thats fine and all but then all the people who get vanarch now by zerg voting will get rich as hell before we even get a real shot at it. That is not right no matter how you spin it.
That's how real life works, too. And just like in real life, ambitious talented people can take their fortune into their own hands and change things. But they have to be prepared to do what it takes.
Campaign on your guild’s website or social media accounts to get your campaign in front of the voters. Don’t use your personal accounts—remember, no personal information allowed!
Sounds great, but you guys have web addresses filtered in game chat so how will this work?
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato
Get ready for it—TERA’s first vanarch elections will be coming up just a few weeks after launch. Every one of TERA’s active provinces will need a vanarch, and by then we should have a healthy pool of high-level players and active guilds eager to compete for the honor and power of the vanarchy. We want this first election to be fun, competitive, and highly meaningful to the participants and the voters.
If you think you have what it takes to be the people’s choice, you’ll have a week from the election announcement to mount your campaign and convince voters to throw their support behind you and not that other candidate.
Even if you don’t plan to run for office, you’ll still get to choose your world’s leaders with your vote, so you might want to know something about the process.
What’s a vanarch?
Vanarchs rule over the provinces of TERA’s world, and determine taxes and other policies within their provinces. One vanarch oversees each province for a period of one month until the next election.
Who can run?
At present, a candidate for vanarch must be at least level 50 and the leader of a level 3 guild with at least 20 members. To raise the level of your guild, earn Catharnach awards by doing guild quests. You’ll need 70 Catharnach awards to raise a guild to level 3.
Each candidate will declare for a particular province, provide a statement of candidacy, and pay a registration fee of 100 Catharnach awards and 3,000 gold. All candidates will need to register before the election deadline, which we will announce prominently on the website and in game.
Who can vote?
Vanarchs are elected by popular vote. Any character of level 20 or higher is eligible to vote, but your account is limited to one vote per server.
Which provinces will have vanarchs?
We currently have 15 active provinces including the Island of Dawn.
How can I campaign for vanarch?
Get noticed for your helpfulness.
Get yourself known as a helpful, courteous player. The election is decided by popular vote, so the more people associate your name with good experiences, the more likely they are to think kindly of you when the election rolls around.
Establish a good guild reputation.
If your guild is known for friendliness and helpfulness, you’ll gain reputation just by being its leader. If you communicate clearly what your guild stands for, voters will feel like they have a good reason to give you their votes.
Use teh Interwebs.
Campaign on your guild’s website or social media accounts to get your campaign in front of the voters. Don’t use your personal accounts—remember, no personal information allowed!
Spill some blood!
Host a deathmatch or tournament to create excitement and spread the word about you and your guild. The more voters are familiar with you, the more votes you’re likely to get.
Get your guild involved!
All your guild members should be completely committed to winning the election. They’ll need to amass gold and Catharnach awards, campaign for you, and support your candidacy with their time and energy.
But I still have more questions!
We know you do, and we’ll answer them on the politics page of the TERA Game Guide, which is coming to the TERA website very soon.
As we write this, TERA’s political system is still new and growing. We’re committed to making it even better, so some details may change over time.
This is so cool in theory, I was pumped for it in the early days. That said, lets be honest...the way its set up as far as voting...the top 15 biggest clans will win. System as I see it won't work in a game because of this...basically all you are doing is enforcing the need for zergs. I'm not sure what to do to fix it...but that's all it's going to be. Cool idea...but it's going to end just as I said...sucks..
I laugh at everybody saying this screws small guilds. 3k gold is easy for 20 people to get. That's all you need. It ain't that hard to make a name for yourself. Group with people and don't suck. Help people in area chat and make yourself visible. Being in a large guild actually makes it harder, because one idiot will [filtered] everybody.
Honestly, I don't think everyone is always going to vote for the same guild, and most of the time zerg guilds make a lot of enemies. So I don't think zerg guilds will own the election. Unless they are both really nice and really good. In that case they deserve to.
This is so cool in theory, I was pumped for it in the early days. That said, lets be honest...the way its set up as far as voting...the top 15 biggest clans will win. System as I see it won't work in a game because of this...basically all you are doing is enforcing the need for zergs. I'm not sure what to do to fix it...but that's all it's going to be. Cool idea...but it's going to end just as I said...sucks..
Thanks for the info, we've been waiting for a long time for some details.
Our WIll Not Fix Guild plans to run very seriously for a Vanarchy spot on the Valley of Titans server. We plan to use our TERA podcast and Twitter to get the word across.
thats fine and all but then all the people who get vanarch now by zerg voting will get rich as hell before we even get a real shot at it. That is not right no matter how you spin it.
Does the provinces already have taxes set in place, since I thought you had to go through quests, get points, and spend said points to be able to raise the taxes and start earning money.
Even if a Zerg guild is able to get a seat, if they don't do enough to stay in power and raise taxes, who cares?
If they are able to stay in power and make money, next election they'll have a large portion of people against them (especially if they pick a popular area) and get voted off.
If they can get to power, stay in power, make lots of money and keep people happy... then why is that bad?
Because the rest of us are screwed until BG's come out ?