Guild Wars 2

So is the winner of the voting going to be based on Popular Vote?

Would be interesting if they went with perhaps something similar to the Electoral College. Assigning values to different servers perhaps based on the servers population?

“Enter into the Candidate Trials alone or with a group in support of your chosen candidate. You’ll test your battle skills by facing off against waves of Aetherblade pirates – hold out for as long as you can to earn Support Tokens and loot! The challenge is great, but so are the rewards – you may even earn a rare chance at an Aetherized weapon!”

From https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/july-23-2013/

So, it will be popular vote in a way, but each person can vote as many times as tokens he can get.

The winner will be based on the amount of tokens he/she receives, and each player can submit as many tokes as the wish/can get their hands on.

The electoral college is how the world got Bush. Let’s stay away from that kind of system.

Shiren.9532:

The electoral college is how the world got Bush. Let’s stay away from that kind of system.

Also how we’ve gotten Obama and every other POTUS since 1787 so…

I think weighting the decision of each server according to server population density would be fair, personally.

This is assuming that all worlds will have to live with the same winner. Is it stated somewhere whether this is a cross-server decision? Or can Kiel be elected on one server and Evon on another?

Personally, I think popular votes are a bad idea. Expansion of the voting franchise is the gravest threat to the Guild Wars 2 Republic. Only those of proper, broad perspective can be trusted to be enlightened enough to choose leaders. I propose the following qualifications for voting:
1. Voter must have a Commander tag.
2. Voter much have at least 6000 achievement points as of July 2013.
3. Voter must have at least 1 level 80 character of each profession.
4. Voter must pass a game literacy test (e.g., “What key is bound to a dodge button in default settings?” for Asura and “How many karma vendors sold rabid accessories in the level 58-65 range as of December 2012 and how many have been added since then?” for Norn)

If we keep the voting franchise from expanding too much, all players will benefit and the game will move towards the future.

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[Note: this was a joke and is not meant to promote of criticize any particular political view.]

In this election, we basically get to Role Play your Koch brothers, your George Soros’, your Rupert Murdochs and Al Gores. Except instead of campaign dollars, we’re exchanging our time for Tokens.

…which actually IS, …statistically dead-on lately… the way 93% of elections for most seats in House & Senate are decided anyways. So it’s actually a lot closer to our own democracy than Anet is initially claiming it is. Also: Electoral College is just a fancy way of saying Gerrymandering.

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…and I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t care what their moral compass says. All I care about is is if the dungeons we ultimately get will provide more lucrative kick-backs to us more-hardcore PvE’ers, like Rare mats / Lodestones, and V.P.P. or other slightly game breaking (non-account bound) Gearstats & armor Insignias. Therefore the market is most likely to decide this, not the casual player.

ilr.9675:

In this election, we basically get to Role Play your Koch brothers, your George Soros’, your Rupert Murdochs and Al Gores. Except instead of campaign dollars, we’re exchanging our time for Tokens.

…which actually IS, …statistically dead-on lately… the way 93% of elections for most seats in House & Senate are decided anyways. So it’s actually a lot closer to our own democracy than Anet is initially claiming it is. Also: Electoral College is just a fancy way of saying Gerrymandering.

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…and I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t care what their moral compass says. All I care about is is if the dungeons we ultimately get will provide more lucrative kick-backs to us more-hardcore PvE’ers, like Rare mats / Lodestones, and V.P.P. or other slightly game breaking (non-account bound) Gearstats & armor Insignias. Therefore the market is most likely to decide this, not the casual player.

One would hope that the rewards given for the voted fractal are not drastically different from one another. Did we get special rewards from the Uncategorized or Colossal fractal vs the others?

eh? a server with more people will inherently have more influence, as they have more people to farm tokens. I don’t see how server is relevant, just send your tokens.