Politician Archive
Thread: Politician Forum Poll
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1) 2, 2, 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? 62.
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get? No.
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? Private. Founded by PA, but only makes up about 40% of 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? 20
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician? Weaponsmith was primary. Dropped, but to chase Pikeman (Soordered bythe holo). Dropped other pieces of classes (Pistoleer, Medic) to get Politician.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations? Improved Job Market
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1) 2 0 1 2
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills? no
3. How many citizens does your city have? 29
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get? Yes. I lost the first time I ran because absentee went to the incumbent.
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 am not the first mayor. He had not been seen for weeks so I ran.
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 not set zoning. Need the tax income. Is an openneutralvillage.
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account? Main 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?3 hours
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician? Master Architect. Still have that.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations? No
Thanks folks.
I'll answer too.
(2,2,2,4)
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
No
3. How many citizens does your city have?
67
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?
No opponents
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 position was handed over by second week by temporary mayor. Insurance we recieved one of the 10 city slots
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 are run by a single PA, but we are not entirely private. We invite anyone just seeking a home, as well as any small PA that might want a base of operations.
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account?
Main 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?
5-10
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
Master Entertainer, Musician, and Image Designer. Will likely start dropping Musician points when nessasary.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
No
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1) 4/4/3/2
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills? No
3. How many citizens does your city have? 133
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get? Yes 1%
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? Private city (zoning rights enabled).
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account? Yes. Have another Character, same server...spend most of my time on Politician.
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? ALL MY **edit** TIME. I rarely get to do anythign else.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician? Droped My Profession to be Politician. Was an artisan/Tailor
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations? Research Center.
2/2/2/3
2. no
3. 59
4. no
5. Yes
6. private, primarily PA but others welcome
7. 2nd account
8. 5-10 hours a week
9. Account started to be a politician, also a Master Chef/Merchant
10. Manufacturing
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1) 2/3/2/3
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills? no
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? no
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 as we have a very well delevoped city plan, but we are open to all settlers and our city is mostly made up of one PA, but not run by it.
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? 10-15 hours; i make it anintergral part of my playing so there isnt really a "politican" time.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician? ranger. dropped it
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations? no
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)
1.1.2.3
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
Was 3.2.2.2 and am now 1.1.2.3
3. How many citizens does your city have?
Just under 60
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?
Have had an opponent who got about 14 of 60 votes in one election.
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 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 and a PA city (PA and some friends of PA members)
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account?
My main character. Don't really have any alternates....until I get my Jedi
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?
I'm usually in or around our city ALL the time so I can grant zoning rights and dropped trainers anytime I'm online.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
Been waiting for politician before game even went into BETA and I've been doing random professions before politician came out.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
Gave up the skills that gave me the ability, but I'll implement the crafting ones as they seem to be the only ones worth paying for.
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? 2,4,2,3
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills? No
3. How many citizens does your city have? 78
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get? Yes, 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? 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? Open to all but now with zoning rights established for asthetics
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? 98% of the time (30+ hours)
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician? Pistoleer (had to give up for skill points)
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations? No
DaKK Maximus
Galatorbria, Rori
V a l c y n G a l a x y
There were 48 responses. Thank you everyone. Here are the results:
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)
Most of us are somewhere in the middle right now, with lots of 2s and 3s in skills, only a couple of relative newbies, and just two masters as of last week. Ranked in terms of advancement popularity: City Customization is most popular, followed closely by Martial Policy, with Fiscal Policy and finally Civic Policy lagging behind. I would guess that useful IV-rank skills in customization (large gardens) and martial (faction terminal)account for their popularity.
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
No: 46
Yes: 2
There were quite a few "not yet" answers mixed in, along with a couple who have gone as far as they will go and do not plan to reach master. I would expect this answer to change quite a bit as more of us reach master and start to shed skills that are not needed by our cities.
3. How many citizens does your city have?
Average: 69 Largest: 150 Smallest: 16
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?
19 out of the 48 responses have had an opponent at least once. None of the respondents ever had an opponent that got more than a tiny percentage of the vote.
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?
Only a few of us have not been mayor since the founding of our cities, and in those cases, several were due to friendly transfers after the initial rush to get the city founded.
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: 31
Public: 17
PA governed/founded/supported: 27 (several public cities incorporate PAs)
Almost all of the cities report using zoning restriction, even the openpublic cities for design and lay-out purposes. Many cities report being founded, run or supported by multiple PAs.
