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Thread: mayor elections broken

CorporalClegg
Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:27 am
#1

i keep posting to the CSRs that the mayor elections in my city are broken as the ex mayor who hasnt run in the election for 4 months keeps winning the election despite my char running and getting all the votes.


the csrs keep saying this is a known issue and they are working on it but i never seem to see much of a thread on this in the city forums. So am i missing something?


a mayorless city with waste of time elections is getting a little old




everytime i try and mention this subject to tiggs when i see her in the swg chat she ignores my questions on gameplay and concentrates on the real important issues like how her dogs are doing, how she loves coke and turning down offers of marriage. cant see what that has to do with the game but it sure keeps the 13 yr old customers happy

Message Edited by CorporalClegg on 07-18-2005 08:29 AM



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Khristen
Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:24 am
#2
Do you have a lot of new citizens coming into the city in the meantime? While they aren't supposed to, the votes of new citizens automatically default to the Mayor whether that peson is running or not.


If you get all of them to go into City Hall and manually cast their vote for you (as well as other citizens) you should be able to circumvent that and win the election.




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Zivon
Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:30 am
#3

I truly sympathize with you situation. However it would appear that since Mayors make up such a small percent of the player base, we get very little attention from the devolvement team. The big picture they don’t seem to get is that although we mayors may be few in number, player cities as a whole affect a very high percentage of the player base.


The last thing I recall happening with the Politician profession is they made it a non-profession by removing the skill point requirements. On a side note, the sales tax collection has been broken in my city for over a year now.




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Cuit
Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:13 am
#4




Khristen wrote:

Do you have a lot of new citizens coming into the city in the meantime? While they aren't supposed to, the votes of new citizens automatically default to the Mayor whether that peson is running or not.


If you get all of them to go into City Hall and manually cast their vote for you (as well as other citizens) you should be able to circumvent that and win the election.






so correct me but . . .


are you saying that city hall counts the votes of all citizens putting them to the current mayor (regardless if they are running) unless they manually change their vote?


I'm currently running for mayor in my city and I'm alittle afraid of this "bug"





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Khristen
Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:27 am
#5

No. It takes the votes of *new* citizens and gives them to the incumbent mayor. It only affects the election cycle that a player becomes a citizen during. After that, the votes of citizens default to "Abstain".






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Cuit
Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:35 am
#6
/sigh of relief



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CorporalClegg
Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:05 am
#7
in the last two elections i have not recruited anyone into the city nor has the city population changed in anyway. All the votes cast in the mayor elections have been for me and there has been no other player running in the elections. Still the old mayor wins the election.


I have put in a ticket after every single election complaining about this and everytime i get a cut and paste reply stating the devs "are aware of this known issue" and are working on it. The only place however that i can find any reference that states that the devs know about this issue is in the cut and paste CSR reply in the ticket. There doesnt seem to be any debate on this issue on this board, in the in-development or bug threads or anywhere else.


Every time i attempted to bring this issue to the attention of anyone of supposed importance ie Tiggs (the fact that i feel stongly that i am just been out and out lied to and fobbed off by the CSRs on this issue is my driving force in tying to get some communication about this going) my tells, and i sent her and the four other CSRs in the chat room 54 tells in 36 minutes on one occasion my questions were unanswered. As Tiggs was able to answer a large percentage of the tells in the chat room that were about her dogs, coke, the weather and proposals of marirage, i can only presume that it is not acceptable that she can therefore say she missed ALL my tells and therefore i have leverage to believe that she PURPOSEFULLY ignored all my tells and i therefore must presume that means this is because i am been lied to by the CSRs.






Thinks SOE killed SWG
Thinks SOE are a laighing stock
Thinks Smedley should throw himself on his own sabre
Is disgusted with SOE's changes to the game
Will have his signature deleted and account banned bacause SOE doesnt like people saying they are useless
Khristen
Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:17 am
#8

I'm not really sure what the "known issue" is in this case. I would send in another ticket (either in-game or via e-mail) and request it to be escalated to a supervisor.


Include as many specifics as you can including the city server/waypoint, the number of people voting, when the last election cycle ended, and reference tickets you have sent in before.






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darkbounty1
Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:54 pm
#9
It may help if the mayor quits the city... I dont know if he/she can do that though...



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