Suggestion Title: Make City Hotline (101) on by default/expensive to disable
Suggestion Description: With the implementation of having to go to the PLN building or news stand to make adverts - which is definitely better than /advert - it does raise the issue of making it far more difficult and onerous to issue thinly veiled threats to the Mayor easily and repeatedly when they are mismanaging Paralake.
To help combat this the City Hotline policy - which enables civilians to phone the Mayor via 101 - should be enabled by default, and extremely expensive for the Mayor to remove both at the initial disabling and the on-going cost. This presents a more difficult and costly choice for a Mayor who wants to minimise opportunity of the populous raising grievances with them.
Thus disabling the policy would also signal to civilians that a Mayor who is mismanaging the city has likely zero intention of listening to their grievances or making any changes.
Why should this be added?:
- Provides a more accessible option for people to issue their thinly veiled threats to a Mayor committing mismanagement and try to convince them to change their policies/tax strategy
- Flips the script between Mayors and the general populace
- Would - I imagine - be a relatively simple change to implement
What negatives could this have?:
- For Mayor's who aren't mismanaging the city but don't want people to call them, it presents a potentially unnecessary drain on City Funds
- People could abuse the City Hotline primarily being on to repeatedly call and troll the Mayor
What problem would this suggestion solve?: Addresses the somewhat of a gap that has been created in people being able to communicate with the Mayor and makes it somewhat easier, while still removing the ridiculous flexibility previously had under /advert, and where people are more likely to phone then advert, they can be as direct as they want (obviously cognisant that they can report it to the police).
Suggestion Description: With the implementation of having to go to the PLN building or news stand to make adverts - which is definitely better than /advert - it does raise the issue of making it far more difficult and onerous to issue thinly veiled threats to the Mayor easily and repeatedly when they are mismanaging Paralake.
To help combat this the City Hotline policy - which enables civilians to phone the Mayor via 101 - should be enabled by default, and extremely expensive for the Mayor to remove both at the initial disabling and the on-going cost. This presents a more difficult and costly choice for a Mayor who wants to minimise opportunity of the populous raising grievances with them.
Thus disabling the policy would also signal to civilians that a Mayor who is mismanaging the city has likely zero intention of listening to their grievances or making any changes.
Why should this be added?:
- Provides a more accessible option for people to issue their thinly veiled threats to a Mayor committing mismanagement and try to convince them to change their policies/tax strategy
- Flips the script between Mayors and the general populace
- Would - I imagine - be a relatively simple change to implement
What negatives could this have?:
- For Mayor's who aren't mismanaging the city but don't want people to call them, it presents a potentially unnecessary drain on City Funds
- People could abuse the City Hotline primarily being on to repeatedly call and troll the Mayor
What problem would this suggestion solve?: Addresses the somewhat of a gap that has been created in people being able to communicate with the Mayor and makes it somewhat easier, while still removing the ridiculous flexibility previously had under /advert, and where people are more likely to phone then advert, they can be as direct as they want (obviously cognisant that they can report it to the police).
