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Thread: Citizen Trade Question
oompalumpa wrote:
Our city currently has 57 citizens. I would like to have a larger buffer than that to help prevent against losing a category if anyone ever left the city. Would someone please explain to me the pros and cons of citizen trades? I have seen posts regarding this on forums before, and while I am familiar with lot trades I am not familiar with how this works.
this is generally frowned on by politicians. That said, i have a hard time coming up with pros for it. For the con list, here ya go:
You get a large number of players you have no bond with now living in the city. Maybe they won't play on your server, but maybe they are the scum of their current server and decide its time for a switch. Lucky you, they live downtown...
You have no idea if/when they want to quit, so the house (and resident) my poof at any moment.
You have empty houses which can only lead to an empty city.
Someone's gotta pay for the house, and they're not making any money off of it, so eventually they'll resent paying for it.
Takes up space a new, active resident might use.
These contribute to the auto vote problem for mayors that'd like to resign.
And last but not least, the character purge is coming...