Term 4 - Nominations for President

[GenMarshall]

Hmm, Im not sure which party (In the real life elections) each canidate would fall in .

 

[GenMarshall]

Polls for the Presidential Elections will be up momenteraly

 

[donsig]

In sum, I would like to say that a Sir Donald Administration would be a Minister-Friendly Administration.

All I can say to that is a donsig administration would be a citizen friendly administration.

This response spawns a new question for the canidates (though this one is more geared to Donsig) "What if the Instructions a leader posted has a link to one or more polls and the orders are to go with the results of the poll(s) that are timed to end on the day of the turnchat?

As long as the poll closes before the scheduled start of game play then I'd consider it a legal instruction and would be bound by the poll result. I would not feel bound by any poll still open when game play comences. (I lost my taste for those early on in DGI.)

How do you make a decision to stop play before the customary 10 turns, or to continue play beyond 10 turns?
What do you do when instructions do not cover a possibility which is highly beneficial to our nation, or one which is highly damaging?

I have only once played beyond ten turns and that was because something highly significant was due to happen on turn 11. (I think it was the discovery of a key tech.) Anyway it was something that probably would have resulted in a one turn game play session next time around to allow forum discussion. No one likes a one or two turn session and if we can avoid that by playng 11 or 12 then we should do it.

I would only play less than ten if something truly unexpected and extraordinary occurred. Note that this is subjective. The thing would have to be truly unexpected and extraordinary to me. If you want examples of what may or may not fall into these categories I refer you all to term three of both DGI and DGIII.

In the former, I stopped the session short of ten turns because the proposal to sell medicine did not seem to be in our country's best interest. After forum discussion the decision was reached to sell and we sold. Along the way we had a little public investigation which established once and for all the DP's right to end play when he or she felt it was neccessary.

In the latter, I did not stop play after the Aztecs declared war on us. We had been trying to block their settler and failed. We left troops inside their new city radius. Montezuma ordered us out and I refused. While this caught many at the chat by surprise I expected it and played on. (We had a sizeable army at hand.) The war was successful, we got a leader, had another little investigation and (I hope) once and for all established the DP's right to make decisions without being strong armed by those attending the chat.

Which brings me to the second half of this question. In any matter (beneficial or injurious, major or minor) that is not covered by legally posted instructions I, as DP, would exercise my best judgement as to what would be best for our country and I would act on that judgement. I did just that in both of the examples cited above despite the negative impact on my own reputation and popularity.