As Luke said above..."There are many of us who have been playing in this world for years. The world is over ten years old and many people are invested in it. It allows players to not worry incessantly about losing a city but still have fun and compete to group and fight over ghosts. Please do not ruin a good thing".
The only reason I returned to play was the because I did not have to worry about losing cities, 24/7, that I spent a lot of time on building and growing.
Update 1/29/25:
Never knew if RL kicked in and you didn't login for 30 days, your account is deleted...period. Game, Gold, years of play, gone. Guess I should have stayed retired from game.