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With the change coming that limits the numbers of cities on any planet to certain ranks, and makes unlimited outposts, there is NO reason left whatsoever that we can't have zone control over our full 450 radius for a rank 2 or higher city. For those cities for whom that works, it would finally allow us to preserve our cultures, our layouts, and the various things that make our (by "our" I mean our citizens) PLAYER cities unique, not just a new place to drop your house. For those cities who choose to enact zoning rights, the greatest potential for harm is really to themselves, because they are severely limiting the speed at which they can grow, and may miss out on a great deal of perks of being a city. For this reason, I don't think many cities will choose to enact it unless they have a real good reason: either they are big enough to handle it (in which case they HAVE earned the right to control the area) or they really have something they want to protect (usually a roleplaying aspect, like a specific type of factional town).

It would be even better if this could be done "structure specific" so that the zone would protect the core of the city from harvestors but still allow them to be placed in unused areas of the city, while restricting houses from being placed without zoning rights anywhere. For example, if you have a Rank 2 city, there could be no harvestors without zoning rights being granted within Rank 2 or Rank 3, but harvestors could be placed without permission being granted in the Rank 4 and 5 radius, so that resources could not be hogged completely by a small community.

Sorry Devs, you ARE wrong on this one. Player Cities are PLAYER OWNED, by the PLAYERS (plural) who made them.As the players made them,it should be OUR option how they should be managed, not yours. Takeovers and political rivalries between complete strangers are not a game feature, they are nothing but unconsentual Social PvP.

If you're going to create artificial caps on what we can do with our cities, at least give is the right to manage them as we see fit.

~~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"

Well,I would like to se it as an option, but the ones that choose to control an area larger than they currently should have should also pay the maintanance as if the city had been that size. It should cost to keep control of a larger area.

This is nonsense!!

so you have your plunky outpost sitting on Dantooine and I find a spot 400m away from your little post that has a nice deposit of some metal so I have to ask your permission? give me a break grow and then Ill respect your boundaries... but until then the land is fair game you dont own it.

Perhaps you should read it again . . . I specifically suggested that harvestors would be exempt at two levels higher than you current size, which would mean at Outpost size you'd have everything from 250m (I think it is) out to play with.

~~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"

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That's a very sound suggestion, Fluxxen.

~~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, not necessarily . . . remember, things can happen both in game (whole city decides to move somewhere more challenging) and out of game (people move on to new games), that can create flux. Maybe a mayor moves on and the new mayoral pool is nowhere near as good. Or a town just isn't growing fast enough for their citizenry so they seek greener pastures. There's been a lot of changes in cities in just the past few weeks.

~~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"

But zoning only works for your active radius, not for the whole thing. Zoning needs to be expanded in some way so that mayors can protect their layouts, etc.

~~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"