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


2) The Office of Domestic Policy

A) The Chief Domestic Officer
- The Chief Domestic Officer is the head of all Domestic Activities and is responsible for the management of all cities and the development of the surrounding terrain.
- The Chief Domestic Officer (CDO) is responsible to post orders for each turn in a timely fashion for the President to follow.
- The CDO is in charge of all the following departments and may run them as he sees fit, including appointing any citizen to run the department in the CDO’s place. Any departmental disagreements will be settled by the CDO. The CDO is responsible to run a “Domestic Office” thread with a summary of the current happenings in all Domestic departments.

B) Department of Industry
- Run by the Chief Domestic Officer or an appointee of the CDO.
- Responsible for choosing each build for every city (both buildings and units)
- Responsible to choose which tile each citizen will work
- Responsible to choose which citizens (if any) will be relieved of work duty and be made a specialist. (Actual role of the specialist will be determined by the Department of Great People)
- Responsible to make any decisions regarding “pop-rushing” if avalible
- May petition the Department of the Budget for funds to cash rush
- May petition the Department of the Interior for a forest-chop rush
- Responsible to maintain the “Department of Industry” thread.

C) Department of the Interior
- Run by the Chief Domestic Officer or an appointee of the CDO.
- Responsible for each worker and work boats from the moment they are built
- Responsible to choose which tile each worker will improve, and what improvement they will build, and in what order the improvements will be built.
- Responsible for any “forest-chop” rushing
- Responsible to maintain the “Department of the Interior” thread.

D) Department of Great People
- Run by the Chief Domestic Officer or an appointee of the CDO.
- Responsible for each specialist that has been freed from tile-working duty by the Department of Industry.
- Responsible to choose what role each specialist will fill (scientist, engineer, etc)
- Responsible for any Great People that are produced in any city.
- Responsible to maintain the “Department of Great People” thread.

E) Department of Economy
- Run by the Chief Domestic Officer or an appointee of the CDO.
- Responsible for setting the Economy(tax), Science, and Culture sliders.
- Responsible to choose what to research.
- Before the sliders can be adjusted to produce a negative gold return, the Department of the Budget must approve.
- Responsible to maintain the “Department of the Economy” thread.


Good Luck to all the candidates going for the Chief Domestic Officer :goodjob:

I nominate Memphus for this position.

I'll nominate Kylearan to this position also!

Kylearan has had great input, has lots of great experiance in Civ4, and so far has been unable to avoid "just lurking"! ;)

I think he'd make a wonderful (and Intimidating) President for our Team.

I nominate Memphus for this position.

I Accept this nomination :hammer:

As Chief Domestic Officer, I will be committed to getting Epsilon Team off on the right :move:. The opening turns [civ4] are extremely crucial to the developement of Epsilonia! By encouraging friendly discussion, I will make sure that our opening 20 Turns will be Strong, and set us up for whatever path we choose, whether it be :evil: war or :religion: peace

I intend to appoint a 2 team members to the Department of Industry and Department of Economy, to allow for specialized focus on critical early game strategies thus allowing a :traderoute: triangle :traderoute: of :hammers: POWER :hammers: in the The Office of Domestic Policy!

It would be a pleasure to serve the team as Chief Domestic Officer
and I look forward to being a part of this wonderful team!

Edited for a non working smilies :foot: != :move: and :civ: != [civ4] oops :crazyeye:

Memphus, what will you be looking for in your appointed players?

Memphus, what will you be looking for in your appointed players?

A Different perspective from my own.
I am very proficient in fast domination (See GOTM3 here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=3739248&postcount=112)) and have stong :strength: strategies for an opening game. So in the appointed players I would look for
Specifically:
one player: well versed in mulitplayer, and the cautious aspect of the game
I.E. To argue the dangers of opening building a worker and not a warrior (early rush :sad:)
Other Player: To possibly even never have played [civ4], or very little experience with it and can cast an opinion on which way to go wieghing the alternatives evenly. Hence the :traderoute: triangle :traderoute: of :hammers: Power :hammers:
I.E. The deciding vote on opening building a worker and not a warrior, because this is one of our large discussions for the first 20 turns.

