While I do agree that some places that aren't active should be repurposed or removed. It's hard to actually gauge that in practice. It's not like G6 where you could suspect a house wasn't in use because of the contents of the house (e.g. the house is blank; ergo nobody's actually using it) or later on where it was automated by whether anyone is actually entering the place or not.
At best, we'd be going off of suspicions or details like "player who asked for this no longer plays the game, ergo it's probably not in use"
Only real idea I have is something akin to a demolition notice on the server that goes "well, we suspect this place isn't in use anymore, so we're gonna have this place axed in the next major update, if it's still in use, give a holler and we'll not go through with it"
But since it'd still be based on taking a player's word for it and there's not really a fair way to gauge how used somewhere actually is, it may just result in erring on the side of caution and barely anything changing to begin with.
All that aside though, if people want more land, it could be arranged potentially, even outside of future "expansion" updates. In fact, I'm sorta doing that for one of the map requests I just did... That said, I'd advise considering requesting such in a way that isn't going to be a hassle to implement.
For instance, adding extra maps to the interior of the donut wouldn't be a great idea, since it'd add time to round trips around Korvara and might be a bit hard to suspend disbelief for it to work. Not to mention there'd be the maps outside that ring to consider since they'd no longer line up with the interior ones. But if you, for instance, wanted a new cave dug out somewhere, that'd should be do-able without any big issues.
At best, we'd be going off of suspicions or details like "player who asked for this no longer plays the game, ergo it's probably not in use"
Only real idea I have is something akin to a demolition notice on the server that goes "well, we suspect this place isn't in use anymore, so we're gonna have this place axed in the next major update, if it's still in use, give a holler and we'll not go through with it"
But since it'd still be based on taking a player's word for it and there's not really a fair way to gauge how used somewhere actually is, it may just result in erring on the side of caution and barely anything changing to begin with.
All that aside though, if people want more land, it could be arranged potentially, even outside of future "expansion" updates. In fact, I'm sorta doing that for one of the map requests I just did... That said, I'd advise considering requesting such in a way that isn't going to be a hassle to implement.
For instance, adding extra maps to the interior of the donut wouldn't be a great idea, since it'd add time to round trips around Korvara and might be a bit hard to suspend disbelief for it to work. Not to mention there'd be the maps outside that ring to consider since they'd no longer line up with the interior ones. But if you, for instance, wanted a new cave dug out somewhere, that'd should be do-able without any big issues.