Politician Archive
Thread: An easy way to stop the city swap.
Don't let a new toon declare any residency in any home for XX days. 14, 21, I'm not sure of the right number to be fair to real players.
This would not harm brand new accounts because they could still have a home, just not declare. The only purpose to declare is to become a citizen. This would only effect Mayor's taking the shady route to growth.
This would be so simple to institute, very little to change. Just adding a timer.
This could be done now, preventing all sorts of server swapping ghost towns from having their own private shuttle in the backyard. This is a chance to reward all us hard working Mayors that have earned every vote with real people.
For those who say "People will plan ahead and place houses 2 weeks in advance". This is true, but it will not only hold back, but most likely set back the cities using this method. Long enough to where the Mayor will have to get some real citizens or have the city crumble allowing a new Mayor to make a go of it and grow to shuttle size first.
Thoughts?
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I say just make it so that people have to physically enter their home once a week for the vote to count. Don't make the house disappear, just if they don't show up they don't qualify as a voting citizen for that week.
~~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"
Bad idea. There are a lot of people who travel, work or lose interest in the game for more than a week at atime. I think the min timer for declaring residency is a much better idea.
BlindTyldak wrote:
I say just make it so that people have to physically enter their home once a week for the vote to count. Don't make the house disappear, just if they don't show up they don't qualify as a voting citizen for that week.
~~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"
No, because that penalizes those who legitimately want to count as part of a city for an inordinate period. Especially with vehicles coming (and if you haven't tested them they are FAST) there's no reason why someone can't hop to their home planet and check out the city once a week. And if, as you state, people lose interest in the game for more than a week at a time, why should their vote "count" if they are not contributing? Yes, I can understand that people legitimately go on vacation and such, but then their vote just doesn't count for one week, rather than making ANYONE wait two or three weeks for it to count. Besides, in the long run, what would that fix? So someone's a non-voting ghost for two weeks befopre their vote starts cycling. After two weeks, its still the same thing.
~~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"
Bloomman wrote:
For those who say "People will plan ahead and place houses 2 weeks in advance". This is true, but it will not only hold back, but most likely set back the cities using this method. Long enough to where the Mayor will have to get some real citizens or have the city crumble allowing a new Mayor to make a go of it and grow to shuttle size first.
That's busy not budy in my last post and I already aswered the issue of the "same problem in two weeks". They will lose advancment as they scramble and better cities with real people will step up in the meantime.
Clonewolfe wrote:
Server swapping is for towns that start 5 km from nearest shuttle port. As no one is going to run that distance to vote live withou tmissions terminals. Of course some people complain but they probably have built there town 1km from one of the standards you can go blow..... The town (eye saw) i am a member or did quiet a lot of swapping and will have its shuttle port next week yay! no more running 4.5km to catch a starship to another planet for resource hunting
No, server swapping is for losers that cannot get out and find live citizens. I have my city 5.5K from the nearest shuttleport and I will also be getting mine next Thursday. All my citizens made the walk. Only 16 were members of the guild I'm in, the rest came after the city was up. Try doing some work and recruiting a few people would you? It's people like you with you personal shuttleports and empty houses that make me sick. I hope the devs crash down on all of you that have filled your streets with small houses that are all locked and empty. What really gets me mad about this is all those honest Mayors out there who worked hard for the city and because they may not have enough people will not get the shuttleport this week. All because they won't resort to this lowest and most shame filled tactic.
Seeing as how the Shuttleport is the ultimate prize for any Mayor (until some start opening city specializations) I hope and pray that the Devs make this move I have suggested fast or at least some other counter measure. Please don't let these ghost towns enjoy what the live ones have earned.
The BEST solution will be to let people only have one declared residence per SOE account. This will stop the Ghost Cities in their tracks!
Your approach is OK, as long as the new characters automatically declare residence after the time limit, which should be 14 days, I think.
what about cross server players? (there are a few out there) since you are only allow one character per server.. sometimes people don't want to change class (within the same server) since they like what they do, but want to try out other classes (thus going to other server instead of getting another account) what if they switch back and forth... it is entirely possible.
(I did this with other game... not this one) since there is a limit in skill points.. you can only do so much before having to forget and do other things (I haven't done my holo chase.. cause well. I love my architect..) Thus it will ruin other players..
Why does the ghost cities bother you so much? is it because they can get "ghost" people and artificially raise their city level? That just mean the maintence will be paid by the real residence.. which can be a problem in the long haul... there is a balance in itself.. having all the "nice stuff" and having to pay all out of pocket might not be easy...
I know that other players wanted their "OWNZ" city and such... there was plenty of time to place them.. (almost a whole day) maybe not on your original chosen planet.. but there are other options.... thus.. you could always join another city.. or wait and hope one of the other cities fall and start your own.