USS Monitor wrote:Tarsonis Survivors wrote:Three would be much more reasonable than 5
I may be biased because I've had puppets that I left dormant longer than 3 years, but I prefer 5. I think if we need to free up more names, we should focus on ones that have been dead for a very long time, and raise the population limit for those.
While I understand the puppet position, I think that's more on the responsibility of the user to maintain their army of puppets. I think the limit should be considered with the idea of active nations, more than puppets, in mind. Five years is quite an extensive chunk of time, especially for nations that only last a month or two, and are never heard from again. It's also not just about freeing up names. Some players want a specific name, and it can be quite frustrating when one sojourner on the internet spent one day on the site and happened to take the nation name you want, now that name is locked down for five years.
I think 2-3 three years is a much more reasonable time to put a hold on nation name. Serious players have ample time to come back, and one off nations aren't locked down for an overwhelmingly long period.