Question: if I change the government system while ruler, say, from judge being elected quarterly to some more frequent term, when does that take effect? After the next election or immediately?
Basically, if I set a council post to a shorter term, will they have to stand for elections here in 15 days or so? I've never really done much with it before.
All changes to position terms take effect immediately. If you change an appointed position to elected just before sunrise on the first day of the month, the election will start right then.
And, of course, vice versa: if you change an elected position to appointed, the next election will not run. Unless, of course, there's an election running right then, in which case it will run its course.
Quote from: Anaris on August 16, 2012, 05:06:12 PM
If you change an appointed position to elected just before sunrise on the first day of the month, the election will start right then.
Has this ever been done?
Quote from: Vellos on August 16, 2012, 05:12:44 PM
Has this ever been done?
Not that I know of. Sounds like fun, though.
I did something along those lines once, though, to get rid of a
really annoying judge in Pian en Luries and replace him with my character's brother-in-law.
Quote from: Anaris on August 16, 2012, 05:14:42 PM
Not that I know of. Sounds like fun, though.
That's what I was thinking. Was piddling around with gov options and thought of it. It'd be hilarious to start the election a few hours before the vote.
...I like where this is going!
Question: let's say I were to change the system for a council position to "appointment." Could I fire the council member IMMEDIATELY?
Quote from: Vellos on August 17, 2012, 05:27:40 PM
Question: let's say I were to change the system for a council position to "appointment." Could I fire the council member IMMEDIATELY?
Don't think so. I don't think you can fire them period. Only appoint them when it's vacant.
Quote from: Vellos on August 17, 2012, 05:27:40 PM
Question: let's say I were to change the system for a council position to "appointment." Could I fire the council member IMMEDIATELY?
Question: Has anyone in the history of BM ever been able to "fire" a council member?
(Spoiler: The answer is no. You can't fire council members. You have to get them to step down, seriously wound them, protest them out, or get their Lord to change allegiance to another realm.)
Wow, never realized that last option existed. >:D
tyrants couldn't fire people? (never been in a tyranny..)
Does the seriously wound thing work for rulers too? And that last one is thinking outside the box though it won't work for rulers.
Quote from: fodder on August 17, 2012, 05:32:19 PM
tyrants couldn't fire people? (never been in a tyranny..)
I thought this was the case.
No.
No Ruler in the history of BattleMaster has ever been able to replace a sitting Council member at their own whim.
Not in a Tyranny, not in a Theocracy, not anywhere, under any circumstances, ever.