06-11-2005, 11:56 AM
Managing the City
The cities in SWG require maintenance and upkeep to run. Each structure, amenity, or specialization added to a city incurs additional maintenance costs for the city. Some are extremely high (shuttle ports, for example, add an additional 125000 to the base weekly city maintenance). A metropolis which has a full array of services and the maximum number of mission terminals, skill trainers, and city decorations can easily have weekly maintenance costs that exceed 500000 credits. If there is insufficient money in the treasury each week to cover maintenance costs, structures within the city will start to decay and need additional funds for repair.
Mayors have two choices when it comes to funding the city. You can set taxes once you reach Village level, or you can depend on donations. Donations can be made directly to the city by anyone, via the city management terminal. Taxes can only be set and adjusted by the mayor.
There are three types of taxes. Property taxes add costs to maintenance of player owned structures. The amount taxed is transferred to the city treasury. For example, a small house with a daily maintenance of 384 credits and a tax of 10% would cost 422 credits per day to maintain. Sales tax adds to the cost of items purchased within the city. If your city has a 10% sales tax and you place an item on your vendor marked at 1000 credits, it will actually cost 1100 credits to purchase. Citizen taxes are a tax that is applied to each declared citizen within the city. The tax is deducted from the citizen's bank account at each weekly city update.
Travel fees are a surcharge that is added to the ticket price for those cities which have shuttle ports.
City maintenance is collected weekly; at the time your city is eligible to advance. The Galactic Authority assesses your city at this time, and validates it for the week. If you've lost citizens and dropped below the minimum required for your current city rank, the rank will drop. The city radius contracts and civic structures associated with that rank that are outside the radius will be destroyed. Civic structures inside the new radius will be marked as "Invalid", the mayor is notified, and you are given one week to regain rank. If you fail to regain it, those structures are destroyed at the next city update.
If the city advances a rank, the radius of the city expands and the abilities associated with that rank are unlocked. You can find out your advancement time by checking the city hall terminal (server downtimes affect the actual time this is set for each week).
The mayor also receives the accumulated experience points for the week during the city update. Mayors receive 100 xp per citizen in the city. There tends to be some lag time between scheduled city updates and the xp being granted, but Mayors receive an email when it occurs.
The militia is also managed via the city hall terminal. This skill is unlocked when the mayor trains Martial Planning I. To add someone to the militia, they must be standing with the mayor, within 10m of the management terminal. Militia members gain the ability to grant zoning rights, ban and pardon people within the city limits, and warn people within the city limits. Due to a huge number of complaints about the misuse of the warn command, it's slated for removal in the near future.
City Specialization
Cities who have mayors with certain skills trained can declare a city specialization. Each city can only have one specialization declared at any given time. There is a fee associated with each specialization:
# Cloning Lab; Martial Policy II; 80K credits weekly; reduces clone insurance 20%.
# Manufacturing Center; Fiscal Policy III; 50K credits weekly; adds a 10% bonus to assembly results.
# Stronghold; Martial Policy III; 150K credits weekly; grants a 50 point defense bonus to militia members against opposing players within the city limits.
# Medical Center; Civic Policy III; 80K credits weekly; healing in the Medical Center is 10% more effective.
# Entertainment Center; Civic Policy III; 80K credits weekly; Entertainer healing is 10% more effective in Cantinas and Theatres.
# Research Center; Fiscal Policy IV; 125K credits weekly; adds a 15% bonus to the experimentation when crafting.
# Improved Job Market; Civic Policy IV; 80K credits weekly; 20% increase in from missions taken within the city.
# Sample Rich; Civic Policy IV; 70K credits weekly; gain a 20% bonus of resources gathered while sampling and gain a 10% chance of finding resources.
# Industrial Society; Master Politician; 200K credits weekly; grants the city the combined bonuses from both Manufacturing Center and Research center.
City Elections
Elections are held weekly. If no one challenges the mayor for the job, the mayor is automatically reelected. If there is opposition, the mayor receives an email informing them of the fact. Voters who do not cast a ballot have their ballots automatically cast for the incumbent mayor. In the case of a tie vote, the mayor retains their position. If the incumbent mayor loses, all mayoral powers are automatically transferred to the new mayor. If the new mayor has no skills trained, structures placed by the former mayor will remain, but additional structures cannot be placed by the new mayor until they have gained the requisite skill.
Lastly What shalll we name our outpost?? We can have a contest for the name if you want. Also as stated earlier we are going to need $$ to keep up the buildings and all can help I hope. This sounds like alot of fun but we probably need to make sure we have the resources.
