Politician Archive

Nothing really to share on the current event front. Publish 20 is tentatively scheduled for the 19th of July (which is probably pretty much a set date at this point). Entertainment District is still listed as giving a bonus to "Entertainer Healing" which will no longer have a function post-Publish 20, although I've reported the issue a couple of times already.I encourage anyone with cities on Bloodfin that have the opportunity to check and see if the mods have been updated or if the description is now out-of-date (I'm inclinded to go with the mods haven't been touched, though ).

• Player Event Perks -- There are more things available than what's listed here, but these are great for city events and role-playing.


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For my city we mostly have just our guild living there, as they joined the guild, we had them join the city.

BUT

We have a large number (prolly 20-25) who just randomly asked me if they could move in just because our city was so nice. We have two large parks (another in the works now) and four districts.

So my number ONE tip is to have an organized layout for your city and make sure everything flows well. Having parks (collection of gardens and fountains) really attracks people. If you have a great city, people will want to be apart of it.

We have 2 major guilds, 1 minor guild and many non-guilded people living in our community. While many people use a tight city plan with zoning rules in place to keep the city organized, we use a loose set of rules allowing people to move in easily and quickly. We have well defined quadrants of the city where the guilds live and large areas where people can move in and place their house easily without coforming to a rigid city plan. We definately have some "no build zones" but I keep gardens placed along the main avenues in town as well as statues, lamps and terminals where I dont want houses to be placed.

Keeping it easy to move in, get settled and start enjoying our community is a very important aspectto our successful metropolis. I like being able to tell someone that they can meet up with me or one of the militia (we have 20+ militia members) and get their house placed. Occasionally I have to get someone to move their house, but it is never a big deal and I am very patient.

We have not actively "Recruited" people to live in our city, though we do occasionally set a barker droid or rename harvestors when we feel we have some reason to advertise our great community.

I would like to see the return of the "This week in politics" post. It was a good way for us to talk about what is happening in our community through this discussion board.

The single most successful method for enticing people to move into our community is our reputation. We have worked very hard to establish a sterling reputation and are very active in policing the behavior of our community members. With much of our community belonging to 3 guilds we have made sure to put some very strong Play-Nice-Policies in place. To-date I have only had to have 2 people removed from our community and subsequently SWG for online hate speech and sexual harrassment. I consider that a successful record.

CHeers!

Hadrian

Guilds, recruit guilds to your town. The guild recruits players to the guild and you get a free citizen.

Events, use the PEP's or some PvP bases to keep people coming to town. If you are factionally aligned this will get enemies coming again and again so people who want into PvP and of your faction will want a home on the 'front' if you are a non-factionally aligned city place 1 of each PvE base, and try to get them an 'immunity' role but those never work, and a PvP base of any faction dropped every-so-often to make a battlefield town.

Malls, if you have well stocked well priced vendors you'll get return customers which will keep the city active in a sense. If you can pull off the first 2 this will help that out. Crafters will want to join the guild if it's guild related or possibly just join the city outright and have their main stay in your city with branches on other worlds. If you keep events going and the vendors stay stocked people will always show up just to see what the hell is going on and join the city simply to keep up and have more fun.

Specializations, pick one and go with it. Since most are broke/pointless it's kind of a limited choice but basically gothe one that works. Improvedjob market and advertise your city as the money maker's haven. Put up loot vendors to buy and sell stuff and get some buffers setup in your cantina. Research center can work great with the mall etc. up above. Have 99% stations publicly available in the mall (cloistered off in a room or out involved in the layout) and advertise as a public crafter's haven. After awhile people will want to join the city so their warehouse is closer and less travel time. Etc.

Urban Plan, I've had people comment on my old city's layout and ask to join simply because it looked like a nice city. If your area is an interesting one and your plan is logical and has some interesting stuff inside it (gardens of course but don't forget that statues and fountains can be lit by lamps and clustered together for an effect. Especially with the dips and rises of Corellia) people will simply want to join because it is a pleasant place to live.

If you're going to spam use a merchant droid. /addignore can't work on them so you won't be unable to talk to friends/potential citizens just because you wanted to recruit some new bodies. With BARC's a swoop is pointless as an incentive. A home would work but it's basically something you should have regardless so you can move someone in at the drop of a hat. Not an incentive since smalls are cheap more of a proof of your preparedness. Spam about community, activity, you know reasons to join instead of a bribe to get 'em.

Message Edited by Ekir_Atari on 07-19-2005 01:58 PM