Cities And Housing Archive
Thread: Placing a new city
Message Edited by Dhuell on 06-03-2005 07:31 AM
i think a city needs to be levl 3 to place a shuttleport and the polititions needs a certain skill level as well.
I thik you're "screwed" as you put it
sorry
Jedi Paddy unlocked 11/13/05, 11:00 pm est 
There's no way to make an instant-shuttleport city. It will take at least 4 weeks at the very minimum to reach that point.
Player Cities update once a week (you can find out your update time using the City Management Terminal in City Hall). If you have enough citizens for the next rank, you go up to the next level. You can't "jump" levels. Meaning if you end up with 55 citizens your first week (pretty much impossible, though, considering the size limit of an outpost) you would go from Rank 1 to Rank 2, not to Rank 4 (which is when cities gain the ability to have a shuttle).
It is not impossible to build a city away from another shuttleport. With vehicles, it doesn't take much time to cover quite a bit of distance. It takes a bit more dedication, but in the long run that dedication will benefit you because you'll have citizens that are willing to stick with the city.
Peeter-Griffin wrote:
The only way that this would actually be possible would be if you actually had 55 (or was it 35 for lvl 3?) people come with you when you make it, build houses and the next time it updates you could place your shuttleport. Nobody would have to come to the city unless they forgot to declare or something. And if you wanted to get everyone in the starting radius they would probably all have to have small houses... Its just not really that likeley to happen. Im not sure how other people did it at all...............
The politician also requires the skill Fiscal policy 2, so if your new mayor is a noob its impossible.
Edope wrote:
The politician also requires the skill Fiscal policy 2, so if your new mayor is a noob its impossible.
this is pretty easy to get though. you should have it by the time you reach lvl4 easy
You can place your houses (leaving adequate space for the city hall) and then when you do place a city hall, at least 10 citizens within city limits (150 meters radius at rank 1 Outpost, city hall being the center point) will need to declare residency in their houses there within 24 hours. Or your city hall will autodelete.
It's simpler to just have 10 or more citizens ready to go, with small house deeds in hand, drop your city hall, everyone drop their houses within your 150 m radius, declare residency.
Also, don't dump a lot of money into the city treasury until you're sure you have the residency requirement met within 24 hours. Because if you don't and your city hall poofs, the money goes with it.
Recommended reading: The Player City FAQ stickied at the top of this forum. Most of these questions are answered in there in more detail.
