40d Talk:Mayor

Violating production mandates

My mayor just had the thought "..angered that nobody could be punished for a recent failure". Is this what happens when I violate an export mandate? Currently export of bolts is prohibited; I was smug and exported some arrows that obviously none of my dwarves made. He still could have punished my trader though? --Koltom 16:58, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

You get this message when one of your nobles gave a mandate, it failed but you didn't have dwarves with the right job enabled. For example, if your broker ask for a gem and you have no gemcutters around until the mandate end, he'll have nobody to properly punish. That's when he'll get such a thought. --Eagle of Fire 00:33, 23 March 2008 (EDT)

Profession vs politics

"The former Mayor will revert to the job they had previously" My (first) mayor was a legendary carpenter. However, she still cut trees and made wooden things.. also i noticed that she wasn't listed with the other admins (leg. clerk), and her purple icon still flashed purple, although she was a leg. carpenter. Twiggie 15:41, 15 April 2008 (EDT)

I can guess at what this means. Say you have a mayor who is a legendary carpenter, like your example. You can still have the mayor do all of those jobs, like carpentry, etc- just that the mayor/carpenter will have that purple color all nobles have. Now lets say some other dwarf is elected mayore. The former mayor will have that yellow color. --Bouchart 16:56, 15 April 2008 (EDT)

mayors/expedition leaders also listen to peoples complaints, making those people happy and the mayor unhappy--Eerr 16:20, 8 August 2008 (EDT)

unhappy mayors

one of my soldiers (who just had a baby and has also just killed some kobold thieves) just became mayor. I want her to stay in the army (although if I get invaded I might put her sentry in charge of my magma smelter or something to keep the baby safe). Is there going to be any long term bad effect to not give her the goodies that a mayor wants?GarrieIrons 02:26, 28 June 2008 (EDT)

She might get some unhappy thoughts, but you can counterbalance that by ensuring she's got things giving her happy thoughts as well. Otherwise they don't really "need" their goodies, since they don't perform a function with them like the treasurer or manager do. Why not give her the goodies, though? In my fortresses I have a "mayoral" bedroom, office and dining room that I reassign every time mayorship changes hands, and I've had active military dwarves become mayor under this system with no problem. In one case I can recall the military mayor got injured and went to rest in the mayor's room, but if he'd still been there when his term as mayor ended I could have evicted him by temporarily dismantling the bed. Bryan Derksen 12:07, 28 June 2008 (EDT)

Re-election

My Mayor just died of suffocation. How long does it take until a new Mayor is elected?