Looking through the list of empires I've noticed eight out of the twenty pages are full of empires that have no rank at all because nobody has submitted any games for them. I think that there emporers have all lost interest in the game and that any empire with no games submitted after say... three months should be wiped from existance as useless metaverse litter.
   
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I would tend to agree, if only for neatness. Although, given their presence is never going to affect the active empires and their scoring, I think it really is only a neatness factor. Mostly these will be players who signed on early after the first release and lost interest. It would be interesting to see what most foliks thought would be an appropriate time interval before 'liquidating' them; witness the effect of the recent recalc. Do we liquidate PLAYERS who haven't been around for six months, or just those old empires. One senses there is a fair amount of dead wood lurking out there....
        
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Hey All,
First off Grats on the new Empires Board...
My thought is "Clean it up"!!! I am relatively new to this game. I thought the game was cool enough on its own but then I discovered the Metaverse and thought that it was a very nice addition. But then when I submit a game and start scrolling through hundreds and hundreds of dead just to find myself I thought man there needs to be a limit to how long dead info should remain.
So what I suggest would be a marker on each account that can be ran off a timer. Every time a player submits a game or even logs into the forum the counter would be reset and they would remain "Active". If the time counts down to a predetermined mark the the account and all its data is set to "Inactive" and is not displayed in the metaverse. The reason I would liek the timer is that during warm weather I do a lot of travelling and there may be weeks or months I don't get on a pc. But at the same time I would like to think that when I would get back and log in or submit a new game that I would not go back to square 1...
Just some thoughts. I know it would be some work for the folks that built and maintain the metaverse to put something like this into use but thought I would like to put it out there any way.
Later,
oldgamster
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You can use the search function to find yourself.
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I disappeared for almost five months and appreciated finding my scores still somewhere in the Meta. If I had instead come back after six months and found my scores deleted, bye-bye GalCiv. Now if the suggestion is to keep the “dead” scores off the Meta rankings while keeping them saved somewhere, that doesn’t address the “takes up space” issue very well. It does, however, move newbies past a lot of inactivity while keeping the door open for old-timers.
   
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I think that the record of the players should be kept, but I agree that the dead empire, those without a submission for the last 6 months should be deleted. 
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| Like the Stardockians empire, which has never had a submission since it was formed last March? |
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 DEAR LORD!!! You have no idea what you've just brought down on yourself! Consider yourself a marked overlord and stay 10 SECTORS away from me at all times!!!
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Hmmm...it certainly wouldn't be advisable to ask Stardock to delete the Stardockians empire. 
  
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Sorry, I don't think any empire that has scores attatched to should ever be deleted, just those empires that don't have a metaverse ranking, the ones this post is devoted to. Someone who hasn't submitted a game for their empire ever has definattly lost interest in the game and won't really miss there empire.
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| DEAR LORD!!! You have no idea what you've just brought down on yourself! Consider yourself a marked overlord and stay 10 SECTORS away from me at all times!!! |
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wold be healthy for all of us, indeed
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| Sorry, I don't think any empire that has scores attatched to should ever be deleted, just those empires that don't have a metaverse ranking, the ones this post is devoted to. |
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Ahhh Goblin - sorry I'm guilty of not reading your post properly; your suggestion of deleting ZERO SCORE empires only is very sensible. The time frame is thus irrelevant.
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| So what I suggest would be a marker on each account that can be ran off a timer. Every time a player submits a game or even logs into the forum the counter would be reset and they would remain "Active". If the time counts down to a predetermined mark the the account and all its data is set to "Inactive" and is not displayed in the metaverse. The reason I would liek the timer is that during warm weather I do a lot of travelling and there may be weeks or months I don't get on a pc. But at the same time I would like to think that when I would get back and log in or submit a new game that I would not go back to square 1... |
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This is a pretty good idea he has here. Start it sometime, and anyone who has not submitted in three months, "temporarily" deactivate them, so start at around 11/03 for this. When they submit a game again, give them a message such as "Due to your inactivity and to encourage competition, your score was temporarily removed from the metaverse. Your score will be reactivated at the soonest possible time to reflect your new submission." or something like that (Diplomat style!) This way new players, such as my self would not have to go up thousands of spots (I jumped nearly a ~1000 spots by adding ~6500 points) to become a well known name in the metaverse. This way the active are at the top, and the inactive wallow in the server awaiting the visits of their masters. This would also cause significant damage to the empire lists (and something similar could be done for that) and this might require even more recalc (and we are still reeling from that). Thanks for reading this rather long post. Anyone can build off this if they wish.
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| Is this some new name for wombat offspring???? |
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And hey - there's nothing useless about my litter(s), either!
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| Like the Stardockians empire, which has never had a submission since it was formed last March? |
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I asked Cari about this and she responded:
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yET gOT mE ok tOO dO tHAT 
 
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