Survey: Stopping the home island production

[Aurboth]

Mainte-no-nance

Dear Settlers,
we are very happy to inform you of a major change:

No more weekly maintenance
From now on there won't be weekly downtime anymore!
The good old worker has retired and will only return once in a while: For special scripts and game updates.

I voted yes just so someone would have to explain why the players voted to suspend time for a function that was supposed to be removed nearly two years ago.

Just kidding, I still voted no because the disruption for players who have more inflexible schedules would be significantly worse than benefit to people who don't plan for the scheduled and unscheduled downtimes - either of the game or of life in general. While I understand the basic idea that people's consumable deposits for premium items, i.e. industrial iron/gold mine, run out and collapse, but there are better solutions. For example, just making the premium items stop when they reach a deposit of 1 and not collapse would be a significant improvement. I am also afraid that the restructuring of the entire progress-while-offline system to account for the game going offline would introduce the potential for significant errors.

[CoffeeCat]

I'd rather see a full island toggle that we can choose to stop all production if/when we wish. Then those who want it to stop during maintenance can do so, and those who want to continue can also do that. And we can also use it when we know we are going to be away on vacation, or if we suspect we may not have access to the game for an extended period (weather impacting electricity, family/work issues, etc.).

[Elgin]

Why let production run?
To let lengthy queues produce: Barracks, PH, Bookbinder

Why stop production?
To prevent loss of resources
To prevent loss of buffs
To logon to a known state

The goal here is to give the player finer control of the island, not some binary choice of run or not run.

I love the idea of stopping production on a resource before it collapses.
And why not pause the buff while you're at it.
Then you could let island production run during maintenance.

Making these choice configurable gives the player more control.

[Will157]

Yes, absolutely, yes. I don't know how many times I've lost a special mine to maintenance, scheduled, unscheduled and running over. Yes, please, stop!

[SirPool]

Absolutely NOT!!!

It is not even April the first and someone is coming up with a question like this! When you time your explorers, mines, buffs etc according to schedules, you expect those schedules to stay on schedule.

The only advantage to something like this would be to add confusion to the game

[Codazzle]

No, I want my home island to remain active during regular maintenances

[BluesDawg]

[For clarification: this is in reply to CoffeeCat's post, suggesting a "START/STOP toggle" functionality for the individual player -- missed to hit the "reply with quote" button.]

1000% YES YES YES & thumbs up for this HIGHLY DESIRABLE & ULTIMATELY USEFUL feature request !!! And a clear NO, NO F****** WAY to BB's *totally_braindead* idea of stopping everything during so called "maintenance periods" (which officially don't exist any more anyway, as various players have already pointed out).

Also 1000% YES to stackable buffs / buffing queues. Which imo should have been implemented since ages, as a matter of fairness to those players who actually have a (busy) real life and can't attend to their island 24x7.

[ghannima]

No.
No.
And... guess what... NOOOOOO


I waste enough barracks time building troops for silly quests, thank you very much, i don't want it shutting it down for dunno how many hours.
Plus this will ruin all timed buffs...

[marcopolo2901]

I am looking for those 27 who voted yes

[SSSecretSquirrel]

European players?!

i heard it was trump