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Nagassh

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Mayors and Elections
« on: May 18, 2013, 03:38:14 pm »

So, an unexpected zombie biome resulted in my starting 7 being reduced to two, who managed to wall themselves in, one had a tantrum, killed the other - went insane.

Thankfully, migrants have shown up before she died - the fort has prospered, albeit avoiding the surface world - but there's a minor problem.

It's been years and no one has elected a new Mayor, which means I can't assign anyone to any positions (no military, no record keeping / assigning tasks).

Is there any way to "force" an election / Mayor, be it ingame or via file editing, or will one turn up eventually? If this continues then it may end up being better to just reclaim the place, which would be a shame.
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Re: Mayors and Elections
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2013, 04:32:10 pm »

So, an unexpected zombie biome resulted in my starting 7 being reduced to two, who managed to wall themselves in, one had a tantrum, killed the other - went insane.

Thankfully, migrants have shown up before she died - the fort has prospered, albeit avoiding the surface world - but there's a minor problem.

It's been years and no one has elected a new Mayor, which means I can't assign anyone to any positions (no military, no record keeping / assigning tasks).

Is there any way to "force" an election / Mayor, be it ingame or via file editing, or will one turn up eventually? If this continues then it may end up being better to just reclaim the place, which would be a shame.
Before any mayors you can assing an expedition leader, so he can take the lead.
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Nagassh

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Re: Mayors and Elections
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2013, 04:39:13 pm »

Before any mayors you can assing an expedition leader, so he can take the lead.

I wish I could, my nobles screen is completely empty - I can't assign anyone to anything.
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Magistrum

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Re: Mayors and Elections
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2013, 04:48:48 pm »

Before any mayors you can assing an expedition leader, so he can take the lead.

I wish I could, my nobles screen is completely empty - I can't assign anyone to anything.
you can't? this should never get empty.The other nobles just get grey(or other black-ish color, my exp.leader don't die frequently) until you put someone as exp.leader and then you can scroll for their positions...
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Drazinononda

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Re: Mayors and Elections
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2013, 04:58:13 pm »

This is a known bug.
« Last Edit: May 18, 2013, 05:30:35 pm by Drazinononda »
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Children you rescue shouldn't behave like rabid beasts.  I guess your regular companions shouldn't act like rabid beasts either.
I think that's a little more impossible than I'm likely to have time for.

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Re: Mayors and Elections
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2013, 05:21:29 pm »

This is a known bug[/u].
Thanks, this should be at the wiki...
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