Mayors' meeting

[Hanno]

I put up threads about two things in the features request group:

(1) kicking out "contribute"
(2) having the treasurer as a deputy for the ambassador

There has been a good dispute on (1) so far with a slight majority of articles going our direction.
The new system ARMistice has in mind is some kind of lottery: the Top50 cities in the contribution list all get a chance to get the TOP spot (from approx 20% for the 1 seed to about 0.5% for the 50 seed).
There's an alternative idea by tricut: he's proposing a system that puts rooms that have been played in always to the last place of the list of rooms.
Sounds fair to me.

I'll keep you posted on what will happen.

Hanno

[nat268]

I like tricut's idea. The current one only makes the rich get richer (guess it's much closer to reality<--in most countries) since only large/rich towns can afford to lose their resources for this purpose.  

The idea of the game manager should be to promote newly built game room/town as depending on how many people know about it, may or may not get a lot of plays. Having it listed in the manager helps the town get their return on the building that much faster and possibly gain new citizens to help their growth (should this be what they want).

Thanks Hanno for attending the meeting!!

Cheers,
nat268  

[Carmilla]

I too would like to see the end of this "contribute" mess.  Does anyone understand what the purpose of it is supposed to be?

If they want to reward successful towns, just rotate the rooms normally!  Aggressive towns will get their extra usage (which doesn't count for as much anyway, any more) by bringing people into their own towns to play.  Every one else just gets random chance.

Anyway, I'd support almost anything *but* the current system.

Carmilla

[Hanno]

I too would like to see the end of this "contribute" mess.  Does anyone understand what the purpose of it is supposed to be?

The purpose is to get competition between the cities. For some people, the metagame is the only game in BSW that really counts, and the BSW folks want to support that. :-(