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[WTP] Social, P4P

Day 2,245, 09:35 • Published in USA Russia

• by Geronimo100

Good day e-citizens. You may think this is just another campaign article, actually it's atypical "campaign" article or not at all.

Parties 4 People

The last few days there were some campaign articles in eUS media, PP elections are the reason. Party president primary election have already been opened, and we received the regular DHS's pre-election message. We read there, that political take over - "has fallen off in a big way. They are down for the count, so let's keep them from getting back up.". For some (long) time the eUSA community (and other communities) was faced with real and high threat of political take over. I agree with DHS that threat of political take over in eUSA has fallen, and that it's wise to keep it down. But there's another threat that should be taken care off.

In time of low media activity, and even lower political participation the in-game elections are mirror of the state of each community in this eWorld. What I saw in this mirror is the need to defeat another threat. No it's not another PTO or invasion on our shores.

no we won't need those

It's a treat of low activity and low participation. Every party in eUSA has activity high on it's agenda. Activity is common to PP campaign articles presented in our media, and I'm sure that's the case with other communities in The New World. This is not something new, it's a constant. Game mechanics with countless battles for the same region and incessant tanking and gold spending are taking a toll, the game has become dull, and boring, slow paced and uninteresting to newer players that join our communities. Very limited political and media aspect of the game has not been helpful at all. This has been pointed at many times before.

Metagame

Political parties are the entrance to the meta game, their main goal is activity

Political parties are much alike. There's a very few "political" things available to them. And they all provide stuff for their members and the new players. But they also provide metagame and off-site communication. Forums and IRC chat are place for that. Every game has some place off the main game site for people to socialize and communicate.

Some will say that meta is such and such elitist and non inclusive. But meta has become The Social part of this game. The shout feeds and PM's are not the best way for this, they've become an add space and notice board. Direct, real time communication has migrated off the site. eUSA forums and IRC are social tools. Tools that bring people closer, to chat, have fun, argue... log in daily and CARE. It's the reason that keeps people with eRep. And brings back those that left it some time in the past.

To keep more people in this game, meta is the answer. Bored and non caring community isn't a community at all. Parties are first to challenge this. New / old Party Presidents will have to deal with this and party wide consensus is a must. Bringing people in and giving them reason to stick with us. Slight differences are just that, we all have same goal, and we have similar means to achieve it. People, the player who's avatar is next to yours or on the other end of the IRC chat, across the country or the world, do matter.

Those were some of my musings on the parties and their raison d'etre, it's just something that I needed to put down on this binary paper. Thanks for reading.