Politician Archive

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last week in politics

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Sandbox grew to level 4 it swallowed a bunch more houses and bases, and we acquired more citizens. the city's now really quiet due to the CU being pushed live, and most people on TC-EP3 are testing ROTW. I have no plans to drop a shuttleport since the city's relatively close to bestine, and the city will probably stay as is until the server goes offline.

now the answer to the questions we've been waiting for... not the answers I was hoping for, but here they are:

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Pappi wrote:

• how do specializations work after CU? a list of the current specializations:
  • Clone Lab
  • Entertainment District
  • Improved Job Market
  • Manufacturing Center
  • Medical Center
  • Research Center
  • Sample Rich
  • Stronghold

We made no changes to these for the CU.

• when will the database "purge" occur? with the current condemn system, houses and harvesters does not disappear upon maintenance fund depletion, and these structures clutter the servers and inhibit healthy city growth.

Being out of the scope for CU, we don't have the answer to that at this time.

• when will sales tax be fixed, are there any plans to make current taxes more reliable, and will there be more income sources for cities (such as cities gaining a fraction of income from trainers, cloning center, mission terminals, etc)?

Being out of the scope for CU, we don't have the answer to that at this time.

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I've informed them that "no change" to the specializations means that a bunch of them with outdated mods became useless, and hopefully they'll get it fixed some time. They were in a thread titled "Top 3 questions from your profession / community", so I was taken aback when some of these answers came back to be "this isn't CU-related". I'm not happy with them myself, but there's nothing I can do to change things

edit: didn't notice my date error. whoops!

Message Edited by Pappi on 05-13-2005 06:25 PM

Well, thanks for trying Pappi.

As for what's happening in my city - nothing. I'm still shutting down and moving out.

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JohnP wrote:

i read the devs where looking at a way to drop peoples houses and items in a backpac when tha dont log on for a long time or cancel is this still happing?

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that was part of their plan for the purge so folks don't just lose their stuff... however we're not getting "when will it occur" answered

Completely sad.

Well, I appreciate you Pappi.

Fivo Asia

Guess that answers the question of what works and what doesn't. If the mod is gone, the specialization is useless at this point in time.

I'll update the guide and FAQ to reflect this information over the next few days. And the Bug List....might as well report them as bugged since they don't work.

Typical responses for the dev team. I'm starting to think the CU is actually out of scope of the CU the way this fiasco is managed, considering the pile we got has really strayed from the CU documents. I look forward to asking these same questions in person in Anaheim. These dev responses are getting ridiculous.

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Jaspor wrote:

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Blimigerite wrote:

Wow, you can tell they really sat down and tried to answer your questions honestly. Hope they didn't waste too much time trying to appease the customers. I love how one of the answers is an exact cut and paste answer

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Totally agree. Tsk tsk, devs.

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I was disappointed considering how many times I posted about specializations on the corr forum. I started asking about it during the summit last August, but apparently we still got left out

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Pappi wrote:

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Jaspor wrote:

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Blimigerite wrote:

Wow, you can tell they really sat down and tried to answer your questions honestly. Hope they didn't waste too much time trying to appease the customers. I love how one of the answers is an exact cut and paste answer

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Totally agree. Tsk tsk, devs.

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I was disappointed considering how many times I posted about specializations on the corr forum. I started asking about it during the summit last August, but apparently we still got left out

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Don't give up! Keep bugging them for us. (Just don't get fired lol)

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Pappi wrote:

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Jaspor wrote:

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Blimigerite wrote:

Wow, you can tell they really sat down and tried to answer your questions honestly. Hope they didn't waste too much time trying to appease the customers. I love how one of the answers is an exact cut and paste answer

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Totally agree. Tsk tsk, devs.

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I was disappointed considering how many times I posted about specializations on the corr forum. I started asking about it during the summit last August, but apparently we still got left out

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Pappi wrote:

• how do specializations work after CU? a list of the current specializations:
  
  
  
  • Clone Lab
  
  
  • Entertainment District
  
  
  • Improved Job Market
  
  
  • Manufacturing Center
  
  
  • Medical Center
  
  
  • Research Center
  
  
  • Sample Rich
  
  
  • Stronghold

We made no changes to these for the CU.

• when will the database "purge" occur? with the current condemn system, houses and harvesters does not disappear upon maintenance fund depletion, and these structures clutter the servers and inhibit healthy city growth.

Being out of the scope for CU, we don't have the answer to that at this time.

• when will sales tax be fixed, are there any plans to make current taxes more reliable, and will there be more income sources for cities (such as cities gaining a fraction of income from trainers, cloning center, mission terminals, etc)?

Being out of the scope for CU, we don't have the answer to that at this time.

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that s 100% the answer we all expected

"Screw you, go home, pay your accounts and don t bother us with your crap!"