Disappearing Neighbors: What Happened to Them?

[Aethelcatt VIII]

Have you ever noticed some of your neighbors disappearing in the middle of the night, never to be seen again? I mean, like a player who had a very profitable GB project you were thinking about investing in, or one whom you had attacked before for a quest and wanted to go back later and aid, only to find out that they had vanished without a trace? I have seen it happen mostly with players near the top or the bottom of the neighborhood ranking, but it probably happens across the entire social spectrum. I thought maybe some of the more destitute ones at the bottom of the society had committed suicide--I mean, deleted their accounts--after a night of heavy drinking, but it is hard to imagine that happening to the very affluent neighbors who live in very fancy cities. And I'm pretty sure they don't move neighbors around between neighborhood reshuffles.

So, could it be that...those neighbors were taken away by the secret police under the cover of darkness and thrown into an undocumented prison--or even executed before dawn?

 

[Sharmon the Impaler]

You do know that you switch neighborhoods every 2nd Tuesday right ?

 

[Sharmon the Impaler]

Look for the “New contacts made” pop up which tells you that you’ve moved

 

[Johnny B. Goode]

You do know that you switch neighborhoods every 2nd Tuesday right ?

I don't know where you live, but in the US it happens on Monday morning.

 

[Sharmon the Impaler]

I don't know where you live, but in the US it happens on Monday morning.

Look for the "New Contacts" pop up no matter where you live. All the switching happens between Monday at 8am (I think) and Tuesday at 8 am depending on where you live. This can be a good thing for some people when you get a bad neighbour or two.

 

[Agent327]

Look for the "New Contacts" pop up no matter where you live. All the switching happens between Monday at 8am (I think) and Tuesday at 8 am depending on where you live. This can be a good thing for some people when you get a bad neighbour or two.

Switching does not happen when the pop-up appears. Switching happens on a fixed server time on Monday morning every two weeks. Pop-up appears much later most of the time.

 

[The Lady Redneck]

Are you sure they have actually vanished. I found lately I had some on my FL appeared to have gone, and also new names appeared I had never seen before. BUT. it is now a little over 6 months since the game allowed us to change our name once every 6 months. I know a couple of friends who have changed their names. So I should think that more have done so.

 

[P C C]

On rare occasions, it may because a player asked for their city or account to be deleted

 

[Agent327]

Are you sure they have actually vanished. I found lately I had some on my FL appeared to have gone, and also new names appeared I had never seen before. BUT. it is now a little over 6 months since the game allowed us to change our name once every 6 months. I know a couple of friends who have changed their names. So I should think that more have done so.

He is trying to be funny.

Players that are inactive for a certain period are removed from the hood. If they become active again before the hood changes, they will become part of the hood again. If they remain inactive, they will go to a hood with inactive players.

Since players now can change their name once every 6 months, names on your friendlist can change.

 

[MJ Artisan of War]

It's the zombies... When they bite a hoodie they leave the city to roam that horrible zombie existence...

 

[Aethelcatt VIII]

You do know that you switch neighborhoods every 2nd Tuesday right ?

I'm talking about people disappearing from the neighborhood between neighborhood reshuffles. I regularly browse the top end of the neighborhood to look for opportunities for GB BPs, and before I started playing PvP I used to roam around the bottom end looking for someone to attack for a quest, so I get fairly familiar with the top and bottom players in the neighborhood. When one of them suddenly disappears, it is quite noticeable. Like this morning, the former 2nd-ranking player in my neighborhood was nowhere to be found--and clearly neighborhood reshuffle/switch is not a factor here.

 

[Aethelcatt VIII]

Are you sure they have actually vanished. I found lately I had some on my FL appeared to have gone, and also new names appeared I had never seen before. BUT. it is now a little over 6 months since the game allowed us to change our name once every 6 months. I know a couple of friends who have changed their names. So I should think that more have done so.

I did notice that on the FL, but I'm talking about the neighbor list. Usually you see the same players at the top (or bottom) of neighborhood ranking day after day, although sometimes the order changes; then occasionally one of them would simply disappear completely from the neighborhood--not a name change, nor a new avatar, because those would not be hard to figure out if you look through the neighbor list as often as I do.

 

[Aethelcatt VIII]

On rare occasions, it may because a player asked for their city or account to be deleted

I can see that happen near the bottom end of neighborhood ranking, but definitely not at the top end--you know, the part of the neighborhood inhabited by players with tens of millions of points under their belt. Same thing about the possibility of automatic elimination of inactive players. The player who disappeared from my neighborhood this morning ranked pretty high last week in the combat tournament--definitely not inactive.

So, I can only guess that they do move people around between neighborhood reshuffles.

 

[Aethelcatt VIII]

It's the zombies... When they bite a hoodie they leave the city to roam that horrible zombie existence...

Now that's a more viable hypothesis...

 

[Emberguard]

So, I can only guess that they do move people around between neighborhood reshuffles.

it's when a player goes inactive. They don't ever get moved to a new neighbourhood outside of shuffles

 

[Aethelcatt VIII]

it's when a player goes inactive. They don't ever get moved to a new neighbourhood outside of shuffles

Um...you missed all the stuff I wrote before that sentence.

 

[Emberguard]

Um...you missed all the stuff I wrote before that sentence.

My bad. Let me re-read that.

The player who disappeared from my neighborhood this morning ranked pretty high last week in the combat tournament--definitely not inactive.

If you believe they were active and somehow moved out of your neighbourhood, please put in a support ticket and my former colleagues will look into it

 

[Aethelcatt VIII]

If you believe they were active and somehow moved out of your neighbourhood, please put in a support ticket and my former colleagues will look into it

You worked with Inno Games before? No wonder you know this stuff so well.

It's not really an issue that needs tech support's attention, though. I was just wondering in an idle moment whether people do get re-settled in a different neighborhood between re-shuffles.

 

[Emberguard]

You worked with Inno Games before?

Yes. Contract ended earlier this year

It's not really an issue that needs tech support's attention, though. I was just wondering in an idle moment whether people do get re-settled in a different neighborhood between re-shuffles.

I was thinking along the lines of checking if it’s working within expected parameters or if there’s a bug. I suspect it’s working as intended based on the info given

 

[Aethelcatt VIII]

Yes. Contract ended earlier this year

I was thinking along the lines of checking if it’s working within expected parameters or if there’s a bug. I suspect it’s working as intended based on the info given

Nice! It's good to have someone in the forum who knows the inner works of the game.

Yeah, I doubt it would be a bug. If it were, the people involved would have been making noises about it for a long time now.