[chongjasmine]

BrilliantGenius, on Sep 29 2007, 11:58 PM, said:

No. If you go away for a year then you are just wasting the system's resources.

Well, you have moments in your life, when School works CAN be really a lot, so much you will not want anything to distract you from them.

Cybernation is too addictive for you and you will want to stay away from it until your level of works in real life had gone down.

But you do not want to start your nation from scratch after you log back into cybernations.

Well, the fees you paid--- $10 a year or more, will pay for the hosting fees of your nation. No resources will be wasted since you are paying for the hosting of your nation, itself. (Only the paying members will get the privilege to have their nations lasting for more than 20 days, etc.)

[fuzzycat]

BrilliantGenius, on Sep 29 2007, 05:58 PM, said:

No. If you go away for a year then you are just wasting the system's resources.

That just redicolous if you *pay* 10$ a year. you are spending more than enough money than what your used system resources cost. Thats far from a "waste".

/me is sitting on his hands, for not typing a "get a clue" message

[Matt Miller]

This might be the worst suggestion ever, just no on so many levels it isn't even funny.

[Hertzy Scowicz]

I only agree partially with the top choice. Only make the price a bit more than $10/year. I'm thinking more like $30 or $60.

[Kung Fu Geeks]

<sarcasm> I would love to pay $10 for a year of no inactivity deletions. I mean i would just sit as a 0 infra nation and let my alliance just pump 12mil every 10 days into my nation for a year, then pay my bills of $0.00 and buy 7k infra and backcollect 365 days worth of taxes. </sarcasm>

Seriously, undeletable accounts are an exploit waiting to happen.

You would ruin the strategy of keeping opponents in nuke anarchy untill they are forced to collect or get deleted.
Those that happen to end up on permaZI would be stuck there with no way to delete and recreate.
Bank nations would appear overnight

[Bob Janova]

There are many problems with allowing more than 20 days of inactivity, most serious of which is the ability to back-collect for very long periods. That would need to have a solution to make non-deleting nations. (A possible solution which I've suggested before is simply that if you're more than 20 days inactive, only 20 days' income is gained.)

Special peace mode is a 'special' suggestion all right ...

Computer players remove the whole point of a multiplayer game.