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Thread: Lot swap solution that I just posted on the general board.
- Each account is assigned 10 lots total across all servers. Jedi accounts could "maybe" get 20 lots on just that server. This would be a perk.
- Change it so that structures in your datapad still count towards your "server specific" lots, but not towards your overall account lots. Meaning, I could have 40 lots worth of structures across all servers in my Datapad, but only 10 actually on the ground.
What this would do is allow people to play on multiple servers, yet it would seriously cut down on lot swapping. Lets say that I want to legitimitly play on 4 servers. I would still have all the storage possible of 10 lots on each server, I would just need to pick up those houses and put them in my datapad. Yet on any of those 4 servers, I could only have 10 lots worth of structures on the ground.
This would have a negative affect on people who actually want to harvest on different servers, they could only do 10 total. It would also be difficult if you had multiple vendors in your houses since you can't pick them up. However, this solution would allow people to play on multiple servers with only a little hardship, yet would eliminate lot swapping, which would benefit everybody.
Interesting approach. I still think the last suggestion would be better though. Too many people will reply here that they have a house is the *perfect* spot just outside Cnet on 8 servers and its not fair to make them give that spot up. We'll know they are lying, but it wont matter. It would also suck if you were registered in player cities on any of them. Every time you logged into that server, you'd have to get zoning, drop your house, declare...etc...
I wish the 4 programmers they have working on this entire game would get some help....
Straker_Atrella wrote:
- Each account is assigned 10 lots total across all servers. Jedi accounts could "maybe" get 20 lots on just that server. This would be a perk.
To put it simply: No, no way. I do not personally play on multiple servers, I don't have that sort of time. I do know that on the one server that I do play I have 2 small houses and 3 factories, thats 7 lots taken up.If it were not for my combat alt and guildmates, I would never have the ability to harvest enough resources to keep my vendors stocked, much less stockpile. If I were to choose to play on another server, I would be able to place one house and have room left over for one harvester (on either server).
If I were to pickup and drop my houses in order to place more harvesters, I would have to get city permissions and re-declare residence each time I wanted to replace my house. If there were multiple people in a city doing this I am certain there would be frequent shifts in city status whenever the server reset hit due to citizens failing to replace thier houses in time. (Causing major headaches for all mayors.)
I am sorry to say that your idea would have vast consequences that would cause more problems than would be solved. I aminterested to know what effect you have observed lot swapping having on server economies.I play on a smaller server (Tarquinas) so perhaps the effect is not so great upon our economy. I do agree that the endless fields of condemned harvesters are indeed a problem, but they would likely exist even without lot swapping (albeit in fewer numbers). Perhaps a better solution would be to actually have abandoned buildings actually disappear at some point. If a player can not afford to spend the time to upkeep thier investment of time in a game, let the stuff disappear...
How about posting a link to the thread you started in the general forum?
Not a good solution for me.
I have active - play every day -MDE's with shopson 2 servers (3 now that i have an MDE on Test Certer)
RasalTheWise wrote:
Straker, I know you feel strongly about this issue, but did this discussion really need to be proliferated to the Droid Engineer forum? I'm not trying to be a buzzkill here, but we should really leave the heavy non-droid discussions out of here.
How about posting a link to the thread you started in the general forum?
Well the reason I posted it here was to get the opinions of people I know and respect. DE's are crafters, so it could impact them, especially those on multiple servers. I was just curious what DE's thought about it. /shrug if it's really a problem, I can get rid of it.