Politician Archive
Thread: This needs addressed-Yes Developers this means you
Like I said before, move your PA to the little pinprick city, declare residence and vote the mayor out. Rename the city and Voila! You have your city without paying tons of money for the City Hall. All you people that are crying about the cap. I feel for you. But I'll tell you want, there is a vote for mayor of each city every week. If a little itty bitty city went up, you can do a hostile take over of the city. If you have the members to do it, it's not hard to do.
Mastermynd wrote:
We were in the same boat as most of others that planned and worked hard to have a player city. Had almost everything ready to throw together only to find out that while I was working all cities have been taken up. I was rather bored and the player city promise was what kept me playing and paying. Well I plan on finishing the rest of my move and give SOE, LucasArts and the Devs till the end of this weekend to fix this major mess up. Come Monday morning if I still can not place my player city I will move on to another game. It is rather tasteless to offer everyone the choice to build a city and then they pull this stunt. I have even seen people begging to get citizens which tells me that those not even ready for a city now have one because of the very poor roll out of cities. It is just getting very old paying to play a game that is always just a little bit behind, a little bit lazy, a little bit late on everything and just screwed over alot of people that have spent significant amount of time and effort to get slapped in the face. Oh well it has been nice playing since I truly doubt anything on this will be fixed quickly, we still have bugs from early on in the game. There is nothing like a tradition of missing deadlines, misleading paying customers and just in general not caring.
I have to agree that SOE meesed this one up pretty bad. I believe that if you truly want a city to be build find one of your small PA's that started a small city, and will most likley grow above a tier 2 or 3, and negotiate with them. List the reasons that your spot would be better than there current one. Talk to them as a politician and barter. Give a little take a little. Obviously the Devs are not going to fix this any time soon, so lets work together on this instead of trying to flame each other. I am currently a member of a outpost on Naboo, Wanderhome. For those of you on the server who were disreguarded by SOE please contact me in game and I will talk to our current mayor and PA Leader. For most this will not alleviate the problem but it may start something that we as players can handle and show the Devs who truly make this game great. Us the players.
As far as negotiating, maybe give the City owner a prime spot for markets or a block close to the shuttle port location. Some thing that will make them change their minds. I for one would love to live in a large metropolis with prime land. Perhaps you could even buy them out. Just some ideas that might help some. Again contact me in game or post on the Wanderhome forum and I will talk to our Mayor. Lets take care of this like adults and keep the game fun and interesting.
Ykreko Emedouthi
Deputy Mayor
Haven, Naboo
Like I said before, move your PA to the little pinprick city, declare residence and vote the mayor out. Rename the city and Voila! You have your city without paying tons of money for the City Hall. All you people that are crying about the cap. I feel for you. But I'll tell you want, there is a vote for mayor of each city every week. If a little itty bitty city went up, you can do a hostile take over of the city. If you have the members to do it, it's not hard to do.
Won't work if the city is smart. GrantZoningRights.
Aye .. if someone places 300m away and GrantZoningRights theres that 1k exculsion zone .. your not in the city .. but you cant create your own, and you cant build in theirs. 
I am not understanding your time zone idea.........I am EST and I was on all day. From the time the servers went down I knew something was up...........I went and played C&C generals and came back to notice the patch was implimented.......Hmmm.......I had to
A:Clean up skills points
B:Train the rest of my 400+ Apprentice points
C:Travel to and from Politician Trainer
D: Go from Moenia to Theed, back to Moenia
Mind you all that hours were spent by this time.........then I found out Naboo, Tattooine and another planet were full........with no mount travel'd out and could not find a spot. Finally went to Talus and checked........yup got me a city there.
Yes I was off work today but I honestly didn't put my city hall up till after midnight EST
FYI...........don't worry too much about the slots that are taken....35k per week maintenance should open some up for you millionaires out there to get your cities anyway...
I share people's frustration, but not their rage. Let me tell you a little story.
My PA has long resided around Wayfar, a long run but what we felt would be a fertile area for a shuttleport (we started building there week 2 of the game.) We knew about a month ago that the position we had picked wasn't ideal after all -- we were too close to Wayfar and the Jabba attraction, and sandwiched near another large development. We began scouting out alternate locations (moving from North Wayfar to South Wayfar) but we didn't move yet so that we could assay who placed halls sooner.
When PA members got home from work last night, they started logging on. City Hall built by 6:30PM EST, Politician trained by 6:45PM, discovery that Tatooine had reached it's cap by 6:50PM. We were, to say the least, disappointed, but not dejected -- as Dantooine had been deemed a suitable substitute by the PA.
So, 9PM we were founding the city of Arissi on Dantooine instead of the city of Mos Vegas on Tatooine. The PA is terribly excited ... the introduction of mounts and our PA creature handler meant the 3K run to the new city from the Mining Outpost seemed much quicker than the 4K run from Bestine to Wayfar ever was. The economic possibilities of the location we chose was ideal -- we even got a POI statue (dubbed St. Yamface of Arissi) and a fishing lake to boot!
I'll add that it's a 9-person PA forming the base of this city, but then we know we're founding a city that we intend to see grow and not just under the control of a single PA, so it's hardly a wasted city slot.
