Mayors of cities, captains of airports
Yesterday cities and airports started counting visits: three minutes inside a city, or two minutes low over an airfield, and the place goes into your record, once per UTC day. Come back on other days and the place climbs tiers, from I at one day to V at thirty.
Starting today those tiers also decide who runs the place. Every city has a mayor and every airport has a captain: the pilot with the highest visit tier there.
How a seat is decided
- You need at least tier II, three different days. A single visit is not enough to claim a city, and until someone has three days the place has no holder. The page says so and tells you how many days it takes.
- Highest tier wins. Five days at Hamburg beat three days.
- Equal tiers II to IV: the seat stays with whoever reached that tier first. Piling up more days inside the same tier does not take it from them; reaching the next tier does.
- Tier V has nothing above it, so there the pilot with more days holds the seat, and on equal days whoever got there first.
- If two pilots are tied to the same moment, the sitting holder keeps it.
Only city visits count for mayors and only airport visits count for captains. Older history, like the visit feed, plays no part, so everyone started from zero on October 16. We checked before deciding: counting the older feed would have handed Hamburg and London to one pilot on day one.
Losing a seat
This is the first title in Skydex that you can lose. When someone overtakes you, you get a bell saying who it was and how their days compare to yours. The new holder gets a bell too. The check runs right after every recorded visit and once an hour, so a change shows up within a minute of the visit that caused it.
Privacy
If you switched off showing your airports and cities on your profile, you can't hold a seat. Your days are left out and the next pilot takes the place. Guests don't take part until they sign in and claim their visits. Pages show the handle, tier, day count and the date the seat was taken, never a time.
Where you see it
- City pages show the current mayor under the city's facts.
- Airport pages show the captain in the visits section.
- Your profile lists the seats you hold, and the summary at the top mentions them.
- On the map, a city's card names its mayor.
- In flight, your name plate gets a gold line while you fly over a place you hold, so other pilots can see whose city they are in.
- The mayors page lists every seat that is held right now: one tab for cities, one for airports, with a search box for a place or a pilot. Each row shows the holder, the tier, the days and the date they took it.
The title
A seat unlocks the title Mayor or Airport Captain for your name plate. You choose it like any other title, and you can take it off. It stays available as long as you hold at least one seat of that kind; lose your last city and the Mayor title goes with it.
There is no other reward. Paying tridents for a seat would mostly reward flying circles over empty towns, and the point is the opposite: go back to the places you like.
Start with the cities you already fly over or the busiest airports, read how city visits work, or check who holds which seat.