So I joined ECC about a week and a half ago, I got mayor a few days ago and now am building my town, the plot sizes include (2 9x9) (18 11x11) (4 11x23) (10 15x15) (8 20x20) (1 15x17) (1 15x30) (6 8x9) (3 8x8) as well as a cocoa farm that has 52 walls and is 24 long and 4 high, making about 6k per round, a shop for the residents to sell items, a carrot farm, a melon farm and a pumpkin farm. Town will have a warp in front of the town hall as well. Eventually I will get more cities next to this one, and work on larger farms but this is the plan for now. I was thinking of charging a one time move in price as well as a monthly rent of 1-3 netherstars. I want an opinion on whether this is reasonable, my plan is to put signs on each plot that they can sell 1-3 nether stars to me and on the first of each month I will make a round trip to collect them, they can pay anytime of the month as long as it is paid in by the end of the 1st of each month. I figured this is better than charging money rent because voting only takes 3-5 min to get 3 netherstars and it's something everyone can do in a quick time. Is that too much to ask? Keep in mind this is going to be a resident and up only town, no builders. Here are some pictures of what the town looks like so far. Please feel free to comment suggestions.
Just about 99% of all living towns on ECC deal with single payment only. The exceptions are towns with apartments or hotels. Now, I personally will let in a player that doesn't have enough for a plot with the understanding that they have to pay off that plot as quick as possible, but other than that, most plot payment transactions are a one time thing.
Yeah I know that, but I figure if you like my town enough to stay more than 30 or so days and actually plan to live there and use the farms spending 3-5 minutes per month isn't an awful price to pay. I saw another town charging monthly cash rent so this is where I got the idea from. I thought it was reasonable considering I am not even 2 weeks old to the server and make 10-20k a day, I figured it wasn't that bad, but thanks for the input, I may not charge rent at all we will see. I just don't want someone to move in stay active but never come to my city and their plot is just a waste of space, the rent idea was more of, pay a small fee or get out of town so I can sell the plot to someone else if that makes sense? I am also open to letting people do payment plans for moving in as well with no interest, just like a full month to pay the move in fee or whatever
The small fee shouldn't be more than a nether star, as they're worth over $600 to sell at several stations (including my own).
I was going to do 1 nstar per month but a friend said I should do 3 considering thats what people get when they do all 3 links, maybe I will do that instead thanks
The idea of nstars for monthly rent is perfectly reasonable, my friend @DevotedToChrist did this with his massive town and it worked fine. If @DevotedToChrist could illaberate more that would be nice
Thanks! I figured this was better than rent bc voting for 3-5 min is easier than farming or mining to pay rent, IMO. I would like to see what devoted has to say about it
TBH, if a builder stays for a month, I feel he shouldn't have to pay again. Not to mention most 10x10 plots sell for 1k. It could work, but it might take a lot of advertising and diligence on your side. Also, not all builders can vote, whether it's blocked on their pc or they just voted for a different server before joining us on ECC.
DevotedToChrist isn't that active anymore. I took over his town for a while and continued to charge rent. I believe I charged rent of 5 netherstars for 10*10 and 10 netherstars for a 20*20. This was purely to fund the town construction and such. All town members were helped out when I could, given free items, equipment, enchanted tools, whenever they needed. They were free to use our massive farms and services. I also sold shops that were rented at the same price (5-10/mo). Many people went inactive after buying a plot unfortunately, as they do. However, Divinity had a very loyal community and about half of those that joined stayed and payed rent happily because I was online and I'd talk to them and we'd work together to get things done. If you have a strong sense of community, people will happily pay monthly to live there.
That is exactly what I intend to do I want my community to be active in my town thats the reason for the rent, it's not a hard price to pay and if you enjoy the city it's really not that hard, if you don't like the city or are inactive it's just a way to get rid of those spots that could be resold. For all I know someone could be a part of my town, active every day, but hasn't even been to my town in 6 months, thats a waste of my space and money.
Exactly right. Obviously the town has to be in a good condition and "worth" the rent that's being charged, but community is a big chunk of it.
This town is a residents and up only, no builders allowed Unless they are on the forums I would consider it. I have made almost 200k in 2 weeks so far so I don't see how 3 netherstars you get for 5 min or less of work is that hard for any rank. If they have problems with voting links we can work something out. You know? It's just my way of keeping those in my city active
Yeah I'm making the town look pretty nice I've been paid real life money to build for other popular servers so the town will look nice for sure the first city is mainly just plots but does have good sized farms and some other features my second town I plan to get within a month and it will be attached to my first one, all residents will have access to both towns and the second town is going to double the cocoa farm and work on a hotel/apartments and more features for the town to interact with, like shop spaces and stuff I'm not opening for rent until the first town is 100% built and presentable
As someone who attempted the rent concept in PivilleBerlin... I suggest against doing it. On the other hand, I have also seen towns where it works...
I also toyed with the rent concept. Players make their first payment or two, but it was more of a hassle to follow up after that than it became worth.
Would have to be an epic town/city with many features and enough of your own good staff to manage your town/city. If I was to pay you rent I would like to see multi lvl farms no smaller than 200by200- for example, Id like to see 2 lvls of pumpkin farms/melon farms/ etc. I would like to see a big area dedicated to player markets, Id like to see a operational casino, and the list goes on. I think you have a great idea, will be a huge time investment on your part. If your here to staff with ECC then you should run with it and get started
thanks for the advice! I decided for 10x10ish plots rent will be 1 nstar a month, for 15x15 2 nstars and 20x20 3 nstars. Have a decent sized farm however I am waiting for my 2nd town to make a bigger pumpkin/melon farm this will be 100 long and 60 or so wide and minimum 20 floors tall. About 1k per floor you go through. After I hit 20 floors I will be expanding it an extra floor or 2 every week. And in my second town there is going to be a player market 10x10 market plots, I expect to get my 2nd town before December so it won't be long. It took me 6 days to get mayor and that including me wasting over 10k on lotto to win nothing lol
