Politician Archive
Thread: Um....Baj? I'm not sure this is a good idea on TC...
This is INSANE I pay to play I have many alts which I have the RIGHT TO and now you are going to delete
my houses because I don't play them very often this is WRONG WRONG no where does it say in the
agreement that I must play each account X amount of time this is my money I pay to play and yes some of
my alts are in cities......so what who cares about city swaps if someone has the money to pay for 10 20 30
or 50 houses there is nothing in the RULES that says you can't....I have 10 lots that is 10 small naboo
houses or 10 harvesters SOE why don't you fix the things that are really broken...
Slow down guys - it doesn't say anything about your stuff being deleted - it just says that you will no longer count as a citizen. This makes perfect sense and SOE have no choice but to do this...
I have been in so many player cities that are continually empty, it must be the case that these cities are ghost towns with pretend citizens, or they simply are not being run well. This doesn't add anything to the game, and prevents other people from having an opportunity to build true player cities.
So, having people removed as citizens after a short time (it should be 4 weeks if you ask me) will remove the benefits of cheating the system by doing cross-server lot swaps and will punish those cities which are simply dead and adding nothing to the game, to allow other people a chance at doing it better.
As the mayor of a large, successful, genuine Metropolis, I welcome this and look forward to seeing some of the less than bona-fide cities fall by the way side.
The only people who should worry about this our cities made up of people who are not real players - a normal , thriving city will have nothing to fear - if you lose a genuine citizen for a couple of days because they have been away on an extended break, they can just declare citizenship again when they are back. No big problem - a mayor is not doing a good job of losing 1 or 2 citizens will have a big negative impact on the city.
Yours,
I'm concerned that your message did not include the "relic houses" issue. Many of us have no problem with kicking old inactives, but letting their houses continue to take up the room in the city is a major technical problem with their proposed solution.
It has been a major and uncontested point throughout this thread. It could cripple cities. Please make sure this is brought to their attention - regardless of whether or not they decide to prune inactives, any such action needs to be thought out alot better than this one has been. I *really* don't want to be fighting this battle after we've already been worked over and are saddled with city-blocking landmines in the form of undecayed houses of inactive players.
Abido wrote:This is very simple.
If you, as the Mayor, allowed a player to place their home (not counting those that were already in the streets) by granting zoning rights..........you made a decision on that person, sink or swim, to allow them to take up your space. This, like many of your other decisions, will have to be lived with, and you are responsible for.
- Vacations: If you have countless citizens all taking vacations at the same time, what exactly is your gripe over another city getting ahead of you during these waves of folks taking breaks?
- Military: God Bless those that serve their country. They will still have a house when they return, but the City shouldn't expect to stay ahead of other cities during military leave. Your arguments to the contrary are MORE unfair to those actively playing.
The brass tax truth of this whole dilemma is that you are responsible for every Bot House, every Military member, every vacationer, every Ghost Home. In the end, you should be weighed, measured, and if inadequate to another City, be found wanting.
Set yourselves up to be beat by others. In turn, have the opportunity to outpace another City. Don't let the first 15 minutes of that first placing day be the ruling timeframe that dictates what cities dominate a planet FOREVER! Thank you for reading this post.
That "we shouldn't be behind cities who were established first" sentiment comes across as sour grapes. Someone doesn't like the outcome of a situation where they were beaten, so they want to re-write the rules... well, of course they do.
Furthermore, no new or newly-grown cities will necessarily be any better off than any other well-built non-bot city that gets handicapped by this proposal. It's a bad idea - for everyone. The chance that some minority might benefit short-term from a random juggling is irrelevant, and does nothing to mitigate the serious long-term flaws in this plan.
Finally, the suggestion that the Mayor is responsible for *anything* (other than bot houses) that might lead to an empty house taking up city space as a result of this proposal is ludicrous. SOE, if anyone, bears responsibility for player attrition. Accusing the mayor of some sort of fictional negligence if the city suffers due to this flawed proposal is not only a bizaare failure of logic, it is an insult to the dedicated mayors of strong and growing cities everywhere.
That "we shouldn't be behind cities who were established first" sentiment comes across as sour grapes. Someone doesn't like the outcome of a situation where they were beaten, so they want to re-write the rules... well, of course they do.
This is very simple.
If you, as the Mayor, allowed a player to place their home (not counting those that were already in the streets) by granting zoning rights..........you made a decision on that person, sink or swim, to allow them to take up your space. This, like many of your other decisions, will have to be lived with, and you are responsible for.
- Vacations: If you have countless citizens all taking vacations at the same time, what exactly is your gripe over another city getting ahead of you during these waves of folks taking breaks?
- Military: God Bless those that serve their country. They will still have a house when they return, but the City shouldn't expect to stay ahead of other cities during military leave. Your arguments to the contrary are MORE unfair to those actively playing.
The brass tax truth of this whole dilemma is that you are responsible for every Bot House, every Military member, every vacationer, every Ghost Home. In the end, you should be weighed, measured, and if inadequate to another City, be found wanting.
Set yourselves up to be beat by others. In turn, have the opportunity to outpace another City. Don't let the first 15 minutes of that first placing day be the ruling timeframe that dictates what cities dominate a planet FOREVER! Thank you for reading this post.