Adding a political system

[Dyne]

Checks and Balances would need to be put into place in some shape of form.

I would be all for politics in FFXIV except the problem was all ready laid out "Hardcore/Elitealotoftimeontheirhands" Would benefit greatly. In reality our political system works because its reality, in a virtual world politics are more difficult to simulate correctly due to it being a second life. The people who put the virtual second life in front of reality would just control the majority of any kind of political power.

EDIT: not to mention big LS's tampering with elections and rigging servers.

Well, its just an idea. The developers can work out the details later. There are many different ways of ruling a country, so this just adds another level of interactivity within the virtual world. Even some who consider themselves "casuals" do play a considerable amount of time per week and can still build a pretty good reputation. Like, you can log in the game, have something built with whatever amount of money you earned from taxes, then log off. Maybe make it so only people who are citizens of that country can vote or must have been citizen several number of days or weeks to vote, that would easily make it much more difficult for an entire linkshell to rig elections. By citizen, I mean, you can't be a character created just now and could vote. You can also invest a ton of money by making a ton of characters if you are willing to go that far and rig it that way. That's $3 per character, max 8 per account and $50 per game, so do the math to have 1000 votes on your 1 character singlehandedly.

[Dyne]

Like you can build a gigantic golden statue of yourself in the center of town wearing a subligar using the taxes you get and then if people hate it and your term is up, the next ruler can make it his campaign promise to tear down that god awful statue of you that you built lol.

[SuzakuCMX]

Like you can build a gigantic golden statue of yourself in the center of town wearing a subligar using the taxes you get and then if people hate it and your term is up, the next ruler can make it his campaign promise to tear down that god awful statue of you that you built lol.

Sounds like a waste of the devs' time.

[Dyne]

It is something to do other than fighting or crafting.

[SuzakuCMX]

It is something to do other than fighting or crafting.

Stare at a gold statue, or waste the devs' time?

[Dyne]

You can be like that person in history that we remember today, like the pharaoh who built the pyramids or whatever.

[Bled]

No. Anything more than just a title would either give tons of ability to troll or have to be guided decisions (such as setting MW tax between 5% and 10%).

"Checks and balances" = boring for whoever has it, just an e-peen stroke to have the name.

Plus it makes no sense lorewise.

You miss the point of what checks and balances (separation of power) represents, and it would not be difficult to work into the lore. Earlier in 404BC during the times of ancient Greece separation of powers was implemented into dictatorships along with republics (essentially what we see in FFXIV). So with that said it could be done but the functionality to work required ratios are horrendous, so IMO it should stay out.

[Eugenics]

If we had a political system, sooner or later it would end up corrupte. Buying votes with gil, taking kickbacks, sex scandals coming out. Sound like a great idea i'm all for it.

[SuzakuCMX]

You miss the point of what checks and balances (separation of power) represents, and it would not be difficult to work into the lore. Earlier in 404BC during the times of ancient Greece separation of powers was implemented into dictatorships along with republics.

You miss the point of what checks and balances are supposed to do, which are to limit an individual's power, which means the individual is going to get bored.

It would be difficult to work into the lore. We already have 3 grand company leaders representing each of the 3 available city states. We are grouped up to fight against the Garlean Empire. Why would we split up by dethroning the Grand Company leaders we just got or start new political empires when we're about to get crushed by an outside power + a mysterious other power?

[Dyne]

People loved to decorate their moghouse in ffxi with furniture, artwork, silly trinkets. The ability to build things in the city is just like that, except in a much grander scale.