So Ideally there will be two major discussion in The Office of Domestic Policy for the opening of the game:
1.Which unit to build first
2. Which tech to reasearch first

After that point, more of the game will be revealed and can be more read and react. However prior to this, we will have to base our descision on team members previous experience with what works.

Hi,

I'll nominate Kylearan to this position also!
Thanks, I feel honoured - but I have to decline for now. It's bad enough I couldn't resist the temptation to delurk already, but I'd like not to get involved more than this for the time being. ;)

I'd like to be more of an active advisor instead, to serve as a counsellor to the different departments. (Yeah I know, "councellor" isn't really a role appearing anywhere in the constitution... :crazyeye: )

I'd simply cannot guarantee to be able to devote a constant amount of time to the MTDG to assume a more official role for now, and being in a different time zone than most of you doesn't really help either.

-Kylearan

I wouldn't worry about the time zone thing ... Epsilon spans the globe.

But surely not just a 'counsellor' but may I suggest an Uber-Counsellor :salute: ... I look forward to our discussion threads, I'm sure they will be very informative ... machts gut, zum vohlzeit und prost :beer:

I wonder if Kylearan would accept the post of Devil's Advocate, which would seem to be a sort of ombudsman, always looking at the other side of the question...?

I wonder if Kylearan would accept the post of Devil's Advocate, which would seem to be a sort of ombudsman, always looking at the other side of the question...?

Does this mean you're planning on voting for me? ;)

Seriously, I think he'd be great for the position. If I'm voted in, I'll contact him right away. :)

Hi,

I wonder if Kylearan would accept the post of Devil's Advocate
:lol: I like that one. :cool:

Something like this is what I had in mind for me to contribute to our team: To outline what options we have in a given situation, and what the possible consequences of these options would be, both positive and negative, taking all I know about Civ 4's game mechanics into account. I hope I will thus be able to make the final decision easier of what choice will be best for our strategy. I see myself more to be a scientist than a politician... ;)

-Kylearan

: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 !!

Nomination Period Closed ...

Term 1 ... Head of the Office of Domestic Policy is Memphus :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 Domestic Policy in this thread.

Memphus is doing a bang-up job... I'm already learning a lot.

I heartily nominate him for a second term.

[party]

Well in that case I Accept,

This next term is really going to set the tone for the game.

And I mean who can complain about discovering 4 Technologies in 20 turns :eek:

(including Writing and Animal Husbandry ;) )

Wow the epartment of Economy is on fire...thanks to some huts :goodjob:

Indeed! Great Job, Memphus :)

The nomination period is now closed.

Due to lack of competition, the Head of the Office of Domestic Policy for Term 2 is Memphus.

:evil: I will do my best to keep our research rate up :rolleyes: ...Come on HUT

Yeah, Defense is kicking your butt in research. ;)

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 Domestic Policy in this thread.

I'll do the obvious and re-nominate Memphus!

I'm sure most of you will agree with me that he has done an outstanding job - and deserves a lot of credit for our dominance thus far. :goodjob:

I second the nomination. He's earned it. :)

All the way from the Candian rockies I humbly accept.

This Set of turns will see the Glorious Epsilonians complete the world's first Library :clap:

Not only that but we will venture out to the south and set up a second settlement

Furthermore by the end of the next term you will see our diligent team of scientist found one of the worlds Religions as well as almost complete a wonder known as the Oracle :)

Are you as excited as I am to meet our southern neighbour?

The nomination period is now closed.

Due to lack of competition, the Head of the Office of Domestic Policy for Term 3 is Memphus.

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 Domestic Policy in this thread.

I nominate Lost_Civ to take up the challenge :)

Thank you very much for the nomination, but I decline, I'm going to be starting a (probably very busy) school year and I need to remove distractions, not add to them. ;) For this term at least, I will only made comments, not deliver forth the will of Epsilon.

Due to that I nominate Kentharu.

Kentharu, do you accept or decline the nomination?

Are there any other nominations?

If no one accepts a nomination by the beginning of the term, the President will be allowed to appoint someone to fill the role.

Searching for Kentharu's last post, it seems that the last time he was active was in June, so it looks like we will have to find someone else.

If there really is no one else willing to step up I will be Domestic Minister, but I don't think that I will be able to give my full capabilites to that role that otherwise would be.

Dave You have enough time for this position?

