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Thread: CSR BeverlyY Told Me This about Politician XP!
WookieeManiac wrote:Ok, I met w/ the CSR and this is how it went.The CSR informed me that I got the votes (which I agree with) for the first week that I ran against the old mayor.
However, its a known bug and is being worked on, but even tho i'm the incumbent mayor, the previous mayor is still getting experience for the people that didnt vote for me the first time around. This is supposed to be fixed here soon, hopefully next publish (7).So for all you mayors out there that arent getting your full experience, this is probably the issue. The CSR happily reimbursed my 1100 xp that were lost in the process.So Bejeezus, thanks for your time in this. Ignore the PM or keep it for your own files, this issue was resolved finally after taking into the advise the helpful mayors on these boards assisted with.Thanks politician forum for your help!Stay Cool!
This confirms what I've been told by multiple CSRs as well.
23 Citizens last week, 2300xp registered.
Original mayor...incumbant since day one, never had anyone register to run against me, no one has physically voted at the terminal since the first week... and I get all their votes.
Maybe it gets screwed up when someone runs against you, a ghosted challenger even after they drop out of the race.
Even though you won the election, is it possible that those citizens that never voted are not voting by default for the incumbant (you)? This seems very similar to some of the other dangling pointer and null value issues seen with other systems.
Seiryuu wrote:
You got 1400 xp the first week and 1600 the second. Did you add two new citizens or did two people vote for you the second week that did not before?
Even though you won the election, is it possible that those citizens that never voted are not voting by default for the incumbant (you)? This seems very similar to some of the other dangling pointer and null value issues seen with other systems.
that could be an issue, but when I got voted in I was mad encumbant, and the old mayor never registered to rerun gainst me, and I got all the xp from all my citizens even thoug I got just over half to get voted in in the firstplace...but it could be a bug on that server or with that city
This is a bug that I have encountered also and I'll explain exactly how it has worked in my case.
I was mayor of Nu'Maoi City on Naboo (Eclipse) and left to make a new City on a different planet leaving the running of the City to a good friend. We all got everyone we could to vote Cerr into office for Nu'Maoi City and I went off to make a new city as planned. With AFK residents I still got a percentage of votes but Cerr got the majority.
Now I get the xp from the new city on Friday (which is the new City update time) and I get a second lot of xp (equating to 22 people) when Nu'Maoi updates on Monday am. So the bug is the voting carrying over from the week of the elections. Instead of the new mayor getting the incubrerance votes in full it is still being split between the outgoing and incoming Mayors.
Hope this info helps.
I run an expirement, that might be of interested. No new information, just sharing my experience.
Background:
Our mayor got banned. After running the city on "auto-run" and failing to win elections (30 active citizens vs. 70 inactive, whose default votes went to incumbent) I managed to "sell" my case to CSRs, and they made me a Mayor. Our city had about 1 Mil in maintenance, and we were facing a destruction, so something had to be done.
Problem:
WhenCSRmade me the newmayor, I had only 27 votes registered for me. In the following weeks, nobody registered against me, yet I ketp on losing.The old (banned) mayor kept on winning the election,because thesystem remembered that he had over 70 votes, and I had only 27. I also kept getting my 2700 xp weekly - a snail's pace, giving the fact that I had a Metropolis to run. The strange thing was, that we were getinga fewnew citizens while I was in office, yet I still kept on getting the same 2700 xp.Seemed as if the votes from new citizens didn't count. Good news - CSR agreed to stop by every week and restore me into office.
Experiment:
After CSRput me back into office last week,I simply had every active guild member and citizens go to the terminal and vote for the current incumbent mayor, which was me. The result was interesting - I got 4700 xp. Since nobody was running against me I couldn't actually see the votes, butI expected to get about 47 of them. I still lost though - we currently went back up to 96 citizens, so I needed3 morevotes! But that's besides the point. What is, is that it seems that new citizens needs to walk over to the voting terminal and vote for the incumbent mayor for their votes to actually count. I'm planning on running another test this week, and hopingto get more votes this time around.
Conclusion:
The bug is simple - the system fails to reset the vote tally after the elections. At least faile to do so poperly.Work around - have all new and old citizens to vote for you at least once, so that system can record their vote specifically for you.
Also, Bajeezus, can you find out if Devs can do anything about this Beverly issue? The Player City system is screwed up as it is, and now we have to deal with some un-educated CSR? Hmm ...