Politician Archive

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last week in politics

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hrm, I didn't do much this week besides my own work... but I did update our top 5 (replacing sp usage with bug fixes) and posted it in the other corr forum. New Unity is still around, I log on to make sure everything goes well, but I haven't had much time to play who knew weddings were such a hassle?

This thread is suppose to be for you guys to tell me what's going on in your cities, and noone actually does that any more please do, and keep it in this post you can also mention your personal lives, but it better be interesting (or some sort of good news)

I'll throw out this question to make this week more interesting: how many of you are going to the next fanfest?


p.s.: happy chinese new year! I had to deal with the whole new year fiasco, and realized that my grandparents didn't tell my uncles and aunts that I was engaged... whoops

Message Edited by Pappi on 02-08-2005 09:05 PM

Well, if this thread is for all that is happening in Politics this week then this should apply:

I just got elected Mayor of my city!

To be honest, I'm surprised! It was a very close race and my opponent is very popular and would also make a fine Mayor. The end result was only 1 vote difference. (My fingernails can recover now) lol Wow.

Well if this is not what this thread is intended for, then please accept my appologies. But I just started reading through here today, so I'm sure I'll get the hang of it soon.

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ElyHT wrote:
Well, if this thread is for all that is happening in Politics this week then this should apply:

I just got elected Mayor of my city!

To be honest, I'm surprised! It was a very close race and my opponent is very popular and would also make a fine Mayor. The end result was only 1 vote difference. (My fingernails can recover now) lol Wow.

Well if this is not what this thread is intended for, then please accept my appologies. But I just started reading through here today, so I'm sure I'll get the hang of it soon.

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this is exactly the kinda stuff I want to hear about, and grats! don't forget to register again and urge your citizens to vote in the next election.

Nar Emiki, Corellia
Chilastra

Our city's website has been upgraded to allow for some great new features, such as polling. I've used to polls to bring issues to the attention of the citizens, and so far the response has been good. We had a great discussion on sales tax based on a poll, and I used a poll to gage why the citizens weren't voting in the 3 week cycle. I hoped to drum up voter activity this voting cycle, but so far it isn't much higher than the last elections. Hopefully it will encourage the people who are voting to keep it up.

The foot traffic is still pretty slow, but sales on my vendors are picking up. Other town merchants are doing a great job of staying stocked, so I'm hopefull that the coming weeks will bring more people to the city. My goals for the next voting cycle, now that I have finished the town census are an inventory of trainers and decorations.

As for Fan Fest - I would love to attend, but geographically it seems very unlikely. I live in Maine, and I also have bridesmaid duties around that time that will probably prevent me from traveling. I personally hoped for an East Coast location, but it seems like the Fan Fests will have to be in California from the posts I saw.

Message Edited by LaurieNabierre on 02-08-2005 08:04 AM

Message Edited by Sidious_Inoxi on 02-09-2005 08:47 AM

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Sidious_Inoxi wrote:

I guess we are the first city complex and community in the game with a city and a metropolis being directly connected and a home of mostly roleplayers. That makes me proud.

Message Edited by Sidious_Inoxi on 02-09-200508:47 AM

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First of all congratulations! More roleplaying cities regardless of server got to be good in my book

On Eclipse, Tirius - City of Roleplayers was designed from the ground up to be a haven for all factions to facilitate storylines and we attained metropolis on 16th August 2004. I know how proud we were that this was possible with just roleplayers, so I imagine you are feeling the same way. I hope that you find the fruits of being a large community of small groups and individuals as beneficial and conducive to fun roleplay as we do!


So, on with the report.

Current status of Tirius:
At a glance
Foundation date: 13th November 2003
Current Mayor: Kyorlana Hirak
Planet: Talus
Faction: Neutral (all welcome to facilitate rp)
Location: 2028 -4499
Website: www.tirius.co.uk
Citizens: 93
Structures: 189
Garage tax: 15
Income Tax: 2000
Property tax: 15
Sales tax: 0
Shuttle tax: 100
Specialisation: Research Center
Associated PA's: FC, IHC, ISV, ITC, MERCS, SIN, URA, and independent citizens


Community
The community had a huge shock recently when some key figures were involved in an impromptu scenario (having grown from many previous) which resulted in the permadeath of their characters. 2 arch enemies failed to take one another out and instead both perished. There were casualties on both sides including the permadeath of the mayor of Pax Eversio who had links with the criminal Black Hole Gang. The death toll was surprisingly high as the committment by these players to the storyline was such that they were willing to delete their characters as it made sense rp wise to do this (we use 'rp levels' so we know who is willing to go to this length and who isn't).

City Planning
To honour the fallen who died for what they believed in, it was agreed at committee, to erect a memorial garden in their honour. We chose the Corellian Shrine which is beside our shuttleport where some of the massacre happened.

A steady influx of new citizens is maintained without us doing any promotion other than rp encounters in game, reference to the city in our Bios, and our signatures on the SoE forums which is more than balancing those who are leaving the game.

Land usage in the city is ok, though I am concerned that once PA halls taking 5 lots goes live everyone will want one and we just don't have the space to support that (oh what we would give for terraforming!).

Commerce
After much debate the cabinet has authorised the addition of a roleplay mall in Tirius. We run a business district where everyone can furnish their own stores to maintain the character of the city so it was a heated issue. The decision was finally taken to go ahead and see what the impact is then review.
Our Commercial Relations Officer is also making a concerted effort at attracting business in sectors which we currently do not cover.

Council
Cabinet failed to meet in game this week due to my RL commitments, but having just had the city wide Committee meeting everything is ticking over well at the moment.
Still having some issues recruiting enough people for the Tourist Office and Embassy - but I'm sure we'll get there slowly!

Events
As always, lots going on in terms of planned events. Storynight is coming up again this weekend, followed by the Blushes of Love II party the weekend after.
The Tirius Plotline Network is currently running another monthly story arc which involves mini-scenarios etc, so all good there.

Summary
Still having fun though I wish I had more time to implement all that I want. I rely heavily on delegation hence the organisation structure with the cabinet, committee, and TPN (Tirius Plotline Network). This helps me time-mangagement wise and most importantly it instills (in those who commit time to the city) a greater sense of it belonging to all that live there, rather than just the elected mayor.

City Disaster!
With the changes to the point system, the previous mayor of Valor (metropolis on Dantooine) decided to sell his account and use his main character to run for mayor. I cheerfully opposed him and he conceeded defeat, pulled out of the race. I was a bit dismayed that much of the city seemed to have been built with server swaps and as such most of the houses were vacant. Hard to get ghosts to vote you know. Anyway, with only days to go before I would be elected another person in our guild took over the mayor account and (get ready to groan) deleted the mayor character to start a new one. We all logged on the next day to discover our city structures (7 mil in the treasury) all gone. There was even a surly family of Mokk camping in the spot where our city hall had once stood.

Nothing could be done about the stupid mistake except to drop a new city hall and start over. As mayor pro tem I have started our poor Valor over again from scratch and no xp. Discussions with the other two guilds in the city are going well but the abandoned houses are severely limiting our chances to grow. We have decided to pick up again and move to a completely new planet and start over so we can lay the city out properly and get away from the empty houses.

Word to the wise. If you hear your mayor talking about selling his account. Stampeed to the polls and request no action be taken until AFTER the new mayor is elected.