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Thread: 566k -> 490k Maintenance ?!
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DaQuilla
Sun Mar 14, 2004 4:00 pm
#1
Did something change in pricing? I mean I don't want to complain about paying less now ... but I sure would like to know why I used to pay more for about the same things ...
I have a metropolis (135k)
check
registered on map (5k)
check
Specialisation (125k)
check
15 Trainers (15x1.5k)
8 Mission Terminals (8x1.5k)
= 34.5k - check
46 Decorations (46x1.5k) ... used to have 47
= 69k - check
a bank (1.5k)
3 medium gardens (3x20k)
4 small gardens (4x10k)
a clone center (20k)
a shuttle (25k) .... this is probably one thing not being payed because I accedently redeeded it lately (instead of a garden) and thus probably taking it from our Maintenance List ...
= 121.5k - check ... looking at an old screenshot I did of the Maintenance I was paying 196.5k ... but I don't even have more gardens ... was I paying the shuttle 3 times?
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= 490k
... so for what was I paying 50k more the last 11 updates (and 3 multiple updates)?
KieranHorn
Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:54 pm
#2
some specializations cost more, did you change your specialization?
Jedi_Jaime
Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:30 pm
#3
Maybe becuase when you place a trainer they charge you like 1k or so...not sure...read it in a FAQ.
Pren Alain----Wanderhome
cnlfailure
Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:07 am
#4
We have the exact same issue - our maintenance report comes in 50k higher than items that can be accounted for. Current belief is that the city hall costs 50k on top of the city size costs, but I'm not convinced.
KieranHorn
Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:07 am
#5
why not read the break down, but I do think it is 50k for a city hall, and then depending on the city level you pay more. but city level does effect things. Did you have a structure not for the level city you were and then jumped up in city rank or anything. only other thing I can think of is look at the maint report
DaQuilla
Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:55 am
#6
The FAQ doesn't note anything about a city hall costing anything ... and I remeber exactly that my first maintenance was 35k (even still have mail) ... so the hall can't cost anything ... and it wouldn't explain why I'm paying less now.
Mkappus
Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:01 am
#7
Did you have any decorations that you picked up but did not remove? It was incredibly annoying if you picked up a statue or streetlamp you still pay maintenance on it unless you remove it from city. Maybe you had 20-30 decorations you picked up. The game finally removed them from your maintenance?
DaQuilla
Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:22 am
#8
Since you can only have 50 decorations (and we have 46 accounted for) that isn't it ...
Plus, it is as I said, that the 75k difference is in the "Civic Buildings" Account (so only Gardens, Clone, Bank, Shuttle)
DaQuilla
Mon Mar 15, 2004 1:33 pm
#9
No, specialisation was not changed for 10-12 weeks now ...
Trainers are rarely changed, and the 1k the charge for placement are directly and instantly taken from the city treasury and not added to the maintenance table ... and even frequently changing trainers, decorations and terminals wouldn't explain the exact same mainetance 11 weeks in a row of exactly 566.5kand then a sudden drop to 490k
Nobody else expieriencing any strange changes to maintenance?
DaQuilla
Mon Mar 15, 2004 4:53 pm
#10
I just recieved a CSR Ticket-answer telling me the shuttle port would cost 75k ! And I'd probably now not be paying this building anymore "until server-up" ... (but I already had 2-3 server ups)
Syd1
Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:27 pm
#11
Hasn't the shuttleport always been 75k? I know before I got gardens my Civic Buildings was 96.5k - 1.5 bank, 20 clone, 75 shuttle.
- Sydira
DaQuilla
Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:40 am
#12
That might very well be so ... only every FAQ or comment I've read on this forum and on Test during the city testing mentioned 25k as maintenance.
cnlfailure
Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:58 am
#13
That would make sense.
What concerns me most is not the fact that city budgets are inaccurate ingame, but that nobody seems to know what the extra we're paying for is going on.
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