Politician Archive

WoW. That sounds familiar. When the CU busted onto the scene our guild left (myself included). Now alot of us have decided to come back and after playing the CU we actually like it (although it does have it's issues, pre-cu had issues too, so it's nothing new). I decided to use my alt to be a politician and run for mayor in our city and we now have the daunting task of reinvigorating our city. We have alot of former guild members that moved to dantooine and now that we've came back and restarted our guild, they're all asking to come back to vertigo. The problem is at the moment we have no control over the city and can't even grant zoning rights so, until elections are over we're kind of at a stand still. Then after we get people moved back in we still have a city full of houses that belong to people who no longer play. We've decided just to keep things going the best we can and we all feel like everything will work out eventually.

The day WoW came out, 70% of my guild quit the game (not a goodbye, here's our stuff, were moving on, it was more a f SOE, F SWG).

Finally got control of our guild (went from 285 people to 20, back up to 145ish now) and finally control of the city.

One of the people before he quit, dumped close to 50M into city hall.

The city is *FULL* of houses from when the city was made, and a large chunk of these people haven't played in the game in the last 6 months, let alone within the last year.

It's such a *MESS* that we have problems finding spots to stick people.

So we decided to start a new city (great idea...) untill we realised we'd lose close to 25M in city hall, and since there is no room on tat/corellie/dant that left rori and talus.

We chose talus to help build the imperial presence there.

My question is, since we've just begun moving. Is it worth it? To give up a metropolis and start ALL over from scratch? The more I think about it, the more I say no (I need to move 6 toons, some people in the guild need to move upwards of 10 characters), Are they ever going to poof houses/factories/etc of people who've been cancelled? I know they keep saying so.

But I've had a CSR check some houses of people who have LONG LONG LONG quit the game and no maintence in the house, yet it sticks around.

I'm pretty overwhelmed right now. Asking a FULL guild to follow me, to a planet they don't really like, leaving a city, they like even less. With the possibility of not having a shuttle (seems everyone is making a new city and racing for the shuttle status before they are all given out).

I need some advice.

No way to know when the Purge is coming. I'm a real pessimist on that subject, saying it'll never happen, but... Lately I have a feeling it's gonna happen real soon.

WoW. That sounds familiar. When the CU busted onto the scene our guild left (myself included). Now alot of us have decided to come back and after playing the CU we actually like it (although it does have it's issues, pre-cu had issues too, so it's nothing new). I decided to use my alt to be a politician and run for mayor in our city and we now have the daunting task of reinvigorating our city. We have alot of former guild members that moved to dantooine and now that we've came back and restarted our guild, they're all asking to come back to vertigo. The problem is at the moment we have no control over the city and can't even grant zoning rights so, until elections are over we're kind of at a stand still. Then after we get people moved back in we still have a city full of houses that belong to people who no longer play. We've decided just to keep things going the best we can and we all feel like everything will work out eventually.

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Aefin wrote:
we all feel like everything will work out eventually.

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Expecting sarcasim? Surprise!

If you all feel that everything will work out... it will.

Really... state of mind is everything.

When the SOE Grinch takes our very last Life Day Tree and we're still singing...

I vote you stay with the old city for two personal reasons. 1) The metropolis has everything, 2) If you start another city and just leave that city sitting there you take up a valuable city slot. I guess you could pull up the shuttle but would that free up the shuttle slot for someone else and reduce your chances of getting one down the road?

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AmonTdow wrote:
The day WoW came out, 70% of my guild quit the game (not a goodbye, here's our stuff, were moving on, it was more a f SOE, F SWG).

Finally got control of our guild (went from 285 people to 20, back up to 145ish now) and finally control of the city.

One of the people before he quit, dumped close to 50M into city hall.

The city is *FULL* of houses from when the city was made, and a large chunk of these people haven't played in the game in the last 6 months, let alone within the last year.

It's such a *MESS* that we have problems finding spots to stick people.

So we decided to start a new city (great idea...) untill we realised we'd lose close to 25M in city hall, and since there is no room on tat/corellie/dant that left rori and talus.

We chose talus to help build the imperial presence there.

My question is, since we've just begun moving. Is it worth it? To give up a metropolis and start ALL over from scratch? The more I think about it, the more I say no (I need to move 6 toons, some people in the guild need to move upwards of 10 characters), Are they ever going to poof houses/factories/etc of people who've been cancelled? I know they keep saying so.

But I've had a CSR check some houses of people who have LONG LONG LONG quit the game and no maintence in the house, yet it sticks around.

I'm pretty overwhelmed right now. Asking a FULL guild to follow me, to a planet they don't really like, leaving a city, they like even less. With the possibility of not having a shuttle (seems everyone is making a new city and racing for the shuttle status before they are all given out).

I need some advice.

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We ran into the same problem with our city. Except most of our population left when EQ2 came out. Our city was allways hovering around lvl 4 (metro) but spent most of its time at lvl 3. With all the dead houses an unusable terrain near the city hall we had very little if any space at all to increase our population. We went from a poplulation of 74 to 33 in 2 weeks!! Of those 33 only 8 were still active. We decided it would be best to move. We moved our hall 450m to the opposite side of the valley.

The new location gave us 3 times the amount of usable land. The one nice thing about us moving only 450m is that when the city limits expanded some of the homes from the "old" city were now in the new city. This way some people didnt have to move at all, or just temporarly till the limits expaned to where there house was.

If this is an option for you I would highly suggest doing so. It saved alot of people headaches.

Shrug if there are enough people purged, you might lose the spot anyways. The maintenance is quite a bit though.

I left my city since my mayor let ours become a total mess. No organization, no zoning laws, just buildings, extractors and factories everywhere. With the support of that city's guild, I have built a new city that is much more organized, with little trouble. We're going to get township by tuesday, and city the tuesday after that (if all goes to plan, knock on wood). Personally I think it would be a more rewarding experience, and it would be far more difficult to continue along in your crippled city.