Politician Archive
Thread: Um....Baj? I'm not sure this is a good idea on TC...
SlothDroid wrote:
The 3 week rule discriminates against casual players.
Please do NOT let the 3 weekrule go through. Create a workable solution.
Citizens will now be removed from a city if they haven't been online for about 6 weeks.
yes, i am still against it... but i want to make sure that people have the facts before passing their own judgement.
the link is in the first post on this thread and can be checked by anyone that cares to look it up.
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Yes, that's a change. Yes, that's a positive change. But they're still fixing the wrong problem entirely. :-(
(I'd *much* rather see our top 5 worked on than this much effort spent on something like this....or see the database optimized to allow for higher caps....or see new content....or....well, the list gets longer as I think.)
My problem with this is, inequity. If they are doing it with citizens, how about doing it with harvesters? That way I dont have to compete with people who have 100 or even 200+ static harvester farm, which pretty much just about gurantees unlimited resources.
If it is all about the database, then same rule applies.
It is BS.
Bajeezus wrote:
and his property, which is removed directly from his house's maintenance pool potentiallycausing his house to poof morerapidly than if he were removed as a citizen.
As far as I know you pay property tax no matter if citizen or not (taxing harvesters wouldn't work otherwise).
Now as I see it is 6 Months it takes to kick a player off the citizen list I'm a bit more releaved. Anything less would be unacceptable .. especialy thinking about summer break etc (half a town could be empty for weeks in that time periode).
Still I think this is (again) a fix at the wrong place. Besides that it should have never even come to this (e.g. through restricions of having to have played for X hours before registring as citizen) it hurts cities with citizens who are taking a longer break due to either RL issues or simply because the game is still not what it's supposed to have been on many levels.
- Good idea for the game and the health of the Player City system.
- Bad idea to have it be 3 weeks, a longer term is needed.
With things like this, it begins to look like plain and utter coercion to log in and play the game. It used to be that way with the 7 day vendor sale limit. Merchants dropped like flies because to actually play the class, they could take no vacations. The sale time limit is now 30 days, and that's manageable and understandable.
Bad idea - this is SOE trying to dictate where and when on their servers you need to log in. Perhaps I'm off trying to be Jedi on another server, perhaps I'm playing a legitimate alt on the same server. Whichever the case, it's my right to not have to log into a particular server/character at any point.
I think a lot of this idea is supported by minor cities which didn't make the various planetary caps. They're trying to snipe at the major cities in any way they can, and so this idea rings a big bell with them, in the hopes that somehow, someway they'll take down one of the first and larger cities so they can shove their own into the slot.
No, this is a terrible idea.
Six weeks is better, but it doesn't solve the core of the problem. That solution will not harm the guys who do cross server trades. It will just cost them a few minutes to log their slotbot. It will harm the casuals and the guys who don't play regularly.
And as said above, I'd apply that three/six week solution to the **edit** harvester moguls who have 100 lots and are plain circumventing a game limit.
THIS SUX!
My PA is a small group of casual players, some play only once every 4-5 weeks, others have jobs offshore where they can't login but once every 8 weeks and then they play for a month straight before starting teh cycle again. This will ruin not only my city but those players gaming experience. BIG FAT BOO on this.
Now the problem comes in. A good portion of the citizens from my clan also play other online games. They will come play SWG for like a month or so, then wander off to another division in our clan for a month or so. Having this stuff added, would most likely kill our city, as I can never keep track of exactly how many people are taking a leave of absence from time to time. Let me also state, that we don't have _any_ houses in the city that were gained by cross-server trading. Every house in the city belongs to a legitimate person from one of the four PAs, or independant merchants that have come to set up shop.
So, why should my hard work in building a metropolis be ruined just because a handful of my citizens decide to go play another game for a month? Their accounts are still active... Sony, you are still receiving your money. The maintenance in the houses are paid... we're removing creds from the system. And we are not a 'private' city. I spend a good portion of my time inviting people to come use the city, and making them feel welcome when they do arrive (unless they are overt imperials). Therefore, we're also adding to the immersion and community feeling of the game.
Please DEVS... find another way to solve your cross-server trading problems other than hurting a profession that already lacks in just about EVERY area.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
All those BOT towns are now in trouble, and our active city of 76 residents can have a chance to get a shuttle? WOOT!
I see NOTHING wrong with this. Our town has maybe 4 bots, thats it. Folks that have quit.
I see nothing wrong with this change, sorry. Server swap something else. Its garbage that active cities have to sit idle for....paid bot houses in other cities? Pfft. Complain if this hurts you, fine. But for the sake of all others that are actually playing the game like it was supposed to, take this on the chin. You shouldn't be considered a larger city based on bots.
Have you used bots in your city, and are therefore complaining? I have no clue. I DO KNOW, that your concern over your "one guy taking breaks, making your city suffer" is a joke of a concern...........compared to the actually City balance system and the game that is Politician of running a town successfully, and earning a shuttleport properly.
This is what my town looks like: 
This is a town with bots: 
Whatever.