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You underestimate the power of a meme candidate on the internet. Someone could be running as a joke like Vermin Supreme and have no idea what they're doing or how to keep a node stable while mayor.
How about someone who is a meme lord and fully capable of managing a node? 😎
They would pay us X% (or drop a war) of what they would buy and in return we would open a window of time where we dropped the tax rate to 0%..
> we got paid, we dropped the tax rate, the guild did their bulk buy, then we raised the tax rate again.
Interested to know how much control and how frequently a mayor can control the taxes.
There has been no scale given to how much this income is. Just assumptions it is high..
Correct if the salary was very high then yes, may end up like NW.. and encourage corruption.. but I see no issue whatsoever with a form of compensation for the time and effort.. if not a modest salary, then something to take away from the term as mayor as a permanent reward (item / cosmetic / trait / notoriety )
In L2, it took hard savings through pve and playing the market over 2-3 months, sometimes more, to buy just 1 piece of better gear.
How to make money is very much on my mind!
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Actually I do expect streamers and other content creators to be your usual mayor.
The problem with a salary (say gold) is how to make it something that is useful but not OP. Also there is the scaling issue. If static, the payment would be almost certainly less impacting to the mayor a few years into the game. For this reason I say NO, at least to coin. They already have other perks.
Let us take a look at say the modern "democratic" politician... let us narrow that down to say in the US. Why do they run? Rarely is it money, at least not while they are in office. People run for power/influence, prestige, a sense of service, because they feel they can do a better job or even a mix. I think this will be just as true in AoC.
Mayors have Leadership powers. Source
Now if you want to give them an outfit they can stroll around in that has a unique FX on it, I am all for that.
As far as i recall - just the mayor of a metropolis gets a flying mount or am i wrong?
@Natasha has there ever been any information regarding the things a Stage 5 Mayor gets?
I suppose it wont be nothing either.
@TheMarten
"Let us take a look at say the modern "democratic" politician... let us narrow that down to say in the US. Why do they run? Rarely is it money, at least not while they are in office. People run for power/influence, prestige, a sense of service, because they feel they can do a better job or even a mix. "
Criteria to be elected as a politician in a democratic society is largely to be voted in by popular vote. No qualifications necessarily required. Relatively speaking, being a politician is one of the best paid jobs for a no qualification necessarily required available.
It does recognize the advantage that an older player, one who has succeeded in a career in a complex, bureaucratic organization, will certainly hold.
If you don't have any gray hair, best stay away from a mayoral position!