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Thread: Friday Feature August 12th House Packup Guide

QuantumArtist
Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:35 am
#144




Thunderheart wrote:




macnider123123 wrote:
Is this feature intended to facillitate a future server merge?



Nope. This was to facilitate the fact that after the CU, certain parts of the galaxy were much more dangerous than before. People needed an easier way to move to move their houses "as-is" and not have to redecorate. Plus its a neat feature




One I might also add was covered in great detail some 8 months ago on GameReformer.Com...


At least you all are giving someone other then yourselves, SOME of the credit.





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AluraLuxxana
Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:13 am
#145

Just one thing to be sure to think about TH. If we pack up our house and are still using the lot space, lets be sure that we have a "reserve" on our old spot just in case we cant find a better place for our homes.


Would hate to pack it up and then find that there actually isnt any space in my town or in the place I want to relocate to.Then someone snags my old spotwhile im looking.





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KaylBreinhar
Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:50 am
#146
Also, this seems like it might be pretty easy to find out a way to dupe using it.



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RuytooBasgar
Sun Aug 14, 2005 4:12 pm
#147

Can't wait for this to get implemented.


Let's hope this is the start for the character purge. They can pack up all canceled accounts into the persons D-pad.


If they do that, the lag will probably be 10 times better than it is now.




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fluffybunnymittens
Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:49 am
#148
So, is this what happened to my house that mysteriously disappeared a couple weeks ago? Did it get rolled up? The CSR response was that houses don't just disappear and then one called me a liar for reporting it and anonymously closed my ticket. I lost a lot of stuff and basically got told to go f myself by support.

Awesome, can't wait until this happens to other people so they can get the total SWG experience, too.





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QuantumArtist
Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:03 am
#149




KaylBreinhar wrote:
Also, this seems like it might be pretty easy to find out a way to dupe using it.



My thoughts exactly. I see potential problems here, like with being able to bring out more then 1 pet at a time by spamming the /call button on a pet.

Message Edited by QuantumArtist on 08-15-2005 03:04 AM



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DiggyNO
Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:46 am
#150
Several places it was suggested that mayors should be able to move citizens' structures.


This is fine by me IF I get a chance to say heeeeeeeeeeell no, and that chance should last at least a week, before the mayor gets the go-ahead.

If I don't decline within a week(..), the mayor gets the permission to move my house.


I would hate to see some terrorizing mayor moving people's houses around for their own amusement.



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Nastypope
Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:00 am
#151
I wont use this feature for weeks after it goes live becuse you know they will mess it up. I dont want to have to beg csr to get my stuff back and hear there lame reason on why I cant be helped/



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PsychoticChipmunk
Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:13 am
#152




Thunderheart wrote:




IndySWG wrote:

I have a cantina, and have since dropped Musician. If I pack it up can I replace it? If not, how do I get my items back?





House packup is for player houses only...



So that would mean a cantina, medical center, and some/most guild halls should be able to be packed up as well. While not all guild halls are used as player housing there is no other role a cantina or medical center can play. It is a unique home that select professions can place in select conditions, but still it is a home. If that wasn't the case then these would tax even more maintenance from city hall, cost 0 lots, and be destroyed with the city.



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KaiRan
Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:16 am
#153
IMO, **all** player placed, non-municipalstructures should be able to be packed up, with the stipulation that you cannot pack what you cannot place, such as denying an owner who has since dropped ent from packing their cantina.


Factories, guildhalls, merchant tents, harvestors, are all potentially suffering from the same "post-CU CL" issue, and regardless, migrant buildings like this is simply an awsome feature.


Moving an entire merchant tent from place to place, then dropping, emptying, and selling the contents of a storage house on a new vendor, picking the tent back up when the area is no longer popular after moving the vendor's contents to the storehouse and removing vendor... it'd be like a traveling bazzar! Get enough people together for this, and I bet a guild of merchants could quickly and easily keep a nomadic bazzar going from city to city, every week a new spot!



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Thunderheart
Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:30 pm
#154




Bryan1138 wrote:

OK, a few questions.


What happens to the house and contents if it runs out of maintenance while packed up? Especially if you haven't loggedon for awhile. Will it auto-deduct funds from your bank account to keep the house, will it delete, grey out and be unusable until funds are added, something more bizarre? What happens if you run out of funds altogether (i.e. no money)?


Do items in the house count in your inventory or data pad? Does the house itself count as a portion of your data and how much of the 100 item datapad allowance is it?


Thanks,


Bryan1138




Everything should work as normal.


The house should deduct maintenance until you are out ofcredits. When you are out of credits, the structure is condemned until you pay the maintenance. The items in the house count towards the house inventory.


I'm guessing, but I would say that the house counts as 1 item on your datapad.







AluraLuxxana wrote:

Just one thing to be sure to think about TH. If we pack up our house and are still using the lot space, lets be sure that we have a "reserve" on our old spot just in case we cant find a better place for our homes.


Would hate to pack it up and then find that there actually isnt any space in my town or in the place I want to relocate to.Then someone snags my old spotwhile im looking.




Once the house is picked up, it's picked up. You might scout outyour newspot before you pick up your house!







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Aviagraf
Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:26 pm
#155




Thunderheart wrote:





Eventhe city I used to be a part of up and moved. Rather than move everything, I left my old house as a lakeside retreat (AKA Rebel hideout =P ) and set up a new one in the new location.

This new feature helps players stay together





I find it hard to believe you even play the game....


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Mirkwoods
Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:21 pm
#156




Thunderheart wrote:



AluraLuxxana wrote:


Just one thing to be sure to think about TH. If we pack up our house and are still using the lot space, lets be sure that we have a "reserve" on our old spot just in case we cant find a better place for our homes.


Would hate to pack it up and then find that there actually isnt any space in my town or in the place I want to relocate to.Then someone snags my old spotwhile im looking.





Once the house is picked up, it's picked up. You might scout outyour newspot before you pick up your house!





Here's an idea. Try to find a buddy to put a house into your spot until you're replaced, if you are that worried about it. Shouldn't be too hard to do. They could also reserve spots for you in the same way.



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