Politician Archive

Yes, this has been talked about a lot...
I do not know if there is an "answer" for you...

We had the same problem with our first mayor "Glug"
He was inactive and we did not have enough members to vote someone else in.

We tried a few things..
One, the avtive mayor logged in and setup a house out side the city limits and declared there. that seemed to remove him from the city hall term, but not in the database and he still not elected in the end..

It turned out that the only way we did get this fixed was having the votes to elect someone else.
No one seemed to be able to help us and always just brushed us off stating "you must have the members vote the incumb mayor out"

Sorry, if this is not the answer you were looking for...

Message Edited by CodersNightMare on 04-29-2004 11:13 PM

this is kind of off topic for this thread, but the title made me think of this - what if faction-aligned cities could actually have their mayor assasinated? not that it would add much to the game or really have much of an affect at all (besides a few wounds), but it would be quite a bit of fun depending on which side on which side of the plot you're sitting.
/shrug

I have a sub-question to this - is it possible for an incumbent Mayor to abdicate in favour of another Mayor?

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GalinHawk wrote:
I have a sub-question to this - is it possible for an incumbent Mayor to abdicate in favour of another Mayor?

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Nope.

This has been on the Politician wish list since Day One of Player Cities.

It's one of our highest priorities requests, but who knows when we'll see it happen.

Thanks Jaspor. That's too bad. I suppose it's possible to at least re-deed the city? I guess we'll have to try that.

Thanks for the info.

We actually did get enough votes to vote our inactive mayor out of office. And I believe this is the only way (currently) to change governments. I was hoping there was something "new" with the politician profession.

And to comment on a mayor abdicating.....on a previous city that I build (I'm a master architect) we had that happen. The mayor left the "old" city and declared residence else where. He remained mayor, even though we were setting up a city on another planet. He couldn't run for mayor in the new city because he was "still" mayor in the old city. No one had run against him even though everyone in the"old" city knew he was leaving.

And then, at an even earlier city, the existing mayor decided to delete his character and start over with a new species. The day after he deleted his character the city hall disappeared along with all of its contents. Man, were we pissed.

Personally, I think that this problem could be corrected easily if, when there are more than one player running for mayor for a city, the votes of the citizens do not default to the incumbent. Granted, an election could then be won with one vote and there could be minimal politician xp granted to the winner. But, this is how it is in real life. I would hate to know that the incumbent mayor, govenor, president would get my vote even if I never showed up at the polls.

And then to comment on the assassination comment....

What a delicious idea! Granted the actual person would not be really killed.The assassinated incumbent mayor would clone having lost his mayorship of the city. This would only work if the assassinated mayor could not run for mayor again for at least one "city advancement" period. What turmoil this would cause! After all, you know that on his journey from baby to Emperor, Palpatine didn't off at least one other person that was in his way......Muahahahahahahahaha.

To have the threat of assassination.. now that would be kinda neet.

But thats why I have TKM.. so I can defend myself a little bit..

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Seawolvz25 wrote:

I don't see what the huge deal with adding an option for a mayor to resign is. I mean don't they get it that some citiies don't have the capacity to revote in a new mayor if the old one leaves or suddenly stops playing?

Its like asking them to fix the factional uniform hats, whats the big deal?

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um why not make it so that the only way a mayor can resign is if there is another poli running against them. that way the encumbant can have the option to hand pick a replacement.

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LaurnaRose wrote:

um why not make it so that the only way a mayor can resign is if there is another poli running against them. that way the encumbant can have the option to hand pick a replacement.

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You would think that would work. Here, I'll write the logic for it:

1.) Mayor uses the "Resign as Mayor" option from the City Terminal.

Then..... If there is nobody running against the Mayor, return the message saying "Sorry, but no other candidates have registered to run for the office of Mayor. You may not resign at this time." End of story.

Or... If there is somebody running against the Mayor, you get a neat little dialogue:

"The following people are currently running against you for the office of Mayor. If you resign, your votes will be transferred to your choice of candidate. Do you really wish to resign?"

2.) If you choose "Yes", a selection dialogue thingy comes up listing all the other candidates. "Which candidate would you like to transfer your votes to?" Select the candidate, and hit the "OK" button.

3.) Just for the heck of it, to be on the safe side, one more verification screen: "You have chosen to resign as Mayor and transfer all of your current votes to Candidate X. Are you absolutely positive and certain you want to do this?"

4.) Click "Yes", and all your votes transfer to the candidate you selected. If it makes things technically easier, you remain in the voting list for the current voting period, and remain Mayor until the next city update (and election results).

Simple, no?

Simple....create a load of houses, grab some noobs and pay them 10k or something to declare in the city, and vote. Do this a day before election is over and tell the noobs they can keep the house or stay in the city etc. Or just get a friendly guild to help out.