Can we slow the elections down somehow?

Whenever I go on the forum there's like five or so elections happening.

This is unnecessary noise, but also detracts from the value of actually being voted in. At this point in time I wouldn't care if I was emperor, because I'd have to win 1-2 elections every day just to keep the title, and it would have been given with little thought.

I don't know what the emperor or any of the other positions actually do, but they don't seem meaningful. Is the emperor dead if he loses a battle? Do they even need to battle? Do they get a fancy commander with gold trestles? I'd like to see some emperor regicide. Perhaps instead of spamming votes, we could have merit based ascendancy whereby someone that fights a lot of planet-wars gets priority?

ATM it just seems like a perpetual popularity competition.

Normal way of things is to have emperor = person who had highest score in last planetwars.
But because those were loong time ago, we have to have elections.

quote: Is the emperor dead if he loses a battle?

"Loses a battle"?

Fool, even when empire fails, it still wins.

How can imperial commander not know one of most important imperial dogmats?

ok, what kind of monarchy is it we are talking about? because if you take some old models, only the nobility can elect emperors. And nobles are nobles by blood, they are not elected....