Politician Archive
Thread: This week in politics: 3/14/05
Hairycarpet
Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:30 am
#14
Out city - Two Rivers, Talus, Farstar is doing very well. I have recently taken over as mayor and these early days are an important time to get a hold of all city matters. This forum and this thread are a great source of information.
The game lacks the mechanics to allow cities to manage their finances, donations are all that is left - this has to be addressed, but I dont expect much dev love any time soon.
We are slowly increasing our numbers and moving towards Metropolis rank at a steady pace, we have some fantastic crafters and one of the best cantina's in the galaxy
As with any city its the community of people that make it work, all else is there to help them, but even if it was not there, the community would be
The game lacks the mechanics to allow cities to manage their finances, donations are all that is left - this has to be addressed, but I dont expect much dev love any time soon.
We are slowly increasing our numbers and moving towards Metropolis rank at a steady pace, we have some fantastic crafters and one of the best cantina's in the galaxy
As with any city its the community of people that make it work, all else is there to help them, but even if it was not there, the community would be
awentwor
Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:28 am
#15
Hey Pappi,
I've noticed something new in the last week... and not sure if it's a bug or not. I go to the city terminal and have my three options:
1) Examine
2) City Info
3) City <whatever... can't remember what it is called>
I select #2 to view the treasury report (let's face it.. this is a huge thing to keep tabs on). Shows me the info. Select the radial again to say... look at the citizen report.. and I now only have two options where City Info is no longer there:
1) Examine
2) City <whatever... can't remember what it is called>
Any thoughts?
Leafthemedic
Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:21 am
#16
Well I sure do read this thread
All I can say is if you have not been on Test Center within the last few days you are missing something. The new draw range is an awesome sight to behold. I can now see my whole city all laid out from a peak on my city line. Now at last you can see your hard work in setting up your city, even though I knew we had a large city (116 residents and 220+ structures) the first time you can really see it all at once makes a huge difference. So if you have not experienced this dramatic new enhancement just drop in to TC-Prime to see it, great thing is any character can take advantage since there is no skill needed to to just look
G'na
Mayor of the Metropolis of Skystone, Tatooine on TC-Prime
(1500m west of Mos Entha)
Pappi
Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:44 pm
#17
Leafthemedic wrote:Well I sure do read this threadAll I can say is if you have not been on Test Center within the last few days you are missing something. The new draw range is an awesome sight to behold. I can now see my whole city all laid out from a peak on my city line. Now at last you can see your hard work in setting up your city, even though I knew we had a large city (116 residents and 220+ structures) the first time you can really see it all at once makes a huge difference. So if you have not experienced this dramatic new enhancement just drop in to TC-Prime to see it, great thing is any character can take advantage since there is no skill needed to to just lookG'naMayor of the Metropolis of Skystone, Tatooine on TC-Prime(1500m west of Mos Entha)
I have, but I haven't had time to step out of NU
as I mentioned elsewhere I'm working on a take home final due tomorrow. I did see the screenies that someone else put up though
Pappi
Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:46 pm
#18
Vshbaa wrote:Emerald City, Dantooine - Test Center
Emerald City has had a semi-eventless week. Sales in the mall have seemed to pick up with the planetary search function, allowing yet another source of income for the city (75% of the vendors are mine, and I dump cash to the city when I have it
Pappi wrote:
for those of you who've experienced the "disappearing 'city info' tab", I've reported it on the corr forum but haven't received any replies from a dev. other correspondents have experienced similar problems, and my personal guess to the issue would be that it's lag-related and was introduced in the last publish somehow. the odd thing is that while TC generally doesn't have much lag, I'm still experiencing this problem in my city hall. please remember to /bug it
I sumbitted this directly to QA when I noticed, and they assured me that they were already hard at work on the issue
actually, I got a reply from Tiggs that they've bugged this after I made this post. stop bugging the QAs
Vshbaa
Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:10 pm
#19
Pappi wrote:
Vshbaa wrote:
Emerald City, Dantooine - Test Center
Emerald City has had a semi-eventless week. Sales in the mall have seemed to pick up with the planetary search function, allowing yet another source of income for the city (75% of the vendors are mine, and I dump cash to the city when I have it
Pappi wrote:
for those of you who've experienced the "disappearing 'city info' tab", I've reported it on the corr forum but haven't received any replies from a dev. other correspondents have experienced similar problems, and my personal guess to the issue would be that it's lag-related and was introduced in the last publish somehow. the odd thing is that while TC generally doesn't have much lag, I'm still experiencing this problem in my city hall. please remember to /bug it
I sumbitted this directly to QA when I noticed, and they assured me that they were already hard at work on the issue
actually, I got a reply from Tiggs that they've bugged this after I made this post. stop bugging the QAs
It was just Seani, and it was a few weeks ago
Jutewr
Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:33 pm
#20
Defiance, Rori - Corbantis
Well, my city turned three weeks old this week, and I got my first xp as a mayor. I'm a 2-2-2-3 Politician now. My city still has 13 citizens, of which only three are active players who are not alts. /sigh I plan to start trying to recruit more. Otherwise, not much is going on here.
