Cities And Housing Archive

Hello,

For those of you that don't know me, my name is Zafo Gentlegrass and I'm currently the mayor of Riverbend, Naboo, located in the Kettemoor galaxy. I have also been Riverbend's city planner for as long as our city has been in existence. This means that I'm responsible for the design and placement of houses in our evolving city. For the last 1.5+ years, countless hours have been spent surveying each square to determine where houses can and cannot be placed, constructing a 'to-scale' design blueprint for structure placement, and ultimately using this design to efficiently settle new citizens into or community. I have nurtured our city through its evolving design.

With that being said, I will go into detail about how the current publish 19, which increases the footprint of medium Naboo houses, is negatively impacting the city that our community has built. These are all specific to our city of Riverbend. Although some of these may not apply to all Naboo cities and that many other mayors will have their words regarding the situation, this is our story.

Riverbend utilizes the medium style house to construct brownstone type rows. No row is more than 4 houses long. We have no dead ends. With the increased footprint size, once houses start to vanish or are redeeded within these developments, there will be no possibility to replace them with any house. What we would be left with will be a 1x3 strip which no house conforms to.

Riverbend is nestled between a large hill and a body of water. The water is the end of a river, kind of like a narrow lake. This terrain limits the areas where houses can be placed. Houses with larger footprints cannot be placed in the same place as the previous smaller footprints allowed because of the hilly terrain. This limits the placement of medium houses even further. Medium houses are the most widely used houses in Riverbend and are used in such a way as to make the most efficient use of available space.

Riverbend only allows Naboo style houses, which includes Naboo square smalls, Naboo mediums, and Naboo large houses. An increased footprint to the medium style houses limits the availability of these houses, which in turn limits the variety of houses we have in the city.

The impact that this seemingly small change has is drastic. As of now, we cannot place any medium houses in our medium housing developments. Even once some start to disappear, we will still be unable to place houses in our city to replace them. Our landscape will be riddled with gaping holes that we cannot replace with any house. Our numbers will inevitably shrink as a result.

I am here to ask the developers that the current change to the footprint be reconsidered. Spend a few hours and resources to come up with a better solution to save the countless hours that have been spent by the mayors and city planners of SWG. Help protect those cities that, I'm sure, the developers have envisioned player cities to be. We have done nothing but promoted a positive gaming experience within our community, and this change seriously threatens most all that we have created. We have done nothing wrong, and I feel that by trying to prevent those that wish to exploit the use of these houses, you are also destroying those larger communities that promote a healthy gaming experience.

But don't just take my word for here it here. Tiggs, TH, Developers, and anyone out there, stop by Riverbend, Naboo (near 0,0) and see for yourself. Talk to the CSR's that drop in our garden at 0,0 regularly. Where you see the medium houses now, the current change will soon make these areas unbuildable pocket marks. Feel free and view our current city blueprint here as well.

Mayors and city planners, voice your own stories. Make it known how many people this is affecting.

This needs to be changed back, for the good of player cities.

Thank you for your time.

For the sake of all the vets who worked so hard on their cities, revert this unnecessary and ultimately useless 'fix'

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Imagine how much time it took me to get us there, please don't destroy 2 years of planning and development.