Clearly this bug should be used as the basis of a story fort. Bring a fort up to the population needed to get a mayor, then when each mayor is elected, give him pumping duty somewhere that he'll never see another dwarf face, so someone else gets elected, and repeat until you have several mayors.
Then bring them all together into one small burrow and kill off the remaining population. Five mayors struggling to fulfill one another's mandate.
Make sure that they get assigned to various noble positions before killing them off, because of that other noble bug.
Clearly this bug should be used as the basis of a story fort. Bring a fort up to the population needed to get a mayor, then when each mayor is elected, give him pumping duty somewhere that he'll never see another dwarf face, so someone else gets elected, and repeat until you have several mayors.
Then bring them all together into one small burrow and kill off the remaining population. Five mayors struggling to fulfill one another's mandate.
Make sure that they get assigned to various noble positions before killing them off, because of that other noble bug.
I can confirm this.Well that's one way to get rid of the competition.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
This can only end badly.
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One of my two mayors (the one not listed in the nobles screen) was killed in a unfortunate plumbing incident. Minutes later a dwarven caravan arrived, and immediately the diplomat of that caravan left unhappy. Now my nobles screen lists no mayor at all. I can only guess if there will be a new election, and what happens after that.no.
no.I'm happy to report that I got a new mayor elected (in addition to the old "leftover" mayor). It seems she handles all the functions of a regular mayor and is listed on the nobles screen.
If your first one dies early, you won't get a new one as far as I know.
Someone, somewhere must hate me like so much :( when my first mayor died, i was mayor-less for the rest of the game.no.I'm happy to report that I got a new mayor elected (in addition to the old "leftover" mayor). It seems she handles all the functions of a regular mayor and is listed on the nobles screen.
If your first one dies early, you won't get a new one as far as I know.
I wonder if this bug can be caused by changing which noble positions you have that are shared with the expedition leader/mayor? That is, my first expedition leader was also my trader. But he decided to sleep, eat, and drink and go on break during a time I needed a trader. Since I had a backup appaiser, I swapped in the backup. Sometime after that, I got the notice "such and such has become expidention leader", even though my original was still listed. After that, the swapping expedition leader notices, and then the multiple mayors.
So, I'm looking at the units screen and I happen to notice I've got more then one mayor - 4 in fact!
Worse, all 4 of them seem to be making mandates, and assigning punishments when I don't fill them!
And even more frustratingly, the nobles screen only lists one mayor, so I can't even see what the other ones want made :(
It looks like every time the dwarves elect a new mayor, the old one is trying to keep the office. Soon everyone will be mayor!