Politician Archive
Thread: Voting system
Page 1 of 1
Ridger
Sun Mar 28, 2004 2:54 am
#1
I posted this idea on the In concept forum too, but thought it might be interesting for here too.
I would like to suggesta thing that have been suggested before, probably over here too, but I will post it anyway just because I personaly think these are changes that would make the SWG experience better for the players and game developers together.
Political voting system:
================
Currently the political voting system for mayor has some flaws in it as I see it, mayors can not resign and if a mayor gets missing in action it is hard for the citizens to take action against it. This is mainly generated due to the fact the mayor will keep all the votes of the citizens he got during the previous elections.
This include also the votes of inactive players (they have implemented a system that will clean out inactive players now after 6 weeks, so this might help a bit but not enough in my opinion)
I would like to suggest a system where the mayor will be voted in for a longer period of time, lets say for 1 month for example.
2 weeks before the end of his term all citizens will get an automated e-mail notification that during the current week all nominees for mayor can sign up for the upcomming election. (the current mayor will automatically join the elections without havingto sign up for the race)
1 week before the current mayors term end the signing in for running for mayor will close and all citizens will get a new automated message that they now got 1 week to vote for the people who have signed up for the political race.
All candidates will start with 0 votes in this race (even the current mayor) and the candidate with the most votes after the voting week will be elected as mayor for the next period. If only 1 person is running for ayor they wil be elected even if they have 0 votes.
To give the citizens power over an abusing mayor, the citizens can vote for a forced election in the two weeks of the mayors term (after which a new election cycle will start anyway). If 50% of the citizens vote for a forced election, the election cycle will be ran immediately. The current mayor will be stripped of his powers entirely during this period and will only be mayor in title until the next election cycle has been finished.
To let the mayor resign if they can not perform their duty, give the mayor an option to force elections, this will set in a new cycle of elections butwill also strip the current mayor of his powers (this to prevent a mayor to abuse his power to force an election and keep his powers when things seem to go bad for him and people are voting for a forced election).
Militia will keep their powers during a forced election period, new citizens will be able to join, however newly joined citizens during this period will not be able to vote (this to prevent people to join for a hostile town takeover). During the next period these citizens can vote as all citizens unless the new mayor removes them as citizens.
This idea might be a bit harder to implement then the house proposal, but it would certainly make the politics more interesting and will give citizens and mayors more control over their cities.
Please let me know what you think of these ideas (not everything might be new, but I think they are ideas that certainly will improve game enjoyment for many people).
Also I would like to hear comments and improvements on these ideas.
Thank you all for reading this!
Ridger
Sun Apr 11, 2004 2:43 am
#2
Still no reactions, hmm come on, are these ideas that bad? If so please let me know too
Page 1 of 1