Flaws with the elections

[Salmonella]

I could live with 4 months but 3 is ideal in my unbiased opinion.

[.Diego]

I have a real life.

We all do, so if you can't handle it, give it up to someone who does 

[Johan_S]

After reading everyone's comments 3 months is enough and well designed. Mayor must be dedicated only to his duty. Which means that the other party must be ready at every moment. We are speaking here like we have warranty for the posts. Might occur any accident and the mayor's might lose their posts. Example the case of anthony which got dq'd due to "criminal act(lmao)". So the city will be without mayor? No, the other party must take place in management. If we will start here saying I got real life, I got this, I got that, better don't get involved in such of post with responsibility toward the server.

[Dizzy.]

nothing can be done in 3 months, even with full activity and you guys saying 'real life', if you can't handle this sh*t and you are so busy in real life don't  get involved.

[Cofiliano]

Except the playercount was at a steady 90 yesterday and at a steady 30 today.

It's true though that there was irritation amongst some players because of the /ad wars. Perhaps another measure should be taken to prevent this, but the duration of the mayors term has nothing to do with it, because like you pointed out, it's only for like 10 days or so.

Once again, 3 months seems more than enough to me. Otherwise you're not even giving the loser a chance to recuperate and try again, because after 6 months the majority of formations tend to collapse one way or another due to the huge amount of time passing.

If any 'formation' or 'organization' collapse after 6 months, then they shouldn't run in the first place. Its one thing to give a losing side a chance, but its another to annoy the entire server because of it. If the losing side wants to try win, then they should be patient and wait at least 6 months for it, after all, they are the loosing side. Not make the entire server suffer because of it.

Means you will have no time to fuck around but instead you'll need to focus on getting shit done.

Means you will have no time to fuck around with getting shit done, yet constantly be in a political campaign.

[TiMoN]

Except the playercount was at a steady 90 yesterday and at a steady 30 today.

We used to get 60-80 all weekends, not just last week.

[Salmonella]

If any 'formation' or 'organization' collapse after 6 months, then they shouldn't run in the first place. Its one thing to give a losing side a chance, but its another to annoy the entire server because of it. If the losing side wants to try win, then they should be patient and wait at least 6 months for it, after all, they are the loosing side. Not make the entire server suffer because of it.

It's really easy to talk like this about groups, but in reality the case is that most people have more shit to attend to in their lifes than just Argonath, which is why 90 percent of the groups in general don't last longer than 6 months, or at least cannot maintain their activity for such a period.

We need to have this element of continuous political strive, because this will show who is really dedicated to their political role and who isn't

As I said before, it won't be any different for the server in general than if it were, say, 6 months of mayorship. I know it may be pleasant to have monopoly for longer but you have to look at this from a neutral and logical perspective. Any more than 3 or 4 months will cause us to almost certainly create inactive mayors.

[beLTa]

We used to get 60-80 all weekends, not just last week.

You sure of it? Before this weekend, I was almost whole night on the server and the maximum amount of players were 43. Don't make excuses to hide the truth.

[Stivi]

You sure of it? Before this weekend, I was almost whole night on the server and the maximum amount of players were 43. Don't make excuses to hide the truth.

Wtf? Yes we have had 60-80 players on weekend but that's off topic.

[Sawyer]

Being active at least everyday or once per two days, working on making your city a better place in any possible way, considering the majority of citizens' opinions and taking actions, learning from a mistaken decision, remain activity no matter what happens IRL, defending yourself and your campaign with any possible reasonable arguments which usually come in a flash in Argonath, having a staff to get your back when needed, interacting with citizens and hear what they have to say at all time, making every single plan become reality like you promised since the start of your campaign and working on your campaign meanwhile in a period of three months is simply mission impossible. Consider yourself hopeless before you even start. I will laugh at everyone saying otherwise. Not to mention any possible admin/scripting/clan or any other duties.

At least 6 months should do the trick.

[Alfreddo.]

You sure of it? Before this weekend, I was almost whole night on the server and the maximum amount of players were 43. Don't make excuses to hide the truth.

That Saturday we had 80+.


I think that the community should come up with the idea of re-introducing elections every 6 months and if the current mayor has to focus more in RL then he can notify the HQ which in turn would only open voting rights in his city.

Because as mentioned,it's really annoying to see ADs every minutes about elections and I don't hope to see that every 3 months(or before itself)

[MrTony]

I'm really divided over this. Both sides bring logical arguments to the table. Maybe we should do a poll over the Mayoral term.

[Mikal]

You sure of it? Before this weekend, I was almost whole night on the server and the maximum amount of players were 43. Don't make excuses to hide the truth.

Saw 84 players online at one point yesterday.

[Bruce.]

Saw 84 players online at one point yesterday.

91 was the max I could see yesterday

[AK47]

It was only because elections, relax guys