Division of congress members
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by Plato
Dear citizens,
In one of the last Insider articles we presented the improvements regarding the congressional elections. Most of the citizens asked us how the members of congress will be divided per region, and in this article we'll explain the solution to this challenge.
Number of congress seats in a country or region
The total number of congress members representing a region will be a minimum of one and a maximum of 10, depending on the number of regions in each country.
The normal number of congress members will be 40. The full division of congress seats depending on the number of regions can be found here.
Wild cards
Besides the candidates that have received a congress seat (the ones above the green line), the remaining candidates with the highest number of votes from all regions gain a wild card and become congress members as well (see scheme). See how the number of wild cards are distributed per country depending on the number of regions .
These improvements will bring more dynamism and interaction to the congressional elections for the citizens in the New World. As always we're waiting for your feedback.
Increasing population
The number of congress seats in each country is influenced only by the number of regions. We won’t take into account the size of the population. Of course the eRepublik population will increase a lot, but this doesn't mean that we should start having congresses with hundreds of members using the same tools.
Instead we will focus on increasing the number of administrative positions (judges, mayors, etc.).
The same situation happens also for parties. Only the top five parties, in terms of members (the living ones, of course) in each country can participate in the election. It would be pretty difficult for the regular voter to choose among a higher number of parties. A better solution here is to facilitate the development of political alliances and, even better, improve the ways that parties express themselves so that they can grow their base.
Thank you,
The eRepublik Team
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Great
Sweet. 🙂
Major, Judge - I can hardly wait!
@Arhistream
Dude 🙂
Nice 🙂
great...
I still think the the BETA way of electing congressmen is best.
the more votes a party gets the more seats in congress it has and then the party president decides who gets the seats. or that can be decided by the party elections.
I want majors back!!!!!
Voted!
Nice 😃
Judje? Mayor?
Great!
admin wrote: "Only the top five parties, in terms of members (the living ones, of course) in each country can participate in the election. It would be pretty difficult for the regular voter to choose among a higher number of parties".
oh come on... ou still keep that "top5only rule".
I open this article believing you could considere the situation of regional parties... but you insist in giving political participation ONLY to the NATIONAL top5 parties.
My own is 6th in national, but the FIRST party in our province... than YOU for leting us OUT of this electoral process...
its a SHAME again. we are the most representative party in our province but we CAN NOT have our candidates... here is something wrong.
is spain is worst... they have MORE THAN 20 parties, some of then with more militants than the First one in argentina...
if you dont want a unlimited number of parties in election process at leat change the top5 to top8 or top10.
but you dont care about it, right?
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"Instead we will focus on increasing the number of administrative positions (judges, mayors, etc.)."
Nice!
But why smaller parties cannot partecipate to elections? why don't only to congress election?
Good
GJ!
"Only the top five parties, in terms of members (the living ones, of course) in each country can participate in the election"
ohhhhh, nooooooooooooooooooo!!
this is unfair!!!!!
It discriminates against new parties ever being able to crack into an established top 5 because a LOT of people can't see past that.
Admins, I've got a couple doubts..
1)In regions with more than one congressmen elected (countries with less than 20 regions), the voters have one or more than one votes?
2)How many candidates can a party choose for one region?
Great Work 🙂.
I like administrative positions (judges, mayors, etc.) and the possibility that parties could develop political alliances. Thanks for that.
But still going on with votes for candidates instead of first for the political parties (and later for candidates) I think is not good. Than making a regional system, not taking into account how much people live in a region, that will worsen the situation. Look in Romania, big diiferences in the amount of people living insidev a region. You really think it is a good solution that 10 people from Zaporozhia, a remote Romanian region, will get 1 congressman (if there will be a candidate from the 5 biggest parties, what else?) and that 1545 people in the capital get also one congresman? OK there will be 7 wildcards. That will be if all wildcards will be for the capital region 8 people will be elected from there.
I do not think this will be wise.
that is so dicriminating against the small parties!
sounds good!
Thank you administrators for everything you have done for the game after V1 was published, this game is becoming better by day. The voting changed a little, that is good but you shouldn't ignore the players and if you want it to be easier for the voter, just get 3 lines with the candidates on it and when they have chosen the one they wan't they click send.
