It's collab time again. Ever wanted to be the mayor of your own city?
"Yeah, but I've played SimCity", you're saying. Well, real mayors don't have terms of 180 years. Can you leave your mark on a city with a 5 year term? Join this collab and find out!

The game is SimCity for SNES, get it from Vimm's Lair. The emulator of choice this time is gonna be SNES9x v1.53. If you don't know how to record off of it, several people know, Fernin or I can help you out (or maybe even do the vids for you).

Here's the rules, if you want to sign up for a term as Mayor of SydCity, read them. Take an oath of office if you like.

-Your term is 5 years. Your term ends at the budget screen at the end of your last year. Save your state there. Send it to both the next mayor and to me (usasatsui at gmail dot com).
-The next mayor is simply the next person in line. The order will be random and will be shuffled once everyone gets a turn. Once you have your turn, simply say whether or not you want to stay on the list and get another term. If you're no longer interested, please let me know and you'll be taken off the list.
-Upload a video of your session to the Collab channel (SydlexiaCollab on YouTube, ask me if you need the password, do NOT post it public).
-The collab will continue until everyone gets bored of it, or we by some miracle reach 500,000 people. The final mayor will place the Mario statue, and we can all feel proud of ourselves.

While you can, in general, do whatever you like as Mayor of SydCity, there are a few rules in the City Charter that you must follow. Failure to operate according to the charter will result in impeachment, your name being stricken from the list of mayors, and all of your work being undone (we go back to the last save state).

-Auto-Budget must remain off. Auto-Disaster must remain on.
-Do not sabotage the city. You don't have to be a good mayor, but do not be a dickhead. Things like causing a ton of disasters at the end of your term, going on a bulldozing spree, setting road funding to 0% and watching the roads die, burning away the city treasury on 10 Seaports, or anything else that is just done to be an asshole. Creating a disaster is allowed, if you want to see how you handle things like that, but only in the first year or two of your term, and don't go overboard (if a random disaster hits as your term ends, though, well, that's tough luck).
-Do not bulldoze gifts (Fountain, Library, Your House, Etc...). Any other work from a previous mayor is fair game, but going back and just plowing out someone else's hard work is a dick move and not the kind of thing we are encouraging here.
-No zone stacking. It's a bug, and it makes the city look ugly as hell. "Zone stacking", for the record, is bulldozing one side of a zone and putting another zone over it so they both grow.
-No cheating. Duh.

In addition to people signing up for mayors, we are also accepting applications for a First Mayor. The First Mayor will create the game (on Easy), select the map, name the city (it's named SydCity), and set the groundwork for the fist 5 years. The First Mayor will be honored by getting to choose the location of the Mayor's House, even if it's not their term when the gift arrives (just tell the current mayor where to put it). If you want to be First Mayor, post here with a starting map number, and the First Mayor will be the map I think will work best.

Good luck, and may you find your calling in civil service! If you have any questions or want to suggest anything to add to the charter, pipe up!

Current Mayor
AtmanRyu

Former Mayors
Valdronius (1900-1904)
MellowMeek (1905-1909)
JoshWoodzy (1910-1914)
GPFontaine (1915-1919)
UsaSatsui (1920-1924)
Alowishus (1925-1929)
Fernin (1930-1934)
The Year Of Anarchy (1935)
Lavalarva (1936-1940)
@om*d (1941-1945)

Line of Succession
DrewLinky

sidewaydriver wrote:

Considering that I was laughing while reading the list of stuff not to do, I probably won't make for a good mayor.

The idea is not to ruin the game for everyone else. If you still wanna dick around, that's fine, just don't go all Nero on us.

The-Excel wrote:

Are there any higher goals the mayors are reaching for? If someone makes it to maximum population or fills the entire map or whatever, what is the next mayor expected to do?

I'm calling 500,000 people the goal. Someone reaches that, they place the Mario statue and the collab is over. I'll be very surprised if that happens, truth be told.

If people want to keep going past that, then, who am I to stop them?

JoshWoodzy wrote:

Are we gonna be using the default speed? Because that's pretty damn slow.

It doesn't matter what speed you use.

Nobody volunteering to be first so far?

Valdronius wrote:

I can be first if no one else wants to. Would I have to pick the map, or shall we vote on it?

We can pick the map via a vote, but the idea was the starting maps would be sent to me and I'd pick the best one. I like the idea of a vote, though.