Politician Archive
Thread: new mayor need advice
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Alukolli
Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:16 am
#1
the thing you are talking about are cross server lot trading.
you make an char on their server and they make on on your server..
this are used for both city uses and harvester/factories..
Blimigerite
Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:59 am
#2
Your city would be able to place those structures, but in return you are left with a lot of empty houses which will make your town seem horribly empty of life and excitement. Potential problems also arise when you want to redesign your city's landscape and the cross server trade houses are in prime real estate locations.
celtic1066
Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:17 pm
#3
Hi,
We juststarted a city,all of usfreinds online and played together for the last 12 months. We wanted to keep it small and compact and not recruit just to chase numbers.
As you mayors know at 21 citizens your limited to what you can place etc and its becoming a pain. Not bothered about shuttle but you need 35 citizens fo cloner etc.
Have any of you tried a server exchange with another mayor ?(they place houses on your server vice verser) I know issues arrise from this but anyone that has done this with good or bad reults i would be interested to know.
Thanks In Advance
Maarek2003
Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:53 am
#4
it does sound like a neat way to build up a city. Something I have not thought of before.
StiflerPG
Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:16 am
#5
Ghost towns are lame and it stops people from making real live breathing cities.
PsychoticChipmunk
Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:26 am
#6
*****
StiflerPG wrote:
Ghost towns are lame and it stops people from making real live breathing cities.
If you want the numbers to reach rank 3, get more friends. Otherwise you are merely stealing the rank slot from others who actually do deserve it and are composed of playing citizens.
KJFett3
Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:42 am
#7
Maarek2003 wrote:
it does sound like a neat way to build up a city. Something I have not thought of before.
There is a reason you havent thought of it..its because the posts are deleted by the mods (much like this one will shortly I am sure).Do you really think that with cities being live for a year+ now thatyou are the first to figure this out?
Server swapping is frowned upon bymost and highly opposed by others. It created empty ghost towns, and takes up valuable space.
It is an exploit in that it is not the way the devs intendedcity levelingto function. Clearly the devs didnt intend us all to create toons on all the servers and beef up the city populations. No, they wanted cities to function off of real acocunts and flurish and reach levels based on the number of real citizens. How mad would you be if you had a city with all 35 real players living there and some guy had 5 living in a ghost town and filled one of the slots preventing your 35 from getting a shuttle over 5players in the other city?
on a side note....a mayor onmy server was banned for doing this....he was a bit overboard tho...from what I understand, he was the only active citizen, all other housing was dropped by lot swappers.
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Maarek2003
Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:28 am
#8
KJFett3 wrote:
Maarek2003 wrote:
it does sound like a neat way to build up a city. Something I have not thought of before.
There is a reason you havent thought of it..its because the posts are deleted by the mods (much like this one will shortly I am sure).Do you really think that with cities being live for a year+ now thatyou are the first to figure this out?
Server swapping is frowned upon bymost and highly opposed by others. It created empty ghost towns, and takes up valuable space.
It is an exploit in that it is not the way the devs intendedcity levelingto function. Clearly the devs didnt intend us all to create toons on all the servers and beef up the city populations. No, they wanted cities to function off of real acocunts and flurish and reach levels based on the number of real citizens. How mad would you be if you had a city with all 35 real players living there and some guy had 5 living in a ghost town and filled one of the slots preventing your 35 from getting a shuttle over 5players in the other city?
on a side note....a mayor onmy server was banned for doing this....he was a bit overboard tho...from what I understand, he was the only active citizen, all other housing was dropped by lot swappers.
Oh I know it is, but I have no intention of doing something like this either. The city I am mayor of, reached level 4 the old fashioned way ... people joining the city. Sure the city isn't super active, but thats fine. After the CU it probably will be come a hub for PVP as we have stockpiled alot of bases, just waiting to see what happens before we drop them.
The growth went well though, level 2 to level 4 in 2 weeks from having 1 guild join it as their home 
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