Could I sign up as governor of Epsilon Eridani?

Now that would be an interesting idea.

@Lost_Civ would you be ok with being the governer of Eternal Eye while Dave being the Governer of Epsilon Eridani?

Personally I think this is a great solution

Items such as Tech path can be discussed between the two of you and in the area of a dispute I could resolve (or it could go to vote)

Co ministers then.

That would be fine.

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 Domestic Policy in this thread.

Dave you interested in taking over the department full time? :)

I guess I can take it...

But I'd really like to get a science advisor and city governors to help me out. It's no fun running everything by myself.

The nomination period is now closed.

Due to lack of competition, the Head of the Office of Domestic Policy for Term 5 is DaveMcW.

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 Domestic Policy in this thread.

Give me a D
Give me a A

.... I think we know where it is going from Here!

I nominate DaveMcW!

I nominate M@ni@c.

Do either of the candidates accept the nomination?

I guess I can volunteer for another term.

I guess I can volunteer for another term.

Alright alright :dance:

We are now on turn 15 16 of the current term. (so close! I was trying to time it right.)

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

Please post your nominations for the Head of the Office of Domestic Policy in this thread.

I guess I can volunteer for another term.


Awsome! Becuase I know the next 20 turns are going to really settle the Empire Domestically!

:lol: ... it appears Dave has "volunteered" for another term :mischief:

and I'll second that... :D

I'm glad he's so eager. I don't know what we'd do with out him. :D

DaveMcW, I hope you wanted to do another term, because there's nothing else you can do. :p

May the slaves cry out for mercy after you switch their working tiles for 60 straight turns, the scientists lose their voice crying for more funding then "perfectly enough", and the citizens life in perfect luxury, ready to give all they own for the glory of The Leader.

You are now the head of the Domestic Department for the entirety of Term 7. :)

We are now on turn 19(!) of the current term.

Nominations for the next elections (to take place during turns 20-21) are now open.

The next term will start on turn 142 and last until 160.

Please post your nominations for the Head of the Office of Domestic Policy in this thread.

I guess I can volunteer for another term.

Hooray! Thanks Dave!
I second your "nomination"

[party] :mischief:

I nominate everybody on our team with a pulse.

:lol:

I decline the nomination. ;)

Decline :)

Decline...seeing as I can't hold two offices ;)

Ditto.
I decline :)

I'm hoping this is just humor on the part of our glorious Domestic Minister... you're not actually looking for a break are you?

Does that include himself in the nominations?

Decline, no time.

Does that include himself in the nominations?

I Believe it does if everyone else with a "puls" declines ;)

And according to my Calculations you Classic_hero are the only "pulse" memeber (which I have roughly defined as someone who has posted in the last weekish) who has yet to decline ;)

So Dave? :) I know the team wouldn't be the same without your domestic input as that is what really makes or breaks the team.

I will wait for Dave, before responding.

Dave, what's your verdict? Are you accepting the nomination?

If Dave does not nominate, then I will take it by default. The two greatest words in the English language. ;)

The sooner this can be settled the better as there are very big empire descision over the next 2 turns.

I.E. do we start to focus on Libraries / Universities so that our capital can build Oxford?

You mean after the Theatres complete, right?

You mean after the Theatres complete, right?

theater is already done in Capital and Now Immortal Kepp.

will be done in Port of Mists in 2 Turns
will be done in EE in 7 turns (but then EE is building Globe)
will be done in Mighty B in X turns (havn't figured out yet with the whip)

So The questions is does Immortal Keep go back to more maceman or does it prioritize a University?

Oxford is a great thing to have, so it would be good for us to get the libs and unis required for Oxford. Obviously it would be best to get them in the best commerce cities so that we can use the extra science output greater.

I think Dave's time has to be up. We need to move on as the game is moving on.

The Head of the Office of Domestic Policy for Term 8 will be classical_hero due to lack of competition.

I'm beginning to miss giving orders. :D

So I'll sign up for Term 9.

I second :goodjob: :salute:

He is a much better person for the job.

I must say, I'm glad to see Dave's hat back in the ring. He's a master.

But you did a fine job while Dave took a break Classical! Thanks. :hatsoff:

DaveMcW will be The Dometic Minister for Term 9 :clap: