Politician Archive
Thread: Politician Forum Poll
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1) 3, 4, 4, 2
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills? No
3. How many citizens does your city have? 130+
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get? I actually beat the incumbent, but noone is running against me presently.
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation? If not, were you placed into office in friendly succession or did you oppose and defeat an incumbent mayor? No, it was partially opposition and friendly succession. Nothing personal.
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA? Restricted zoning and 4 PA's run the city
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account? Main
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business? Countless, its a fulltime job.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician? Teras Kasi Master, I still have it.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations? The city council voted for manufacturing center for this week despite what I've read in these forums about it.
1. 2 3 2 3
2. No
3. 49
4. No, much to my dismay, I like competition.
5. Since creation
6. Zoning is on, 4 PAs in city, and we welcome anyone who wants to join and is rebel/neutral, just want to keep it organized.
7. Main Character
8. I live in my city, answer questions whenever I am on, and create weapons and architecture for the city. I make little profit each week since I became a mayor. Politician envelopes my other professions.
9. Master Weaponsmith, and I still love doing it to this day, even if I have to find 50 millioin specific resources.
10. No specializations, after reading multiple posts, I have determined that the specializations aren't all that special. Maybe once I can use the two in one specials I might implement one, but they still aren't that special.
Here are my own answers:
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)
I'm now at 4, 4, 2, 4.
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
No, but I will have to evaluate that for my own character after I master politician. I think its too bad that most of the specializations don't seem to be worth keeping the skills for. It's certainly a flaw in our profession that as soon as you reach master it becomes so tempting to drop many of the skills.
3. How many citizens does your city have?
Nearly 100.
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?
Never have had any opponents. Again, lost opportunity here as campaigning is such an integral part of the concept of the politician, but is something that most of us don't experience in-game. I have roleplayed some rivalries and some "political scandals" but no actual opposition.
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation? If not, were you placed into office in friendly succession or did you oppose and defeat an incumbent mayor?
Yes, I've been mayor since the foundation. We were to have had a three-mayor rotation, but the other two mayor candidates have dropped out after seeing not much to interest them in taking on the role for our city. As the one player probably most interested in the dynamics of city building and civic gameplay, I've stayed in as politician and will take the skill-point bite for my city.
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA?
Our city is primarily run by a partnership of two PAs. We have a designed city and turned on restricted zoning after the second week, once everyone was pretty much moved in.
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account?
Main and only character. I am surprised not to see that more players have used alternates to hold the position to free up skill points for other professions.
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business?
There is always something to do, placement of some new garden or permission to grant. And I serve as a kind of communication source for important city announcements, so I write the "citizen mail" whenever something like the placement of a new facility occurs. Something like ten hours a week on strictly political business, I would guess.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
I'm a Master Doctor, and I dropped some combat medic and pistoleer skills. I also had built up some architect skills, but have dropped those to give myself some flexibility.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
No. May turn on the stronghold eventually. And I have an open offer to our crafters to turn on any of the crafting related specialties if they request them and think they would be able to make them profitable.
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)Master
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills? No
3. How many citizens does your city have? 100
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?yes once.. got1 votes..
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation? If not, were you placed into office in friendly succession or did you oppose and defeat an incumbent mayor? Yes
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA? We have zoning rights enabled.. and our city has equal body of 4 guilds and nonguilded..
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account? Second acountt but play it more..
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business?40% of game time is dealing with city issues and relationships
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician? master merchant and yes have droped it now
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations? yes.. our city is using research .. and from all test we have done.. it is working fine.. unless we are just REALLY lucky ...
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)
2,3,2,2
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
No but after Master, there is nothing that has ANY usefulness so ill drop skills.
3. How many citizens does your city have?
65
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?
0
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation? If not, were you placed into office in friendly succession or did you oppose and defeat an incumbent mayor?
Since Day 1
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA?
We have zoning rights on. We have 2 guilds in our city.
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account?
Main
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business?
1-2 hours.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
Master Musician. Dropped 
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
Stronghold, its useless though... just looks cool when you come into the city and it says Stronghold. $150,000 is a "little" to much to pay to look cool..... will be dropping that.
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)
2 3 2 2
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
No
3. How many citizens does your city have?
~59
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?
No opponents yet
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation? If not, were you placed into office in friendly succession or did you oppose and defeat an incumbent mayor?
Mayor since founding
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA?
City is private, primarily run by one PA. Others have been invited.
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account?
