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Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 9:42 am
by woot
The rule regarding inactive houses and businesses being removed, will change.
Currently, players must have been online just one second in the past 14 days to avoid losing their houses or businesses.

Starting 1st of November 2020, the new rule is:
Players must have played at least 4 hours in the past 2 weeks to keep their houses and businesses.

Starting 01/01/2021 inactive properties will be removed based on pay times earned, not on playtime. This means that if you just come to AFK 4 hours in-game, these will not count. Only if you earn an actual pay time, that counts as an hour of playtime.

Additionally:
Players with their house deleted due to inactivity will receive a 150% cash refund based on the house interior price. (example: if your house had interior ID 25, you will receive a $30m refund - the original interior price is $20m) Any items stored in the house locker inventory at the time of deletion is non-refundable.
Players that have their business deleted due to inactivity will receive a cash refund based on business type and location (this is a fixed price and non-negotiable; it is much lower than the realistic purchase price)
No refunds will be given for any properties removed before 01/11/2020

This change is made to avoid the known problem of players logging in just to avoid losing properties with no intention to play.
If you know that you will be unable to have a 4-hour playtime in 2 weeks, you may use vacation mode.
If you have used up all your vacation modes, I recommend you to sell your properties instead.
If you have no interest in playing on IM anymore, use common sense, and sell your properties to active players.

Yes, you have worked hard and long for your properties, but there's no point in having hundreds of houses of businesses using up slots/locations if you have no time or intention to play anymore.

This will go into effect on November 1st, meaning players that do not have 4 hours of playtime between tomorrow (17th October) and 1st of November will have their properties removed, even if they logged in.

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 9:44 am
by Punjabi
hahahah dog
smh

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 9:46 am
by Billy
Good update...

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 9:48 am
by Santino
imagine making a new rule to make ppl more addicted to server , [[ so woot earn More ( $$$$) ]]
smh

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 9:51 am
by Hariz
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Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 9:54 am
by Unlucky
Sad update

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 9:56 am
by Yewish
Hariz wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 9:51 am
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Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 10:08 am
by CorNer
Finally it will either bring some activity or no more one guy owning all biz and not even playing

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 10:10 am
by Maniac
CorNer wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 10:08 am
Finally it will either bring some activity or no more one guy owning all biz and not even playing
or just more afk players.

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 10:20 am
by CorNer
Maniac wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 10:10 am
CorNer wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 10:08 am
Finally it will either bring some activity or no more one guy owning all biz and not even playing
or just more afk players.
Hmmmmm can't deny that

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 10:45 am
by Maniac
Make it that player should receive at least 4 PT instead of being in-game for 4 hours.

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 10:46 am
by viox
Maniac wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 10:45 am
Make it that player should receive at least 4 PT instead of being in-game for 4 hours.

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 10:48 am
by Liroy
Nice update

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 11:19 am
by Publics
A very good update, hope it will be applied to everyone with no exceptions!, hoping not to see admins/ex-admins/celebrities this rule not applying to them.

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 11:20 am
by Maniac
Publics wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 11:19 am
A very good update, hope it will be applied to everyone with no exceptions!, hoping not to see admins/ex-admins/celebrities this rule not applying to them.
its auto removed

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 11:31 am
by JayZon
Thanks for this

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 12:00 pm
by Buck
JayZon wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 11:31 am
Thanks for this

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 1:00 pm
by Rud
Server getting on its feet again.

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 1:15 pm
by Giacomo
Rud wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 1:00 pm
Server getting on its feet again.
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Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 1:18 pm
by C-Slo
Giacomo wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 1:15 pm
Rud wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 1:00 pm
Server getting on its feet again.
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Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 1:39 pm
by Varezzo
Billyy wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 9:46 am
Good update...

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 1:58 pm
by Snoozy
Well publically i ask ruvik to give me his stuff or fucked up

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 2:14 pm
by vin
What if have no intention to play at the moment, but I might in the future? If I lose all my stuff I 100% won't return.

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 3:05 pm
by woot
vin wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 2:14 pm
What if have no intention to play at the moment, but I might in the future? If I lose all my stuff I 100% won't return.
vacation mode gives you 4 weeks of pause + another 2 weeks to get 4 hours of playtime.
if thats still not enough, your only choice is to sell them on time or you will lose them with a small refund.

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 3:37 pm
by tisler
vin wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 2:14 pm
What if have no intention to play at the moment, but I might in the future? If I lose all my stuff I 100% won't return.
you can still give them to a friend of yours to hold if the friend is trustable enough

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 4:35 pm
by Luigi Tattaglia
Rud wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 1:00 pm
Server getting on its feet again.
The 4 hours put in by players who will play the bare minimum every 2 weeks will make no difference.


Should try to reorganize vacation mode so not everything has to be used all at once, so we can pick inbetween one and four weeks, while saving any leftover time for later use. Given that nobody can go completely away anymore, you should consider raising the number of houses and businesses someone can own. There's really no incentive to do anything in the game for a lot of us when it comes to houses, businesses and money as everything is capped. It should be balanced between having a reason to own something in the game and having to commit to the game on a regular basis, otherwise owning stuff in IM is like owning a pet.

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 5:28 pm
by saltystek
get out.

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 6:52 pm
by Donut
time to get me a ammunation

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 7:32 pm
by Rankie
vin wrote:
October 16th, 2020, 2:14 pm
What if have no intention to play at the moment, but I might in the future? If I lose all my stuff I 100% won't return.
Gimme your stuff

Re: Rule change: Inactive houses/properties

Posted: October 16th, 2020, 7:38 pm
by Led
does AFK time count in those 4 hours? if it does then that seems like an easy exploit