As noted elsewhere (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=698575#post698575), I'll be leaving most of my positions. Actually, I'll be leaving all of my positions except for running the Bank of Valhalla. To try to minimize the vacuum damage caused by my departure from those positions I will do whatever I can to bring replacements up to speed.

If you are interested in filling any of my official positions, reply in this thread. If you are interested in filling any of my private positions, post in the thread for the individual company. All of the official positions and some of the most important private ones are:

Official Positions being Vacated
Price Manager
Character Stats Manager
Land Office Manager
Land Office Surveyor (all provinces except Rhineland)
Conflicts Assistant

Commercial Positions being Vacated
CEO of Shaicorp
CEO of Acroama
Headmaster of The Academy

Please give me the details for taking over for Shaicorp and Acroama. I don't have shares for Acroama so that may make me inelligible for that position. (just noticed...I will post in those threads)

Also, I will consider some surveyor positions to try to plug up the huge vortex that has just been opened up in the land office.

Good luck in your personal endeavors, Shaitan. I know you will do well. :)

I would like to be to CEO af Shaicorp and Acroama. I have shares in both companies....

I would like to be of the lands, but I don't think I have time or knowledge for the land ones...

But if I'm taught or something, I might be able to. And if I do, I would like MAG, NP, or anything I can get.

Ill take price manager. Ive been eyeing that one for a while.
If no one else will step in, Id do part of General manager for Land Office

The Price Manager's position has always fascinated me, along with Acroama.

I can't say I have experience with Price Managing, but I am the fromer Equrias CEO, and currect CEO of the DFZ.

Make me CEO of Shaicorp! Then I can become massively corrupt and destroy it slowly from the inside by buying billion dollar mansions and lying on the financial reports :evil:

An election poll has been posted for the Price Manager (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41290) position.

The CEO of Shaicorp is a high responsibility position. Duties include:
Each term - distribute dividends to all stockholders of Shaicorp subsidiary companies.
Each term - distribute dividends to all stockholders of Shaicorp.
Default CEO for all Shaicorp subsidiaries that do not have their own management.
Votes Shaicorp shares for board meetings in all Shaicorp subsidiaries.
The Shaicorp CEO is paid each term when distributing Shaicorp dividends and receives 20% of the gross earnings as his/her compensation.

People interested in this position should post in the Shaicorp thread.

I'm kidding by the way. I don't really want to be CEO: I'm content to be a wanderer for while... And after that last statement I made, I don't think I'd have a snowball's chance of being CEO anyway ;)

I'll take up the Price Manager Poistion.... I've been wanting to get back into the RPG managing system for awhile now.

I might be interested in land too. If I could get an asistant manager which did some of the tasks for me, id help. I could do all updates, some maps and perhaps the lottery. Mabey not the last part, id most likely deligate that to my deputy. But put me in the running for land.

Whoops just read thing saying to post in otehr thread

Stuck: if we shared responsibilities i'd be assistand for you with the land thing.

And if the pay is good.

The election for Price Manager has been posted here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41702).

@SKILORD: Land pay is amazing. 25% of sales from tile availabilities is distributed to the Land Office employees.

@SAAM: Will you take the Land Office Manager position? The pay for this position is 12.5% of all sales through the availabilities. You can assigne any portion of this salary to hire your own assistant.

is there any point in me taking over conflicts assistant as that is what im there for anyway

@BCLG100 - Sure, if you feel you can contribute. Contact Octavian X.

and SAaM, i have already offered my assistant help.

Please consider me in the running for Land Office Manager. I will also consider Surveyor positions and have previous experience in that field.

Lets see...
The land office is way too big for one person alone (Im surprised Shai didnt have more assistants)
Youve got several principle parts:
The person who creates the availabilty
The person who takes the orders
The person who does the availability
The person who updates the record
Cartographers (9, as of now, and Im one)
14 Positions (9 of which are are map makers)

The orders and availability could be one thing, so thats 3.
3 of us, three jobs. Divide the 25% up 3 ways (why only 25? wheres the other 75?)
I feel this is a fair gig. Who wants what, though?
Also- 8 cartographers are needed! (CT, Oct, 40,- looking in your direction)

I can update the record, and maybe, if it were explained sufficiently to me, do the availability stuff.

