Politician Archive

Many things cost more than 50k and you would have to wait 2 or 3 even 4 weeks to get enough money to get a building.

I didn't know there was a limit, but it does make sense. Especially if they do make it so mayors can't destroy city hall without a citizen vote. Otherwise mayors could empty the treasury just before update, and everything would vanish.

Then you report the guy and get him banned. Waiting 4 weeks to get a med center is stupid.

No, he wouldn't get banned. The city would disband due to lack of maintaintence, hence due to poor management. There's no way to prove the citizens didn't want it. A CSR won't replace anything, and the entire city is lost. At best, everything has to start again. At worst, someone else places a city hall elsewhere on the planet, and the city is destroyed permanenetly due to caps. I think it's better to have to wait several weeks for a med center, then to never get a med center because the city was destroyed.

You can argue maybe they picked the wrong mayor, but even the nicest seeming players sometimes go off the deep end and randomly destroying things. We've already seen halls being destroyed directly against the will of the citizens. Adding another way to destroy the hall dooesn't seem a good idea, when people are campaigning to get rid of the first way.

Though it seems most cities run with hefty donations from citizens. Perhaps ask some to donate directly to you, and not to the treasury, for the med center costs?

I believe the 50k is per day not per week. If you plan accordingly and start withdrawing the maintenance before the update I would think you would have plenty of cash prior to being able to place any structure.

I think the 50k per day is needed to prevent griefing, and rogue groups trying to steal treasuries.

100k per day wouldn't be too little. I have to withdraw just about every day to keep up with the resource purchases and maintenance for city buildings (we treat the hospital, cantina, theater, shops, etc... like city buildings and maintain them with city money, cause how many dancers could afford a cantina, really?). Right now I'm looking to make a 200k ore purchase so we can make large and exotic gardens to place this Friday. If it weren't for a generous citizen donating the money to make that purchase, I would have had to wait three weeks to get the money out of the treasury (I'd still have to make the withdrawals for maintenance and such, so it would take forever to get the money for the resources, too).

edit: 100k per day wouldn't be too much

I think 100k a day would be pretty good myself. 50k is too little, and doesn't allow us enough time to deal with emergencies, such as having to replace a bugged facility, or even worse, save a town's funds due to a gamebreaking issue like radius drift. I'd like to say that the chances of things like this happening are slim and therefore should not even have to be taken into consideration, but we ARE talking about SWG here.

~~Shabhaii, Mayor of Tombra, Naboo
www.cityoftombra.com
The REAL BT
"The FS system only rewards the Veruca Salt's of the MMO world . . . not the Charlie's"