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Doctor Dread Administrator Posts: 1478
1/4/2017
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We are considering allowing elections for ruler ship in the Sol System. Normally only paid accounts can locate their HQ outside of Sol and Only cities outside of Sol can have elections. If we allow them within Sol then it would still be only paid accounts that can be elected. There is a difference inside Sol however, the Terran Federation will still defend the cities and may even attack you in your own city. Having unlimited free defenders in a highly populated City in Sol system also makes those cities a lot more desirable (perhaps) than establishing a city outside Sol. Elected players also receive income based on the city's population. A population that can't die off and doesn't really need to be maintained by the way. We can't think of a good difference between being elected inside Sol vs outside Sol which makes it more desirable. The resources outside of sol are a lot higher than inside Sol, that is really the only difference outside of elections.
We want to know anyone's thoughts on this and any ideas on what the difference or penalty for being elected within Sol might be.
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ChaChaCharms Posts: 167
1/5/2017
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Star Lord of Sol, has a nice ring to it... only through despot means not by NW lol
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Doctor Dread Administrator Posts: 1478
1/5/2017
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What's NW?
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ChaChaCharms Posts: 167
1/5/2017
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Doctor Dread Administrator Posts: 1478
1/5/2017
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I posted this in game and Im doing I t here also:
We are going to be implementing ruler ship elections in Sol in the next day or so. The requirement to be eligible for election is to have your Corp HQ in the city that is up for election and you must also be on a paid account.
Since we need to test out this functionality preferably with real players, we will be giving anyone who has logged into the game within the last 3-4 days a Paid Account Status. This status is only for the Beta Test and not the live launch. This will also allow those corps to re-locate outside of Sol if they choose to.
Once there are 3 or more city rulers on a planet, the system should have a planetary emperor election, and once 3 Planets have rulers, a Start Lord election should show up.
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Zip555 Posts: 67
1/6/2017
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Being elected was a big reason to leave Sol. This change discourages moving HQ outside Sol, and gives Sol-Govenors too much power. If Sol-goveners just got a title, with no income it would be better
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Doctor Dread Administrator Posts: 1478
1/6/2017
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Zip555 wrote:
Being elected was a big reason to leave Sol. This change discourages moving HQ outside Sol, and gives Sol-Govenors too much power. If Sol-goveners just got a title, with no income it would be better
No income and just the title sounds good if we get some ruler ship voted events in place. Perhaps a lot less money, at least half of what you would get outside?
I have this idea of perhaps making a few of the cities in Sol be "hardened" terrain fed cities that cant have elections but allow new cities to pop up in Sol just like the rest of the solar system and those cities can have elections as normal. Generally making the "Safe haven" not be the entire sol system but rather a handful of static starter cities. Those starter cities are the ones the tutorial recommend plays start at
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Zip555 Posts: 67
1/8/2017
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4 starter cities per sol planet, all other cities are equal (population, demand, govenor) is good, but this implies Terran Federation will not defend them. If the govenor is supposed to police his city/planet, then a 5% tax is good, but if Terran Federation provides defence then any tax seems unjustified. The cities in Sol are likely to be larger than those outside, and their income 10 times bigger, in which case half the tax is much too small a change..
Election for planet govenor, does eveyone on the planet vote, or just the city govenors, based on their city size?
edited by Zip555 on 1/8/2017
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Chojin Posts: 8
1/8/2017
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Having a Star Lord of SoL should be just for the title. It should be make sure that any Star Lord in another sys is more interesting than being Lord of SoL. Gameplay must remain challenging 
Star Lord of SoL position could be to help new people in the game, make them gaining interest to the game, so they could become paid accounts and fly themselves around the universe.
edited by Chojin on 1/8/2017
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Doctor Dread Administrator Posts: 1478
1/8/2017
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Zip555 wrote:
4 starter cities per sol planet, all other cities are equal (population, demand, govenor) is good, but this implies Terran Federation will not defend them. If the govenor is supposed to police his city/planet, then a 5% tax is good, but if Terran Federation provides defence then any tax seems unjustified. The cities in Sol are likely to be larger than those outside, and their income 10 times bigger, in which case half the tax is much too small a change..
Election for planet govenor, does eveyone on the planet vote, or just the city govenors, based on their city size?
edited by Zip555 on 1/8/2017
There wont be any planet elections until there are 3 city rulers on a planet which might happen the day after 3 are elected. Star lord goes in once there are 3 planet rulers
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