I became ill, sickness and the resulting anxiety kept me away for a while. I didn’t mind losing my builds and land, but losing all the material that took 100’s of hours to gather was a game changer, I really have no desire to return to grinding out all that gathering. Another player said “Oh it’s no big deal to log in every week, grab some leaves and refuel”, but when you suffer a real crisis in life, logging into a game easily escapes your mind, even for months if it’s serious enough. I don’t see players who lose everything, purposely or not, ever returning. It seems like this will have a real impact on population over time if players have no desire to come back and check out new updates if it means re-grinding to gather everything for a new build. A Vault system seems needed to me.