When plots are sold

[Brendan D. Winter]

How about a deposit of maximum 10m, which you can refill at anytime during your tenancy, which will be saved for these times? When you run out of ss, your deposit will start paying for you at a rate of 1.25m/12h (instead of normal 1m/12h). That will give you 4 more days, and this state of the plot will be warned publicly during those days. This deposit box can also be filled by any other person. Because if I remember correctly we cannot pay an offline player right now (and we are likely not to be able to anytime soon), we can try to make this payment plot-based instead of owner-based. That way offline or not doesn't matter, a good friend can always step in to help.

Otherwise, I don't understand the idea of the original suggestion. Because of these 2 points:
1. If you are an active player: Why would you go as far as spending up all your balance when you know that you have a plot to keep and rent to pay? The point of having money in another account doesn't work well for me, changing a policy to support a multi-account-oriented culture.
2. If you are an inactive player (for weeks/months, not just a couple of days): What good does one more day do? It's not like you will be there to read the warning anyway.
3 (because I can't count) If you are inactive and have a friend who is active: This might be the only appropriate audience for this change. For this to work, it means that the warning notice is not for the owner only, but is public. In that case, if such friend failed to get the player back online, the plot would be snatched even quicker.

Everything up here is supposed to just give an insight, so I haven't yet voted for either way.

1. Because it's either something very important, you owe money to someone, or you already have the money in another account.
2. You do, in fact have a point there, but this is supposed to help those who are active and ran out of money, not inactive people. The max we could do is increase that tolerance from 1 to 3 or 5 days, but if someone is inactive for months, then it will be no use. Plus, I don't think someone is going to be without internet to vote for the server at least every now and then to keep the plot protection up.

3. I didn't get that topic very clearly, but from what I understood, you were talking about your own suggestion. If that's not the case, please be more specific.

And yes, your suggestion is indeed another option. It's even better, in a certain way. However, it might be harder to code. But, I'm not sure.