Politician Archive

I really don't understand why they asked us for these questions if they were just going to sit around and do nothing with them for a few weeks. A handful of professions got some answeres to their questions, but the vast majority have not received any feedback at all.

I would be happy if they started with our top 5 issues first, no reason to jump straight to 10 when we have not heard back a single peep on any politician issue for months now.

An a great suggestion that was raised on Valcyn by Jaye Mancrouf (Mayor of Mos Veris).

- Player cities should be allowed to declare war on each other in the same way as guilds currently can declare war.

Will gameplay ideas, like my Smashball League and the Trade Game for Cities, in concept (not these specific games), be considered as a game within a game for Politicians?

cf also: Large scale government idea I pitched a while ago.

RbT

lets bump this one up a bit its been a fair amount of time without a word yet and i dont think its too much to ask for one dev post ?

Here are the ten questions that were submitted to Thunderheart. I will post the answers here when I get them.

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Korrack wrote:

3. Faction cities ever? How about making the Mayor useful and making him/her have the abilities of a faction recruiter?

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1) Communication and Delegation Tools for Elected Officials? It's all we need, and just what we don't have. Try running a metropolis, forced to micromanage by word of mouth because you can't delegate authority effectively (no tools, and no, /militia does not count in its current state) or communicate information to your citizens, visitors, etc.

2) Lag on Dantooine? Don't let this turn my Metropolis into a dustbowl or I quit.

3) Printing Press? Mayor is all about getting the information out there. Trainer locations, news bulletins, etc etc etc.. Can this be done by making Datapad objects sellable? Or even holocrons after you turn our stocking stuffers into lumps of coal? (uncool)

4) Must Politicians really use skill points? I mean, come on. Compare the whole profession with any other. You can't. Where's the balance?

5) Can we please enjoy at least as sophisticated Delegation tools as the average Player Association? /militia is a lame one-trick-pony. Civil Defense should have nothing to do with urban planning and zoning rights. Should it?

6) 6-week-undead-citizen rule? If it's ok for you to lay that on us without any way of knowing who's about to "ghost" from your population, then what's the big deal allowing mayors to give MIA players land-locking their cities 2 weeks notice? We need the ability to deal with MIA players. People disappear. Vendors, Tents, PA halls, everything goes vacant at some point and the players left to deal with the zombies are the ones who should not be getting screwed. The ones to are still trying to remain and be active playters (and still paying for our accounts dutifully) deserve better than this, don't you think? Lay the onus on inactives instead of active subscribers?

7) Any chance of realistically competing with NPC cities? We have no bazaar, no garage, no starport, no pavement, no bridges, no functioning gardens, public furniture, public crafting stations, theater, no NPC's, spynet operatives, faction recruiters, no large structures, and extremely limited streetlamp caps lumped in with decoration caps... 15 trainers max compared with coronet which seems to have several of each.... Any chance of helping us pretend we're real cities? Like our monuments and gardens not sounding like plywood when we walk on them?

8) <- not a smiley. 8) Will they ever fix our city's name to appear in locations such as waypoints generated when a person puchases sometihng? That vendor is in Sedoo, not Rielig Steppes. This ties into bazaar terminals.

9) Planetary persistent chat channel for each city, moderator(s) set by mayor, and also a private persistent channel for elected officials only, a Planetary Council? If we're expected to make due with 15 trainers max, how else can we coordinate planetary trainer coverage and disseminate that information in order to make our cities useful, viable, and well-known?

10) Why not add basic database or bulletin-board functionality to architect-crafted data terminals? Programmable by the owner, with admin list... We need Information Kiosks in the WORST way.

If we could just communicate and delegate with the benefit of some rudimentary tools of reliable quality, perhaps this could become fun again. Right now it's just an unpaid position that takes all my time, but yields unstable returns.

Arsheba Silmaril
Master Politician
Mayor of Sedoo
Dantooine, Flurry

Is There anyway to get a UI for politicians where we can re-adjust city limit lines, line up houses or destroy houses of players that have quit the game? This UI could be used to place statues and fountains easier as well as pave streets

Arnye McRibbit

Mayor of Cireed, Rori

Kauri