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[krenshala]

Do you get any kind of announcement when a mayor is appointed or elected?  I was working along happily, fighting off the (year late) elven ambush, and cleaning up after it when i noticed I now had a mayor that wasn't my expedition leader (I guess his skills weren't as good as the lazy hauler that replaced her).

I looked back through both the in game messages (a) and checked <DF dir>/gamelog.txt and couldn't find anything about a mayor being elected/appointed.  Did I miss something, or is that just how it works?

I'm pretty sure I missed the appointment by less than a month, as it was 20 Hematite when I noticed Dobar was the mayor and back on 27 Felsite Iton was still the Expedition Leader/Broker/Manager/Bookkeeper.

[FuzzyZergling]

If there is an announcement, I've never noticed it.

[billybobfred]

There used to be an announcement, I know that.

I also know there isn't one now.

Not sure when it vanished.

[nukularpower]

Pretty sure you can just switch them back anyways, no?

[Yaotzin]

Yeah you can replace the mayor. Doesn't make sense for an elected official, but anywho.

[MaskedMiner]

So I've heard that pets that can talk can become mayor.

How the heck that works?

[Niccolo]

So I've heard that pets that can talk can become mayor.

How the heck that works?

Creatures with the [INTELLIGENT] tag (Which, admittedly, doesn't actually grant intelligence) or the [CAN_LEARN] tag can learn social skills.

Your mayor is (generally) the civilisation entity with the highest social skills, since they tend to have the most friends.

[krenshala]

Pretty sure you can just switch them back anyways, no?

Yeah, from what it looks like I can switch them back.  I'm more interested in getting notified that an election has been held in the first place.

[Quietust]

There used to be an announcement back in 40d, but in 0.31.xx it went away.