Aye on @AaronD 's word!
The concept of a mayor class has been brought up in the community quite often, mainly for taxes and organizing the Hearthlings, the problem is not only that the Mayor has no real role, the problem is that such mechanics are not creatad by making a class, a action cannot be sprouted from a entitiy, in other words, you cannot make a Hearthling do the job, the game does, and the only purpose the Hearthling stands to do is represent the system, and it does nothing to actually carry the role
Though with all respect, it seems like the players that suggest the Mayor class don’t have a lot of understanding on how a game works, not to say that i’m an expert, but the Hearthlings are not poeple in a common sense, a system drives them, they do not drive the system, it’s not as simple as making a role called ‘organize task as commanded’ it means making a system/tech, that supports such actions by the player, and so a Class for such a function is unnecessary and meaningless, since the class does nothing to Make the system, because you cannot make the Hearthling do the Thinking, they do not think, because it simple to think of a task being dealt by the hearthling, — How do you organize task priorities? Well, make a Hearthling do it —,is easier said than done, and again, does nothing
In my opinion, such a system should be a ability of the player that is always available, taking taxes if we ever will, can be done by just adding some coin to the inventory, a mascot only needs to be a picture the player choses if we ever need one, and even that’s assuming our role is a mayor or king of some sorts, instead of a God
Not to say that such a class is totally meanigless though, sinse it can bring some cute esthetics, for example, you could have a bulletin board, and the mayor goes an posts the priority/to-do list and all Hearthlings that are looking to do something will walk up to the board and look up(well, act as thay are looking up) the list and go to do work, it’s a cute concept and surely one that may work, but at the same time, we still don’t need a dedicated class, any hearthling can write on a pice of paper, and you, the player seems to have godly powers of ordering, you still don’t really need a class for the posting, just like how everyone can light the fire-pit, it could be a everyone thing
But please don’t take me wrongly, i do not mean disrespect or insult, i am a critique at most, and i truely value your ideas and suggestions, and i really do look forward for more from you