This rule also seems pretty arcane to me. If an original owner goes inactive for 6 plus months without an explicit contract forbidding a co mayor to take over, co-mayors of towns with inactive original owners should be allowed to get town features. They change every single other facet of the town, not being able to make a pvp area, warp or portal is a silly hang up. Active players get stuck with these towns they worked so hard on that suddenly uncontrollably come to a screeching halt.

+1 because the way it is is silliness.

 

This. A lot of players have asked me about this. +1

 

i would love to have this one because if mayor goes inactive - i would do features for co mayor example i would put something up in town
so i vote +5

 

I personally love the concept but the pricing of towns would be an issue. If this were to be implemented, buying multiple of your own original towns would be significantly worse financially than simply paying Residents/Mayors for their future towns. If anything, I think the transfer fees should be lowered to $75-100k, and/or additional town fees capped at $250k. Because I don't feel that it's best to provide nearly zero incentive to create your own towns as opposed to paying a Resident six times less money for a town that works exactly the same, I'm going to have to give a -1. Sorry.

 

This would be really good however, +1 to this.

 

Yeah I would say so, there may have been however many transactions but if you're co-mayor to the original owner still, they're just inactive and have been since before you were co-mayor. It's silly that you now have to pay a massive amount of money to claim or transfer the town. It's not impossible but still a lot of people might just quit, dump the town on someone else who didn't realize this, or make a new town and abandon all their hard work. It just seems really backwards to me that if an original owner goes awol what might be a very nice and active town comes screeching to a halt.

 

I'm going to have to -1 this suggestion for several reasons:

1. If this is allowed, there is no reason to get a transfer. Town transfers become useless, and so does original ownership. People would be more willing to buy towns from mayors then making town themselves, like Suburb said. In fact, what would be the motivation for the rank President if you can just buy a town off of a resident?

2. We use applications and original owners only because we're sure that they have legally obtained the town. What if someone who was a co-mayor removed a month inactive mayor to be the only owner of the town to change everything? According to this suggestion that would be legal, and there would be no way to check to see if they had obtained the town legally. Sure, we could probably reverse most of the changes if a complaint was filed, but in the end it creates more complications than benefits.

3. The whole point of getting a transfer for ownership is so that you can do these things. Get a contract with the original owner and file a transfer. If they're 6+ months inactive, then just claim the town, or get someone to claim it for you.

Ooot... town transfers were recently reduced in price from 250k to 150k, so they're not as expensive now. Andrew has stated that it will not go below this. I also sincerely doubt that Tycoon+ ranks will be reduced in price, but eh.

Anyway, that's my view on things. Maybe I'll address a few more things as they come to me.

 

+1 with some minor suggestions to the suggestions ;)

I would +1 this if there was a condition to it such as:

• The town original owner has been offline for 6 months+
• It can only be a town feature that does not heavily affect the town (town warp, heal sign etc.).

I think that's all I could say :)

 

@Samurai_N there have to be some advantages to being the original owner, or else it's pointless to just buy your town via the server instead of from a resident in exchange for the rank. In other words, of course there are going to be disadvantages or inconveniences from buying a town from another person.

 

I mean.... I see a lot of town transfers, and I've had 3 done myself. It's not that much of a hassel, and this was when the price was 250k. Now that it's 150k no doubt more people will find it worthwhile. And as for mayor being the sweet spot.... there are a lot more pres+ than mayors on the server. I buy towns from residents as well, but I always eventually transfer them to myself so I can be the original owner.

 

+1 and @Imaginex not many people buy town transfers they are not worth it by the time you are done it cost more then the town is worth and people buying towns from mayors is better and would help the server we currently have WAY to many abandoned and dead towns its hard to sell plots there is so many towns.. No need to make more new ones. As for president people would still buy because they want to name there own town and rank up past pres.

 

+1

 

+infinite

 

bump