Vshbaa
Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:50 am
#21
Emerald City, Dantooine - Test Center
Emerald City has had a semi-eventless week. Sales in the mall have seemed to pick up with the planetary search function, allowing yet another source of income for the city (75% of the vendors are mine, and I dump cash to the city when I have it Hoping to get some pictures of the city with the new draw distance as soon as possible.
Pappi wrote:
for those of you who've experienced the "disappearing 'city info' tab", I've reported it on the corr forum but haven't received any replies from a dev. other correspondents have experienced similar problems, and my personal guess to the issue would be that it's lag-related and was introduced in the last publish somehow. the odd thing is that while TC generally doesn't have much lag, I'm still experiencing this problem in my city hall. please remember to /bug it
I sumbitted this directly to QA when I noticed, and they assured me that they were already hard at work on the issue
Norlanthale
Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:23 am
#22
Pappi wrote:
so... should I continue this thread? do people actually read it? anything you want to say about your city this week?
I read it...but I'm not a Politician. Completely up to you if you want to keep making it or not.
♥
Sighryn
Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:33 am
#23
InSeptember our former mayor quit and turned the city over to me. Except I had to run against the inertia of the inactive default votes! I didn't get in until the new rules hit...
Then it was a struggle to keep enough new residents coming in to replace the ones leaving. Hanging on to the shuttle with 56 residents... 55...
I just checked the rosters. 93 citizens, 47 votes. I coulda won this one by the -old- rules!
/flex
OB1-KaNoobie
Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:07 am
#24
man you must be doing something wrong cause i can completely fund my city including my guildhall, cantina, and about 4 or 5 other houses that i help pay maint on,all by myself as an entertainer/politician, of cousewere still currently only a township. Nice that you have citizens that help you with it tho.
Pappi wrote:
last week in politics
personally I've never had to pay for anything in the city, but that's because I have some generous citizens that cares... and I don't make money as an entertainer/politician
Pappi
Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:04 pm
#25
OB1-KaNoobie wrote:man you must be doing something wrong cause i can completely fund my city including my guildhall, cantina, and about 4 or 5 other houses that i help pay maint on, all by myself as an entertainer/politician, of couse were still currently only a township. Nice that you have citizens that help you with it tho.
Pappi wrote:last week in politics
personally I've never had to pay for anything in the city, but that's because I have some generous citizens that cares... and I don't make money as an entertainer/politician
well, try playing an entertainer on TC, then come back and tell me I'm doing something wrong O.o I'm also the mayor of a metropolis.
Cahito
Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:18 pm
#26
Every thing is doing well in my city.
I was wondering if there were any future plans to have some more player city type buildings.. such as hotels and other type of guild halls. One idea that would be goodfor player cities could be anew buildingthat could serve as a merchent hall. It could be a place where merchants could have special shops.
Overall... I am very pleased with being a politician. I just wish that there could be some new exciting options that could be added to the player cities. New buildings, allowing more trainers to be placed, and expansion of city limits would help already successful cities become more successful.
Message Edited by Cahito on 03-19-2005 06:20 PM