You’re not really playing if you only come around once after 10 days. That’s not really driving away, you’re just wasting your own time.
It absolutely is. Ever scout the “dead” servers? In most cases there’s serial refreshers that have claimed most of the good building spots. They check often but want to hold on to their pixels and are not playing. I’ve joined too many servers to know this behaviour.
I’m fully aware of the state of the game and it isn’t because of decay timers - PVP has been ravaged by “balance” updates, cheaters and report meta.
The decay system has been in place since the beginning. It is doing as it is intended to do. Increasing the time will harm the servers more. 10 days is too much time. If you can’t be bothered to log in during a generous period of more than a week then you deserve to have your buildings decayed. This is not to insult you, it’s the way the system works.
Then don’t play on Officials, get your own server or join a private as suggested. OR bodyvault. You have options here. I get the want to only play on Officials as that is my preferred choice but you need to accept the general server settings.
I mentioned it because of the impacts it had as it relates to a suggestion of permanent increase in decay timers. By increasing decay timers it causes issues with abandoned buildings remaining longer. This impacts players because the spot is not available to them otherwise.
If you are actively playing on a server and using your spot then it is completely justified. If you’re taking 10+ day breaks in between playing, you’re preventing others’ from taking that spot in favor of you only coming around when it is convenient for you. That’s fine, you have things to deal with. But the system is working as intended and if you want to keep your stuff then you absolutely need to take 5 minutes out of your time in a 10 day period to log in.
Not sure if you are trying to insult me here. After I finish work for the day and the duties in running my household and life, I like to relax on Conan since it is what I enjoy.
The servers are not dead because of a 10 day decay setting. They’re dead because Funcom has ruined Official PVP. Since you’re new to the game spend some time reading the history in the forums.