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Thread: This Week in Politics 3/15/04

CJSpinecaster
Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:29 pm
#14
I have thrown my hat into the ring in the weekly Mayoral race in Arakeen On Tatooine. OMG What a Long story behind it. This seemsto the place to have the questions answered. I will be back.



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Tharro
Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:14 am
#15



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LeeRydersRevenge
Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:24 am
#16

Destiny's End, Dantooine-SunRunner


This week has seen substantial growth for our 2 week old city. With 38 Citizens, 75 structures and the new lighting, it is really taking hold.


Having Recruited various resident manufacturers and providing perks to their allegiance to our city, we feel we are offering our residents an entirely new way to experience swg and this Galaxy, et al.


We implemented our first tax (12% property) to defray our infrastructure growth costs.


Defining the "roads" within our borders has proven elusive until now as I wanted to wait to ensure the city would grow to a size worthy of such planning. Zoning is also now in effect (as has been planned) so as our entertainment/medical districts do not overlap our residential and manufacturing and commerce sections.


I am proud not only at our growth, but in the way our entire city population, all unknown to me a mere 3 weeks ago.. have pulled together to see their own indepedant vision of their ideal living place grow.. while being willing to sacrifice a bit of their own pie to appease each other... my hats off to our citizens.


Next on the agenda, filling all that new empty space





2,000 years ago, when God made an ass speak it was a miracle.
Today, it would be a miracle if you could get one to shut up.
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cnlfailure
Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:29 am
#17

Having been mayor now for two weeks, I think it's high time that Twin Rivers' political arm made note of itself here on the politician forum.


Following the recent difficulties within the city, we have now built a mission statement for the city, and set it place a policy regarding its governance. As caretaker mayor during this period I have attempted to restore the city financial stability by increasing taxes to compensate for the exodus of citizens that has occurred during this transition. While still retaining city status, it is evident that growth must be achieved in the near future to avoid a downward spiral, but with the new city policies in place we believe that this can and will be accomplished.


The turnaround in fortunes for the city looks most promising and as mayor I am blessed by a highly supportive and committed town populace who have backed all measures I have proposed in this interim period before we finalised the city governing body.


Elections to the city council will be taking place in the next week, after which point we will be in the position we have wanted to be since the foundation of the city.


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arsheba
Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:35 am
#18


Sedoo, a great commercial metropolis, and the largest city on Dantooine (Flurry) by huge margins, is in its death throes this week, and to look around you would not even know it. Business is better than ever. But several factors conspire to ruin us.


Our most prolific crafters have left us for Coronet because the lag makes a 20 minute restocking job take nine hours to complete.


Our citizen list is full of names belonging to players who apparently left long ago without a word. Why they persist on the citizen report is anyone's guess, but it only just now dawned on us that our citizen count has been wildly inaccurate since the beginning. How can we avoid disaster if the city reports we accept in good faith are apocryphal? If this dual-citizenship bug is fixed or fixes itself without adequate warning, every city could be decimated at any moment, and never see it coming.


This infernal 6-week rule will deliver its poison in two days, and between that and normal player turnover rates, we are getting hit with a quadruple whammy. All these former citizens will of course leave behind their derelict structures to prevent new citizens from replacing theinevitable lost.


But it doesn't end there.


One large imperial guild based in Sedoo (who has completely respected our city's neutrality and commercial credibility) has decided to leave in search of a place which gives them more freedom to participate in the GCW, which I can totally respect. If they leave that's 20 more, and the vast majority of their issues (which I'm currently prepared to bend over forward in talks to pursuade them to stay... But if that falls through, add another 20-30 to the casualty list, and largely because I have no power as Mayor to enforce any pvp policy, so everyone gets nervous - factions, neutrals, merchants, customers, everyone. I'm currently proposing faction districts; perhaps a yin/yang approach will allow calm to prevail in the eye of the maelstrom. The center of balance should be still.


Add another guild I have known forever, dissolving, due to inactive players just gone, poof. Some said goodbye and went to other games, but most just vanished, as people do in games such as this one.


Sony's policy does not take into account the very real phenomenon of player turnover and the suffering it creates for players who continue to struggle to remain active and deal with the derelict structures and vendors that mayors and structure owners must stand by and watch as they clog and destroy their shops and cities.


You are killing a great city this week. I just wanted you to know. We, the active citizens of Sedoo, and its supporters, will fight and go down with the ship, but we never quit before and we shall not quit until the Dantooine dirt covers us completely.