Politician is my "main", just started an alt on same server for "combat type"
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business?
~3 hours per week directly on Mayor duties. I discuss city concerns, place structures, send out a weekly update via in game email, run city townhall meetings, working with militia on city defense, and with planners about future plans.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
Had been working on Architect when I became politiican. Have been dropping combat skill points in favor of Politician. Currently M/Artisan, M/Architecht, Novice Politician, Novice Merchant.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
Just started using Stronghold. Cost seems a bit high, we'll have to see the return.
Strohm
Mayor of Tarkin's Hold, Talus (Bloodfin)
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)
2,0,1,0
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
Not yet, a little early for me
3. How many citizens does your city have?
25+
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?
Only the first one.. whose only vote was his for himself. So it was 1 out of 25.
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation? If not, were you placed into office in friendly succession or did you oppose and defeat an incumbent mayor?
I placed the city hall, so I've been the only mayor.
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA?
So far, public, but we plan to go private. We have 2 PAs involved.
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account?
My Poli is my Main.. however, I'm also a Master Artisan/Master Architect
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business?
hard to actually put it in *hours* but I'd say 40% of my time is spent on city matters.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
I'm still a Master Architect/Master Artisan. I've dropped a dabbling in Smuggler and will probably lose my Marksman skills to eke out Politician
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
Not yet, we don't qualify at this time.
Bajeezus wrote:
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? 4123
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? No
3. How many citizens does your city have? ~83
4. Have you had opponents in your elections? No
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation? Yes
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA? Private, founded and controlled by the Guild for about 6 weeks, not Private and run by the citizens
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account? Main
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business? 80-90% of my playing time, or about 14-18 hours
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician? DE (/cry), kept it.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations? Research
Thanks folks.
I'll answer too.
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? 4-3-4-3
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? No.
3. How many citizens does your city have? 131
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get? Yes. 6%.
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation?Yes.
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA? Private, 3 guilds and about 40% of citizens are not in those guilds.
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Main.
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business? As high as 50 hours/week now down to 10-12 hours/week
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Architect, still primary profession.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations? We rotate specializations weekly. This week it is Research Center, next week it is Entertainment.
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)
0/0/0/0 (I haven't been able to play much in the last week and grab a skill)
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
nope
3. How many citizens does your city have?
16, soon to get at least 20 but homes need to move thanks to the land
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?
nope, but I hope to have a few rival mayors to make things interesting
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation? If not, were you placed into office in friendly succession or did you oppose and defeat an incumbent mayor?
just started on the vehicle publish and I was camped out waiting to drop
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA?
no, however mine and a friends PA willmake up a good number of the citizens.
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account?
my only character
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business?
not many, and even when I get to be a metropolis sized city I don't expect to have much to do outside of running missions nonstop in order to help hold up city hall
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
with my build I just needed to cancel out my TKA line, which I hadn't hit yet, and drop some scout and medic skills.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
no
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? 4/4/3/3
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills? no
3. How many citizens does your city have? 150
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get? none
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation? If not, were you placed into office in friendly succession or did you oppose and defeat an incumbent mayor? Since Foundation
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA? Private
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account? I bought a 2nd account for this purpose and use it as a Crafter/Merchant
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business? 2-4 hours a day.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician? New character
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations? Research Center
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)
3/3/2/1
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
Not yet, but I begin to wonder at the usefulness of some of them...
3. How many citizens does your city have?
66
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?
None
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation? If not, were you placed into office in friendly succession or did you oppose and defeat an incumbent mayor?
Mayor since founding
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA?
In between, I guess...zoning is enabled for the sake of planning, but it's largely open at this point. There are 2 PA's now, with several individuals as well.
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account?
Main
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business?
Probably 2-3 hours/week
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
Tailor, which I dropped, but not really due to poli skills.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
Yes, a manufacturing center, but we're looking at R&D soon.
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills? NO
3. How many citizens does your city have? 73
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get? Yes, About 10%
5. Have you been the mayor of your town since its foundation? If not, were you placed into office in friendly succession or did you oppose and defeat an incumbent mayor? Mayor since founding
6. Is your city a "private" city, with restricted zoning permission, or public, open to all settlers? If private, is your city run primarily by one PA? Private, not run by a PA
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account? MAIN
8. How many hours per week do you spend playing strictly as a politician, placing structures, giving permission, travelling to train, communicating with citizens via chat or mail regarding city business? 10 hours at least
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician? Pistoleer, dropped it
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations? NO