I would like to suggest that additional Town Claims be purchasable at any level (above and including Tycoon) at $300,000. This retains the original $500,000 cost for the first claim and right to purchase future claims, retaining the viability of the Tycoon rank. However, it allows Claims to be made for old towns in groups. At the moment, people simple buy others' Tycoon claims to allow this to happen: why should the server miss out on that money?? Perhaps add discounts for EcoLeader+?
Your explanation is kinda rough - you're highlighting the rules regarding town claims being used as a town transfer, but we do have official town transfer apps for those circumstances. If we were to change it I would say claims could be purchasable but: - 250k minimum. Likely higher so as not to undercut player market on this. - Only available to tycoon+, as I believe claims are a large motivation for tycoons nowadays.
I personally feel that town claims should be available for purchase at $500k for EcoLegend only. This will still allow the opportunity to purchase town claims from other players (about 150k and 250k transfer) but makes the process possible if no claims are for sale. Why would anyone ever pay for higher ranks if they get the same benefit without the cost? Since the change made that there is no limit on towns owned, this suggestion is needed.
-1 Allowing town claims to be purchased by tycoons would remove some incentives of ranking up to ecoleader. I'd much rather these town claims be purchasable by ecolegends.
The highest minimum rank that is practical for that is EcoLeader - but very few users even rank up to EcoLeader for the claim, much less EcoMaster/EcoLegend. Seeing as you pay a player for a claim (250k on the upper end of the spectrum) then transfer it (250k) to get it officially in your name it doesn't make economic sense to purchase the higher ranks purely for town claim purposes. Putting it at EcoLegend simply makes no sense, we only have a handful of EcoLegends, a fraction of which are active and only 2 that I know of that actively persue towns. More money would be taken out of the economy by allowing it at a lower rank.
If it would cost 500k, why can't it be for presidents also? What if I want to claim a town but don't want to rank up to tycoon, given that the costs will stay the same (500k)?
Isnt that why the ranks exist? To gain another claim cause you used your other one up? I just see another reason to rank up. So if you can by them for 500k each once you get to tycoon, i wont be going any further cause i can essentially get all the 'rank up' features for 500k instead of a million I would like to see it for EcoLegend or EcoMaster With potentially a free Town Transfer for the other, as they need more 'features' to entice people to move up.
So if I understand what you are saying - I literally wasted millions of hard earned dollars ranking up for the benefit of town claims and now they will be available to every Tycoon+? Of course it did not make economic sense to purchase ranks purely for town claims - just as it does not make any sense to purchase captain or any other rank that does nothing but remove dollars from the economy showing support for our server.
*disclaimer here: don't mean to sound rude even if it comes off that way. This doesn't change the availability of town claims. The only limiting factor is the price. Ecoleader-Ecolegend is $8.5M. Assuming the current player town claim cost to be 250k and a transfer to 250k, a town claim is technically "available" to any President+ player for 500k. That's 17 claims like this for the price through ecolegend, 18 if you count the initial price for tycoon. It is my personal belief that for these more expensive ranks town claims do not play a role in a majority of players decisions to rank up. Therefore the purchasing of ranks and motives for doing so would not change in a major way.
No rudeness taken. So if this suggestion was to be accepted, would it be offered that we could trade our higher ranks for the town claims? I could really use 17 town claims
I would be willing to bet that no matter what the rule change (this one or anything else), there will be no retro-active compensation for in-game funds spent
Whatever the solution is, we definitely need a way to deal with the "dead town" problem. And adding more potential town claims makes sense. Also, tycoon+ appears to have no benefits except prestige and these town claims. So how many people actually buy tycoon just to give up their town claim? I bet not a ton.
I'd be thinking it would make sense to allow EcoLeaders+ to apply for this, this is because we have so many Tycoon and the rank is... honestly very easy to obtain. I wouldn't say I like the idea, we have a lot of inactive, but nice towns (I'm looking at you legacy spawn towns) and this would be something I'd love to buy. It's not like EcoLeader really needs incentives anyway. Ages ago when EcoLeader was the highest rank there was literally no benefit other than to show wealth, which is the purpose of the rank, and people still bought it (Including myself). Although I do agree that Tycoons shouldn't have access to buying extra town claims.
Maybe each rank (starting at Tycoon) can buy a set number of extra Town Claims? Tycoon gets 1, can buy 3? more. Next rank gets another free 1, can buy 3? more. Highest Eco rank can buy any amount up to... Do we want to cap number of Town Claims per person? This would add to existing rank privileges, but not "short change" anyone who are already above Tycoon. (ie: AdmiralD could have as many he wants to buy up to the per account limit, if we put a limit on it. However, he doesn't lose out on anything, since unless you hit Legend level, you would be restricted on the number of Town Claims you could buy)
Brilliant, just brilliant. This seems to be a solution that should satisfy everyone. I personally hope that there would be no limit put on the highest rank - somewhat like what we have on towns now.
