Bukkit

Vote engine:

• Allows for yes/no and vote for player votes
• Keeps track of open items that can be voted on and tallies results when they close
• Displays information about a vote item eg. players running for election, charter details, etc
• Extendable and configurable to allow voting for things outside this extensions scope

Elections:

Towns and Nations can have elections for mayor/king

Scope:

Town:

• All residents are eligible to be elected
• Residents can mark themselves as running for election with slogan

Nation:

• Mayors of towns are eligible
• Mayors can mark themselves as running for national election with slogan

- Elections occur on a schedule, or when triggered by an event

Election Triggers:

Bankruptcy Event

• Election as alternative to automatically deleting a town/nation
• Removes mayor/king from residency (optional)
• If no votes are cast delete town/nation (optional)

Recall Event

• If recall vote is successful

New Town/Nation Event

• On town creation with charter
• On nation creation with constitution

Abdication Event

• by player or admin command (or if player is banned/blacklisted?)
• if player attempts to delete town/nation that has residents he will automatically abdicate
• If no votes are cast delete town/nation

Societies:

• Set by the charter/constitution creator, changeable by mayor/king
• Specified in town charter/nation constitution
• Notification message left when changed

Society types:

Towns:

Democracy:

• All town changes are sent for an up/down vote to all members of the town

Republic:

• The town members vote for mayoral elections, recalls, and constitution signing events

Nobility:

• The resident who owns the most land is named mayor when there is an election.
• No voting except for silent revolt votes.

Dictatorship:

• No town votes or elections except for silent revolt votes.

Nations:

Democracy:

• All residents vote for the king from the available mayors
• All kingdom changes are sent for an up/down vote to mayors
• Mayors vote for the king and king recalls

Republic:

• Mayors vote for the king and king recalls

Nobility:

• The mayor with the highest rank (largest town) is named king when there is an election. No voting except silent revolt votes.

Dictatorship:

• No votes or elections except for silent revolt votes

Town Charter

better town #/population control and more natural town creation

• Players must gather enough prospective residents in order to start a new town
• Number of residents needed in config file
• Prospective residents "sign" the charter with a command
• when the charter has enough signatures the creator of the charter can claim the starting townblock
• Economy cost for charter creation(goes to Nation) and signing (goes to new town)
• First elections are held under the society type specified in charter

National Constitution

better nation #/population control and more natural nation creation

• Towns can sign a constitution in order to split off into a new nation
• Number of towns needed in config
• Town mayors can create or sign constitutions
• Residents can vote to approve constitution signing depending on society
• Configurable cost for constitution creation(server cost) and signing(deposited in new nation bank)
• Nation is created as soon as enough towns have signed the constitution.
• Election is held immediately following a successful nation creation based on new nations society type.

Recall Events

• Affects all towns/nations except under a dictatorship
• Players toggle their recall status on/off, but a public recall vote is only triggered if the threshold is crossed
• recall status automatically sets recall vote
• recall status is reset after a recall vote
• If the public recall vote is successful elections are held

Revolt events

• Affect towns or nations in a nobility or dictatorship society
• Revolt command toggles revolt status on/off but it sends no messages to other players.
• If enough residents of a town, or towns in a nation have their revolt flags on then the revolt is successful
• The mayor/king is removed from the town/nation and set as an outsider.
• All assistants are removed from office if a dictatorship.
• Elections are held, if Nobility society the next highest ranked resident is elected
• DOES NOT CHANGE SOCIETY TYPE, THAT MUST BE DONE BY MAYOR/KING AFTER ELECTION IF THEY WISH

Polls and petitions:

• Polls act as yes/no vote items with a custom question defined at creation
• town/nation/server/invited scope
• results can be displayed or sent to players with the correct permission nodes
• Petitions act like charter/constitutions with a custom issue defined at creation
• town/nation/server/invited scope
• information about #signers and list of names can be displayed about open petitions based on permissions