Politician Archive
Thread: Why do Mayors not have the abiltiy to move a building?
Also to add, the one business ownder, stated that this person bought all his/her pickup orders, has demanded free items, and another business owner didn't like the idea that there building was blocked.
I sent this player a nice email, requesting that they please move there home, to another place due to these reasons.
The person sayed to me straight out, only if you pay me 700k. Which definately bugged me. I told them that if they do not I will be contacted a CSR, they told me that they will do it tomorrow.
I was so annoyed, that I initiated a city wide bann, all business' closed down to this person, all structures have this person banned. Maybe I reacted to fast but seriously, I don't like the idea that my few business owners I have feel uncomfortable with this person in the city.
So why can't mayors move buildings? I think this is something that a mayor should have the ability to do...especially when its something like this where I have my business owners other then myself up in arms about this person.
Btw, I had to unfortunately do zoning rights due to this.
PaarViesta wrote:TBH you should of had zoning from day one
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a Mayor should have the ability to move buildings already placed with in there city limits. If not ones that where placed before the city was built, was that where placed with in 48 hours should beable to be moved by the mayor.
I know I should have had that up, I understand that now but was uncertain how it worked, I also just became mayor and wasn't mayor before so that would be the mayor before me, fault not mine.
But in any case..what other means is there to go about it to remove a player from the city that is obviously harrassing the citizens.
If they're being outright harrassing (foul language, rudeness, etc.) you can and should file a report to a CSR on them. The actual house placement, however annoying it might be, was not in any violations of SOE/SWGs. Without zoning enabled, that player had just as much right as any citizen or other player to place that house in an available location. A CSR would probably not remove the house, but they could change offensive names and punish for offensive actions.
Being able to tag a house for removal has been talked about by Politicians for some time. There is a huge potential for abuse, though, which means it could very well be something we'll never see. Without a solid system that has a low abuse potential, it could cause more problems than it would solve.
If all he's asking for is 700k, you'd be coming off pretty cheaply as I've heard of other cases where millions were asked for. I know the principle of the matter can make it undesireable to offer a bribe, but it can often end days and weeks of headaches.
As for zoning rights, that has been placed, but again I was not the mayor before so what the mayor before me did..I can't control.
But if the player stays city wide bann has been placed, so they can't use any of the garages or shuttles..including all buildings owned by players like business' and such have placed a bann on the person. So I dought the person is going to stick around if they can't use anything.
Message Edited by Evu on 08-10-2005 06:21 PM
If they declare residence, they will become a citizen and the /cityban is lifted. Privately owned structures that he has been banned from will not be affected, though.
I think SOE should consider letting mayors and such having a little more authority on how things are run.
Khristen wrote:
If all he's asking for is 700k, you'd be coming off pretty cheaply as I've heard of other cases where millions were asked for. I know the principle of the matter can make it undesireable to offer a bribe, but it can often end days and weeks of headaches.
Fidgiter wrote:
Khristen wrote:
If all he's asking for is 700k, you'd be coming off pretty cheaply as I've heard of other cases where millions were asked for. I know the principle of the matter can make it undesireable to offer a bribe, but it can often end days and weeks of headaches.
Assuming the structure owner honors the 700k contract and removes the structure. Give him 700k and you'll have to trust him to honor his side of the bargain . If he takes the money nothing will stop him leaving the structure and demanding another 700k.
Actually, if you have a verbal agreement for them to move, pay them and they don't. A report to a CSR will result in the CSR confronting them and making them move as they would have commited fraud.
Up to this point, I see nothing wrong with what the guy did. You may not like it, blaming it on the prior mayor is rediculous, as if you didn't know before hand that you could drop houses with no zoning rights. 
The burden of understanding falls on the mayor. That's what this forum is for. Lock the city down, pay up and get him out of town....and never let anther person have zoning unless you are standing right there, and revoke zoning the momenet the house is placed.
Consider it a lesson learned and like the Corro said...you got off easy...he could have asked for more, and it would have been his right too. Dragging it out even allows him to ask for more now...best hope he doesn't read the forums here. 
on day 1 i eneabled zoning
then i would give player house or they have one already and i explain to them the plans of the city and where i will be placing public structers and such and i am there with them when they place it or initialy i place it for them then do a transfer to them.
i do that alot for newbies. anyways once i am set up where i like the city then people can place houses how they like it. see u have to of planned ahead on this stuff from the beganning or it will blow up at the end where now ur in a unfixable sitatuin i would say if ur citizens is one factions and he is another place base and turrets arround without him knowing maybe if he dies from coming in over will get him mad enough to leave but really as the corraspondant said he has every right to be there because u allowed it.
plan ahead and u do much better never never rush a city it will just cave in on u later.
It has been announced to alot of other people on the server, and I guess alot of people are fearsome of this person, banning from there stores ect. And I had emails that this person has griefed others to.
So I guess its not something that the CSRs haveto deal with its something that the community has to. Since I'm not the only one. But due to this the person will most definatley not get a dime from me or any other person on this city. Again I don't let others kick me around.
Message Edited by Evu on 08-11-2005 01:34 PM
I don't blame you for that at all, and most certainly wish you the best in getting this resolved quickly.
Sometime it takes several days for a CSR to take action in harassment cases. It's not a matter of them not looking into it, rather they are looking into it further before making a decision on the matter. I would recommend that any behavior that is harassing be recorded using /report as it will flag his character for further investigation as well as filing a harassment ticket. If this has been happening elsewhere and they have reported it in-game as well it should make things easier for the CSRs to resolve.