Cities And Housing Archive

We need a draw to our player cities. Something to make our hospitals and cantinas come alive. Why not have "invasions" of cities on a regular basis. Something fun and interesting like a variety of mobs that invade a city for a few hours every so often with an announcement so players can come help clear out the city.

This way the city services will be put to use and cities will have a way of introducing themselves. All cities, not just the "popular" ones. Have the mobs that invade drop some fun loot. Maybe event deeds like the tie fighter deed etc.

I so enjoyed the "events" on Stormhammer such as the spider invasion in Butcher Block and think these events would be fun and something to get players together and out from in front of the spaceports with all the spamming and buffing.

Message Edited by OldManDog on 03-26-2005 09:04 PM

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glory wrote:
We need a draw to our player cities. Something to make our hospitals and cantinas come alive. Why not have "invasions" of cities on a regular basis. Something fun and interesting like a variety of mobs that invade a city for a few hours every so often with an announcement so players can come help clear out the city.

This way the city services will be put to use and cities will have a way of introducing themselves. All cities, not just the "popular" ones. Have the mobs that invade drop some fun loot. Maybe event deeds like the tie fighter deed etc.

I so enjoyed the "events" on Stormhammer such as the spider invasion in Butcher Block and think these events would be fun and something to get players together and out from in front of the spaceports with all the spamming and buffing.

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Yes but to which cities and how would we make this fair? It would require high level CSR (maybe DEV) involvement. Obviously we can't have an event at every player city and it just wouldn't be welcomed in some. A lottery system that the Devs controlled might work. Interested player cities could submit to have events.

Why not make it available as an event deed. Make one of the requirements be that the purchaser is the mayor of a level 4 town with starport, medical center, cantina & clone center all required structures in town. When the deed gets placed have it automatically send out a server message warning all players that such and such city is about to be invaded (on whatever planet) giving them an hour warning. Only allow a mayor to do this once per month.

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thegreywolfe wrote:
Why not make it available as an event deed. Make one of the requirements be that the purchaser is the mayor of a level 4 town with starport, medical center, cantina & clone center all required structures in town. When the deed gets placed have it automatically send out a server message warning all players that such and such city is about to be invaded (on whatever planet) giving them an hour warning. Only allow a mayor to do this once per month.

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That would givescheduling power to the mayor. Realistically one would have to coordinate with the devs on when the event would occur. Since that would be case, why bother making it a deed? And there's no good reason that it should be level 4 restricted. I still think a lottery based on interested player cities is a better idea. So you can have a swarm of hermit spiders invading a newbie outpost or have a Tusken raid on a Tatooine metropolitan.

Hmm invading the real cities on a rotating basis is even better.

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glory wrote:
Hmm invading the real cities on a rotating basis is even better.

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Well knowing in advance would help to make it an event that could be enjoyed. Not much point in invading an empty city and just loitering.

WEll, after the Ewok invasion today we know it can be done lol and it was fun, I even got a live event badge.

I believe there was talk of 'City Missions' that a Mayor could sign their city up for at the appropriate terminal. Attacks were part of it. They'd be spawned in like a regular mission.

Just something I heard a while ago. Not sure if they're running with it.