Politician Archive

1) If no one runs against the mayor, but the mayor in position gets, for example, 20 votes, will that mayor get 2000 exp or will he get none since he didn't have a competitor?

2) If no one runs against the mayor, and no one votes, does the mayor in office automatically get all votes and all the exp that come with them? (20 people don't vote, but the mayor gets the 2k exp anyway).

3) If there are two people running against eachother, and there are 30 citizens... 10 vote for the new mayor, 5 vote for the mayor in officer, and the other 15 don't vote, do the extra 15 votes automatically get given to the mayor in officer, giving him a total of 20 votes? Would this also mean he would get 2k exp for the 20 "votes"?

Thanks!

yes, yes, and yes...

My main concern is that my xp is going to cap... Does anyone know this first weeks xp will cap at 2000? Or will it be lower? I'm really hopeing 2000 so I can register on map, and get mission terms...

I heard, Val, not sure if it's accurate, that the cap is 2500. But of course, I know what I would do in your shoes . . . .

~~Shabhaii, Mayor of Tombra, Naboo
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The REAL BT
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I just wish there was another way to get xp. At this rate it will take months to to get anywhere. I'm not asking that they make it easy, I'm just think that there should be some other way so that Politicians don't have to wait an entire week to get what amounts to a pittance of xp.

-Allastair Rommell

High Commander, <IC>

Mayor, Fort Bravo

yea i agree.. i think we should get like campaign points or something anything... i dunno.. just someway besides the votes per week.. with a 2500 xp cap its gonna take 4 months to master

My city will have close to or past 60 votes first election. I guess this city thing will take forever to get up to metropolis.

Jebus Kurofune

Master Architect

Hmm... politicians and exp... must find another way...

I know! Politician Mission Terminals!

You take 2 missions...

First mission: you run 1 to 2km away to a school or elderly home where yougive handshakes, waves,andplastic smilesto as many of the local hicks as possible, in a time limit of say, 2 minutes.Eachfavorable gesture gives you 5!! points!

Second Mission:dirty deed -politicians can't be politicians without being dirty. You run another 1km to a college intern's house and perform unspeakably lude acts. Then you have to cover them up!Three reporters are already there (like pirates in those silly, useless treasure hunts), but you have your body guards snuff them out before they can fire off one Holo-news transmission! Great fun. Each reporter dead = +10 points! Plus the added 1 unit of Iron and a CDEF pistol.

Oh and Politicians should have bodyguards and limos.

The cap will go up as you go up the tree. The normal equation I think is 2x the amount needed for the previous skill box but since there isn't one before the first box then it has to be set by the devs. The Bounty Hunter Investigation first box is only 1000xp but you can hold 10,000xp before it caps.

The cap could be 2500 but I'm not sure, The best idea though would be to go all the way up one tree (seeing as how the XP req increases making your cap go up) and then in one vote you can get enough XP to train mulitple boxes. I'm not sure that the politician XP requirements go up for each successive skill box but thats how every other profession works.

People had actual cities on TC so there must be a way to get the XP within a month to make a decent sized city. Servers are down now, I'll check when I get back on.

Regarding improving politician experience, I have to agree its silly, but slows down power gamers from powering through a city, the idea is to make it seem that its growing, although whether this works in practice or not remains to be seen, personally i'd like to see the caps increased, I really dislike the idea of having 50 citizens and only being able to provide mission terminals after a whole week, it means in essence no one can move in fully for 2 weeks. I'd also like to see a small change in Politician experience gaining, I'd recommend that you get a small bonus in experience when you win an election, say 500xp. Just my 2 cents. =)

Regards,
Shaedar Haran EC
New Suntir - Mayor

Usually the xp cap is twice what your highest skill box can hold. Example fiscal policy 1 takes 1000xp, so the cap should be 2000xp, but I can't confirm that for politician.

And all citizens who did not vote, automatically vote for the incumbent mayor. And recieve the xp for the all votes.