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Thread: A delicate quetion
Okay I am going to try to keep this as annon as possible.
We have a sistuation in our city where the mayor is being very unresposive to the citizens needs and desires. The majority of us are thinking of pushing a canidate to run against them. Our major concern here is that the incumbant Mayor will go beserk when they see that we areattempting to replace them.
Can the incumbant mayor destroy the city hall and wreck the city if there is an election going on?
Can the current mayor just destroy the city hall if they want to at anytime?
As I understand it, if the majority should win the new mayor (a novice pol, obvisously) would not be able to place any new structure higher than thier skill, but the current advanced structures would continue to still function. yes?
thanks in advance
Seloth wrote:
Can the incumbant mayor destroy the city hall and wreck the city if there is an election going on?
Can the current mayor just destroy the city hall if they want to at anytime?
current advanced structures would continue to still function?
Yes
Yes
and Yes
Good luck man i dont think your going to have much luck. this smells catastrophe all over.
if yo uask me have everyone get organized but not get a mayor run in but have him ready have someone else check the terminal have a meeting infront of cityhall 10 minutes before city updates.
MAKE SURE SOMEONE DISTRACTS THE PERSON FAR AWAY SO HE HAS NO TIME TO COME BACK.
tell him you need to give him somehting expensive somewhere on another planet as soon as you know hes htere amas everione infront of city hall.
10 minutes before update have your new mayor run for office this will alert the other mayor but will be too late for him to come and wreak havoc, then have everyone rush in and vote his sorry ass out of office bu the time hes back it will be too late.
Idesigned this plan myself on a friends city weere mayour threatened to blow it up if they didnt give him money etc. and it worked like a charm, greed was this idiots undoing.
i hope this helps a bit 
In a worst-case scenario, you could have your new mayor already with a deed in hand in case the other guy does destroy city hall. Sure, it'll take a while to go back up through the city advancement tree, but if everythings in place (houses, etc.) then the experience should come pretty rapidly to the new mayor.
Just make sure the new guy you choose is more stable
If you coordinate it all so that the incumbent is not around and put the new mayor up an hour or two before the city is set to advance and have everyone vote for the new mayor, you can probably get away with it. But you better be sneaky! Also, watch the treasury, the existing mayor can empty it.
Personally, if I were voted out, I'd be upset, but I'd never destroy the city.
BrianAlt wrote:
If you coordinate it all so that the incumbent is not around and put the new mayor up an hour or two before the city is set to advance and have everyone vote for the new mayor, you can probably get away with it. But you better be sneaky! Also, watch the treasury, the existing mayor can empty it.
Personally, if I were voted out, I'd be upset, but I'd never destroy the city.
ISTRONGLY suggest you do it with only 10 minutes notice 2 hours is too much if he logs on for what ever reason ur in deep **edit**e.
And as for emptying the treasury is not possible i learned it the hard way i tried to relocate my city with 400k in it and the stupid menu does not let me take out more than 50k a day! so i preety much lost the credits, so dont worry about the empty situation just concentrate on keeping it secret
Maybe the cities should have an election week every month or so,during which timethe mayors cannot destroy anything but only build.
The candidates can apply at the beginning of the week so when the mayor finds out and is a sad enough sod will still not have the possibility to destroy things.
I guess one week would be enough to do all the propaganda needed by all sides to get elected, and all city residents to cast their vote.
Dunno, just an idea.
I agree, but just try getting it done in 10 minutes. And the city doesn't usually actually update for 30 minutes - 1 hour after it's scheduled to. Very tricky. Thanks for the treasury info, didn't know that one.
-FireStorm- wrote:
ISTRONGLY suggest you do it with only 10 minutes notice 2 hours is too much if he logs on for what ever reason ur in deep **edit**e.
thank you all for the quick responses. and no this is not a great situation. IF the majority does decide to do this, I am going to heed what I have seen here and push that if there is a new mayor that everyone donates credits to give to the old mayor for the treasury and what they have invited in the city.
It's not that the person is mean or such, just that ther are issues about the militia and the placement of civic structures (what types and where they are). Yes we have tried to talk to them about it, but to the current mayor thier is only thier way of doing things.
Lets face it those that are mayors are special people, they are giving up alot of skill points to make a place that others gain benefits of thier work. I can see from alot of posting here on the boards that for the most part you that are mayors (the dedicated ones) sink a large ammount of time and money into this form of art. Tack on that being a mayor almost precludes becoming a Jedi anytime soon.
thanks again for the input. safe journeys to you all.
I've got to believe that the Devs will eventually prevent the Mayor from removing the City Hall. The other civic structures, however, are actually redeedable and are likely to remain so because there is often a need to move the structures because of how poorly some work on non-level ground.
This hits home for me (and could even be about me). I have recently done something that I know has upset a segment of the population. I believe what I did was the correct thing to do, but Ibelieve that roughly 20% of the population is upset over my actions. If I was presented with evidence that it was much higher percentage I'd be more than willing to revisit the issue.
A rush to secretly oust a canidate who is totally out of control (everyone except the mayor seeing the person as out of control) may be wise, but erhaps your best bet is non-stealth force-backed diplomacy if the mayor has real supporters? If you can show thatclose to 50% of the population is against the mayor's current style of doing things the mayor is very likely to listen rather than risk theloss of office. Present a "We do not want to vote you out... we want you to change X and Y" petition signed by each person and the mayor may get the message and change.
"This hits home for me (and could even be about me). I have recently done something that I know has upset a segment of the population. I believe what I did was the correct thing to do, but Ibelieve that roughly 20% of the population is upset over my actions. If I was presented with evidence that it was much higher percentage I'/d be more than willing to revisit the issue."
wrong server and wrong planet. Probably wrong faction even.
laugh
Let us know how this turns out?
btw: My "crimes" include, but are not limited to,not allowing someone to place a second Cantina next to the first and refusing to allow people have have their own garden until we see what the new limits on structures are. I hope your placement issues are more serious.