Back from the ashes!
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by pho3nix
As many times before, I'm here to show you my greatest strenght in eRepublik-gaming - which has made me if not the oldest, then at least fighting hard every day for the title of "oldest oldfag". I've been around since the spring of '08 - and most of that time has been in the service of Denmark. I'm very hard to bore, and I don't like the notion of giving up.
And that's why I'm back. Because I don't give up.
The last months have been some of the weirdest I've ever experienced. From being just another grunt in a shop, I have recently been promoted and been handed more responsibility than before. It's exciting to say that eRepublik has taught me much about what responsibility means and that I can actually use much of what I have learned in-game in my professional career. Lessons learned include understanding how much damage a keyboard can create in relationships, proper spelling, the importance of thoroughly explaining your concepts and ideas to your co-workers - and the effectiveness of a system in which earned trust is the key component. It motivates hard work and self sacrifice.
I have decided to join the race for presidency over Denmark for Febuary.
I've done so before, with smashing results. I'm not quite as involved in the community as before, but I think that might change rapidly in the coming days, as I've been given two weeks of vacation and I've been working 10-hour days the last three months.
I usually divide eRep into three separate (but intersecting) brances: military, economy and society. I used to be a very analyzing economy kind of guy - but since a couple of years back society is what really drives me to play. Lightweight roleplaying, meta-gameplay and cross-platform gaming are some of my favorites - and something I've seen beautifully executed in Denmark before. As such, my first act as president will be to begin organizing the 2014 Danish meet-up. I will probably fund it in some way too.
That means beer and awkwardness, subsidized. Who dares say no to that?
I also believe that Danish party politics have been completely useless during all of 2013. I've fought to try to change that before, without results. I'm going to give that another go, but I need your help in doing so. I also have a few ideas about restarting my old writing career and combining it with roleplay elements. I need volonteers, so shape up.
I will now embark on a mission to suck up to all the current ministers to remain in their posts. If you have any suggestions, complaints or comments on that - feel free to send me a PM.
I don't have a economic plan. I don't have a military strategy. I'm not a miracle-worker. I have my two hands hammering a brand new laptop, an understimulated brain and all of you guys. I think we can produce whatever we put our minds to.
Let's rock this joint.
/pho3nix
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Sounds like a great plan. You have my vote.
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S U I T U P S U C K E R S !!!
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Im happy to see you back again ( even though you are swedish - and the swedes say you are danish - w/e) 😛
You ofc. have my vote
Good lucky and a good job running the country next month.
Hello, and congrats 🙂
About the partypolitic revival: I like the idea of activating the community, but as such politics between parties is redundant. We as a small nation can't afford division just for having division. I understand that especially old players have nostalgic memories from Days Back, when we had epic political feuds between parties, but those days are gone.
Everything we can discuss between parties we can discuss within A party. eDenmark must first of all stand united. We can have opinions but in the end we must have AN opinion. If we let our guard down and create an environment of divided eDenmark, we will be vulnerable to PTO's.
I might sound like boring old man, but causing opposition just for the change or fun of it is unnecessary. I also know that some players wish more roleplaying elements in this game, and you can have that within a party, but please, don't do it on eDenmarks expense. I have seen it happen, and it is not nice.
We're vulnerable to PTO-attempts with or without different parties. A broken political module won't get us more players - and that's what we really need.
We keep running into the same problem when we're trying to keep the country safe from PTO-attempts: people accuse us of being a small elite running the country at our own will. And that's pretty much what we do, right?
So how do we combat that problem? Either we make people believe that we are less authoritarian - or we actually become less authoritarian. If we don't set up the right conditions I think we're stuck in this situation permanently.
The people complaining are the PToers. It is our strenght to have single-minded people. Forum and IRC are for debates, but as you said, due to broken political module that should be it.
We don't win anything by arbitraty diminishing our strenght in the game. We can have open dialogue in one partyfeed and within the community 🙂
Also people can use articles in the game too.
Wow... Just, wow. We need to have a single minded people?
If everyone made it into the forum and/or IRC, then that seems fine. That's not the case however, and that means we're making the game much more boring - making people either quit or move.
you got me at beer.
p3nix for pr3xident :3