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Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Mayoral term limit
Nexmagus
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To prevent the abuse of the office of the mayor, what if a term limit was imposed, say an account can only be mayor once every 6-8 weeks?
If the current mayor won the brawl or popular vote, just put second place in office.
If the current mayor won the brawl or popular vote, just put second place in office.
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That wouldn't be fair though. The point is to have some sort of even ground between players and the best one wins. I think the system currently is fine and a mayor will get replaced once he becomes a bad actor for the Node. If nobody is able to replace him, sieging the Node is the next best thing.
So if a mayor adversely leads his node, then don't vote (scientific) for that person again. If on other nodes, then leave that node. Ultimately if you want to stay on that node, you and like-minded people should get together and try to get a good mayor or become one yourself. Term limits affect good leaders and bad ones. You want to prevent abuse; however, you also prevent quality individuals from continuing their reign.
I think what you should actually have suggested, is a call-back mechanism. Very similar in real-life where you gather signatures, or in the game's case: voting again, to see if the mayor is doing his job well. If not, get votes and redo an election. Or to not be bombarded by revotes, a vote every biweekly or weekly if there's enough dissent. I feel like 1 week is good enough though.
Personally, I am in favor of none of the options, even the one I listed. I like the original design more since it's simpler.
Nah dude. Baraq Obama was a great President. Would you not want him to be President again just because he was the President before? Hell no. If the mayor is good and the citizens want to re-elect him/her, then that's their choice and it should be allowed.
I fully expect to see mayors regularly convening with citizen guilds in order to negotiate and meet development targets, rather than trying to rely on the contributions of individuals towards the node, because from what we can see, node development will be a hugely demanding task.
How attractive do you think mayorship will remain to someone who, through their own mismanagement has found themselves unable to accomplish anything?