I'm not using the template for this. The suggestion: Change town claims a bit. Currently its dead off frustrating and almost a nightmare to claim something. I suggest making a time limit, say if there offline for a year, there shouldn't be any message to them and a three day wait. There off for a full year, it should be forfeited. Or, make it so they HAVE to log onto the game for the inactivity to be voided. I know if i got a message id go check the games forums to view it better. Another suggestion would be make it so not everyone on the owner list has to be inactive, make it cost a fee to add another owner that affects the claimable status. Note i said claimable status, please don't charge for adding people to the owner list unless there added to count against town claims. Another suggestion would be give us a choice between making a new town or having a town claim. Reason: Everyone's saying i just have bad luck. The reason id like some changes is my newest one the owner was offline for a year and 50 weeks. That's almost two full years. And as soon as i attempt a claim they pop on. That's wasting the town. if they don't play the game why should they keep the town? dead space? that all we want? Now this could just be a useless rant but i really had to get this off my chest and see if theres a possiblity to get anything easier. I'm finding it extremely hard on claims. Wasted 11 hours flying around to find claimable towns, when i find two both attempts end up getting the person to log onto the forums. Again, its wasting the town.
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No. Town claims are to re-use towns of permabanned/long inactive users. If a user logs on when you try to claim, that's because their town is being claimed and they need to log on to keep it. If you remove the forum restriction they'll just log on in-game. People like the fact that their towns last forever. Making it easier to claim them is ass-backwards. Some people might come back after a year or two. But if they don't have anything left, why would they play?
That's the point. Claims shouldn't be taking the towns of people who still care, even if they're not actively playing. Certain times people simply cannot play for periods of time. Now of course you might say that then if they can check the forums then they can log in game, but I think my point here really is people shouldn't have to jump through hoops to keep something they already own. If you're having issues claiming towns try forum PM'ing the owners in advance, before filing the application. Not gonna make it any easier to take the product of someone's time. Sorry.