This will be the thread where nominations for all future elections to head The Office of UN Relations will be discussed.


6) The Office of UN Relations

A) Ambassador to the UN
- Represents the team in all official UN thread discussions or votes
- Responsible to open a team poll for any UN decisions that need to be made, and then faithfully represent the will of the team to the UN.


Good Luck to all the candidates going for Ambassador to the UN :goodjob:

I wish to nominate myself for this job.

I nominate General_W for this position.

Thank you, but I decline this nomination.

Classical Hero has done and will do a wonderful job...
:goodjob:

In that case, I nominate fe3333au, pending his response to my nomination of him for Chief Foreign Minister. (I'd rather have him in that post, but if he declines the nomination, I nominate him for this post).

Ooops ... I feel the :love: ... but on reflection I wanna be the housekeeper :)

Looks like you and me are gonna play alpha male for another position ;) ... and I already got my french maid outfit and ... feather duster :groucho:

Looks like you and me are gonna play alpha male for another position ;) ... and I already got my french maid outfit and ... feather duster :groucho:
I already gave you a spanking in 3rd Crusade, do not make me do it again. On second thoughts, that is just awful. :vomit:

Who would you rather have as your UN rep, someone who dresses up as a French maid, being neither French or a woman, or someone who is doing the job right now and is a proven talent is guiding this team? The choice is pretty simple.
Now here it is put in visuals just so you know how terrifying that thought actually is.
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/3206/158199hx.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

or this?
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/3715/hero4oz.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

:lol: You forgot the beard old chap ... I'm actually going for Provost.

Also just noticed that it does have a tat ... Welldone you cracked me up and caused me to have to explain things to the other that was in the room :salute:

:lol: You forgot the beard old chap ... I'm actually going for Provost.

Also just noticed that it does have a tat ... Welldone you cracked me up and caused me to have to explain things to the other that was in the room :salute:
Your reply made me think that you were gunning for my job. Good luck now, because you need it. ;)

:bump: Opened on the 3rd March 11pm ... so will close 10th March 11.00pm +10 GMT

So we need any other nominations confirmed by then !!

So far only three people have been nominated and only one has accepted and two have declined

Nomination Period Closed ...

Term 1 ... Head of UN Relations is Classical Hero :salute:

We are now on turn 15 of the current term.

Nominations for the next elections (to take place during turns 18-20) are now open.

Please post your nominations for the Head of the Office of UN Relations in this thread.

Fe - you interested in the UN?

Anyway - I'll nominate you to this post! :thumbsup:

Thanks ... I accept :D

Thanks ... I accept :D

Big Job this term !!! :goodjob:

I predict contact with 2 civs over the next 20 turns

How do you plan to Deal with that Fe?

How do you plan to Deal with that Fe?

Provostial statement: I believe this would be a task more for the Foreign Minister. The UN Rep position is more for handling official game mechanical situations. (Posting votes for significant game issues and such).

Yeah good Call... I have no idea What I am doing today... :(

I want the UN Rep to be responsible, in addition to the regular duties, for presenting the other teams with our Press Releases, maybe every 5 turns or so.

Other teams no doubt know that we have had terrific luck with Huts. Let's egg them on a bit, and let them think the worst. There's nothing like an Official Press Release for spreading misinformation ;)

Does the candidate have any thoughts on this?

I wonder if we should modify the constitution to merge the UN Ambassador with the Foreign Minister.

The UN Ambassador does not have much to do, and we seem to have trouble convincing people to pursue the Foreign Ministry position.

The spots deal with very similar issues.

Hi,

I really like the idea about press releases! :goodjob: Psychological warfare is great...although we have to be careful about this; we don't want the others to think we're too far advanced, which could make them decide to form an alliance against us, weakening our initial diplomacy once we've met them...

-Kylearan

I'm not in favour of combining the positions ... and if they are I would have to decline the nomination due to a temporary health issue.

Regarding Press Releases ... I think you will find these counter the rules as we would be having a 'form' of contact with civilizations we have not yet met within the game.

