Politician Archive
Thread: City Attrition Issues
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Pappi
Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:25 pm
#14
Merakesh wrote:Oh another tip...if you find your city hurting for funds, gather up like 8 players to do one run per week out of Dantooine mining. We run ours every week - taking 26k missions. One run out with 8 players will garner your city 416k. I call it a City Fundraiser and put it on the guild calendar. Regular players always come out to support it. I usually round down to 45k per player donation, so they don't incure travel costs, etc. It's voluntary, and so far we have not missed a week in about 2 months of running them (except last Friday when my fiancee gave birth to our little daughter). Our city costs 359k per week to operate at its current state. So we run a surplus on the missions, not counting other city funding such as taxes and shuttle fees. All it takes is 2 hours out of your week to keep the city funded! Hope this helps.
Merakesh
i do that too!
we do it slightly different though. we have a weekly city hunt that goes to different planets, and we have citizens (and sometimes non-citizens) sign up to do mission together. it promotes a sense of belonging in the city, plus it's fun and it funds the treasury Message Edited by Pappi on 04-20-2004 12:58 PM
RobbPilot
Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:26 am
#15
Merakesh wrote:
RobbPilot, these are actually the thoughts that kill cities. We had an awol mayor for a month. Instead of "letting it go to hell," we got all the active players, their alts, and new players in the guild to get out and vote me in. If you want to be reactive, your city will fall - if you want to be proactive, your city can be great. If you have absentee citizens, let their houses die...their citizenship die with it...that helped us greatly. Then you can take back your city.
Merakesh
Mayor, NWC
We were able to vote a new mayor in... it was hard, but we managed. All is well again.
Merakesh
Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:52 am
#16
That is great news, I am geniunely happy to hear Robb! It will take us some effort, but we can make this work. If the mayors work together on their top issues, I bet we can come up with some neat workarounds since this profession is on perma broke for atleast several more publishes. Up to us to keep our cities, citizens and profession viable
Merakesh
hajihill
Tue Apr 20, 2004 11:29 am
#17
/agrees entirely with Merakesh
There really is a lot we can do to help offset the shortcomings of our profession... This doesn't make it okay, but it makes it doable for those of us committed to making player-cities happen.
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