Exactly. Although there is a lot more power vested in our leader this time around, I'm used to the leader being more of an organizer. This doesn't mean I won't make my own decisions, but generally I like to let the public decide (especially since they can easily override me with initiatives.)
Excellent I was hoping this wouldn't be one of those DG I elections, where there was only a nomination, no election poll.
Yep, I already have the media in my pocket, now to get a few of those justices
Isn't that donsig's job?
Ah, well, generally I am militaristic if I'm playing past the Noble difficulty. You really need an early war to secure your win. Since I do rather well on Prince I always like to build the Stonehenge and Oracle, and the Pyramids if I can get it, so my expansion will move with ease. Remember, by nabbing the oracle I don't have to worry about founding a religion, since I found Confucianism and get courthouses. The courthouses allow me to expand, and I always use caste system. Stonehenge solidifies my cultural borders especially after capturing a city. The only way I build pyramids is if I have stone. Which will allow me to use Representation for the Representation + Caste System Synergy. Other than that, I build a few workers, only found 2 or 3 of my own cities, and the rest I build is militaristic. I build granaries where I need them, and barracks in any city that I plan to build units in (which is most cities.) I don't worry about science at all, because my rapid war expansion pays off for it later. I'll be behind in science, but a few quick trades after getting the alphabet slingshots to being average in techs, and then the number of my cities quickly puts me past that mark. Hope this was a little more helpful.
As stated in the first post I have been nominated for Cheftian, by Ravensifre, and have accepted.
In my first week, if elected, I plan to of course settle our fine city, and make sure the game pace moves a bit faster (since these are the beginning turns.) In the meta game I plan to appoint 2-3 deputies to decrease the unemployment rate
I plan to hire a deputy that is in charge of turnchatly updated screen shots of city views, overall empire view, world view and other important things. Last demogame although the cartography office did a great job, screen shots weren't pieced together and thus made it hard to be part of the game without opening the save.
In regards to organizing the DP pool, I will be using the traditional method of most votes to least votes order. In addition I will be checking in with the DP's to see if they can play a scheduled turnchat that is not theirs, in case the original DP can not play. This way turnchats will stay on schedule, as the other DP's will act as backups. This means no more delaying due to something restricting the designated player who is scheduled to play. I would like to see the first turnchat (excluding the creation day chat, which should end upon creation.) reach either 20 turns, or terminate upon the creation of our first settler (which is a hypothetical situation.) Turnchats after the first turnchat should last anywhere from 8-12 turns, and I'd like to see one every 3-4 days. (4 days is preferable.)
Although I have no way of controlling citizen involvement completely, I do encourage participation, whether it be in legal wrangling, game decisions or role play. I hope to increase the role play level during my term, as well as throughout the game, and although I do not like the judicial part of the game, I encourage all legal buffs to take part in discussion, as long as it's with in a separate thread than rpg or game discussions. Last DG, many legal battles took place in the game decision threads, and caused many people to just simply stop reading these long posts that had to do with technicalities. I believe that the judicial buffs, the rpg players and the game decision makers to all coexist.
Finally someone noticed
Good catch. The reason I said the world will end in 4000 years, was for role play purposes. Why else would we use a calender that starts at 4000 and counts down. The year 0 has to be some kind of mark.
I doubt that we will reach a point in the term when a bunch of new offices need to be created. I think once we create our second worker, we may want to delegate infrastructural duties to a new position, such as a domestic minister. The early game is pretty easy to handle and micromanage. I do want to create a Military leader as soon as we meet our first barbarian warrior, or whenever we have both our first and second city properly garrisoned. Until either of those two, were not going to have any real military plans. As for religion and civics, were not going to be changing those so often that we need an official for it. Citizens can handle that duty. However, if we do found a religion, I would like the citizens to consider creating an office for just the spread of our religion. The building of wonders should be a duty delegated by the people. Other than that, mostly everything should be covered, until we decide to form a new government.Falcon02 said:
