Politician Archive

It would be, but I don't think it's something we'll see. It would take a fair amount of developer time that could be spent fixing bugs and such that I don't see them setting aside.

Well, just call this a dev induced bug, then - and ask them to fix it.

I too, was a Master Politician for months. My city eventually drifted away (many left the game) and only after months later did I drop some of my Politician skills to pick up some useful Marksman xp.

Well.. soon afterwards two troubling changed occurred, Politician skillswere set to no longer requireskill points - and my rifle skills werenerfed beyone usefulness. What gives?Thenerfed me twice -no three times- Politicians no longer get automatic votes from Citizens, so since another city has asked me to be mayor it's going to take forever to get my Master Poltician title back.

Remember when they nerfed mounts - and you could visita trainer in town who would trade your useless mount for one you could use? Why not do that for this issue?

If a player shows a Mastered Politician badge, all the devs would have to do is add a option to the Politician Trainer to see that and offerthem a "Politician in Good Standing" certificate... for a nominal _donation_... this would work in Role Playing and would make a fairly easy fix that has been done for other situations that the Devs created.

Three nerfs... i think that is worth addressing, don't you?

If it's necessary for you to have politician skills, gain it the normal way.

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bluejanus wrote:
If it's necessary for you to have politician skills, gain it the normal way.

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I would have to agree.

They did and they did it when it took a LOT more commitment to do so. Respect to the politicians of old.

Yes, they did it when it took a commitment of skill points, but I think the major point here is that nothing is preventing them from doing it again. If they made the choice to drop it then, it's no different than dropping any other profession. If I drop my Master Freelance Pilot skills--which also take 0 skill points--to pursue another pilot class, I'm not allowed to get those skills granted back if I want to go back to it later.

I would cast my vote against this idea, not to deny someone who worked rather hard and sacrificed much playtime and skillpoints being a master politician, but for the way that every "fix" the devs make creates 3+ more problems for them to fix. I'm REAL sorry, now-ex-Master Politicians, but please grind back up, for the sake of avoiding the seemingly careless mistakes they make when they try to fix stuff. Please.

I was a master politician before they took the SP away. I still think its the absolute worst thing that has happened to our proffesion. None the less i think it would cheapen it even more if you mastered it once, you could drop it and re-gain it as often as you want, even if it doesn't take sp any more.