I was logging in at least once every 24 hours making sure i wasn't maxed out and using my resources so i wouldn't be sitting idle. I have a weekend where I have to pick up my son from two states away and didn't login for maybe 36 hours and I get some message saying that I was idle and I need to find someone to sit my account while I'm away. It is a GAME and if me not logging in for a span of a day and a half is going to make you lose...then you were never going to win to start with. So I left the alliance and hit the delete button because at that point it isn't fun anymore when you are taking something that serious.