Moving your cities

An option to  Pack up and Leave an area would be nice especially in the early game if you spawn out in the middle of nowhere and want to move closer to the center or vice versa

The ability should be a low level research possible right after marketplace but a very expensive an slow process

After selecting to move your city it will stop all production of basic and advance resources as your populace will begin tearing down your city and preparing for the move.
Depending on the size of the city the break down could last several hours or days.

After the city is broken down your people will carry it to your new location the trip will be slow and some population will die from exhaustion, exposure, and other dangers of moving.

When your city is at the final destination it will begin to rebuild which will also take several hours or days to finish.

The cons of moving
0 income from the time of demo till completion is finished
You can lose 10-30% of your population depending on city size and distance traveled  (represented in random loss of structure levels)
It will cost a lot of gold, your people wont work for free
You may have to set your taxes high for a while to save up enough gold further reducing your income

Pros
You can move your city for what ever reason

i was thinking the cost/time for say a new player with less than 400 pop would be reasonable enough but have to cost to pop ratio go up exponentially so that the cost of  moving a 10k pop city would be enough to discourage moving unless its there is a bigger reason, say a new update.

I'm not opposed to allowing city relocation in this kind of fashion, but I think players should be forced to abandon everything except a starting stash of resources and the research.  You can't realistically move buildings, and the cost of relocation does need to be so extremely harsh that players will only do it for extremely compelling reasons...especially if they're already developed where they are.

Otherwise, in addition to the concerns already noted, you'll potentially have developed cities moving in on rural areas to dominate the just starting locals.  New players have it hard enough without being pawns in alliances' expansionist maneuvers or tactical land grabs.

actually I have to say when I first saw this thread I didn't think it was a good idea but now I think that this sort of function needs to be implemented and soon. Near the center of the map its all fine. However further from the centre there are a couple of large players that completely dominate the area. One of the players in my alliance is being completely pummeled into submission by one of these large players and will probbably leave the game if not helped out. He has a over 1000 population but this bigger player has over 5000 in his main city and is a member of black and therefore practically untouchable by anyone but a member of H? or T?

At the moment I'd have to say teleprtation should be allowed for free if a GM or MOD approves it.
Or perhaps an ingame mechanism that takes into account attackers size and alliance. Targets size and alliance and attackers committment.


Edited by col0005 - 14 Jul 2010 at 07:58

Put up "Killing Glyph" or "Ward of Destruction/Intention" ... repeat as it's charges get used up after cooldown = the big guy will leave you alone pretty quickly ! Plus build T1 thieves (50-100) if he's stealing... shouldn't take more than 1 week to get him off your back  Also keep resources in city low by using them.