Wonder will this end up like in real life, only rich and connected people get power and benelovent people never are in control. And then secret deals made behind everyone's back.
I already heard about guilds who plan to take tyrant control of everything and ruin everybody's game.

Then the weak can band together and overthrow. It is possible

Quote: BeefMan on 05/04/2012, 10:05 AM - viewThey can't really "ruin" the game for everyone though... the worst they can do is up the taxes and not activate the special NPCs.

Which, for the taxes, is it that all NPCs sell items with added tax (Scroll sells for 1g, but with 15% tax is sells for 1g15s), or is is a "tax" or percentage of what the Vanarch and their guild gets as profit (Vanarch gets 5% of all items sold, but with max they get 15% instead)?

As for the special NPCs, they are deactivated by default, and I'm sure there will be at least one Vanarch somewhere that will activate them.

Any word on when the first elections will happen?

Vote for Dragon Lords! We are here to bring the changes you want!

I'm amazed anyone is excited about this. We're bombarded by politics in life, then log into the game and have to deal with the same crap.

When I first looked over the features of TERA, it was the one turn-off.

At least the election cycle will only last one week. In the real world I get tired of the news networks spending at least 3 1/2 years out of every 4 on the topic. "With only 1000 days left until the mostest importantest election ever..."

I also hope that each account will only get to cast a vote in one province. One vote total on one server. That way a zerg guild wont be able to control multiple provinces by putting up candidates from though alt guilds. Would be nice to get an official word on how that will actually work.

This is going to be such an abused system for large guilds.

All they have to do is split their guild up and vote for their own. One large guild will be able to control at least 2-3 zones.

Ah this is awesome, its like Lineage 2 only instead of castles its land and we siege with something other than brute force which might be an interesting change. To those that are unhappy with this part of the game, im sorry but server politics are an awesome part of the mmo experience and its nice to see that they are actually building it into the game. The downside is that you can blame enmasse instead of the guilds that run your server if the politics naturally developed over time via the players.

I found this post on the EU Forums, look it over if you are interested in the Political System, some parts directly contradict Mineas Post, so take it with a grain of salt.

https://forum.tera-europe.com/showthread.php?t=68851