Admin, Is this what Democracy looks like?
Day 1,765, 11:39
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by Emperor Rick
Starting with the 25th of September the 2012, the citizens will vote for a Party instead of voting a citizen from a specific party.
The members of the party will candidate with the same rules as now to the congress elections, but they will participate in the elections on the party list. The party president will now see all the possible candidates in a single list for the all the country's regions. The parties that are in top 5 on every 24th of the month at 00:00 will be the ones able to have Congress candidates. The party president will choose the candidates on 24th of the month in the following manner: Every party can propose a maximum number of candidates equal to the maximum number of Congress seats in that country.
Set up a national list (instead of a regional one) with all the candidates in the exact order the party president wants them in the Congress. This is very important because the chance to join the Congress is higher for the ones in the top of the list. If the party president does not decide the order on the 24th, the candidates will be on the list based on the rule “first come, first served”. The Party president can only decide the priority order, but he cannot choose to have less official candidates than the maximum number of seats his country has.
Party X proposes to its country a list of 10 candidates in a specific order:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
On the election day, the citizen will not see the list to choose a candidate but he will be in the situation to take an easier decision, to vote for a party.
If this party will get 50 votes from a total of 100 votes, the party gets 50% of the total votes. As a result, the first 5 candidates on this list will join the Congress.
If the party had only 4 candidates then all will join the Congress but one seat will remain unoccupied and the country will remain with one less congress for that month.
What does this mean for the country
- This means a bottom 6 party will NEVER get a congressional candidate elected. No party will put outsiders above their own members.
- Party Presidents will be able to hand pick their congressmen proportional to the vote, meaning we'll get a revolving door of the same congressmen like never before. This will reinforce elitism since congressmen will be appointed by the merit of favoritism and not by a popular vote.
- Party Presidents will now have more power then ever before, PTO threats will only be an issue depending solely on the PP of a top 5.
- If a threat like Ajay Bruno ever makes it to the top 5 PP, he will be guaranteed congressmen without having to worry about ATO efforts.
- You won't know who your electing until after the elections are over. The PP's list isn't public.
Gnilraps wrote one minute ago
Want to run for Congress? Start sending me your cash. Highest donors get the top spots.
^ You can expect to see more of this ( I
Game over folks, Henrey Arundel (Pfeiffer)
will now be able to select our congressmen without any barriers now.
The members of the party will candidate with the same rules as now to the congress elections, but they will participate in the elections on the party list. The party president will now see all the possible candidates in a single list for the all the country's regions. The parties that are in top 5 on every 24th of the month at 00:00 will be the ones able to have Congress candidates. The party president will choose the candidates on 24th of the month in the following manner: Every party can propose a maximum number of candidates equal to the maximum number of Congress seats in that country.
Set up a national list (instead of a regional one) with all the candidates in the exact order the party president wants them in the Congress. This is very important because the chance to join the Congress is higher for the ones in the top of the list. If the party president does not decide the order on the 24th, the candidates will be on the list based on the rule “first come, first served”. The Party president can only decide the priority order, but he cannot choose to have less official candidates than the maximum number of seats his country has.
Party X proposes to its country a list of 10 candidates in a specific order:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
On the election day, the citizen will not see the list to choose a candidate but he will be in the situation to take an easier decision, to vote for a party.
If this party will get 50 votes from a total of 100 votes, the party gets 50% of the total votes. As a result, the first 5 candidates on this list will join the Congress.
If the party had only 4 candidates then all will join the Congress but one seat will remain unoccupied and the country will remain with one less congress for that month.
What does this mean for the country
- This means a bottom 6 party will NEVER get a congressional candidate elected. No party will put outsiders above their own members.
- Party Presidents will be able to hand pick their congressmen proportional to the vote, meaning we'll get a revolving door of the same congressmen like never before. This will reinforce elitism since congressmen will be appointed by the merit of favoritism and not by a popular vote.
- Party Presidents will now have more power then ever before, PTO threats will only be an issue depending solely on the PP of a top 5.
- If a threat like Ajay Bruno ever makes it to the top 5 PP, he will be guaranteed congressmen without having to worry about ATO efforts.
- You won't know who your electing until after the elections are over. The PP's list isn't public.
Gnilraps wrote one minute ago
Want to run for Congress? Start sending me your cash. Highest donors get the top spots.
^ You can expect to see more of this ( I
❤you Gnaps )
Game over folks, Henrey Arundel (Pfeiffer)
will now be able to select our congressmen without any barriers now.
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That is rather depressing
Anyone wanna get me in on my fifth try?
even if half of all the players wanted you pappas, if your PP hates you, you will never be elected according to the new rules.
Platotroll wins again. :/
this is just dictatorship
There is soooo many things they could do on the politic module and they do this ?
Not knowing who you are electing for congress it appears mora of a downgrade than an upgrade
If you want to do an ATO effort, just start PMing people in Gnilraps' party. If 6th party (or whatever else) get all that people, Gnilraps will have to return all that dirty money.
You can complain about it or to adapt to the new rules and do something!!!
Guess I'm never getting the Congress medal...PP always goes to Congress as well.
PP's list is private too, so you might be electing a bunch of PTO'ers and not know it if your PP is stealthy enough.
Zoli4Potus!
Voted.
Actually, people vote for a party, not for people, and the list for the party is defined by the party governing body in the vast majority of democratic countries. Plato is just implementing RL stuff. I realize that's not how it is in the US though, but it's not smth uncommon elsewhere : )
Wouldn't it be better if we had a feature that allowed us to pick different forms of government
Representitve Democracy
Parlimentary Democracy etc
"Representitve Democracy
Parlimentary Democracy etc"
As chosen by who though? CP decides? How often would it get changed?
Whole game has gone off the apple cart. May as well just remove everything but the buy gold option and turn out the lights at this point.
revolution by the masses, changes by congress... there could be different ways... but I understand admin would never do it
tarbuh...what are you talking about? We always vote the people and not the party. Even in Romania, with only 20 years of democracy, we vote the people and not a party list.
This change will completely ruin the game. I think if they go with this...I'll quit. This is just plain stupid.
This is the stupidest thing yet.
Wonder what kind of even stupider fix they will implement, because you know we can never revert back to something that worked. It wouldn't make sense.
hail plato...plato the pol pot......hail the eFrurher...hail the philosopher..hail ur political philosophy..
This is wonderful. So, as long as you can lead a top 5 party, you are guaranteed at least some hand-picked candidates. Why even bother trying to PTO? Get 500-600 of your supporters to join your new party a day or so after party elections and you're golden.
Plato and his great Democratic thinking yaaay. want change? Quit this game .
Guess I'm never getting the Congress medal...PP always goes to Congress as well.