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As nice as a tax-free town may be, I think it's part of what makes the community ... everybody has to give a share to make it work ... it's just part of the RP for me

I havea better idea i charge 1k for an air fare to my city and the city has 0 tax and you can clone any time you want. since im beside a POI i dont know anyone who would rather walk 5 k to save 2k and whomever feels like a rip off he can walk to the poi im not obligating him to use my buildings i paid for the shuttle if he wants to use it he has to pay, end of story. thats all for a tax free utopia my city has 80 citizens and 0 taxes with all commodities and the only payment they have to do is shuttle, not one person has complained and the city is reaking in the million per week!

Yeah, a Shuttle that is very near a POI is guaranteed to rake in the credits.

I work for a non-profit on Earth and have learned a thing or two about getting donations.

For the focus of this discussion, I am going to assume your city has a shuttle and can at least make 100cr per ticket sold. While technically having the 100cr fee is still a tax, it is perhaps the most worthwhile and directly applicable of all the taxes. Using some of these tips, you may soon find yourself with enough money to remove the shuttle tax.

COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR COMMUNITY

The first thing to do is make sure you have an open relationship with your citizens. You should have every citizen on your friends list so you can easily send e-mails to all of them. Your e-mails should include resource waypoints, citizen announcements, upcoming events, bugs that may severly affecting your town and anything else they will find important.

Answer every reply you get from your citizens. Even if its only a short thank you. Remember, their ideas are never bad - they may not be feasable or you may be unable to help in certain situations, but you always need to listen.

IDENTIFY THE WEALTHIEST MEMBERS OF YOUR TOWN

You need to befriend the richest members of your city. Offer them gardens in front of their homes, or statues in their honor. These can be thebenefits for large donations of 100k - 1000k or more.

Hold an event where you unveil the new statue/structure.

Offer to place a beautiful garden directly in front of a PA Hall in return for a weekly payment from the PA.

IDENTIFY WEALTHY AND BORED PLAYERS OUTSIDE OF TOWN

I allready have two players who have written our town in their virtual wills. I promised to place a fountain or statue in their honor or in their memory, if they donate a large amount of their credits and/or resources to the city when they leave the game.

Someone who has a Holocron may be convinced to donate it to your city. You could then hold an auction and invite players from all over the Galaxy.

ORGANIZE LARGE GROUP HUNTS WITH ALL PROCEEDS GOING TO THE CITY

As one of your monthly city events, coordinate a large hunt and encourage everyone to donate as much of their earnings into the city coffers.

You could also ask each member of the hunt to donate their monthly share of city expenses (which for most cities is 15-20k)

BE CHARISMATIC, AND FOR GOODNESS SAKE GET HELP!

Do not try to manage the city all by yourself. You will need to have a strong militia leader and a strong city planner/assistant (also on the militia). These people can take care of zoning issues and most other problems citizens might have.

They also help you by talking with the locals and finding out what their needs and opinions are. You may also want to hire certain citizens to scout for resource waypoints each week or to organize hunts.

LokNLoad - Naritus - Population 61 - Neutral / No guild affilation

Mayor - Sandoz

City Planner - Novarider

Sheriff - Ha'Thren

Grrrr... So why isn't your city on Valcyn! I'm stuck in Mos Vegas where the mayor will never write back to me and where I have a 10% sales tax. The group hunts sound like a blast, and I wouldn't mind donating the hunt money to the city at all! Thats a great idea!

Anyone on Valcyn running an open city like this that gets lots of foot traffic? Send me a email!

Cat'rick

These are some great ideas. Tombra does several of these (we still have taxes, but they are low and we are a tiny little hamlet, only hitting Village this Friday), such as the group hunt and such. Charisma and getting the word out does help, and we are living proof: we got an anonymous donation from outside of the city for 1.5 million credits when someone on Scylla heard we were not going to be able to swing our city expenses. To this day we still have no idea who it was, and I wish they had Zabrak statues so we could place one in thier honor, since that's all we know from the e-mail.

*runs back to the wish list thread*

~~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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BaudGnarly wrote:

Yeah, a Shuttle that is very near a POI is guaranteed to rake in the credits.

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Not really, there seems to ba a 'round trip' bug, i.e. if the traveller purchases a round trip ticket at an NPC shuttleport s/he is charged the proper amounts but the player city's surcharge never makes it into the city's coffers.

This sounds great. I will get this implements after we get our shuttle ports

I like a lot of your suggestions. The one everyone should take to heart is communicating with your citizens. Even though Krayt Order (my guild) makes up 80% of the population of Krayt City, and I can talk to all of them any time in guild chat, I have to realize that 20% of those people aren't from KO, and they'll pack their bags anytime they want. So let people know exactly what you're doing. Weekly updates are key. Do more if you need to. Invite them on hunts, raids, etc.

Want to comunicate with your town? easy MAIL TO: CITIZENS

There u go

off topic stop using our name, i wished i had a copyright on it

j/k

All great ideas

We dont current have any taxes, aside from the shuttle port fee. Have been working on donations so far. I love the garden or statue in your honor thing. Our gardens are mapped out, but who wouldnt want more

Regards

~Casia of Crystal Hollow~

Dantooine, Starsider

Some other ideas:

Create a Lead Surveyor position in your town. This person will be in charge of gathering together all the hot resource waypoints and mailing them out to all the citizens, or to all the citizens who sign up to be on the resource list. The Lead Surveyor should have a team of people working with them who are also gathering off-world waypoints to hot resources.

Shmooze with the local merchants. Merchants tend to know who has money and who doesn't on your server and will be helpful in locating potential donors.

Mayor Sandoz, LokNLoad - Naritus