Need to repoll research after bronze working?

[Rik Meleet]

The citizens have spoken out to research Iron Working after Bronze Working, in this poll.

I usually take voted poll as decisive, but perhaps too much has changed due to the contact.

Do we stick with Iron-Working as next research or do you want it re-polled ?

 

[Donovan Zoi]

I think that now more than ever, we need Iron Working. I would only repoll it if Babylon winds up possessing it(doubtful).

So we post a contingency poll?

 

[Rik Meleet]

Sorry; what does "contingency" mean ??

 

[Cyc]

contingency: dependence upon chance: dependence upon chance or factors and circumstances that are presently unknown.

Basically, RM it's an IF/THEN poll.

 

[Cyc]

BTW, I oppose repolling. No new information has arisen at this point to warrant repolling.

 

[RoboPig]

We shouldn't repoll

 

[Provolution]

In fact, we should poll contigency plans, so people do not scream up after one turn, so all eventualities are polled. And we rank these eventualities after the priority of these actions are set up. Many online groupgames use contigency plans in order to get the game gflowing.

 

[Sir Donald III]

I feel we should discuss Contingency plans now, but not have any Polls (go to JR) until we resolve this trade contact.

I'm going to review that thread now. If nothing has been added while I was asleep, then I'll send up a Mock Poll on that subject in a little over 90 minutes.

 

[Provolution]

Even in a democracy game, people need effective leadership to be going, and I cannot see that. We need those contigency plans desperately, or we will have 1 turn turnchats. People are actually scheduling these turnchats in for something to happen, not to be eaten away with a turn. These many untimely interruptions kill the game. They may call it roleplay, but it is not much of CIV3 left, or the noble intentions for the DG.

If some smart people develop a set of contigency plans that cover all eventualities, and these are polled in sequence, after some limited discussion, the game would get going. The eventualities covered in the contigency plans should be sufficiently debated and polled to kill of any slight and misguided protest to halt the game.

I would also have it into the game that elections do mean more than a hollow title, that the campaign platforms people are voted in on do have a bearing on the game.
I do not feel like putting energy into anything that is perpetually nullified by minority protests, overruling both polls, discussions and elections.

This must have an end, at least a limit, somewhere, or the game deteriorates...

I think some of us feel like that, those of you that disagree - you may not respect it, but then again, the respect the other way would certainly erode over time.
I would also see personal attacks and comparisons removed from the public forum, otherwise I may need to sharpen my debating style, which hitherto has been constructive, and take on those pedestalled types with the same medicine....

 

[ZeKiLLa]

I think that in any senario that can occur with the babylonians, researching IW next would be best. Whether we have an immediate war with them, or are able to have peaceful negotiations, this early of a contact suggests that there borders are relatively close to ours, causing concer for our national defense. By researching IW we will be better equiped to defend our nation sooner, or possibly go on the offensive if need be.