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I'm running a mall just outside Coronet, and the lots are in my friends account. I keep paying the maintenance on the gulid hall, but he's been gone for almost 3 months now. how long will the building stay? I don't want to log in one day and everyone lose their vendors!

thanks, oslo

The building will stay as long as you continue to pay maintenance on it.

However, they recently announced that they will begin purging accounts that have been inactive for 6 months in October. Every month they'll do it again so once your friends account hits 6 month inactive status, all his stuff (your building) will be deleted.

If he resubscribes for one month every 6 months, that will be enough to keep his account from being purged.

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Elyssa Alexander (Elder Merchant Correspondent)
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Elyssa was 1000% correct
-Pawlin

Elyssa is right. Either way, if at all possible, I would recommend vacating the structure, having all shop owners set up their vendors in a temporary location nearby and then letting the building die and replacing it with a building that an active player controls and then move back in. of course, there are problems with that. One, it is a real pain in the butt. Two, if it really is a choice location outside of coronet it may be hard to find a nearby location to temporarily set up your new vendors that is nearby, and it may be even harder to ensure that somebody else doesn't place a building where your old mall was before you do. If the person who owns the mall ever does log in, you could transfer the structure to an active player too, but it seems that it currently isn't possible to transfer a structure with a vendor in it because of some new bug that has been introduced.

In any case, we vacated our mall and rebuilt it because it was owned by an inactive player. But we were in a player city and the mayor was coordinating the whole building transfer effort so it was easy for us to ensure that your mall's location would not be taken by somebody else during the transfer. also: it took nearly a month for the building to go poof after the maintenance was pulled down to zero. it was a long wait.

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the advice above is correct.. your options are limited.. but please vacate no matter what before 6 months of his inactivity, otherwise you lose everything.