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account?
Main: 41
Alternate 7
I expected the alternate number to be higher, given that lack of gameplay is our #1 issue, and thought players would be using placeholder alternates as their politicians. It seems that politician players are biting the skill-point bullet for the most part, although 7 out of 48 is a significant number to be paying for a second account.
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?
Average: 11 hours per week. Lots of folks gave qualitative answers to this one, but one common comment was that it takes up a great deal of play time, but that the commitment is also decreasing since the early growth of the city. Will be interesting to see how this settles out as cities mature. Of course you will always have some who spend 2 hours and some who spend 30 in any group of gamers. 11 hours a week is also surprisingly high for a profession in which players say there isn't enough gameplay.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
We've got everything here, folks.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
Manufacturing: 8
Research: 11
Stronghold: 3
Job Market: 2
Cloning: 1
Medical: 1
Lots of comments from the "no" people that none of them are worth it. Several from those using them that they plan on dropping them or that they are using them despite not being sure of the value of doing so.
There you go, folks. A little snapshot of our community.
Message Edited by Bajeezus on 01-13-2004 11:19 AM
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)
4213
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
No
3. How many citizens does your city have?
62
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?
No.
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?
Private, run primarily by one PA. We take non members in, but they have to accept putting their houses where we tell them. Meaning, not in the middle of main street.
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account?
Yes. I do have two accounts but I play both of them equally.
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?
100% of my game time. If not playing my mayor character, I leave an AFK message asking to /tell my alt. I use my mayor character only when absolutely necessary, my alt is militia to avoid switching PCs all the time.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
Smuggler. (No side comments please 
) I retained the profession, too. I've been dabbling in others but not mastered anything else with that character. I'm currently Politician 0333 pistoleer/master smuggler.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
Yes, we're a Research center now. Did you expect less of Avian Technology & Trade ? 
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)
I'm currently at 3/4/2/4.
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
No.
3. How many citizens does your city have?
102
4. Have you had opponents in your elections, if so, what % of the vote did they get?
No
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 started the city in July and have been Mayor since.
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 city and the city is made up of 5 PAs and I have been unguilded since I started so no one PA controls 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 and only char
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?
About half the time I play is doing stuff with the city from meetings to anythinge else possible.
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
Architect and I still have it but I'm planning on dropping it soon as I run out of skill points.
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
No but we are planning on adding one.
Maller Malice
Mayor of New Aldera, Tatooine
1. How far along are yourpolitician skills now? (ex: 2, 3, 4, 1)
3-4-3-4 -master in two weeks
2. Have you already sold back any politician skills for skill points? Which skills?
nope
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?
none to speak of we had one guy who ran for a week but he dropped out almost immediatly at my request to maximise my skills and xp so i could get the city to a stage that would benefit us all, i also assured him that it was only a request and that after the city was essentially "finished" i would support any and all rival mayors and indeed vote for someone else myself if i liked their policies
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 was the original mayor and have supplied nearly all the structures to date
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?
there are maybe 6 guilds in Mos Elsewhere (tatooine, bria) although we do have restricted zoning permissions so that new residents can be screened to a small degree, what happens is i basically have a short chat with them and go over our city laws with them and as long as they agree to follow those laws they are welcome to move in
7. Is your politician character considered to be your "main" character? Alternate on another server? Alternate on same server using second account?
my politician is an alternate account character simply because of the skill points, my personal view is that being a politician is a lot of hard work and really it shouldnt cost any skill points at all but just cost apprentice points, there is very little chance of things becoming unbalanced and to charge skill points for a class that has no economic (you cant make cash out of it) or combat (you certainly dont have enough skill points to be too effective a fighter) impact seems rather pointless.
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?
well while i was off work i was spending maybe 25 hours a week doing general duties planting structures making plans organising deals and bringing in new residents and generally solving problems or issues with griefers etc, i will now be spending maybe 10 hours per week doing this as the city and its laws are pretty well established and i have a resident elected council to take some of the strain
9. What was your primary profession prior to implementation of politician? Did you keep or drop that profession to become a politician?
no this is an alternate account
10. Is your city currently using any of the specializations?
we are currently using manufacturing specialisation and will next week begin using the research specialisation, if its ever fixed then in two weeks when i master i will take the manufacturiing and research specialisations together