I Took a Number 12....

[Voidmaster]

For those of you who dont know yet...I am proud to announce, it looks like number 12 is all over SWG now. I am so pleased with myself...I feel like my pants fit better!

  from who do I get my new legs?

-V-

[Holmes]

Miagi can make you some, will probably be on this evening.

They made them a pain to make with stats (require armor cores and a bunch of named resources), appearance tab only is easy though.

[Azis]

Miagi can make you some, will probably be on this evening.

  Miagi, my dear ole starsider supplier, innovator and Bro.

Please relay my hello's and best wishes this evening 

[Holmes]

Miagi, my dear ole starsider supplier, innovator and Bro.

Please relay my hello's and best wishes this evening 

Heheh well I would if I could log in I just get sat down at the PC about an hour ago, get logged in and system message that they shutting servers down for emergency hotfix comes up LOL.

[Voidmaster]

/cry /cry /cry

OK, so I log out thinking I can get back in....Nope not a chance.

So now I am board, siting here....Thinking about my new project...OK I AM GOING TO HIJACK MY OWN THREAD!

In starslider on talus there is a city named Eugenicity founded in ealry 08. Vary nice the loacation, like the view, its neat, clean, organized and I feel it has lots of potential. I have fallen in love with the idea of becoming its mayor. I have lots of good ideas and dont wish to change it, just add to it. But I am unsure as to how to attempt a take over. Should I deliver a speach on the SWG Starslider foums and attempt to rally the citizens? Should I apply for citizenship and then run after I have made some powerful friends inside the city? Do I contact the current mayor and let him know I interested?

It should be noted the city has a inactive shuttleport, no vendors, and had 3 zoneing violations. Just some homes, city hall, bank and a undeveloped mall.

The fallowing is a outline for just some of my selling points.

City goals:
-Establishing a new city mall, invigorate the citys economy.
-Attract Independent Vendors
-Attract investors
-Keep the prior city malita or if there are none establish 3 new city malita
-Activate N.E.C.P. or New Eugenicity Citizenship Program
-Bring a strong sence of community

Looking for:
-Vendors
-webside Designer for Eugenicity
-City Event Mangers

Personal Skills (to sell myself as mayor):
-Organized
-Attention to deatail
-Goal oriented and Determined
-Always formal
-Strong citizen service

I have yet to try to put this into speach form. Anyhow im probably just crazy, but I want your imput before I make another move. Feel free to give me ideas!

-V-

[Azis]

Voidmaster have you checked out RBL Chat? Top of the board is the door 

[Voidmaster]

I cant seem to get into it...

[Azis]

you may have to accept to let the Holmes script errrr java app run 

I will hail Holmes on the ship wide comm to see if he can solve your problem 

[Azis]

I cant seem to get into it...

Ok Holmes replied back with a typical IT response,...... "You're not doing it right"


 

[Holmes]

Hrm on the chat thing, should be as simple as clicking the RBL Chat link and clicking Run on the java security popup.

On the Talus city takeover, I think moving in and getting in good enough to get on militia, then move in a bunch of people and run for mayor

[Voidmaster]

Lol, im not doing it right? Lol, All I have to do is go *click* on rbl chat, right?

OOO OK well I dont get a popup, hemm...Will do some troble shooting.

LOL lets code name it Talus Takeover, i like that!

[Snoopy]

Inactive cities can be a pain to run(I SHOULD know....lol...remember RBL City on Gorath?), esp. with the current rules in effect. For those that aren't aware, citizens that are inactive for 90 days are now removed from the city(this was how our city on Gorath died). The mayor can protect a small percentage from this fate, but not enough to save the city from failure due to inactivity...a min. # of 10(I think) active citizens are required just to keep the city alive. You need to have a level 3 city(15 citizens min.) to have it listed on the map and be able set a city specialization.

The catch then with taking over a prexisting city? It's current citizenship will likely NOT know you or owe you any loyality. Running for mayor in it(btw, you NEED to be a citizen of the city in order to run) means you have an uphill battle on your hands, if they are friends of it's current mayor and vote for him/her.  Assuming apathy and an easy win, you'll likely LOSE alot of the old membership shortly afterward...either by defection or simply running out the 90 days.(I seen both happen with some of my OWN toons on different servers in the various cities they were part of). You'll need to recruit your OWN membership for the city, which in the long term, is prob. gonna be MORE work than simply founding a new city of your own.  One point to bare in mind though, if you become mayor....the city treasury vanishes when the city hall dies(as did 4 mil in RBL Cities teasury on Gorath), the maor is only allowed to remove a small portion every few days, so DON'T invest alot of your own personal credits in it, if you don't want to chance losing them(OR someone else gaining the mayor's position and trasury control). I have one toon over on Flurry that just left a dying city it was a citizen of that has over 88 mil in it's treasury...and goes 'poof' this week.

I could mention other things too, but I think you get the idea....lol. I'd hate to lose you as a citizen of RBL's Roost, but I certainly understand the desire.

[Voidmaster]

As a cid of RBL Roost, you will only lose (a name not to be mentionted) and gain Levroum. So your pop remains the same.

Many of the things you mention I have thought about and only sever to farther push my ambitions. I am the type to say "ok its you two (or three) vs me, lets do this" cuz if I dont win its a minor loss and a shallow victory for them, But when I win its major victory and major loss for them. All hail my StarCraft playing days for that...

As for starting a new city...guess I will have to pick a spot on each planet. Then wait for a city slot to open up. So starting now I am takeing WP's for nice spots on each of the planets. Looking for flat or slight slop upwards to a hill top. Feel free to leave me a WP and I will look it up.

Also going to need to start rallying people (RL friends) to help get the city started. Going to need names for it too...Should I get one of each city hall?

-V-

[Snoopy]

Yeah, if you want to be prepared for ANY of the planets opening up a position...on Starsider, you'll have to move FAST when/if an opportunity develops..there's ALOT of competition for limited spaces....having a city hall of each of the 3 types wouldn't be a bad idea.