[I&W] Welcome new Citizens
Day 2,292, 11:18
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by MaartenW
Maarten reporting in from a small house on a mountain in Fließ, Austria.
It seems like the Netherlands has been having a rapid increase of new citizens last week, in eRepublik terms this is called a "babyboom". We don't have a lot of real babybooms in the Netherlands which is a pity because we could use the extra manpower. This is why I would like to ask you; Where did you come from? From another browsergame, a forum or did you just come across eRepublik somewhere on the internet? Please leave a comment because we are really interested
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I think I would be a rather bad party president if I wouldn't try to convince you to join Iron and Wine so here are some reasons why you should do that;
We are currently the only party that monthly publishes a program with relevant / specific goals.
We care about the opinions of every single member, everyone is free to contribute to the party program and all main party decisions are first discussed on our forum.
Our party is fair,(congress) positions within I&W are given based on activity, this doen't mean you have to be online 24/7 but it simply means we want you to communicate and show your face in debates, if you don't want to communicate and just want to work, train and fight that is fine too but I hope you understand you shouldn't have a leading position in that case.
If you posses the ability to make an informed and independent opinion it is certain you are going to make it far with our party, 16 of our members have been Country President which is a lot (compared to DemNL who got 7 and GPN who got 5).
We are real community players, Iron and Wine is known to bond with its members. If you like to interact with other players we are a good party for you and we would gladly see you on one of our communication platforms. We don't only speak about the game there though, if you want to know something about liqueur I suggest you ask Garmr who considers himself a kind of expert on this subject and if you like fish ... you won't anymore after spending some time in the same room as Tim V.
You might be wondering why our articles are written in English, well this is really simple not everybody in our country can read Dutch and the Dutch are known to be able to read English and we don't really like our articles to look like a Belgian governmental announcement, Annonce du gouvernement Belgique, aankondiging van de Belgische regering. People that are unable to read English and don't want to make 3 clicks for a google translate aren't the people we aim for anyway, these persons should definitely join Hollands Glorie which stands for the preservation of the Dutch language in eRepublik.
Best regards on behalf of Iron and Wine,
MaartenW
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Voted! Let's continue
Even eDanes read and enjoys Maartens articles - greetings to all the new eNL citizens from eDK!
Voted and shouted
Lol, I like how you say 16 members of Irond and Wine have been country president compared to other parties. You forgot to mention how many terms each country president has served our beloved eCountry 😉 To me it is not about quantity but quality.
A good country president gets re-elected if he wants to go for another term, a bad one may win over the people and get enough votes to become a country president but lacks the ability to keep the country financially strong, forge an alliance, have strong connections throughout the eWorld, knows what's going on, keep the players motivated, set goals, keep the community together and communicate often and well. Those people are hard to come by and just by putting down a number that is higher than the other parties doesn't mean your party is better by any means at all. For me, if I wasn't already in a party, I'd like to know some crunching numbers about which party achieved the most throughout the last year. Basic facts. Which party was best at foreign affairs? Which party had the best country president candidates? Which party got deep into our finances and improved them? Which party has the most active members? Which parties took part in new alliances, joining an alliance etc? I'd love to see an article from you about that 😃
To your first response, 16 presidents with 29 terms.
I like your questions, but asking for basic facts on questions like 'who has the best MoFa' will only wield quite subjective. answers I'm afraid. But it might be a start for a new article. Also I don't really believe the party-system has anything more to offer erep in general, I'd rather look to individuals, and their activity. A party is just that a party... should be nice, and I&W is the nicest oldest and most smart party eNL ever. This is offcourse a fact, and not an opinion 😉
It is a pity you completely missed the point, I haven't stated we had the best Presidents (I could indeed write a whole bunch of articles about their accomplishments) but that we have given most people the opportunity to be president. That was the point of the paragraph.
votado
'votado' just sounds nicer doesn't it? 🙂
Ferrum et vinum vincit
The ones with old accounts that were inactive, received an e-mail from Erepublic that NL was under attack by Germany.*
Did you get a few? 😛
epix, I've been harrased by those guys for days, and am still busy answering all their questions. 😒
You got them too I reckon? Okay, it takes a lot of time, but it just feels good to help them with the neccessary info, doesn't it? 🙂
Good read Maarten 🙂