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Admiral Aslan
The cities in SWG require maintenance and upkeep to run. Each structure, amenity, or specialization added to a city incurs additional maintenance costs for the city. Some are extremely high (shuttle ports, for example, add an additional 125000 to the base weekly city maintenance). A metropolis which has a full array of services and the maximum number of mission terminals, skill trainers, and city decorations can easily have weekly maintenance costs that exceed 500000 credits. If there is insufficient money in the treasury each week to cover maintenance costs, structures within the city will start to decay and need additional funds for repair.
Mayors have two choices when it comes to funding the city. You can set taxes once you reach Village level, or you can depend on donations. Donations can be made directly to the city by anyone, via the city management terminal. Taxes can only be set and adjusted by the mayor.
There are three types of taxes. Property taxes add costs to maintenance of player owned structures. The amount taxed is transferred to the city treasury. For example, a small house with a daily maintenance of 384 credits and a tax of 10% would cost 422 credits per day to maintain. Sales tax adds to the cost of items purchased within the city. If your city has a 10% sales tax and you place an item on your vendor marked at 1000 credits, it will actually cost 1100 credits to purchase. Citizen taxes are a tax that is applied to each declared citizen within the city. The tax is deducted from the citizen's bank account at each weekly city update.
Travel fees are a surcharge that is added to the ticket price for those cities which have shuttle ports.
City maintenance is collected weekly; at the time your city is eligible to advance. The Galactic Authority assesses your city at this time, and validates it for the week. If you've lost citizens and dropped below the minimum required for your current city rank, the rank will drop. The city radius contracts and civic structures associated with that rank that are outside the radius will be destroyed. Civic structures inside the new radius will be marked as "Invalid", the mayor is notified, and you are given one week to regain rank. If you fail to regain it, those structures are destroyed at the next city update.
If the city advances a rank, the radius of the city expands and the abilities associated with that rank are unlocked. You can find out your advancement time by checking the city hall terminal (server downtimes affect the actual time this is set for each week).
The mayor also receives the accumulated experience points for the week during the city update. Mayors receive 100 xp per citizen in the city. There tends to be some lag time between scheduled city updates and the xp being granted, but Mayors receive an email when it occurs.
The militia is also managed via the city hall terminal. This skill is unlocked when the mayor trains Martial Planning I. To add someone to the militia, they must be standing with the mayor, within 10m of the management terminal. Militia members gain the ability to grant zoning rights, ban and pardon people within the city limits, and warn people within the city limits. Due to a huge number of complaints about the misuse of the warn command, it's slated for removal in the near future.
City Specialization
Cities who have mayors with certain skills trained can declare a city specialization. Each city can only have one specialization declared at any given time. There is a fee associated with each specialization:
# Cloning Lab; Martial Policy II; 80K credits weekly; reduces clone insurance 20%.
# Manufacturing Center; Fiscal Policy III; 50K credits weekly; adds a 10% bonus to assembly results.
# Stronghold; Martial Policy III; 150K credits weekly; grants a 50 point defense bonus to militia members against opposing players within the city limits.
# Medical Center; Civic Policy III; 80K credits weekly; healing in the Medical Center is 10% more effective.
# Entertainment Center; Civic Policy III; 80K credits weekly; Entertainer healing is 10% more effective in Cantinas and Theatres.
# Research Center; Fiscal Policy IV; 125K credits weekly; adds a 15% bonus to the experimentation when crafting.
# Improved Job Market; Civic Policy IV; 80K credits weekly; 20% increase in from missions taken within the city.
# Sample Rich; Civic Policy IV; 70K credits weekly; gain a 20% bonus of resources gathered while sampling and gain a 10% chance of finding resources.
# Industrial Society; Master Politician; 200K credits weekly; grants the city the combined bonuses from both Manufacturing Center and Research center.
City Elections
Elections are held weekly. If no one challenges the mayor for the job, the mayor is automatically reelected. If there is opposition, the mayor receives an email informing them of the fact. Voters who do not cast a ballot have their ballots automatically cast for the incumbent mayor. In the case of a tie vote, the mayor retains their position. If the incumbent mayor loses, all mayoral powers are automatically transferred to the new mayor. If the new mayor has no skills trained, structures placed by the former mayor will remain, but additional structures cannot be placed by the new mayor until they have gained the requisite skill.
Lastly What shalll we name our outpost?? We can have a contest for the name if you want. Also as stated earlier we are going to need $$ to keep up the buildings and all can help I hope. This sounds like alot of fun but we probably need to make sure we have the resources.
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Admiral Aslan
(Wish I had read this earlier today B4 I finished my 1st bank (Correlian natch - Need a bank Simon? ;D ) Not to worry, now that I know what I need, they aren't that hard to build.
;D)
