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Thread: Friday Feature August 12th House Packup Guide
Today's Friday Feature looks forward at an upcoming feature: House Packup.
House Packup is a new feature that makes moving your house and everything in it simple and easy!
Special thanks to Drashk for his house packup insights!
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Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
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
Does that mean there is no plan for a server merge? I know that the populations of some of the smaller servers would welcome a merge. Even some of the larger servers could use an injection of different players to spice things up.
Thunderheart wrote:
Today's Friday Feature looks forward at an upcoming feature: House Packup.
House Packup is a new feature that makes moving your house and everything in it simple and easy!
Special thanks to Drashk for his house packup insights!
Have a great weekend!
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Great Feature guys!
One question (I am sure it has been asked) but if I have 2 large houses (all lots taken) and I pack up one of them, can it Place it again even thoughI have 0 lots available?
Thunderheart wrote:
mikalar wrote:
So lets say I hae a large house and 2 free lots, I pack up my large house (I still have 2 free lots) go to another planet. Can I then drop my large house? Will the system realize I am reusing those 5 lots dedicated to the packed house?
Yes - packing up a house does not free up those lots.
- Yes, I know that the 5 are already accounted for as you do not get slots back for packing your house, but it was a BUG on Test Center and I would hope it would be fixed before going live, so has that bug been fixed?
TH,
Could this new house pack option be made to autopack an inactive players house. Lets say player Joe Smith does not log on for sixty days then the sever on startup says ok this player is inactive and packs the house up and puts itin Joe Smiths datapad and next time he logs on he could place it again. This would be awsome for player city's. It would also reduce server load and would get rid of ghost towns as well. I was Mayor of our city for a long time and I hated peeps that left game and did not pull there house up. This would solve that problem
Samath
Message Edited by Samath on 08-12-2005 01:19 PM
Thunderheart wrote:
HudsenH wrote:
Next publish, like it says in the guide.
Just to be clear, it said, "...in an upcoming publish."
In that case thanks AGAIN TH for giving us a game guide thats either outdated or currently useless...stellar job
Samath wrote:
TH,
Could this new house pack option be made to autopack an inactive players house. Lets say player Joe Smith does not log on for sixty days then the sever on startup says ok this player is inactive and packs the house up and puts itin Joe Smiths datapad and next time he logs on he could place it again. This would be awsome for player city's. It would also reduce server load and would get rid of ghost towns as well. I was Mayor of our city for a long time and I hated peeps that left game and did not pull there house up. This would solve that problem
Samath
Message Edited by Samath on 08-12-2005 01:19 PM
As mentioned in other posts this is something that they are discussing and passing onto the team... *crosses fingers* I can only hope that we'd finally be able to effectively run a Player City.