Mayor Guide

## Introduction

Imperia is a unique server in which members have many towns to pick and choose from.

As a mayor, it is your responsibility to encourage those members to become residents of your town, and to prove to them that you are different than others. You must ensure that your bank is sufficiently filled, you have open plots, good buildings, and a friendly, engaging community. This is no easy task, especially for people who are not well-versed in terms of construction, roleplay, or friendliness.

This guide is intended to help guide those who feel lost or do not understand how to properly raise a town.

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## Creating a Town

As a mayor, it is important that you have people working for you in the time while you may be away. It is encouraged that you make your first few residents the most important ones in your town, promoting them to higher-level positions in order to not only encourage their engagement and keep them inside the town, but to also have them recruit their friends or other people looking for towns.

You should always keep a watchful eye on your town's bank, as if it falls below the debt limit it will fall into a ruined state where your hard work can be destroyed and plundered. Your town's upkeep will be dependent upon how large your town is, and your nation may occasionally increase their tax on towns.

Be careful of who you trust with important ranks, as ranks such as co-mayor have all the same permissions you do without the ability to delete the town. While it is important to secure important people, especially in the earlier stages, do not be afraid to demote someone or kick someone from your town. Choose carefully.

## Gaining Citizens

The main idea of creating a town is to show off your capabilities as a builder, leader, roleplayer, and more. To gain citizens, this is what you need to do.

You should begin by recruiting any friends you have to your town, and seeing if they will help you. This will provide a solid foundation for you and your town. Employ these people to help recruit for you while you are away, or to help construct buildings. If you do not have anyone you can immediately recruit, then it is important to get to work and try to persuade people into joining. Be friendly and nice, and offer invites in the chat (Do not spam invites!) to people who may be looking for a town.

A key aspect of recruiting citizens is also their impression of not just you, but your town itself. You can increase the chances of someone joining by having impressive builds, having a large community, or by being wealthy enough to lure people. In the beginning stages, the most feasible way to increase your citizen counts is to pre-build buildings and give them to your citizens for free. While it seems very unfair for you to put in hard work just to give it away, it is important to keep in mind that you are being rewarded with an additional citizen.

## Town Management

After a certain threshold, you will realize that you are past the difficult stages of recruiting people to your town, and this is when you should begin planning the future of your town. Draw mockups of how you want your town's layout to look, and create buildings in a creative world to see how it might all look. You can import schematics of these buildings into the server using a mod such as Litematica. By employing some of your citizens as builders, you can create more buildings faster and with ease, all feeding back into the cycle of gaining citizens and increasing your wealth.

You should also consider creating hubs for marketplaces in your town, especially if your town is a nation capital. Shops are a great way to not only encourage engagement amongst your citizens, but to also increase your wealth by taxing the shop plots, or selling them for a set amount.

## Citizen Engagement

A large town is impressive, but it matters more if it is active or not. Nobody will join a town that might have one player online every other week. As a mayor, it is important that you keep your citizens engaged and online whenever possible. While the server attempts to aid this by creating jobs for citizens and makes building projects more viable, it is ultimately up to you to keep your citizens engaged.

You are recommended to give your active citizens ranks dependent on their abilities. If they are friendly, appoint them as a recruiter or assistant. If they are good at building, then appoint them as a builder. You may also let citizens build in your town, however, this is generally discouraged as you will need to make sure that your citizens are building good-looking buildings and do fit the server's requirements for era buildings.

Another great way to keep citizens engaged is through government and roleplay. Create a discord for your town and make positions in government. You could choose to make some of those positions elected to make people be online to vote and whatnot. If you are in a nation, utilize their government to try and encourage your citizens to join the nation's discord and get them involved more.