Cities And Housing Archive

First off, let me clear up some misconceptions before I go into my rant on how Politicians are royally screwed...

1) Money is pulled from your bank when the structure takes damage, not when it gets to 0% Condition. I have a house in my city that I am admin on. 2 days ago it was at 31%. Now with the new patch, it's still at 31%. I also have an idea on how much money the owner had before they left SWG. It's over 500K. This house will be around now forever.

2) People that delete their toons- Their houses and structures DO NOT *POOF*. Again, there is a house in my city that I KNOW who the owner is. I tried to add them to my Friends list and I got Invalid character name (Or whatever it says). According to a CSR, that means that name does not exist in the Galaxy, period.

3) Do not count on the toon purge. This was suppose to happen in October of last year. We are now 3-4 months past when it was suppose to happen and there is no sign of it happening, despite what the Devs are saying. Much like many promised things (CU, GCW Revamp, Smuggler Revamp... etc.) it will not happen within the next 6 months minimum.

Now the rant-

Lets face it everyone... SOE is in trouble and they know it. They are hoping for return players as they put out the CU and other upgrades so they are doing everything in their power to retain items from people thatdeactivated their accounts. IMO, there will be no toon purge. It's the brass ring and the dangling carrot.

Cities? SOE could care less. It's a HUGE money sink for them because they already know THEY let the economy get screwed up by leaving dupes and exploits in the game. Let's face it, a Force Sensative Crafter has a better bonus then any city could offer. Research Center (Most popular) only gives a mod of 15%. A FS Crafters get 20%. They do not stack so it's either one or the other. Golly... pay taxes or keep the money and get a better bonus. DUH! No brainer there.

IMO (again) these changes to structures and cities only accomplishes 2 things for SOE to try and "fix" what they jacked up. 1) Pulls extra money from the economy and 2) Makes returning players happy.

For the regular player that live in cities and for politicians... we just get the shaft. Thanks SOE. BTW, hear that sound? That's the sound of 3 of my 5 accounts being deactivated. At least I have have the common decency to remove my structures from the game before I do it.