Governors are now chosen by cities, not by days
Last week we added governors: one pilot per region, shown on the region page, on /mayors and on the profile. The rule behind it was the same as for mayors and captains. Every UTC day with a counted visit somewhere in the region added one day, and the highest tier won.
That rule produced governors who had seen one place. A pilot who visited a single city three days in a row became the governor of the whole region. So did a pilot who circled one airport. In a few regions the governor had never flown over a second town there at all, which is a strange thing to call "governor".
So the rule for regions changes today. Cities and airports keep theirs.
The new rule. The governor of a region is the pilot who has a counted visit in the most different cities of that region. You need at least two. Airports don't count for this, only cities (three minutes inside a city, the same visit that counts for mayors). If two pilots have visited the same number of cities, the one with more days in the region wins, where a day is a UTC day with a city visit there. If that is a tie too, the pilot who got there first keeps it, and an exact tie keeps the sitting governor.
What you will see. The "Race for the seat" block on a region page now counts cities. Each challenger row shows how many cities and days they have, and the line under it says how many more cities you need to take the seat. Your own line on the region page says the same. On /mayors the governors tab explains the new rule in its FAQ.
What happens to current governors. The seats are recounted after the deploy. Anyone who held a region with one city or with only an airport loses it, and the region shows "no governor yet" until someone has visited two of its cities. If you lose a seat this way you get the usual bell line. If nobody qualifies, the seat stays empty rather than going to a one-city pilot.
How to become one. Pick a region you already fly in, open its page and look at the list of cities pilots have visited. Fly three minutes over a second city there. Any city visit counts, including towns and villages, so you don't need to fly to the capital.
Mayors and airport captains don't change: they are still about coming back to the same place on different days.