Politician Archive

I am the Mayor of Basinia, on Chilastra/Naboo. This afternoon marked our latest city update. We were one of the original 10 cities allowed on Naboo before the latest patch lifted the cap.

We have 86 citizens. We should have expanded to Metropolis today upon update. However, I received this email with the Vote and Maintenance From Treasury emails, from the "Planetary Civic Authority":


"Your city Basinia has qualified to increase to rank 5.

Unfortunately, we must deny your rank and land expansion request as there are too many large cities already on the planet.

- Planetary Civic Authority"


How is this possible? The cap as of this patch is set at 10 cities rank 4 or above. Until this week's big patch, there were only 10 cities on Naboo, so any city founded in the last few days since that patch CAN NOT be at rank 4/5 yet, due to them only being able to expand once per week! They could only be Outposts now.

Our city is in a tizzy. There is no way we should legitimately be denied expansion to Metro rank.

Is the game perhaps counting NPC cities for some weird reason? Is there some other bug at fault? Has this happened to anyone else? I'm at a loss.

9 metropolis on the Chilastran map of Naboo. We should be the 10th.

well i think that when they raised caps they also capped naboo metro's to 5 .... if your server had over that already they would be grandfathered in

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Dvnce wrote:
well i think that when they raised caps they also capped naboo metro's to 5 .... if your server had over that already they would be grandfathered in

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From the patch notes

"Player Cities: The number of Player Cities has currently been doubled, making the caps to 20 for all planets that are currently 10 and 50 for all planets that are currently at 25. The new limits are as follows (The first number is the total cap. The second is how many can be rank 3 or above. The third is how many can grow to rank 4 or above.):

• Corellia: 20, 15, 10
  
• Dantooine: 50, 30, 20
  
• Lok: 50, 30, 20
  
• Naboo: 20, 15, 10
  
• Rori: 50, 30, 20
  
• Talus: 50, 30, 20
  
• Tatooine: 20, 15, 10 "

Based on this - since Basinia was one of the original 10 to reach LEVEL 4 on Naboo- it should beGUARANTEED to beallowed to reach level 5. Has to be a bug. Basinia reached level 4 as soon as it was allowed, we had that many citizens to start out with.

It's not even that - several of the cities on the map are still Cities, or even Townships.

Yet, we can't get Metropolis? *bops SOE with a clue-by-four*

Is it just metropolis this is happening too, or lower ranks as well? Has anyone managed a lower rank advancement successfully since the patch? Otherwise it could be really bad for all the new cities.

just to add some input while i did not get my political exp, we did get level 5 (metropolis) without much hassle. We were the first on our server but just saying it does work to some extent.

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JDtheWP wrote:

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Dvnce wrote:
well i think that when they raised caps they also capped naboo metro's to 5 .... if your server had over that already they would be grandfathered in

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From the patch notes

"Player Cities: The number of Player Cities has currently been doubled, making the caps to 20 for all planets that are currently 10 and 50 for all planets that are currently at 25. The new limits are as follows (The first number is the total cap. The second is how many can be rank 3 or above. The third is how many can grow to rank 4 or above.):

• Corellia: 20, 15, 10
  
• Dantooine: 50, 30, 20
  
• Lok: 50, 30, 20
  
• Naboo: 20, 15, 10
  
• Rori: 50, 30, 20
  
• Talus: 50, 30, 20
  
• Tatooine: 20, 15, 10 "

Based on this - since Basinia was one of the original 10 to reach LEVEL 4 on Naboo- it should beGUARANTEED to beallowed to reach level 5. Has to be a bug. Basinia reached level 4 as soon as it was allowed, we had that many citizens to start out with.

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this is new then becuz i do remember when they initially spoke of this.. as an idea they did mention rank 5 being only limited to 5.. maybe this is somehting that was implemented and they forgot to .. mention.. (would not be the first time SOE forgot to leave out a detail in the notes) any way i am curious to hear what the CSR's response is..

The plot thickens.

Our city, after its scheduled maintenance Saturday, December 20, underwent a second, unscheduled maintenance some 9-12 hours later. (As has happened to many other cities per posts on this forum.) This second maintenance, while costing us another 200k from our treasury, did restore the lost Political xp I did not receive on Saturday. lol. However, it also brought us another "Your city is denied expansion to level 5" email from the Planetary Civic Authority. I have verified that there are absolutely NOT 10 level 4 cities other than us on Naboo.

My head is spinning with overlapping city bug issues now.

Well, my outpost, Ratava on Lok, Eclipse sever, failed to expand, and I did not get my exp....what do we have to do to get this stupid bug fixed?

Hmmmmm...Anyone wanna bet that no one gets to level 5? The reasonI say that is that if you currently have 10 level 4 cities (you and 9 others) you are already at the cap, 10. I'm betting that they didn't code the part to exclude your current city at level 4 from the 4/5 cap. This would mean that if there are 10 cities at level 4, then no one gets to go to 5. Anyone get to 5 when there are 9 other level 4 cities yet?

Any other input? This is driving me mad.

I wish a dev would confirm if there is an unannounced cap on Metros, in addition to the cap on level 4+ cities.

Just for the record on Chimaera I live in a Metropolis, but there certainly aren't 10 on Tatooine. I think we were the first and expanded with no problems.