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Great idea, but try to imagine the thousands of toons people have created since launch, and also thousands of timers keeping track of all those toons. Server performance would certainly change.

A minute-by-minute timer would for each individual would indeed be difficult, yes. Server speed would definitely take a huge hit.

That said, you can perform an extremely similar 'days inactive' function with a very simple algorithm.

Basically, you'd create counters for each character that increment server-wide at a certain time (say 6AM EST). When a player logs in, the character's counter would reset to zero.

The counter could then be displayed as a statistic in one's public profile and beneath a char's name in the social tab. Wouldn't take up much server space at all. It's essentially just a big array of changeable integers.

I don't know what programming tools STS is using, so I can't presume to know how they go about writing new programs/code, but I'd estimate it would be no more than a week's worth of work, + testing, + approval, +implementation.