Cities And Housing Archive
Thread: Character purge and city population
Did you have enough maintenance in the houses when you left? It's only been recently added that they'll go to condemned status when they run out of maintenance. Before that, they would just poof along with everything inside.
Gelco_Darkfly wrote:
Does anyone else think the devs should perhaps give cities a 2-3week grace after the purge to recruit new players if needed and the city wont droprank.
eric899818 wrote:
yeah, supose to be a month i think. But i wish no, its about time the current cities fall, and most of them will luckily. Not to be a jerk or anything but this is one aspect of the game unavailable to most paying customers and just like in real life the cities shouldnt last forever, i wont bother touching on the other part of the game unavailable to most people (JEDI).
First off have u made a city and no how much effort goes into it? If you had Im sure you wouldnt say stuff like that. Cities are avalible to anyone but they take an awful lot of time and money to run. Taxes etc dont cover the costs so u either have to donate money personally or guild hunts etc to sustain the town. Most players wont want the high level of problems associated with running a city. So after building and working hard on a city for months and months i doubt any people will be happy to see their city crumble. A month seems fair.
quick note on ur other point although not the right board. jedi is avalible to everyone in the game hence ppl complaining about to many jedi so dont even start on that point lol.
Message Edited by drachenfire on 06-24-2005 05:33 AM
Actually my mayor and I are awaiting the player housing purge and were disappointed to learn that there would be a period where we would not drop ranks. I don't think of it as the city "crumbling," I see it as all the deadwood being cleared away so we have room to grow.
Gelco_Darkfly wrote:
First off have u made a city and no how much effort goes into it? If you had Im sure you wouldnt say stuff like that. Cities are avalible to anyone but they take an awful lot of time and money to run. Taxes etc dont cover the costs so u either have to donate money personally or guild hunts etc to sustain the town. Most players wont want the high level of problems associated with running a city. So after building and working hard on a city for months and months i doubt any people will be happy to see their city crumble. A month seems fair.
I am going to take the opposite view of the original poster here. Does it suck that cities will drop? Yes. But that is (somewhat) the point. There are a lot of these so-called ghost towns that don't really deserve to be at whatever level they are at. I have run a metropolis (that was really hurt by the FIRST purge) and I have run a simple outpost. In the end, it was my duty, as mayor, to ensure that the city was ready for every possibility that might arise. In general, I always tried to have double the required population for whatever level it was that I wanted to sustain. If I just wanted a shuttle for my residents, I felt truly safe when I had 110 residents. My current town has residents, and all but three are very active. I still don't feel entirely safe, but I am not too worried.
The plain fact is that it is NOT unfair that cities will shrink or cease to exist completely. If it happens to you, you merely have yourself to blame. You can say that it is because of a purge, or whatever, but as mayor, it is YOUR responsibility to oversee all aspects of your town. If you are really that worried about the purge, get out now and start recruiting. We have no timetable for this action and will likely have time to get warm (active) bodies into the various homes. But remember this: communication is the key to a successful city. Don't bring in flakes and your city won't be flakey come the purge.
Jutewr wrote:
Gelco_Darkfly wrote:
Does anyone else think the devs should perhaps give cities a 2-3week grace after the purge to recruit new players if needed and the city wont droprank.
From what I've heard, they do plan on doing just that.
Oh...thank God! That was a little scary....I didn't know they were going to do that 
Dryc wrote:
Because you're talking aobut the upcoming purge i'd assume this would be okay to ask: what happened to stuff in the frist purge to stuff? i want my house back!
There has never been a character purge yet. They talked about it back in October, but it didn't happen.