So, you want to know how my city is doing this week? To look around you would not see a problem at all. Busy busy busy, always. Everyone loves Sedoo. Just ask around. We are big and we stock absolutely everything, or someone is around to tell shoppers who to mail orders to. We have a very long and successful history which I will not bore you with at this time. I don't speak for myself, but rather all the people, players, subscribers, who made this city at times over 130 strong at times. And it will be again before it poofs overnight. Because we are busting ass and making it happen. But in my heart I know it will be a miracle if we pull it off and save the city.


Because (I'm going to repeat this because it seems vaguely important) SOE does not take into account the very real phenomenon of player turnover when considering the rights of structure owners vs zombie vendors and the responsibilities of elected officials who are expected to maintain player cities for and represent the vast majority of players.


Balance those two things, before a lot of great cities die, and you will have my attention. Until then I doubt I will bother to post in this forum again. I have seen the Politician profession, for whom there is no other profession to balance in any real context, utterly ignored, and treated only in terms of our actual numbers, which are slight. I bet there are more Jedi running around saying "sup?" than there are actual elected politicians struggling to exist in spite of doing everything right.


No offense, but please please get your heads screwed on just straight enough to see this problem before it's really really really really too late or you're going to have a lot more inactive players whose rotting property you can defend from the wicked shop owner in whose shop they're squatting, or the horrible mayor who gave tens of millions and everything she had to help others have a great place to live.



How dare you sell us the idea that we will be politicians and then give us no power to prevent tragedies like this one. How dare you take my money and then let this happen to countless cities of players who give their all in such good faith. Shame on you.


The onus should fall squarely on inactive players rather than those who struggle to carry on. OR players need a system in place to fairly negotiate and enforce an agreement to remove a vendor from the owner's property after a certain time, or certain amount of maintenance expires, or if a structure is left for a certain time beyond which the city mayor can reasonably assume the responsible party has failed to check in and their arrangement automatically enforced. Time for money. The rest of the game works like that. Why not visiting vendors and structure owners....... and mayors and citizens. and non-citizens (especially those who have expired after 6 weeks and left their structures to block any hope of new citizens moving in... well you get my point.


/evict 2 weeks notice to remove empty vendor on structure owner's property.


/condemn (used by mayor on non-citizen structures in the city limits for which they are Responsible) 2 weeks notice to terminate structure (or move to escrow)


Anyway, how's your city doing?


Arsheba Silmaril

Mayor of Sedoo

Dantooine, Flurry


"If you can't find it in Sedoo, get your head out of your ###!"

Tharro
Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:57 am
#19
I'm wondering what happened to my post

So as i tried to state in my previous try, I'm mayor of a small outpost on corellia (europe-infinity). We count at the moment 19 citizens (hope to get my 20 this evening). Andmy firstupdate only 1 day away.

We have 2 guilds in our little town, one rebel (wich i'm also one of the leaders) and one neutral. We are planning to put down a cantina as soon as possible, also holding a strict cityplan. But I have miscalculated me a bit with placing the first house, and the only solution i see is redeeding all and replacing them. The only problem about this is to get everyone online to help with the move. So I would find it great if we politician that are mayor to move a house in the city and/or let the owner know you would like that he redeeds it. And if the player don't answer your call the building would redeed automaticaly after 1 or 2 weeks to a sort of vendor in the city hall where the owner can get it, also with his items in the building. Some would see that this can be used to grief, but in everytown a mayor has the ability to tear down a house. Why not here? And if it happens to much vote him out of office or leave the city and join another. Problem solved. At the end the mayor that griefs is the the victim, is city won't grow or he loses just his possition. Thoughed that is the way of politics.



Don't let hatred fill your mind,
Ydyp Ieva.

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arsheba
Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:00 am
#20
I'd like to edit the previous message to include the following question:


Sony, is this really how you intended it to be?
PLPompey
Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:24 am
#21

Phoenix Heights is 1 week old!


We now have 30 members and I have installed a few mission terminals with my first lot of precious politician XP. Although we have the deeds to a cantina, a bank, a cloaning facility, a hospital and a garage, none have been placed yet. This is mainly to the fact that i need a few ks of XP to get master music, I dont have the XP to place them this week, or we dont have the 35 ppl to become a township. Getting political XP once a week really sucks when we have a population waiting with baited breath for new developments in the city.


We have organised our first big outing to the Rebel theme park. Both guild members and citizens not associated with the guild will be attending and it looks like it will be an interesting night!


Presently we are holding a vote to see whether or not we include a shopping mall in the village. We have a number of merchants who have vendors in their homes, but as part of the future vision of the city, I would like a mall to place all the vendors in. At the moment we have 5/30 votes in favour of this with 25 not voted yet.


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Songe
Tue Mar 23, 2004 8:39 am
#22
I check the treasury every week at the same time and a few times during the week as well. My city doesn't have property taxes and just lives of sale taxes and shuttle use... But having financial reports would be very helpful.



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