Renewel and Rejuvenation

[DaveShack]

It's as simple as this, I am content to sit here and let you destroy the game. I will remain here to pick up the pieces. However, inorder to fix the game you must receive my support, something you are far from doing. It is your choice, you have one last chance to prove to me, wether you are truely a divider, or a uniter.

Hmm, let's see.

You pointed out problems with the DG6 government. Who wrote the amendments which were acceptable to the people, and essentially tossed the entire experiment out the window to move back closer to what we had before? Is that the action of a divider?

During DG6 your advice was that number crunching was killing the game. I promptly stopped number crunching at the beginning of DG7 and tried to get everyone else to stop too. You suggested that we needed more role play, I promptly tried to play the entire first term in character. I did the things you suggested because I respected that advice and thought it was correct. Does adapting one's style to follow the advice of others sound like something a divider would do?

Unfortunately instead of receiving your help this game, I got refusal to follow the people's wishes, followed by silence and then this thread.

I'm not a divider. I see energy devoted to meaningless drivel like this thread instead of the issues which really matter to the game, and I've got to ask why you're wasting our time. I want to focus energy on the game.

It doesn't matter where the threads are. What matters is if we all participate in them. My opinion differs from yours, and I'm not shy about it. That's all, nothing more.

 

[Gerikes]

Here's my idea. The most important notion is that every citizen must declare a home in one of the cities we hold. With only five cities, the group should not be divided too far apart. (Not sure how to incorperate captured cities yet...)

Next, declare a mini-game on the forum for all the cities whereby the city with the most RPing (to be declared by a ruleset) will be awarded points, awards, or honors. These honors are given out to the cities by a Game Master (GM, or RPGM, or whatever). Honors are awarded for completing projects designed by the GM. The first thing that came to my head:

An rping post by a GM might go as follows:


Title: *RP* The Curse of Golden Mountain
Body:
Across the nation, a news flood spread about the possible discovering of ancient stone placements in a grassy field north of Olympus. The stones, the researchers who found the site say, might be a crude, ancient map by the Sarmatian tribe that locates the Tomb of Parills, where the first Argaragantes of the Sarmatian tribe was buried.

Researchers are flocking from all over to the Golden Mountains, where most agree that the tomb would be due to knowledge of the now-extinct Sarmatian tribe.

It is said that the research team that finds the final tomb would be able to learn all about the forgotten history of the Sarmatian tribe that our natian had learned burial techniques from long ago, bringing to light answers to questions about Fanatikos history.


..blah blah..

And so, each city would create their own thread in response to this quest, where they introduce characters (or use their normal charaters), the planning of the trip, the problems they encounter, etc. However, no one ever finds the tomb until the GM or GM's leak word that one team has found it (which they would determine by the quantity and quality of the RPing done by the city's team), to which the team that's found it then RP's their discovery.

With each discovery the GM will award the city with an artifact or statue or something that could be put up in each city's city-thread (kind of a hall-of-fame if you will. This could be text based although some GM's might even create a small graphical thing if they're so artsy ).

Ok, I'm done talking. What do you think?

 

[ravensfire]

More comments.

Forum Organization

• I have zero problems with the instruction thread being where it is. Nor, I think, do most other citizens.
• No issues with turnchat registry. Note that DZ is working to coordinate that. I wouldn't go too far out, too give the DP's flexibility and account for changes in their schedule. During my terms as President, I rarely scheduled more than 2 weeks ahead just because of variable schedules
• Basic polling standards do exist - read the CoL
• No issue with a Welcome sticky. Not sure about un-stickying FAQ, unless Welcome thread had links to all important threads
• No issue with cleaning up FAQ

Extension of Information Office

• Should not be an elected office - no reason.
• Requests for more info can simply be posted in their thread - no need for a grand post about it. Just do it.

Summaries

• No issue here, agree with how to make it happen. Suggestion is to use existing law, post a reminder in each official thread with the contents of the Law and note that they aren't following it. You're the JA - making sure that officials are complying with the law seems like a nice match for that title. Similar to the Attorney General's office in most US states.

Reduction in length of TC

• TC are much easier than they were in previous DG's. Fewer cities to control, finer control available on those cities. Currently, longer sessions aren't a problem right now - not much is happening. Law explicitly allows leaders to request termination of game session at various points, including game events or number of turns (Please stop after 10 turns so I can re-evaluate my city).
• Strongly disagree about multiple people working with save. Huge issues with hijacks, control of save, etc. In addition, issue raised DOES NOT EXIST. Pre-turn actions will not take as long as previous DG's due to 5BC variant.

Better Polling Standards

• No issues with concept here
• Basic standards exist
• Better communication to leaders about bad polls needs to be done, in the poll.

FOI

• Any law not used is useless. Start with enforcement of current law then work on any issues.

Roleplay

• Means different things to different people. To me, I try not to post with detailed numbers, but as a citizen/Justice would. Others want the full DG2 madness. More power to 'em.

DP Poll

• Fixing more problems than it solves, why change it. We've already had several citizens play a save that normally wouldn't. More will get that opportunity this term.

-- Ravensfire