How long should a term be?

[Locutus]

See title of thread: how long should goverment officials (particularly President and Minsters) serve in office before election have to take place again (not counting impeachments)?

Should it be a fixed time, a fixed number of turn, a fixed number of playing sessions (where the number of turns per session is yet to be determined but most likely is variable: it depends on the situation in the game and the orders that are available), or something else altogether?

If you vote for a different or a combination system, please post details (e.g. which systems would you combine?)

[Pedrunn]

Thats a hard to decide poll!!!

[Lemmy]

1 month...meh, 4 weeks will do then..

[Locutus]

I know, but if we don't decide now, we'll still be bickering about this in 3 weeks. That might keep up our reputation, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing

Edit: yeah, Lemmy, that's what I meant with 4 weeks...

[Gilgamensch]

hard to decide, I would like to have an option saying flexible.

But as you said, we might have decided once we are dead

[Pedrunn]

I guess you are right. Therefore:
I voted "A combination of 2 or all of the above systems, whichever comes first"

[Locutus]

Pedrunn,
Could you post which systems would you combine? (I should have added that in the original question)

[Pedrunn]

fixed time and fixed number of turns (BTW: turns is wrongly written terms in one of the 'other' options).

Fixed sections is too subjective. Depends on that current moment, the hour, the number of people, ...

EDIT: So far i would go 4 weeks and 25 turns, yet TBD

[J Bytheway]

I go for a time limit - that way we can arrange elections etc. with the knowledge of how long there will be.

[H Tower]

Originally posted by Pedrunn
EDIT: So far i would go 4 months and 25 turns, yet TBD

i really hope you mean weeks and not months.

I like four week terms (every month) because that way it fits in well with a judical election. It seems we want to elect the judges first, and then the president and ministers. If we keep the judges election before everyone else, we will always have a panel of judges to rule on the elections.

A horror story wold be if a case began during the election, and the judges began to work on the case, but then the senior judge's term expires and a new judge comes in.

[child of Thor]

Er i clicked the wrong one!!!!!
But as you want a clarification how about a change every 3 rainy sundays in a row
can i recast my vote please?

[Pedrunn]

Originally posted by H Tower
i really hope you mean weeks and not months.

Oops, I meant weeks indeed!

[Gilgamensch]

for me combination of weeks OR turns, whatever expires first, but no option

[Martin Gühmann]

I think a long period is good, especially if you consider how long the elections does take, but it shouldn't be too long therefore I voted for 6 weeks.

The problem with a fixed number of turns is that you have at the beginnig actual nothing to do, so the first 100 turn are very fast and we could end with two terms in the first two weeks. If we decide to make it turn dependent then we have the problem if our orders last for more then the specified number of turn.

-Martin

[Frozzy]

Seconding Lemmy. A month is ample time. Thats 1/12 of a year Not that short.