Politician Archive
Thread: Maybe you can help me figure out when this thing will poof.
(Ok, # 3 is all rhetorical.)
Sighryn wrote:
If the same had happened to me my first check would be if I had spelled the name correctly.
I figured that I double checked the name went without saying, butI did, and had someone else try it as well. No luck, the name simply isn't valid.
67p912 wrote:
I have a merchant tent who's owner did quit and it won't go away. It has been a few months or so. What can I do? I did a CSR ticket and they said they can't help me. I think I am stuck with the tent right in front of my shuttleport.
There needsto be a structure warn command. If the owner doesn't respond ownership gets transferred to the mayor. If the owner responds the structure doesn't get transferred.
Chosen One
Mayor of Haven, Corellia
67p912 wrote:
I have a merchant tent who's owner did quit and it won't go away. It has been a few months or so. What can I do? I did a CSR ticket and they said they can't help me. I think I am stuck with the tent right in front of my shuttleport.
There needsto be a structure warn command. If the owner doesn't respond ownership gets transferred to the mayor. If the owner responds the structure doesn't get transferred.
Chosen One
Mayor of Haven, Corellia
I'm in EXACTLY the same situation in Hellfire City/Correllia/Lowca.
I got a hold of a CSR last night and he said it will probably go poof in another 4 months. I told him that I know the former owner and he has cancelled his account and doesn't want to reactivate his account just to get rid of a structure for me. I can supply the name and password of the account that owned that character. I can do whatever you want to verify that the former owner doesn't want the structure anymore out of game. But apparently that doesn't matter and 6 months of account cancellation isn't enough to get a CSR to remove a structure.
But once the bank is empty the house will become Condemned and noone but the owner can enter it. The house will stay, but it will be unusable, brilliant move there devs!
Only time it will be deleted is when they do a character Purge, which i havent seen since i started 1½ year ago
BigfootKC wrote:
and with the new patch no house will ever go away if the owner leaves game without deleting it, or deletes the account owning it. First you can drain the owners bank, because the house will deduct maint from the bank.
But once the bank is empty the house will become Condemned and noone but the owner can enter it. The house will stay, but it will be unusable, brilliant move there devs!
Only time it will be deleted is when they do a character Purge, which i havent seen since i started 1½ year ago
exactly, ive been trying for months on end to get one house moved and got the standard csr reply we cant move or redeed a players house etc etc.
well after about 9 months of waiting this player logged in to pass his stuff on to a friend who has also left the game, so thankfully i was on at the right time, and got everything, but mainly a house that was in the middle of my commerce area that can now be removed.
but we need some way of moving these houses/tent etc to the outskirts of town, or to redeed them and all the stuff in them to the person they belong to. this no poofing now of houses was in my opinion a huge mistake. yeah if the money is in the bank account take it out. but when thats gone take the stupid houses down or give the mayor the ability to move them. dont let them set there condemned where no one can enter them if you do that with the way that people come and go in this game you are going to have alot of player cities relocating just so they can add new citizens that actually play.
BigfootKC wrote:
and with the new patch no house will ever go away if the owner leaves game without deleting it, or deletes the account owning it. First you can drain the owners bank, because the house will deduct maint from the bank.
But once the bank is empty the house will become Condemned and noone but the owner can enter it. The house will stay, but it will be unusable, brilliant move there devs!
Only time it will be deleted is when they do a character Purge, which i havent seen since i started 1½ year ago
Actually according to CS I've talked to the house will delete itself 6 months after beign condemned. Meaning the best hope you can have of a house leaving is 7 monthsafter the initial maintenance running out (0 in the bank) which is the most unlikely scenario there is. They are doing something to try and geta work around for player cities though, was told as much from the CSR boards. Don't know what but something, and Pappi keeps eluding to tastey treats she can't talk about for us so....
As for a solution to your problem with the tents, put up streetlamps of various colors. Green means stocked and shoppable vendors, red means none. It wouldn't really help too much with the signs but who knows. Maybe try and get CSR's to change the sing name for you? Can't see that as griefing the owners or anything. Which also leads to the possiblity of the name. Was the name somewhat lude or reminiscent of characters in some series? If that's the case it may have been permissible long enough to get the tent down but then CS forced him to change it later and added that name to the unusable list?