But this is good update throughout but I think it needs that what everyone is trying to say, more political parties involved, it will change a lot of your code to be able to add like 10 biggest partys, but it will give us a change to play with more choices on the partys, and it makes it so that we are forced to do decisions with a lot of people, not just own party who wins all the time. It will make new twist to this.
And you should take that counting on regions that if other has 10 citizens and the other 1000, The on with 1000 should get 9/1 congressmen. Make it so that in every region there is someone who can get to congress.
I know that this is hard because I have made js, c++ etc coding, but I know that you know what you are doing and you can pull this of.
Sincerely,
SuicideOG
Fix the damn Bugs instead of releasing new ideas of elections!!!!!
USA has more then 50 regions.... will the congress have 50 members????
forget the question.. i opened the link now..
I like this part of the system.
I just feel so sorry for Stockholm, almost half of every politician lives where...
And ohh, The beta-way was so much better.
Judges? Are you saying there will actually be courts and legal system at some point in the future? Or will these positions just be for show, without any actual power?
I am still in disagreement with the voting system. It is completely different from Beta and not at all democratic. Did you not pay attention to how many parties had to ask for the voters to disperse their votes so some of the goon parties would not take over the government? This system is very easily abused. If you are going to go ahead with this, then at least make it difficult to take advantage of. Otherwise this game just becomes a race for abusing bugs and loop holes.
nice one
good job
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I think that the division of congressmen among the regions of a country should be population based, although the maximum should remain the same. That way the representation of the country is still based on its population spread. Perhaps by slightly increasing the number of congressmen it would be possible to allot more populated regions in areas with greater numbers of regions more than 1 congressman.
nice changes! i can hardly wait! but who will we vote for? Party or persons?
Will you be able to move abroad and still be a congressman for your country?
You should really implement citizenship so that people can travel without changing nationality.
My comment about this system is that you obvious intentionally chose a quite complex system. It will be interesting to see how it works out, those who want to take a place in the congress might have to buy some Moving Tickets..
I'll be a Judge.. GUILTY!!!!!
I think, Admin, that you should stick to your own rules for the game! It should be built on democraty.
This congres system you have made is sooo undemocratic and unfere.
Pleace go back to the beta version, that was a reel election. As it is now we dont need partys at all, well only for the pesident.
sound interesting....
administrative positions: it could be good choice. the more positions you can achieve, the more interesting is this game
"It would be pretty difficult for the regular voter to choose among a higher number of parties"
It only needs be as difficult as you make it. Marginalizing smaller parties for the sake of dumbing down the game is NOT the answer.
The inactive members in the old big parties then? A person who never logg in anymor will still be a politically power in this system I'm afraid.
This is getting better and better, keep up the good work!
This is better than what happened last time with Congressional seats. I agree with Misho, one only needs to look at Thailand's current situation and see how broken these political systems are becoming. (A party getting only 30% of the vote, yet getting 66% of the seats makes little sense).
This is ridiculous. Why should a tiny region get the same representation as a huge one?
Take Ireland for example, we have well over HALF our population in one region, and the other 5 are tiny by comparison.
Sounds good, but depending on whether or not there is a huge population surge, will this be open to amendment?
worst of last system.
Nice stuff, V1 seems to be getting better and better. I'm glad I didn't quit 🙂
good...ALEXIS, GEORGE, CRISTI...THIS IS EREPUBLIK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: and a happy halloween 😁
Es una pena que insistan en permitir sólo las elecciones a los partidos del top5. Es una forma de destruir a las minorias, por mucho que digan que fomenta las alianzas entre partidos.
El juego se va recuperando muy poco a poco, pero todavia le queda bastante para alcanzar la diversidad que permitía la Beta.
Y perdon por no ponerlo en inglés, pero ya me he cansado de ser ignorado por la administración, por lo que ya ni me molesto en traducir lo que digo.
Thailand Congress Election still bugged.
PLEASE ADMINS, JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THAT!
Many candidates were elected by receivin NO (00000) VOTES
Regional media would be helpful now