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jemelby

Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:54 am

Ok Devs, you've been changing some stuff around with the cities, specifically the Inactive Citizen Rule. Though we pleaded for it, we never recieved an adequate explanation of exactly how the rule was supposed to work.

Now we see that it has been "temporarily" disabled. What's the deal? This rule imapacts Politicians, Cities, the Citizens living in those cities, active players, player who have quit, players who are gone for extended periods, Mayors trying to preserve large cities, and Mayors trying to advance their capped cities.

This is powerful stuff. We would really appreciate some communication. How was the rule intended to work? How was it supposed to react to dual citizens? Was it intended to shake up large cities? Was it intended to keep small cities small?

With out information, all we have left is whining, griping, and wild speculation.

J'Vee
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Mkappus

Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:31 am

#2

Exactly!

Was it removed because it was found to be buggy, I have an acitve citizen who is kicked out every week. Or was it removed due to the uproar about it being unfair, or that leaving the houses in town makes it impossible for mayors to overcome losing citizens.

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Tragg

Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:34 am

#3

I agree 100% Does not matter what side of the issue you are on, we must have this info ASAP!

Tragg

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jemelby

Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:36 am

#4

For the Record

The only communication we have ever had on the topic of the inactivity rule was a post by Thunderheart defending the rights of inactive and non-paying players to have their property and inventories presevered indefinitly.

There has NEVER been any kind of explanation, description, or goal for this rule.

Ironically, a search for inactive in the knowlege base yields this as one of the topics:

Star Wars Galaxies: A member of our City has been inactive recently and we would like to have their structure removed from our City, what are our options?

clicking this results in the response:

Star Wars Galaxies: A member of our City has been inactive recently and we would like to have their structure removed from our City, what are our options In situations like this, the house will need to decay on its own, due to insufficient maintenance funds. Customer Service can only intervene in situations where we have express written consent of the house owner to remove their structure (administrator requests are not supported), if the owner account has been closed, or if the owning character has been deleted.

The highlighted part is interesting. I believe this is new. Perhaps there is some hope for getting the house-turds removed. This WOULD, however, contradict what Thunderheart has said previously. It would not be the first time.

J'Vee
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Tragg

Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:40 am

#5

J'Vee you have to understand how SOE billilng veiws the accounts, if a player does not use acredit card and is not set up toauto renew, then they will see there status as canceled, no matter how longtheir account is paid up for. So in short there is no way for them to tell "if the owner account has been closed". I found this out becasue one of my accounts is on my credit card and the other is paid up with a game card. In fact it was a little shocking to see my my status as canceled

Tragg

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Chibi-Bar

Fri Apr 02, 2004 12:18 pm

#6

well.. that is pretty silly.. i would have thought it should have check if it is paid up or not... (thus checking and charging on seperate date.... i.e.

Charge on the 25th day of each month.. but check for "paid up" on the 1st of the following month... (thus 6 day grace?) hehe

this way.. paid by CC or GC (game card) doesn't matter...

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