So while it was just frustrating for our PA to watch our dreams of a shuttleport near Jabba collapse, it was actually an extremely enjoyable evening for the whole PA, and people seem resigned but positive about the long move from Wayfar to Dantooine and the politics of convincing some of the non-PA residents to migrate as well ... but then, those kinds of political challenges are what starting a city is all about, right?
Keep positive -- the city patch is a great thing, even if it was launched in a less than ideal way.
Carvin Abrok - Propogandist/Rogue/Politican
Developers please make this easily accessible so more people do not move their cities.
Thunderheart said that the caps would be lifted on the next publish in the beginning of December.
Ok first let me say that yesterday was the first day i had been on in over a week. Next lets go into the fact that I am not a powergamer I work anywhere from 40 to 80 hours a week. Next lets take in the fact that i had no idea that the patch was comeing out, I just got lucky. Then with the help of 4 guildmates (who were all actually cought up in the middle of dealing with mounts) and myself, we were able to go to the boards, find an architect, tell the architect get the deed, i went and got trained as politician, get to our guildsite which was not setup for a city hall that size, get a place after trying several times to place the hall, and successfully became a city. Some people were prepared, some were not. We were not prepared at all, but got lucky. Is it fair? Maybe not, but hey everyone can find something thats not fair, every crafter or combat type can find an advantage in something else. Hey i don't remember opening my FSS the first day i could, wait its still not open is that fair? why complain maybe be happy for the few that did get it. Someone just like you maybe got lucky. Someone like you is sitting there upset because they dont have a city. You know what? I have a city and it is already causing issues between a few friends. You know what if you want to be a politician learn how not to be a sore loser otherwise you might get fewer votes then you want. Also relize that votes mean your xp so if you win but dont get many you get less xp. Yea cities are nice but hey see about moving into one! each guild does not need its own city then we would have nothing but cities covering the planets and while Coruscent is nice to visit i don't want to live there. Hey there may even be a few cities that dont want to be large remember its up to the mayor to decide who can build in the city.Zoneing rights so griefing will not be an issue for the smart politicians out there.
Mayor Darkan
Skulls Crossing, Tattooine 3660,-2990
Visit our Vendors for great deals we have all your shopping needs
The City website will be up soon at its temporary location www.blueskulls.com/skullscrossing
Scylla
Ok first let me say that yesterday was the forst day i had been on in over a week. Next lets go into the fact that I am not a powergamer I work anywhere from 40 to 80 hours a week. Next lets take in the fact that i had no idea that the patch was comeing out, I just got lucky. Then with the help of 4 guildmates (who were all actually cought up in the middle of dealing with mounts) and myself, we were able to go to the boards, find an architect, tell the architect get the deed, i went and got trained as politician, get to our guildsite which was not setup for a city hall that size, get a place after trying several times to place the hall, and successfully became a city. Some people were prepared, some were not. We were not prepared at all, but got lucky. Is it fair? Maybe not, but hey everyone can find something thats not fair, every crafter or combat type can find an advantage in something else. Hey i don't remember opening my FSS the first day i could, wait its still not open is that fair? why complain maybe be happy for the few that did get it. Someone just like you maybe got lucky. Someone like you is sitting there upset because they dont have a city. You know what? I have a city and it is already causing issues between a few friends. You know what if you want to be a politician learn how not to be a sore loser otherwise you might get fewer votes then you want. Also relize that votes mean your xp so if you win but dont get many you get less xp. Yea cities are nice but hey see about moving into one! each guild does not need its own city then we would have nothing but cities covering the planets and while Coruscent is nice to visit i don't want to live there. Hey there may even be a few cities that dont want to be large remember its up to the mayor to decide who can build in the city.Zoneing rights so griefing will not be an issue for the smart politicians out there.
Mayor Darkan
Skulls Crossing, Tattooine 3660,-2990
Visit our Vendors for great deals we have all your shopping needs
The City website will be up soon at its temporary location www.blueskulls.com/skullscrossing
Scylla
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Weekly resource shifts, huge maintainance costs, andall cities snatchedup in minutes?!?! Basically, ifSWG is not the center ofyour life..... then you can'tplay it!
No doubt. So true it's not even funny...
First, I'd like to say that I understand everyone's frustration. Getting your own player city would have been awesome for a lot of the people that didn't get one. However, I don't understand the outcries. My PA is not a large PA, it's only average. We managed to place our city on one of the primary planets, and wesome of us have jobs. We are spread out all over the country, so it was up to our east coast players and some in college or stay home members to place the city. That's just good PA cooperation. Which brings me to my next point.
Until the patch, NO ONE had cities. We all relied upon the shuttleports and starports of the existing cities to get where we wanted to go. Nothing has really changed for those of you that missed out on placing a city. You still have to rely on those existing (or soon to be existing) venues. Now, instead of griefing those that placed a city, or even being upset about it, why not HELP those that were fortunate enough to place a city? You all have the opportunity to be part of something potentially great: building a city in the Star Wars universe. Request zoning rights and move into a city to help it's growth. If you want to be more of an influence than just a registered voter, then by all means, run for office. By cooperating with the guilds you were competing with before, together you can create something better than any guild could do on their own.
Steiner