Sell You're Cities

I'd love to see cities up for trade, perhaps in the new trade version we can sell entire cities going under the hammer? Perhaps even an auction system? It will add great depth to illyriad, even if we cannot trade them on a market we should at least be able to transfer control to another player?

Squill - Wont that be exploitable you think? If a big player buys the second city from a noob, builds it up in no time and sells it back to the new player - won't that mess up the progress of the game a great deal?

That would be a given, but would it enable large players to turbobuild new starting cities for a newcommer thus reducing the start-up significantly. Since a Vet can add resources and research points continuously and instabuild with prestige he/she could make a well built pop 3000 town in about a week and sell back to the new player, effectively eliminating 1-2 months of introduction playtime when compared to players without a social network to rely on.

I think we should just stick to carepackages - thats the fair and even way to deal with it.

Congrats =)

Anyway, why would I, as a big mighty veteran player, buy a city, level it up, spend prestige, and then sell it back to a new player? The new player would have nothing to offer me because he's new, so what would I gain out of the time and money I put into the city? Doesn't sound broken because I see no reason for someone to do that for someone.

Just extending the idea of Abandon City, this has to have a disruptive effect on the city, where resource generation and tax revenue are immediately depleted by, say 15% and this slowly recovers over about 4 days (say 1 day per 2000 pop).