Cities And Housing Archive
Thread: Ghost Town
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campamania
Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:09 pm
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Hi
I have a problem - my old guild has sadly died a death - last count down to 8 members (from originally 80+). However, the city hallis showing68 residents (even though 2 of the players on the list are residents in my new guild town - Tranquility Lake). Most of these players on the listi have never heard of or i know havent played for ages or have moved cities/guilds. I have heard that there is a limit on shuttleports on a planet. I am alsotold that Europe Chimaera is at that limit. So we have a'ghost' town with a shuttleport and a new town approaching level 4 size but which may be unable to get shuttleport due to the 'ghost' town having one.
1. Is it true there is a limit on shuttleportsper planet? if so, what is that limit?
2. Is Europe Chimaera at/approaching that limit
3. Why would residents in my city still be showing as residents of this old city?
4. How do you get rid of a/reduce the size of a'ghost' town?
any suggestions most welcome
Poldano
Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:58 pm
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These questions are probably covered in FAQ threads somewhere, but I'll have fun dishing out possibly true information anyway.
Toons have to actually undeclarecitizenship when they redeed their houses that are in cities.
Ifone moves away from a city,one can still bea citizen there, and alsoa citizenof another city whereone moved to. This is a possible exploit that inflates the citizenship of many old cities.
On the other hand, if a city shrinks, everytoon who was residingin the larger area and is not residing in the smaller area is automatically removed from the citizen roster.
You might be able to help a city shrink by getting active players declared as citizens there to revoke their own citizenship. Once shrinking starts, if there are enough declared inactive citizens inlost areas,the cascade effect ofshrunk-out citizensmight actually causethe city hallto disappear in a few cycles. However, if the citizenship is inflated with people who moved away before going inactive, nothing can be done to speed the city to its inevitable demise without becoming a resident.
That said, here is a possible way that might be considered an exploit. Move yourself to a vacant city. Run for mayor. When you get elected mayor, delete the city hall. Needless to say, if this is an actual active city with the misfortune of having a population on extended vacation, on missions of dire national security, or ill, then you will have done a very dastardly deed indeedand deserve to get banned.
Saego, Wanderhome.
josslyn
Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:08 pm
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campamania wrote:
Hi
I have a problem - my old guild has sadly died a death - last count down to 8 members (from originally 80+). However, the city hallis showing68 residents (even though 2 of the players on the list are residents in my new guild town - Tranquility Lake). Most of these players on the listi have never heard of or i know havent played for ages or have moved cities/guilds. I have heard that there is a limit on shuttleports on a planet. I am alsotold that Europe Chimaera is at that limit. So we have a'ghost' town with a shuttleport and a new town approaching level 4 size but which may be unable to get shuttleport due to the 'ghost' town having one.
1. Is it true there is a limit on shuttleportsper planet? if so, what is that limit?
2. Is Europe Chimaera at/approaching that limit
3. Why would residents in my city still be showing as residents of this old city?
4. How do you get rid of a/reduce the size of a'ghost' town?
any suggestions most welcome
Might i suggest going to Clicky Goodness!
That guide is fantastic to use for player created cities. 
1. There is a limit.. this can be found in the link provided above.
2. Does not depend on the server really - depends on the planet that you're on.
3. There is a known bug that makes it so you can have "dual citizenship". To revoke citizenship from the oldcity you simply have to go to the City Hall Management Terminal (in that city) and choose the "revoke citizenship" option.
4. There is no way at this time for Ghosted Cities to "disappear". The greatcharacter purge seems to be "slowly" making its way here but i wouldn't hold my breath on that as it has been being discussed since October 2004.
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