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With all of the huge piles of greenbacks Plato is rolling in from the MU Contest, what ONE cool feature should they develop for our game?

Interesting question. It would require a few things to happen first

If for some reason they wanted to show that they are half decent programmers. Actual business people who want to create a good product that grabs and retains people, rather than mostly nostalgic people with others who burn out and leave after 5-6 months or in most cases 1 week. The feature I would improve on is.....



It isn't really an improvement. I wish they would go back to the old voting system for congressional elections. Sniping made it so much fun. Parties would make deals over states, sometimes back stab each other. You had to pick what states you wanted to fight for, which ones to block, etc.... Then the last 10 minutes that small group of people would be moving around the eUS at night, make those last 1 or 2 critical votes to get their candidate elected.



I would bring back the old Congress election system. I would love to see vote ninja's again.

Getting rid of that, in my opinion, killed the joy of the political module. When I came back and saw we voted just for party like some crappy RL nations do, I was like "Guess I am going to focus on the military module. Nothing fun with the political group other than BSing with people on forums all day". It was a challenge to get into congress for PP and PD to work to get their people in. I actually bothered to write campaign articles then because I had to appeal to the two clickers in the state.



So please, admins, you don't even have to write new code. Go find the punch card box in some back broom closet. Run them through the machine and get them copied onto 5 1/4 inch floppies (I say this because I assume you have upgraded from the computer who takes up a whole freaking room, to the computer that takes up an entire desk) and bring it back. Copy, paste, done.



See the stuff I used to do, that I thought was actually fun and deal with the political module -
Illinois Article - Had to coordinate with USWP for the slot
Voting record report because I actually felt I represented a party and an actual state, rather than BS calling them on the forums during roll call
Metagame positions we created, because we felt like we needed them, like more actual coordination and communication between parties
Early P-Deb article just for fun
Checking up on everyone's candidates, finding out who sucks so you can snipe them next term or pressure their PP to pick someone better
Each candidate had to talk not to just their party but communicate with all parties. I helped getting support from other parties as well, so they didn't snipe you
They might have back stabbed me, I don't know, but its fun to find the results out the next day to see if you were

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