And even if my interpretation is incorrect, and the Press Release is seen as a strange message washed ashore in a bottle of exotic design... I would suggest a rethink as we could inadvertently give away information about ourselves ... without gaining any intel in return.

If you are worried about breaking the rules, just ask an admin to look at the press release first.

There are lots of silly stories we can tell about our civ that will not give away important information. We could lie about some details, but I think it's better to include true but useless details. Example: Our people's favorite food is rice.

In the C3C MTDG ... this type of fun fluff posting happened only after every team had officially met in game.

Makes sense too if you think about it ... at the moment we are the only civilized nation in the known world.

I believe this is a pointless position. I believe that we should combine this with the Provost position.

I agree with you Classical Hero ... but if you follow that reasoning, we may as well abolish the concept of a 'government' all together.

The idea is for including as many willing participants as possible, and the UN Rep is the perfect position for those who don't have the game ... or those who have time constraints.

Therefore I see no reason to delete the position of UN Rep, at least while there is an interest from members to nominate.

The nomination period is now closed.

Due to lack of competition, the Head of the Office of UN Relations for Term 2 is fe3333au.

Thanks ... now lets check out what the order of business is ... hmmm ... nice clean and clear desk left by Classical_Hero ... Here we go ... a note! ... Nothing to Report ... Oh well back to playing Civ3 :D

What do you think about having a recruitment thread in the public forum? It would give us a chance to get people like this, without spamming the sign-up thread.

The prophet of Kebab wishes to know more about the teams otherwise he will apply for the team he knows the most about, currently team epsilon.

I don't know what Fe thinks, but I, for one, think that's an excellent idea. In fact, if the thread is initiated by Epsilon, and most of the posts are by Epsilonians, then we stand a greater chance of recruiting more players than the other teams.

I would lobby this office to start such a thread immediately :)

I agree. This is a very intriguing idea.

The Office of the Humanities offers full support in implementing it.

Discussion on Recruitment ideas Here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=158515&page=3)

We are now on turn 15 of the current term.

Nominations for the next elections (to take place during turns 18-20) are now open.

Please post your nominations for the Head of the Office of UN Relations in this thread.

Wow, I didn't notice that no one had been nominated for this post.

I nominate Fe3333au, if he is interested in serving another term.

The deadline for nominations is hereby extended until further notice.

I'd say that we merge this position with the Provost, considering that noone is interested in this job.

I feel like a complete slacker but, while I would gladly help out, I fear I dont hve the experience to be useful to the team yet. Just mentioning that so people dont think I am just completely lazy.

I second twistlok's self-nomination.

You don't need to make any decisions, just start a discussion thead and announce the results. Checking the forum every day is a plus. :)

This office ensures that Epsilon Team! speaks with one voice in Public. No knowledge of the Game is required. As for experience required, all that's necessary is a cool head and little organizational ability. I'm sure Twistlok can handle it ;)

We are now on turn 15 of the current term.

Nominations for the next elections (to take place during turns 18-20) are now open.

Please post your nominations for the Head of the Office of UN Relations in this thread.

I nominate the President or Foreign Minister to take over this office. It may require a constitutional ammendment to pass, but it makes sense to allow our most active players to cover this important job.

So do we want to amend the constitution to merge this office with another, or is someone interested in taking up the post?

Amend the constitution. I would say that this position be merged with your job, gb.

I second that!

According to the constitution, here is the procedure for amendments:

1) Amending the Constitution
This constitution may be amended in 2 ways
A) Factual/typographical errors: Any citizen may point out and have the Provost correct simple spelling or typo errors.
B) Substantive errors: If something significant needs to be changed, a unanimous vote by the current Officers or a 2/3 vote by the citizens and the constitution will be changed by the Provost to reflect the changes.

So, we need to write an amendment and I'll hold a vote. Any takers to write the amendment?

This office has been closed due to this amendment (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=185398) to our constitution.

General_W, since you posted the constitution, could you change it to reflect the amendment?

oh yeah - will get right on that!
Sorry! :blush: