The delegation system works quite well, but it still lacks any clear limitations. Players can still be managed by others throughout a whole game, which is not what the system was intended for.

A possible solution:

In the player lists you can already see if somebody's account has been delegated to someone else or not. It seems easy to use this information to create a 'delegation clock': every day account X is delegated to anyone else, the clock starts counting (e.g. "at 23:59 o' clock", is account X delegated to anyone yes or no?"). We could let the clock start at 20 days and count down the days the account is delegated. When the clock reaches 0, it is turned off and an 'idle clock' starts counting days until we turn it off. When the idle clock reaches 10, the account is up for grabs for an idle takeover player or can be deleted.

The numbers of days and the rules can be debated, but would this basic idea work? Also, is this technically easy to carry out or is it harder than it seems? Anyone interested in giving it a try?