05DEC11 - Advance Notice: Negative Resources

HonoredMule wrote: Setting taxes to 0% fails to guarantee a net positive gain on all resources and therefore wouldn't fully correct the exploit.

Setting 0% would've been an exploit if that was what was told in first negative ressource advanced notice, that was implemented: "negative ressources only causes not to produce gold anymore".
But with the destrction of buildings, everything is covered and there is no more possible exploit about that. So now, you can be sure you'll face players that follows the same game mechanic rules you follow ;)

I never understood why we HAD to have a paddock and common grounds even if we didn't want one. I only build horses in two of my cities...

GM Stormcrow wrote: Mandarins31 wrote: i have some bugs reports: In one of my cities where i lost all of my buildings (as expected) Paddock and common ground where razed and changed to empty plots. i cant build them again because they of course arent on the building list. Thanks for letting us know.  This is now resolved and won't happen going forward. On the library issue, can you open a Petition? tyvm in advance, SC

Doe this actually mean that I can theoretically rase my paddock and build another building at that spot?
Thanks

Re Clearing Up Inactives -

Aurordan wrote: This thread is in fact a three day warning about the changes and exactly what they would entail.

There is an in-game message system where important announcements could be spread, but that wasn't used.  There is a newpaper where important information could be provided, but that wasn't used.  I've heard (today) that it was mentioned by the devs in global chat previously, but I've been on a fair amount the last few days and never saw a thing.  Admittedly, there was a several month notice on the forums (remember, food was going to stop being affected by tax rate and then the devs changed their minds) and then there was a several day notice on the forums (which really isn't that much notice given how long we've been promised factions and trade v2 without seeing anything).  I'm just surprised that the devs would choose to implement a feature that would cause the population of Illy to fall by over a million villagers without making sure everyone had multiple chances to hear the announcement and a significant period to prepare for it.  Even if the devs had used every notification method possible, someone could have gone away for a few days with a lvl 19 and lvl 20 building queued and returned before the queue was scheduled to be empty to find their city in ruins.