Best Methodology for Dealing with 'Abandoned' Apartments

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#1

Hello folks, just wanted to get a little bit of feedback, and ask some more technical questions for @Accipiter as well.

As the population of Wolfery grows and fluctuates, there have already come instances of characters that no longer exist in the realm that have apartments at the Prism. My first question is: What should I do about it?

And if the consensus is to clean up apartments, freeing up those potentially high value lower floor units (I don’t know, do people want to move down stairs?) what is the easiest way to determine if an apartment is truly abandoned? This is the question for the boss wolf by the way. Where do rooms owned by ‘dead’ characters go? who inherits the rooms? As I could create some sort of script for Chippy to run maybe once a week or once a month or something to sweep all of these dead rooms and areas if I knew what to look for, then once I make Chippy a bit smarter about how he assigns new units he could start re-filling those spaces.

Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.

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#2

There’s probably no great way to handle this. I might like to see a ‘rent’ system. Where you’re required to log in and interact with a script/bot to keep your apartment. With ‘rent’ due every two weeks or month. Should a user not log in for an extended period of time just unlink it and let them keep the room but. I can imagine this causing heartache.

#3

My advice is a pinged mail of “It seems you haven’t been using your apartment. If I don;t hear from you in [a month or other suitable timeframe], you will be unlinked.”

That said, over in Itza Castle on FurryMUCK I have apartments with folks who haven;t logged in in over five years, and it’s not an issue there. It’s just links to rooms, and there’s plenty of space yet.

#4

When I created my apartment it was just an invisible exit off the first floor, and there was already a second floor there. Is it actually possible to get an upper-floor apartment? I wasn’t offered a choice.

#5

I guess what I was trying to get at were rooms owned by characters that no longer exist, mostly. If the character still exists I personally have no issue with leaving them attached.

Unless a lot of people are against low floor apartments being taken up by people who never come on, then I might try and find an easy way to try and move them up or somewhere else if folks are looking to consolidate.

I started at the bottom and worked my way up as needed. The only reason there are upper floors is because there’s a 100 (maybe 101?) exit limit in each room. And yes, being on the 3rd floor now should tell you how many people we have in the Prism :joy: