Politician Archive
Thread: Dead End Profession
Uhmmm no....
You need politician to be the mayor of the city and run the city. Need to be a polititian to be elegible to run for mayor of the city you are a resident of.
Which is why I forsee politician becoming a merc like prof with tons of novices running metropolises and paying out to get a new fountain or park placed rather then get the skill again. So I can't wait to hit master and whore myself out to other towns leaving my own to a newb that doesnt mind loosing 15 skill points in order to make 5k 
But theres no way around this when you think about it so it doesnt matter, as long as there are some politicians so be it.
No, because if you give up the skills the buildings get locked down if the Mayor isn't high enough level to support them is my understanding.
~~Shabhaii, Mayor of Tombra, Naboo
www.cityoftombra.com
The REAL BT
"I got a Holocron!" "I got a lightsaber crystal!" "I got a rock . . . . "
I for one cannot wait to become a politician.
By the way, if you drop politician after building your town, your enemy could learn politician, waltz into your town and automatically have more votes than you (you are not eligible any longer) and then tax the crap out of your town. Or take the buildings for himself, etc etc, you get the idea.
If you don't run your city, someone else will.
Terinati wrote:
I believe they're already adressing this issue - for instance, not only do city specializations need to be placed by a mayor, but I believe if the current mayor is not high enough level to place them, they cannot be "maintained" so to speak, and go away. Also, things change, and you need a mayor who is at least high enough level to grant zoning rights, declare militia members, and so forth - and who's to say that they won't add more abilities that require an active politician rather than the guy who just becomes mayor, makes changes, then drops the class? I'll bet they will.
I see, and how does this help a newb politician who is gonna run against the incumbent? Oh right it means that he will have to start his own city to get xp to hit master to go there and then run 2 months later...sounds about right. Grant zoning rights is novice skill which is required to have a town, and 15 skill points may be a pain in the ass but not character ending, and after you have all the stuff in your town odds are you will have all the members in the militia you mean to, if not then you just drop 1 skill, pick up militia, induct someone, drop the skill, and relearn your old one...worked around yet again. I bet they will eventually add alot of things to politician and player cities too, but I hope they fix professions, bugs, add vehicles, and fix the GCW before I start demanding it. As I said master mayor is gonna be an elite group of people that will sell their services of high end civic structure drops (mainly parks and other beautification) so that everyone else can be a novice and have their cake and eat it as well. Or everybody will just use a secondary account for this job. Either way only me and a good number of people posting here and not asking stupid questions are going to be the real politicians. Everyone else is just gonna be the PA leader +.
Master Politicians at first will be the crafters at Launch. Everyone went crafting. Look how many advanced master crafters there are now.
The biggest issue with Politicians is that you're either going for Master or it's not worth having. That basically makes it a linear "leveling" grind exercise in my book. Whereas someone can do "fine" with just one or two skill lines in Marksman or Medic, you will either be all four lines of Politician, or there's some critical aspect of the City that goes un-touched.
That makes it un-casual. 15 skill points is nothing. People who are interested in getting a City started will find it from some unused skill. I've completely unlearned Musician and even dropped Entertainer altogether. Like Politician, I was either in it to be in a band full-time RPing and doing gigs, or it wasn't worth the 107 skill points it takes. Of course, I did this already to learn Ranger, but that's another story 
Politician is nota template designed for the casual. But neither is Master Weaponsmith, Master Bounty Hunter or any other advanced profession. While Politician is a "basic" profession, it's Advanced in everything about it. Which is fine. Having somewhat permanent control over a few square kilometers of virtual real estate just isn't something they can hand out to 300,000 accounts 