Politician Archive

.....well, not without taking stupidly drastic action that will affect a lot of people (such as redeeding the City Hall and blowing away lots of work from lots of people).

Could someone please tell me what the devs where thinking when they created the designs behind player cities and how the office of the mayor works? I mean the whole concept, the whole idea behind the way mayor works is - to put it mildly, completely and utterly ludicrous!!!

A case in point. As mayor, I can redeed my residence in the city, move to a completely new city, take up residence at this new city......and yet still remain mayor of the city I was once living in - and will remain mayor until the residents of that city get off their behinds and vote me out.

As mayor I have complete and utter control over the way the city functions. if I wish to raise property and sales taxes to be 100%, there is nothing anyone can do about it. If I want to raise income taxes to some ridiculous amount, I can do that quite simply with the click of a button. I want to get rid of the shuttleport - hey no prob. If Iwanted to fill the place with streetlights, gardens, statues to myself, fountains in my honour, place as many harvestors and house as I could possibly do (within lot allocation)........I can.

And not one person can stop me.

Sure I'll annoy people, drive people away, bankrupt the city, make enemies of friends - but hey, if I wanted to I can.

And why? Because the DEVS gave me this power.

The Devs in their infinite wisdom sort of forgot that in the real world - voting is done by less that 30% of the population (unless it compulsory such as where I live). So what gave them the idea that in the virtual world - citizens would be any more "civic minded" than they are in r/t???

Well I hate being Mayor, but I don't want to annoy my fellow residents, make enemies of friends, ruin all the work and time and effort that went into the city I now run.

So now I am stuck. I am trying to get people to vote for an alternative Mayor, but complacency, not being on as often, folks scaling back gametime, playing alt characters on other galaxies, sheer laziness, etc is having the effect that instead of being voted out, I see my politican experience points get diluted each week. This has the effect that no progress is made, no new things are done to the town - the place stagnates.

When player cities first came in, I was excited, I was keen, I happily crafted a City Hall, and handed it to our first Mayor to place - at 5 minutes after the servers came back up after that patch, down the CH went - and I have to say, I had the best feeling about this game since I first logged on back in the ealry days of Beta 3.

Now - I hate being Mayor, and I am starting to seriously hate this game.

But I have friends who play, mates who play, I have made friends in here and enjoy their company in here.

And all this conundrum could of been fixed by the simple addition of a "resignation" function. Something that the Devs and SOE couldn't be bothered with then - and sure as h_ll don't seem to care about fixing now.

And the really sad part of this is that of all the choices I have now facing me in this game - not one of them will mean a happy ending. I thought this game was about enjoyment and excitement, not anger and frustration.

Surely it can't be like this by design?

Can it?

Master fisherman

-DaKK

even if you drop the skills...you are mayor.

the only way curently is to get voted out.....

make a event of it....chouse a sucesser...then make shure he beets you by one vote...

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Trucegore vonbloodworth,wonderhome
Mayor/guild master

Pikeman, Polition, Merchant,Master Artisan
***** Im easy to talk to once people get to know me, but holding my personal audiences on a throne of bloody skulls tends to put them off at first. *****

Cheers,

famousFATWOOKIE
Master musician, Master entertainer of Mos Oasis
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It took a very hard week of asking as many city memebrs as i could to get to vote for me after the old mayor "stepped down" due to nearly half of them not bothering to vote it ment that I won by just 3 votes to become mayor. The rest of the citizens either didnt come online, or jsut didnt vote. I understand that if you dont vote then your vote goes to the current mayor, this wa added to give mayors maximum XP if no one was running against them. However when someone runs against them it kind of breaks the game. What should happen is if there is no one running against a mayor then they get the XP from the total amount of citizens. If someone decided to run against mayor then this is when the votes will count. An email will be sent to the mayor to say that someone has registered to run against them, then they can start to ask people to vote.

A mayor shouldnt be able to redeed the city hall, once a city hall is placed then it should remain there untill its maintenance runs out. If someone wants to "move" the city then they need to buy another city hall, hand the mayor role to someone else and move on. If a mayor "resignes" from their position then an email is sent to all citizens and taxes are frozen at the current value and priority goes to the city hall for maintenance.

There needs to be a better system for a city so that it isnt in the complete hands of 1 single person.

reminded me to delete my old sig from my other forum account