I’m still in for x4 on top of an official abstract.
Yes, boredom ruins the game one way or another. They only cry wolf.
That is what AoSCh3 was like for me. Servers experienced weekly wipes by other players. Some players really want this. I suppose a hack could be thrown in to allow for more than one settings file. UUIDs|GUIDs, once stamped, are pretty quick (another use of http status 402). It’s equivalent to Apple’s dot files, that they can’t patent.