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Where is the closest place anyone has placed a house to town? I have heard of people doing it way before the 1k limit but have nto been able to myself/

The distance varies - I just headed south out Mos Espa and kept clicking my hotkeyed Camp once it place I know I hit the limit...I think a waypoint or marker would help. I am one burst run from town and about 5-10 sec from seeing the outline of the town. I went to other planets and the no build zone feels bigger dont know because there is no way to measure the distance.

Tatooine seems to have to closetest build zone. Naboo seems to be the furthest.

Heh.. On Coronet near Kor Vella it is like 1800m from town befor you can build.. it is ridiculous really. Personally I understand them not wanting residences and all next to town, but would be nice if there were shop or store type buildings in game that were allowed to be built on the outskirts. Not sure about other planets, but on Gorath/Naboo/Theed there is a HUGE settlement of houses, shops and a milllion extractors south of town. It is pretty wierd really having the businesses all scattered about among the house and surrounded by extractors and harvesters.

Would be nice if there was a business area close to town and it had preset plots your shop had to sit on so it wouldn't become such a visualmess like ever town that has sprung up so far is.

Would be a nice feature to allow Master Merchants to build close to the city, since we did not get to be the only ones to be able to own only one house.

As everyone said, it depends. Different directions from the same city will even give different build zone lines. My shop is east of Kaadara, Naboo, along the coast. I think it's about 750 meters from the city. If I went south, I think the distance would be a bit further.

On thing to keep in mind is that spawn lairs generate temporary no-build zones around themselves.

Camps do this as well. It may be you could build much closer, but the spawns make it seem the cities no-build extends further than it really does.

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alizarinohm wrote:
On thing to keep in mind is that spawn lairs generate temporary no-build zones around themselves.

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Speaking of which.. it also pretty freaky that in the middle of what is now a rather large residential area... red con mobs are camping half the folks doorsteps. It should go both ways... houses should generate a no-spawn radius around themselves so you can actually get tothe shops/houses without worry of sudden death.

i dont know about now, but in beta the build zones on the border planets were like 100m from some towns. I built a shop on dathomir that was 50m from teh edge of the wall around the city, it actually looked like part of the town. and i know on yavin and dantooine, people were building houses all around the city, visible from the starport.

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alizarinohm wrote:
On thing to keep in mind is that spawn lairs generate temporary no-build zones around themselves.

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Yes. But isn't it interesting (and simply maddening) how our houses don't generate no spawn zones? Don't even get me started on that one.

I'm sure there was a dev post today on this somewhere..

I believe when player cities are implimented, they will generate a no-spawn zone around them, Individual buildings (as all are classed at the moment) will not

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KruppeRift wrote:

I'm sure there was a dev post today on this somewhere..

I believe when player cities are implimented, they will generate a no-spawn zone around them, Individual buildings (as all are classed at the moment) will not

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I would actually hope that this would be an option and not mandatory. Tusken's Bane now has over 65 structures and is probably even larger than Mos Espa in terms of the space it takes up. One of the great attractions to the city are the spawns. It gives the city a real "frontier" feel. Dozens of people have signed on to the "security force" to keep the residents safe. The way I would like to see it is that a city mananager could pay an extra maint fee to reduce the spawns -- this would be like paying a security force. For my money, though, I'll let them spawn -- Tarryn and his security force to a good job, plus it keeps the health care workers and entertainers employed

In Anchorhead on Kauri if you crank up your video resolution you can see player houses from town, I have had destroy missions within 500 meters and go passed these houses.