No it's ot a Rhysus bashing post.. I tried asking this to citymates but no one really knew.

What is the Job of the city leader(s)?

I want something serious not the replies I got like.
"Daevos interrups meaningful conversations."
or "Rhysus tries to sell his wares and talk like he has a god complex"


Yes those were real replies.

Well, they have to present themselves to the world for their city or commune. If a leader says something regarding philosophies, someone's going to assume that that's the way the majority of the city or commune feels, and therefore it's what the city or commune stands for, whether or not this happens to be true.

I can imagine they have a lot of people coming to them for things, too... and seeing as how they likely have to oversee all the ministries and communicate with the other communes and cities, it seems like the job of leaders is to get a headache, more than anything.

Heh, it's not that hard describing one's duties.. though I had to limit myself to an hour when explaining my own to a guildmate.

The job of a city leader in point: Constant oversight of the city's interests.

If you mean specific duties.. it depends on how much the person cares about their job. The more the person cares, the more the person does. Simple.

Edit: Editted for lack of taste. *inno*

Rhysus has the very difficult task of listening to Celest's City Aether, and hoping some gem of intelligence will shine through.

Most likely, it can be compared to staring at an icewall in hopes it will one day learn to talk.

Thanks for sharing

Someone sneak inside of his manse.

Thanks for a more real answer.

The rest of you, I hate you guys.

In all seriousness:

Rhysus' job is to keep the 'City leader' position filled so that someone stupid doesn't get in it.

The Serenwilde Leader's job (All of them) is to piss off every other organization and start lots of wars. Nikua excelled at this, and from the looks of things Nejii will too.

Daevos' job is to make sure Magnagora remains the only organization of the game that, at the very least, isn't blatant in its idiocy.

Nayl's job is to sell commune credits.

no, wait

Daevos looks scary and makes things go squish, then bitchslaps us when we do the wrong thing and then gently points out the way to do it, then telling us that the sword goes in the face if we do it wrong again.

Rhysus does nothing except whine and bitch because people are stupid. Also, he carries something that makes me wait for him to get online.

Nejii licks his testicles. Like any good dog. Then tries to dryhump random male and female members of the commune. Give the puppy a cookie. Jump! Good dog!

Nayl jumps into influencing. I'm fairly sure that's it for all of them, really. Oh, and Nayl is usually stoned.

Boy, of all the people to say that about, you picked Nejii. That's not even lame in a good self-deprecating way, that's lame in a lame way.

My non-serious answer was, Rhysus' job is to take credit for anything good that happens near him. Making fun of Galvadore for doing the same exact thing isn't a job, more of a hobby.

My serious answer is, the main responsibility of a leader is to be held accountable for the actions of those who he leads. Therefore, the main duty of a leader is to put whatever measures are necessary in place to ensure that those actions are justifiable, both internally and externally. Note that nothing in this answer refers to what's best for the city/commune/guild/whatever, because that, when it's present, flows not from the leader's duty but from his dedication. The duties and authority are just means to that end.

More specifically, the way I see it is this. A GM's job comes in two parts: first, to give the guild direction and purpose and oversee development of its "flavor" (i.e., its roleplay); second, to be the guild's representative to the rest of the city or commune. A GA's job is to actually carry out the GM's vision by handling day-to-day affairs in such a way as to support it.

The job of the council of GMs in a nation is to make most of the long-term decisions, set policy, set overall goals, etc. The job of the seneschal, prince, etc. is to make more short-term and immediate decisions, things that require decisive action, to be the "executive officer" of the nation whose job is to carry out the policies previously mentioned. And as often happens, the executive officer often gathers more authority and power than was originally intended simply because he's a very visible point-man. This happens even faster in Lusternia than in our world because "foreign policy" consumes so much more of a Lusternian leader's time because of how the structure of Lusternia means all nations are essentially in a permanent state of war or nearly-war with all other nations, and foreign policy tends to devolve to the point-man.

So in practice, while the nation leader should be more of an executive officer, who breaks deadlocks within the council and then carries out the council's larger-scale decisions on the scale of everyday activity, in practice he ends up being the one who makes the decisions, leaving the council to do little other than rubberstamp those decisions, or object to them as a representative of a guild.

It's Nejii's job to piss off the Laysus by making bad decisions

And since you started, it's Laysus' job to have a hissy fit over TMC's (perfectly justified) decisions because he thought I came up with it (N.B, I didn't) and it would make him more popular.

Actually, no

My reasoning isn't that shallow, thanks.

So I've been on vacation for a week or so now (Thank God, I needed it), and I'll be gone a few days more, but I thought I'd pop in to let you all know I'm stepping down as city leader so I can finish my textbook.