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[SneakySneakers]

Ghost towns (NOT THE TOWNS IN CALL OF DUTY GHOSTS BECAUSE I HATE THAT SERIES) are a plague to builders and mayors alike. So how to fix them?

Here are 5 ways you could:

1: Breaking: if a player is not on for 3 weeks, blocks start to break. You can fix blocks by just going online. If the blocks are unfixed for 1 and a half months, they become able to be picked up by everyone. Partially broken blocks are non-solid and you can place other blocks on top of them (but it gets lifted up by 1 Z-axis lock more). Townstones start to break in a month of no citizens being in the town and every week that passes, the borders become smaller. The townstones get moved to a local auction area where they will be sold for a hefty gold price (10K or more).

2: Divine intervention: Sim9 or a bot version of him charges to a townstone Spirit Breaker (Dota 2 hero) style and it shatters making any broken blocks able to get picked up. Obviously, all blocks by the mayor will be broken.

3: REMOVE TOWNSTONE: KKfenix or a bot version of him plays one of the three instruments featured in REMOVE KEBAB and eats the townstone.

4: Absolutely BOOOOOOORING! -Dr Nefarious: In 3 months, the townstone gets moved back to the player's inventory and all blocks go back to their owners

5: Washed up and ready to dry!: A washing machine falls out of the sky and shatters the townstone while flooding the area with pick-up-able water.

[kkfenix]

I honestly wouldn't like this.

[SneakySneakers]

I honestly wouldn't like this.

Me neither...

[kkfenix]

Me neither...

Then why did you suggest it?

[SneakySneakers]

Then why did you suggest it?

[Dragonslayerwei]

I think the only problem is that some of us do tend to get busy. DragonSlayerWei is going on a 2-3 week vacation soon and won't be online. I think that this could apply to houses in the wilderness just sitting around that haven't been touched in a long time. But it would work good for towns if the mayor doesn't frequent online. Mayors who don't frequent online and basically have a ghost town, will have citizens who will move out if they are inactive. That's what I've done already. Players will pack up their blocks and leave to a more populated town.

What we could do is during the holiday season, postpone this idea

[madman]

A good idea.....but no not a good idea. There must be some better way to stop ghost towns than destroying them...

i agree with abt79

[Dragonslayerwei]

If you look closely, you can see that the car light is over his arm...

[kkfenix]

I have an idea.

 

-Towns must be made by players Level 6

 

-(maybe)Player must have x amount of plat.

 

-Players must have x amount of Hours logged.

 

I see new users making towns who have 0 plat for expansion and look for other player with plat to expand for them. If these ghost towns are made by players who have maybe a lower level than 6, have 0 plat for expansion and build, and have low hours logged than maybe their is a link? Are the mods able to look into this to check ghost towns we link the locations to, to see the player stats of the mayors?

 

Think about it. How many of the ghost towns do you see, could be made by players who played maybe a week long and just never logged back on? maybe even less hours than 1 week.

 

Towns that thrive have active mayors, who care about their town. Its not even the fact that players move into a town and don't show up again, because mayors can take away blocks (can't they? idk).

 

For example, I play in browser because Steam version is waaay too laggy, and so I only have around 13 hours on record, even though I have played the game for almost 2 years (before Steam release).

 

Also, most of those ghost towns are made by:

• Psychoticsmiley - a moderator, who is, also, most likely the second largest plat buyer, kjh787 being the first,
• Trololo - a moderator,
• Grim Master Death - a moderator.

[SneakySneakers]

If you look closely, you can see that the car light is over his arm...

Because the devs were CRAAAAAAAZY!

 

Also, this is my 300th post!