Umm, you keep breaking it by putting words in my mouth.
I'm not breaking this proposal. It was fatally flawed from the beginning. I'm simply pointing out the gaping holes.
Sending letters counts as doing something doesn't it? Why would you think I meant otherwise?
You stated "...based on doing any action what so ever...". Since you didn't define what "doing any action" meant, I chose to take it to mean that they actually, you know, *did* something. Sending a letter is not within my definition of actually doing something.
Now that you've defined "doing any action what so ever" as hitting Play for their character and then
clicking any link at all, you've defined a completely useless feature. Someone could log in every day, or maybe every other day, and hold a court. Or send a single letter (I'm assuming that a private letter counts, too, so no one at all would ever have to see them, really). Or maybe send gold to their family. Or spend an hour at the academy. And in doing so contribute
absolutely nothing to the realm or the game, and be 100% immune to this particular mechanic that is supposed to penalize this exact behavior.
So what's the point of doing all this tracking of activity (which, btw, is protected by the Inalienable Rights) if it clearly and obviously does absolutely nothing at all to target those characters you think need to have surprise back surgery? The only people that will be affected will be those who don't even click the Play link for their characters. (Which, coincidentally,
we already have a mechanic to deal with.) Unless, of course, you think there's a significant portion of players who log in, and then go down the character list and click Play > Family > Play > Family > Play > Family...
There is no possible way to make this mechanic work in a manner that:
1) Is simple to define
2) Is easy to explain
3) Is easy to program
4) Is resistant to bugs
5) Actually does what it proposes to do
6) Does anything useful
Look, I tried to be polite and quick in derailing this discussion before it ever got started. I tried several times:
I don't think we will be doing this.
In fact, this entire idea is never going to get implemented in any form.
There is no point in discussing this.
Now I will be blunt:
There was never any chance that this was going to be considered.
There is exactly a 0.00% chance of it ever getting implemented.
This will never, ever be considered for implementation.
This request is a non-starter.
This is an ex-discussion.