Politician Archive

Personally I see a lack of mayoral competition as one of the downfalls that this profession will have. Currently a lot of player associations and other groups of people are already planning and possibly setting houses to start a player city once they can build a city hall. All these groups usually have a predetermined idea of who they want to lead the city, and they will have that person place the city hall and just keep voting him or her into office. Now if competition rears its wild head and another politician comes into town how is the new politician going to get into office. First he lacks the knowledge of the city, then he lacks knowledge in the profession in comparison to the other candidate. Then people say well he could run with a better platform than the old mayor, but each mayor knows exactly what the taxes have to be to get a zero balance on the budget so their platforms are going to be exactly the same. I don't see any reason why a town would vote in a new mayor, can someone enlighten me, or do other people see this problem.

In some ways you are correct. A PA type city will only change mayors if the current mayor stop playing or becomes inactive. That new mayor will still be picked by the PA which controls the city of course.

Your only true mayor competitions will come in totally public cities, which will be rare.

For the most part the most likely way to become a mayor will be to start your own city.

If he's a putz, someone with step forward or be pushed forward by the rest of the town.

The best way to get competition for the mayoral seat will be to have two or more PAs forming a town, because more than likely each PA will run at least one candidate for mayor. So it may just turn into amembership drive for each PA to have more votes than the other. For example, PA 1 has 40 members and PA 2 has 30 members and they form a town. The larger PA places the city hall and gets the first mayor, so the other PA starts driving for more members and more votes and a few weeks down the road PA 1 still has 40 members but PA 2 has 45 members. Now they outnumber and will win the election most likely, thereby driving PA 1

The best way to get competition for the mayoral seat will be to have two or more PAs forming a town, because more than likely each PA will run at least one candidate for mayor. So it may just turn into amembership drive for each PA to have more votes than the other. For example, PA 1 has 40 members and PA 2 has 30 members and they form a town. The larger PA places the city hall and gets the first mayor, so the other PA starts driving for more members and more votes and a few weeks down the road PA 1 still has 40 members but PA 2 has 45 members. Now they outnumber and will win the election most likely, thereby driving PA 1 to recruit more members. As you can see this will basically become like political parties. You just have to hope that the incumbent still grants zoning rights to the opposition members recruits, or if they don't just tell the Mayor's PA what's going on and have his/her own PA vote them out of office. And so I could go on and on but basically my point is that the best way for a city to have real mayoral competition is that they require more than one PA.

I predict that campaigns for Mayor will get uglier and have more mud-sligning than anything seen on these message boards ever.

I agree; in fact,this is one of the reasons I'd like to see city power split between executive (Mayor) and legislative (city council) branches.

Politicians who don't get to be Mayor shouldstill beable to do something with their skills. Serving on a city council wouldwork. Not only would it provide raw leadership experience (plus giving non-Mayor Politicians something to do with their skills), the built-in antagonism between executive and legislative branches would set up policy disagreements that should lead to more competition for leadership roles.

What's not to like about this?

--Flatfingers

When the PA selected mayor maxes out his Politician skill tree or gets a hold of a holocron he may want to surrender the points to try another profession. This will hopefully create some competition in the ranks.