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Date Posted: Wed, Oct 22 2003, 01:03pm
Housing’s Phase 3 begins on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 CDT. The current state of automatic refreshing of all houses regardless of status will stop of Wednesday, October 29, 2003 CDT. Starting on October 29, any house on an account that has been or becomes inactive for more than 10 days will begin decaying.
Admittedly, the explanations of Housing’s Phase 3 have often been confusing. This is partly because several key points have changed over time, because earlier descriptions mixed exceptions & special cases into the system basics, and because not all the rules for Phase 3 were in one place. This summary is intended to be the one document for Housing’s Phase 3 that everyone absolutely needs to read.
The basic rules for inactive accounts: As soon as phase 3 starts, on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 CDT, the housing database will begin coordinating with the game account database.
- If your account is considered active: If your account owns only one house, that “primary house” will automatically refresh at the start of each day. If your account owns multiple houses, these “grandfathered” houses will need to be manually refreshed by their owners double-clicking the house sign at least once every 10 days, otherwise they will disappear at the end of that 10 day period.
- If your account is inactive for less than 10 days: The status of your primary house (ex. primary) will not change, and grandfathered houses will continue their natural 10-day decay. This period is known as the “grace period.”
- If you reactivate your account within this 10-day grace period, your primary house will still be listed as a primary house. If your house was a grandfathered house, it will still be listed as a grandfathered house (do not forget to continue manually refreshing it).
- If your account is inactive for more than 10 days: This is a critical time for your houses. The status of your primary house will become what we call “condemned-inactive.” If you have multiple houses, only your most-recently placed house will become “condemned-inactive,” and all other houses will become simply “condemned” (and in this way grandfathered accounts are permanently moved into the primary house system). A “condemned-inactive” house will decay within 5 days, and cannot be refreshed until the account is reactivated. When you reactivate this account, your “condemned-inactive” house will become a primary house, and any “condemned” houses will remain condemned.
- When you reactivate an account with a primary house, that house will return to primary status.
- When you reactivate an account with multiple grandfathered houses, only the house that was placed most recently will become a “primary house,” and it will begin auto-refreshing. All other houses owned by that account will remain “condemned” and continue to decay—condemned houses can be traded away before they collapse, but cannot be refreshed until they are traded to another account.
- If your account is inactive for 15 days or more: After 15 days, both the 10-day grace period and 5-day condemned-inactive house decay period are complete, and any houses that remain on these accounts will have fallen.
- Any new house placed by an account that has zero houses will automatically become a “primary house.”
The exceptions to the above rules:
No grandfathered houses will begin decaying right away (unless you place or are traded an additional house) because the current state of automatic refreshing of all houses will continue until Wednesday, October 22, 2003 CDT.
If your house is scheduled to decay but still has contract-vendors with unexpired contracts, the house will not fully decay until 9 days after those contracts expire.
- Houses that refuse to decay because they have remaining contract-vendors will list as “Demolition Pending.” Houses with this status cannot be reclaimed, even by reactivating their accounts. These houses remain standing only to allow the contract-vendor owners to reclaim their vended inventory.
In previous documents we mentioned that we will manually run one or more “audits,” when our system will check for active accounts. (Although the audits will take some time to complete. players will still be able to make housing transactions during these periods.) These checks will begin on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 CDT. Please refer from now on to the guidelines above when attempting to determine when your house’s status might change due to your account becoming inactive.
The most important thing to remember is that an account that stays inactive for more than 10 days will essentially condemn all houses that it owns, and that condemned houses will decay after 5 days.
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