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Thread: Seems like I do everything for my city.....
706000 credits to operate Cerberus, Dantooine on Intrepid. Get a merchant alt, sell your loot, and get a harvester farm and sell resources.
Offer a statue in front of a players house for a month for a million credits, streetlights for 500k, etc
If the citizens care about the city, they will support you. Hold monthly meetings, send out city reports weekly, run weekly events on a schedule, etc.
Sometimes my treasury just gains millions of credits by asking for donations every few months.
Worse case, run 19 npc missions for 10k, each week. Should take you about 2 hours.
nope I tax the crap out them, why should i run the missions. Told them before i took office, city will be self supporting.
Better all pay a little then a few pay alot.
But I also make sure everything they need is provided for, top notch crafters were brought in andcity dwellers get discounts, decorations and trainers abound.
if any decide to leave i wave goodbye and wish them well, let them mooch off somebody else.
Message Edited by joisey on 08-17-2005 11:14 PM
I sent out an email stating that I had placed 2 million credits into the treasurey and that after that ran out, if everyone didn't pitch in, than the city would poof. a couple of citizens straggled in and donated a few thousand credits. So I sent out another email stating, that because this is their city as well as Mine, if they didn't want me to have to place a Housing Tax, than they would have to help keep the treasurey full. This worked, as I made a RL statement.
"What happens in Real Life if you don't pay your Rent???" I got the answer back in Guild by almost everyone...You get kicked out of your home... My Reply was BINGO....they now understand lol.
I even had someone place their house extremely close to my City and he wanted to know what would happen to him if his house became a part of my city when it expands, would I force him to leave and would he be forced to pay tax, I told him no on both accounts, He came to me the other day, and asked where the City hall was. I showed him not knowing what was going on, he told me he was going to donate 100k of his earnings that he got from my Mission terminals, as showing me Honour and Respect. Said he owed it to the city and to me.
I thank him, told him he owed me nothing, but he was more than welcome to stay where he was and my Guild would help him out whenever he needed it. 
Just write an email and tell your Citizens that you are doing all of it on your own and going broke, and that they need to start pitching in. Make it a "Rent Policie" or tax them. I know that kinda sounds mean, but you will go broke doing it on your own.
Ok there are a few problems with city group hunts....
1)Not everyone in the city is a combat profession, so when all the combat citizens are bonding and raising money for the city, then what should the crafters be doing. Yeah the crafters would still probably bond with each other, leaving the city segregated into combat/crafters.
2)City group hunts can become rather boring. Sure they start out as a fun fundraiser for the city, but after a few weeks, most citizens will think of it as a chore rather than fun.
Lord_Rainius wrote:
Ok there are a few problems with city group hunts....
1)Not everyone in the city is a combat profession, so when all the combat citizens are bonding and raising money for the city, then what should the crafters be doing. Yeah the crafters would still probably bond with each other, leaving the city segregated into combat/crafters.
2)City group hunts can become rather boring. Sure they start out as a fun fundraiser for the city, but after a few weeks, most citizens will think of it as a chore rather than fun.
I don't know, I think the group hunts sound great. I am going to try to start getting this going now that our city has become more expensive.
1) crafters can take part, they just group up and get paid the same as everybody else, that is the buty of it. Get one level 80 to take a high paying mission and then anybody can join the group and you multiply that 9-10k by however many in the group! So it might actually bring combat/crafters together. Heck, crafters could just run around the mission surveying if they want, hah.
2) i think it just depends on how you run it. i was thinking of simply doing it in casual way. i am in the city a lot, so when a few citizens are hanging around i will just say "hey, want to go run a couple quick missions for the city?" Even if it is only 4 of us and we only run 2 quick npc missions, that is 80k for the treasury with little time/effort involved. only doing a couple keeps it from getting too boring and not setting up specific times keeps it from being a burden.
well, those are my thoughts anyway, i have not actually started this so i may just be describing "the perfect world" scenario
lol, geez. Settle down there.
1) I made the recommendation because it has worked wonderfully for us. I didn't say it was the perfect way to fundraise and no, crafters can't participate. It byno means makes up 100% of our treasury. I'm sorry to say it but there are limited ways to make money in this game ie a) you kill something or b) you make something. Obviously, not everyone can do everything. Just because crafters can't join in a city hunt doesn't mean its a bad thing. Our crafters also make goods and donate profits as well. Every little bit helps. I personally do both craft and combat. BUT, selling looted goods is extremely quick and profitable.
2) City group hunts do take effort to make them enjoyable and you can't do them EVERY day or they do get boring. That's a no brainer there. We switch up spots, or take new players places they've never been, or even make it challenging by not using speeders or armor. And heres an idea, don't make it a chore. Not everyone has to participate every week, as long as a few people are trying that's better than no one at all.
If you're a politician and you're worried about your crafters not bonding, then you should be holding more city events. Running a city requires more than filling the treasury.
If they are in the group they get paid. They can't beat up the critters or npcs but they can hang out and have fun on the hunt and get paid.
And heck, I would not mind bringing a dancer and a musician along for a little side theme music and entertainment while we hunt, hehe
