There has been several concerns regarding elections being "rigged"
insofar as there have been accusations of inactive or rarely active
players suddenly logging in to vote. We have been wrestling with the
best way to handle this issues, and have decided to have votes weighted
according to the activity level of the voter.

What this means is that your vote is weighted based on how often and how
long you are log in over time. Thus, the votes of players who are active
have a greater weight than those who are not. The vote weight ranges
from 1 to 10 (you may see the weight of your vote on STATUS). We have
run a lot of analysis to determine the best way to weight votes. As it
is, over 60% of active players will have their votes weighted in the
range of 5-10. Over 75% of active players will have their votes in the
range of 4-10.

We feel this is a fair and elegant solution as it certainly makes sense
to have those players most active and engaged in Lusternia to have the
greatest voice in elections. This is in effect immediately and we will
be monitoring elections to see how the voting weight plays out.


Penned by My hand on the 5th of Roarkian, in the year 194 CE.