Politician Archive

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robertwo wrote:

These are all very valid points but when I first read this I saw it from another angle and it was this one:

I recently saw posts on some of the galaxy forums asking people to create a new character on another galaxy. They are told they will be given a house and all they have to do is place it in a city, declare residency and never have to log back in again. On their main server they are given a large sum of money as an insentive to do this.

The reason behind this is so that a mayor in a new city can get ghost or false citizens in order to get a bigger city as quickly as possible.

I personally think this is unfair to genuine cities where the mayor has gained citizens which log in regularly, has interaction with them, has town meetings and so forth. Unlike those who just want to get a big city, with 10 real players (for whatever reason, politician xp perhaps since nobody voting counts as a vote for the existing mayor and hence xp). These false cities stopping the genuine city from expanding like it should and allowing the mayor to reap his just reward for running a populated city with a thriving player community.

Now for those genuine cities where the mayor is actually being a mayor, talking to citizens and interacting I am sure that most players in that city log on on a regular basis, i.e. at some point within three weeks.

So I do not see what the problem is here. If someone does not log in for three weeks because they are on holiday, they can always come back later and redeclare residence then. Losing a couple of citizens surely wont matter if you have a genuine city rather than a false one. If people have left and are not coming back their houses will decay after time and go away (I'm not sure here so correct me if I am wrong) and your space will be freed up.

For those mayors who run a city with an active player base and not the mayor who gained all his citizens by "Log into Bria and Declare residence and get 100k for free on Farstar" messages on these forums, then I don't see a problem you just get new people as the old people leave, just like any city would.

Building a city was never going to be an easy ride. Any mayor of any city needs to accept the fact people will move out, people will join, and in the case of SWG people will leave the game and not come back. Therefore a good mayor would take this into account and plan for it. A good mayor would not have to rely on dead accounts to keep their city alive.

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"When Sony and Lucas set out, we said, How can we do this and not make another EQ? We didn't want it to be all about Luke, or combat, or lock our players into a class. So we created a system that would allow players to switch professions during the game, and there would be a lot of gameplay around making that change. If you want to go from architect to scout we've created a system to make that happen."
Julio Torres

"When Sony and Lucas set out, we said, How can we do this and not make another EQ? We didn't want it to be all about Luke, or combat, or lock our players into a class. So we created a system that would allow players to switch professions during the game, and there would be a lot of gameplay around making that change. If you want to go from architect to scout we've created a system to make that happen."
Julio Torres