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G0DsDestroyer 
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 Topic: Sell You're Cities
Posted: 28 Jul 2011 at 07:16 |
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heh, people might be wanting to abandon their large cities at this point, especially the ones that are 25k pop and not near food sov places and have 5 or less farmyards.
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Tordenkaffen
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Posted: 26 Jul 2011 at 17:19 |
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Well...migration is on the to-do list - wont that suffice for now?
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Albatross
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Posted: 26 Jul 2011 at 02:28 |
 scottfitz wrote:
I am not sure what selling a city would add to the game. There is currently a mechanism for ridding oneself of an unwanted city, it is called siege. |
Agree, but you need a strong alternate account, or to trust other willing players when you shout "kill my town". An option to just abandon a town would fulfil most needs in this direction.
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scottfitz
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Posted: 25 Jul 2011 at 19:28 |
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I am not sure what selling a city would add to the game. There is currently a mechanism for ridding oneself of an unwanted city, it is called siege.
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Albatross
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Posted: 25 Jul 2011 at 11:22 |
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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).
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Albatross
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Posted: 25 Jul 2011 at 11:16 |
The 'property reseller' idea disturbs me too, because the current progression curve is adequate for picking up new capabilities and learning to use them. With slow city development comes experience, responsibility, and a sense of emotional investment that tempers regular players. Just giving a newbie a completed city could be overwhelming, and subject to small disasters.
To make city selling viable, I suggest all of the following: - Only allow people to sell off a city if they have five or more cities, and
- Only allow sales to a player with at least three cities and a population within 25% of the seller's population.
- To help prevent the 'boosting' behaviour, add in some loss of future rights to a sold city. This has an inherent loophole, so we'll need validation to prevent city-swapping via a reseller.
...which is a bit too complicated. Maybe we should leave it as-is, because the gameplay gains are very small. How about a nice, simple, 'abandon city' option instead?
As a side-note, the idea of 'relinquishing some future rights to a city when sold', in isolation, is flawed, as it can be simply exploited by two colluding newbies.
Edited by Albatross - 25 Jul 2011 at 11:18
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Brids17
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Posted: 24 Jul 2011 at 22:29 |
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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.
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Tordenkaffen
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Posted: 24 Jul 2011 at 20:20 |
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Hey Im a wordsmith - cool!
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Tordenkaffen
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Posted: 24 Jul 2011 at 20:17 |
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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.
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<Squill>
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Posted: 24 Jul 2011 at 08:02 |
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Perhaps, certain requirement's could be put in place like a vet can only buy a town if they are already able to build one?
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