Hi ho,
As new racial style buildings become available, as well as our skills and funds grow to upgrade from one tiered structure to the next, has there been any thought regarding how we might "trade-in" our old structures to the community manager for some manner of upgrade?
I'd like to see something along the lines of a return of Novian resources to the vault when an existing structure is destroyed, along with the ability to upgrade those resources when a building is deleted. For example, if I have a building with 400 cedar units in place, I think it'd make sense to be able to get back Novian resources as follows:
Tier 1: recieve 400 cedar timbers
Tier 2: recieve 200elm timbers
Tier 3: recieve 100 oak timbers
Tier 4: recieve 66 maple timbers
Tier 5: recieve 50 yew timbers
The same scale (1/2 the amount for the next higher tier) would apply to each tier of resources one has in place, so if demolishing a structure with 100 maple timbers, you could select to receive 50 yew timbers, and so on.
I know many of us have put a lot of work or expense into our existing plots, and as we can afford to move to a new plot or choose to build a different type of building, I don't believe we should have to lose all that hard work we've already done.
I believe that in order to make this work, however, the resources one receives from the community manager would have to be made non-transferable. By making the trade-in resources so they may only be used by the plot owner, we won't hurt the current builder economy by giving rise to a "Novian only" builder's market. Even if a plot owner chose to continually build and destroy silos on their own plot, for example, they're likely to still end up paying for some manner of construction on the lower tiered silo in order to get the higher tiered resources.
Another option to discourage taking advantage of a "trade-in" system, would be to only allow the plot owner to receive the same tier, or the next higher tier, but nothing beyond that.
Please consider implementing something along these lines before the new racial buildings are put in the game.
Thanks,
-Finn