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The City Hall is one of these buildings where the mayor cannot add anyone to Admin or anything else. The only command on the radial is to destroy the building.

Is there a list of commands that can be used manually to get around this until it is fixed? There was a list for this when there was a problem with the terminal not showing up in houses and guild halls so I am hoping there is a command list we can use for this bug issue too.

Thank you.

This situation is total unexceptable. Short of mediating disputes within the planetary sytem, what can SOE do that lessens the chance of this happening? They can limit cross server citizens (probablywouldbe hugely unpopular), Make citizens vote every week, instead of carrying votes forward.! (Also, probably not possible... Unless voting could also be done from a Capitol terminal on the planet the city is on.) Deactivate inactive accounts...? Hmmmm. Here's what I recommend:

- Levy an Imperial Citizen Tax on any peep not a member of a city, say 20% of the weekly maintenance cost of a small house.(Where am I going with this? Hold on I'm getting there!) If a player is a member of a city, any city, then they only get taxed by the city, not the Federation. Why? It will encorage people to be citizends (Buy a house and declare). Ok. What happens if they aren't a city citizen and can't pay the Imperial Federal Citizen's Tax each week. (sorry fresh out of funds.) No problems, you can't use public transportation for that week and are agro'd by any Imperial NPC.

- Make voting terminals in the Capitols of each planet, as well as the City Hall. At the terminal,the player accepts the city for which he is a member, looks at who's running and votes. (Banned players can now vote.) Voting only, no adding players for the race - that's still done at the City Hall.

- Voting occurs every two weeks, not weekly.

- Any player account that'sinactiveis automatically deleted after 48 hours.

- Limit cross server citizens creation to only one a week per server, or after the next planet election cycle, whichever is longer. (If you're on Chilastra and your account goes inactive or your player is deleted, you must wait until after the next election to create a new character.)

- Make it impossible to /cityban a citizen. (see next one)

- Give Mayor's the ability to /condemstructure which, 1) Sends a message to all city residence that the Mayor has issued the command for structure at xxxx,xxxx,. 2) Sends a message to the structure owner that notifies the owner of the impending destruction. 3) Marks the structure for automatic destruction seven days after server confims receipt of notification by structure owner. 4) Automatically destroys the structure seven days after confirmed notification to owner or 30 days after command if notification undelivered to owner. (i.e. player hasn't logged in.) - PLAYERS WHOSE STRUCTURE IS CONDEMNED CAN NOT BE /citybanned. Also, the Mayor can only have one /condemstructure active at a time.

- Limit the number of new /cityban to one, or two a day and have no more peeps banned than 20% of city size. (i.e. 100 citizens, only twenty bans for the city.)

- Citizens must be a city citiizen for one election cycle before being able to run for Mayor. (Help prevent hyjacking)

I don't know, just a brain dump. Need to get some sleep... Zzzzzzzzz <snore>

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Gunslinger74 wrote:

I'd like to report a bug that is called a "feature" by the CSR department. This is not the CSRs fault mind you, it is yours, the developers for allowing this to go on for so long. The CSRs are just following your policy.

Right now, the "feature" that drops inactive players or players no longer living in the city is "turned off" due to some problems it caused with other game systems. The effect of this is to leave players with inactive accounts or players that have moved to another city as default votes for the incumbent mayor. City population continues to rise as new people come in to replace them. However, at some point the number of inactive or MIA players becomes greater than the number of players who are available to vote. Couple this with a mayor that disbands the militia (sohis opponents cannot place buildings)and /citybans anyone enters the city to oppose him (ie. support his opponent), then you have a mechanism for a mayor to permanently entrench himself in office making it mathematically impossible to un-elect him. It becomes even more ridiculous that, as that mayor refuses to grant zoning rights to anyone else, he brings in more and more cross server citizens (who cannot be politically swayed if they never come to the server except to "declare" as a citizen) to pad his numbers in his already mathematically superior position.

The problem is not with the fact that these mechanisms exist. The problem is that SOE policy is still that this is operating within the rules of the game when it is obviously against the spirit of political competition. If the inactive members "feature" were working, then there might be a fighting chance to overthrow a tyrannical dictator, but with the "feature" turned off and not "broken" (aren't we talking semantics in this instance, really?), is it not a hypocracy to say that the game is working as intended when an integral part of the mechanism is non-existent (turned off)??

Many of you may have heard of the hijacking of Ostium Vepres, the home of the Servants of the Shrub. This is the problem we have been facing for the last 72 hours. While the CSRs have been wonderful and sympathetic to our situation, their "hands are tied" by SOE's policy that even if vital game systems are "turned off", they are still "working as intended."

CSR's thank you so much for your continued assistance during our plight to deal with city hijacking (a problem only worsened by the lack of that integral feature). Devs, please admit that the game is not working as intended so long as this feature is turned off and make the offense of padding an already mathematical superiority at least /warnable (and perhaps make overt abuse of the lack of this feature /bannable). All we want is fair elections. We don't want you to let us win... just give us a snowball's chance at least.

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Here is a bug that I have seen at least in my city. The militia members have to be granted zoning rights in order to place a structure.

Talos'Voren

Mayor of Amaranth, Talus on Flurry

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MStarfire wrote:

Here is a bug that I have seen at least in my city. The militia members have to be granted zoning rights in order to place a structure.

Talos'Voren

Mayor of Amaranth, Talus on Flurry

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stupid_people_happen . .
Pappi Inc Tailoring (home of the black tax) - Odi's meds and chef tissues - closed
- I support literacy, common sense, and apostrophes