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I logged on this morning to find that all of my city lamps and statues were destroyed. I was sent an email on each one stating that there was not enough maintenance on them, so they were destroyed. The catch is, that as soon as I was elected last Thursday I deposited 35,000 on top of the 35,000 that was left over after the first week's maintenance was pulled out. I had checked it sometime in the last couple days and I was at 70,000. This morning, after confirming, that YES, my statues and lamps were gone... I checked the treasury for city hall, and it was empty, 0, zilch, nothing. Has anyone else had ALL of their funds disappear and have their city decorations destroyed? Oh, and the weekly maint. should only have been 39,500 according to the terminal this morning. I'm pretty sure it would not have been over the 70k mark as we are just a little outpost. /sigh Other than a ticket.. any help, suggestions or even empathy? lol

Thanks much!

Gisi

Master Tailor, Master Merchant, Novice Politician; Mayor of Paradise, Talus; Radiant

hmmmm we have 1,1 million cred in the city treasury to avoid this

I guess it was a "punishment" for not being able to pay

Ya, I suppose I could have put 1 million in there, but I'm glad I didn't!!!! LOL Then when it disappeared, that would have gone too! 70k was more than enough to cover one week. /shrug

"punishment" for not being able to pay?

Gisi

Master Tailor, Master Merchant, Novice Politician;Mayor of Paradise, Talus; Radiant

Sorry to hear that, but you can't run a city with just 70,000 in the Treasury! I reckon that the minimum should be at least 500,000 and we never go below that!

Why not? LOL As of right now, we are very small and growing very slowly. It's a good thing we're not in a hurry./smile We only have 12 residents, all of whom are close friends. (Though we would be happy to include anyone who would like to build with us). Therefore I only gain one box per week. Which means there is nothing to spend the city treasury on at the moment. /shrug I can't imagine putting any more in after this. Like I was saying before, then THAT would have been gone too? I'm not really freaking out or anything... just wondering if anyone else had this problem?

Thanks!

Gisi

Master Tailor, Master Merchant, Novice Politician; Mayor of Paradise, Talus; Radiant

If you just went though election like a lot of us then you might not have had enough credits in there. 35k is just the base cost for the outpost. All your statues and lamps also add to the total cost. The city funds are only taken out once a week (at election). You might have had 70k in the treasury and needed 71k. I don't think all your stuff should have been destroyed though, probably only 1 or 2 things.

Anavlis

Did you figure in the 25k extra it costs when city ranks up?

I just placed a streetlamp today and the city maintenance terminal tells me 1500cr/week not 1000cr/week. Could this be the issue?

While I feel for you, I do thank you for posting this. We are moving 100k into our city treasury as needed (we're also an outpost), and storing the rest of the funds in a PA Hall treasury specifically to avoid city hall bugs that could arise. This week, since there were no problems, I was going to move the 2 million we have in storage over to the City Hall. Thank you so much, because we'd never be able to survive if we lost that cash to a bug (1.5 mil was an anonymous gift that we could never recover on our own).

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Each item, be it bank, light, statue, is 1500 a week. Now, they are adding new code that if you go over a limit of items per city size, it will hugely increase the price, I somehow wonder if that is in place, but just bugged, never know with these good folks=).

As far as that new code comming, I am totally aginst it. They are worried about data size, but those with more creds can "buy" extra structures, meaning a longer cap on new cities and advancment.

Well....

1. The 5 lamps and 2 statues should only have cost about 5k. Or a total of 39,500 maint for the week, as the city hall terminal said. That is all we have for decoration. As I said, we are just a small outpost and I don't get a lot of xp... only one box a week.

2. As I said, we are just a small outpost. Only 12 citizens. There was no ranking up. and there was about 30k extra in the treasury.

3. Basically, I would just like to make sure this doesn't happen again. I just want to put out the lamps and statues, and be able to put money in the treasury without it disappearing.

That last is really the only reason I posted... just wanted to see if it was a problem for anyone else...

Thanks for trying..

Gisi

Master Tailor, Master Merchant, Novice Politician; Mayor of Paradise, Talus; Radiant