There seems to be a lot of interest in breaking up the responsibilities of the Land Office Manager. This is fine with me - the job is very intense as it stands. The simplest division of responsibilities is for one person to do maintenance and another to handle the availabilities. The Land Office positions will now be as follows:

Office Manager: 1 position. Responsible for maintaining the Land Office thread. Updates links to point to new maps uploaded from the Surveyors. Maintains the Land Record and periodically uploads a new file of the Record. Maintains a list of tile ownership changes, adding to it as tiles are traded/purchased through private transactions or availabilities, removing entries as they are incorporated in map updates. Updates an availability list when instructed by the Availability Manager. Handles all financial aspects of the office including land income (per chat), payment of Land Office personnel (per availability), billing for availability purchases (per availability) and distributing land returns (per availability). Salary is 8% of sales from availabilities.

Availability Manager: 1 position. Monitors maps for new territories available. Prepares availability list and sends to Office Manager when an availability is to be started. Handles all aspects of the availability including recording purchase preference lists, determining tile distribution, and posting results. Salary is 5% of sales from availabilities.

Surveyors: 1 for each province. Responsible for updating the map of their province according to tile transaction record posted by the Office Manager and border expansion from the save games. A single person may be the surveyor of more than one province. Salary is a pool of 12% of sales from availabilities distributed to all surveyors as follows: if the province has no tiles in the availability the surveyor earns one share of the pool; if the province has tiles in the availability the surveyor earns five shares of the pool. (This will ensure that the provinces with more work being done in them earn more of the pool but also that provinces where people are just swapping/selling tiles will still earn some money.)

So if you are interested in one or more positions as they are now defined, please post.

I would like to be considered for Office Manager and Availability Manager.

Anybody else? If you've previously expressed interest in the general Office position, please post again stating which of the new positions you are now interested in.

Office manager here too.

Office and availibility. and if you dont mind maps up one every 2 TCs and dot matrix's, ill take on another province

Okay, so there are officially three candidates. Donovan and SAAM for Office Manager and Availability Manager, SKILORD for Office Manager. All are good candidates so I'm going to let the randomizer choose here...(wouldn't it be great if all difficult decisions could be tossed to the mercy of a pseudo-random number generator?)

And the winners are:
Office Manager: Donovan Zoi
Availability Manager: Stuck_As_a_Mac

Donovan, start up a new thread for the Land Office so you can edit the first posts. I'll upload the current Excel file.

SAAM, you'll want to grab the file too as it has a page for each of the availabilities that I handled, so you can see how I've been doing it.

Surveyors are needed. Please apply to Donovan Zoi from this point forward.

This marks the end of my official involvement in the Land Office. I'll still be around periodically and will of course help the new officers to get comfortable with their positions.

Congratulations Donovan and SAAM. :goodjob:

THE FILE (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/FanatikaLands20Jan03.zip)

I thank you, former prince Shaitan. I must ask, though. Could the surveyers of each province, after they are done making maps, please create lists of any and all new tiles (i know we captured one or two cities and I assume that the former tile owners recieve back their tiles from captured and now liberated cities)

um... nothings in the file...

What the heck?! I just verified it on my computer and the zip file has the Excel file in it. This is wierd. I will upload again...

THE FILE, attempt #2 (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/LandOffice20Jan03.zip)

EDIT: Same thing! Last try...

THE FILE, attempt #3 (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/land20jan.zip)

Okay, there's something very wrong. The compressed files are being stripped out. SAAM and Donovan, PM me an email address and I'll send it to you that way.

Also - the surveyors should be marking unclaimed territory that's within Fanatikan borders with yellow highlight/border/dot/whatever so it is easily seen.

Sounds good, Shai.....

Thanks for this opportunity. I will get the new thread going early this week.

@SaaM - I will pretty much get all of that in order. Also, please let me know if you are interested in another surveyor position. I will probably doing most of the maps for the time being.