Politician Archive
Thread: Removing an old mayor
Trashawn wrote:
I want to move mayor to my Alt character, This may be tricky seeing that some of my citizens are only on once a week or less. You think a CSR would have mind switching mayoral duties to a character thats owned by the same person?In a sense it's not a mayor change just a toon change.
I would also like to do this in the future. An answer to this question would be appreciated.
jreb98 wrote:
Ok, I have an idea on another way to do this and i want some input on if you guys think it will work or not.
I am currently the mayor of a city, and have been for 10 months. We have roughly 70% inactive. My idea is to have the person that the city thinks is good enough and trustworthy enough to replace me to pick up novice politician, be on the ballot for several weeks with people voting for them to build up their skills. When their skills are as high as mine are, i will drop all politician thereby forcing me to be removed from the ballot which should shift all votes in the city to the only person left on the ballot.
Am i correct in my line of thinking or will this just screw up the city?
That would only work if dropping politician would cause you to stop being mayor. I'm not certain that is the case. Can anyone verify?
Arthor wrote:
I would have thought that if the old mayor was inactive and (presumably) no one was bothering to vote anymore, all you would have to do would be put yourself up for election and get 1 friend to vote and you'd be in. But it doesnt sound like thats the case. Does it not work like this?
People don't have to actively vote. Inactive's votes are automatically cast for the incumbent unless they change it to be for someone else.
A few months ago I was saying the same thing, I even posted a thread around here ranting 
. Knowing what I know now, I take it all back, It is possible to elect a new mayor using the voting method (..and a lot of spamming).
Our old mayor had disappeared and there was only 1 militia member left who was no very active. I made several CSR tickets and the only response that came back was they could only help out if the Mayor's account had been cancelled; I.e. He was no longer paying. As our mayor was "taking an extended break" and didn't want to cancel his account I thought there was nothing I could do, I wanted a quick and easy way with the minimal amount of effort to take control. Well I'm sorry there isn't one and with hindsight I don't there should be one.
This is what I did to take control, I hope that you might find some of it useful.
Find out how many active players you have.
The easiest way to do this is to tip every citizen 1 credit. The way the system is currently set up is that you will receive an email when the amount is delivered: I.e. when they log on. Therefore if you send out 80 emails and receive 19 back over the period of 2 weeks you have 19 active people on the island who can vote for you.
Find out who you militia are and if possible become one
We only had 1 member of the militia who wasn’t very active, I emailed everyone on the island asking if any of them knew a private email for our absent mayor. Someone did and I arranged a time when we could meet and he’d set me up as a member of the militia.
Recruit and advertise
Start spamming the forums, set yourself up a spam macro and stand outside the city hall, what ever it takes get people to come to your city. Put some effort into it, don’t add a Haven Island is recruiting /tell me for an invite post, give them a reason to join sell your city. Here is the advert we pulled together so feel free to plagiarise
Get help and spam, spam , spam
Remember there are other people on the island so illicit there help in spreading the word.
Send weekly emails to all the citizens reminding them to vote, the in game notepad is very useful for this (/notepad), I copied the names from the city management terminal and every time I wanted to send and email all I had to do was copy and paste. Make sure you tell them where the voting terminal is, surprisingly enough not many people do!
Organise recruitment nights where you agree that at a certain time you’ll be online to help settle new residents.
Over that week several things happened, some planned and some unplanned. We recruited nearly 30 people in the space of a week more than what we required, the vote was cast and I became Mayor of Haven Island. We also noticed a new found sense of community on the island, all the work that had been put in over the past few weeks had revitalised the game for a lot of people on the island. Saving Haven Island had given everyone on the island a common goal and purpose; I’d never seen things so active and so much enthusiasm flying around.
Now that I’m Mayor maintaining this will be even more difficult than taking over. Yes the process of assuming control was difficult but ask yourself if you are not willing to put in that effort to save you city are you the right person to be mayor ?
Good luck to you.
Maast wrote:
jreb98 wrote:
Ok, I have an idea on another way to do this and i want some input on if you guys think it will work or not.
I am currently the mayor of a city, and have been for 10 months. We have roughly 70% inactive. My idea is to have the person that the city thinks is good enough and trustworthy enough to replace me to pick up novice politician, be on the ballot for several weeks with people voting for them to build up their skills. When their skills are as high as mine are, i will drop all politician thereby forcing me to be removed from the ballot which should shift all votes in the city to the only person left on the ballot.
Am i correct in my line of thinking or will this just screw up the city?
That would only work if dropping politician would cause you to stop being mayor. I'm not certain that is the case. Can anyone verify?
No, dropping Poli would not remove you from the ballot. You only need novice to get ellected into office, once your in, you can run with no poli skills if that suits you.
GrandAdmiralRoral wrote:
No, dropping Poli would not remove you from the ballot. You only need novice to get ellected into office, once your in, you can run with no poli skills if that suits you.
Trashawn wrote:
Maast wrote:
Trashawn wrote:I'm attempting to try to do it the democratic way this week, If it fails then I might talk to a CSR to see if it's possible. Most likely not get much support.
Be polite (as I'm sure you are anyway)....please let us know what you find out.Well so far I got half the votes I need to for my second account to get mayor, maby a little more harassment I might be able to get the rest I need. Perhaps some more recruiting might help out aswell.
Well after a whole day of harassment I got the needed votes to pass Mayor off to my alt. I would of Liked to see if a CSR help out but no big deal. One other thing that I found was cool is that my city is about 65 percent active with only a couple of those every other weekend warriors. I'm still surprised that I didn't even need to massivly recruite people to do this aswell. but having 50 citizen might be easier to manage than mayors with 80+.