Mijmeringen van een Strateeg -Unity-
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by Walhallah
Fellow Countrymen,
The time is nigh to write an article in english. I want to take you by the hand and lead you past the concept of Unity.
Actually, now that I think of it. I dont know much about it. And I blame it on my schooling. As I was schooled here in the eNetherlands. Land of 7 parties. Of 5 MU's. Of several captains on one boat (no pun intended) Of multiple monkeys on a mountain (to level the other no pun)
This is not a shame. It brings action and fun to this game. However, we are a non-existant eCountry. We have 7 parties and 5 MU's, but no regions... Think about it. To me, thats a problem.
Here the problem becomes manifest. If we type something in the feed, either my MU colleagues can read it. Lucky me im in the largest MU. So communication covers about half the country. But we miss the other half! If I type in my party feed, it becomes dramatic, I reach about 3 other players. If i write on the forum, sometimes people read it, but honestly....thats a relatively fixed group as well. So If we want to communicate a message, we have to write an article. Which means that the whole wide world can read it.
picture time:
The antique Phalanx, an extremely succesful tactical formation. Why? Cooperation! Without cooperation, communication we are nowhere. Its revolutions like this that made the earth tremble, that shook the world, that took warfare to a whole new level. Hah, you say, Phalanx, communication, coordination is also required in a somewhat more modern way of warfare:
But ofcourse, but lets be honest. I think currently Phalanx is already more than we can handle. Lets take it one step at a time.
Back to business. Lets make it concrete. I think we should reorganise ourselves into:
1 MU (yes ONE)
That way we can at least communicate properly. Why make it difficult on ourselves? What point am I missing?
It would solve a great deal of problems we are facing.
Think about it.
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There is something like a daily order set by the CP, that reaches everyone.
And still even if we put everyone in 1 MU, and our population quadripples we still hardly can't beat the polaks.
MU's are quite a new thing really, I'm quite sure that just like political parties you can't disband them.
I'm pro more communication in-game, but organizing is about people doing the work, the tools don't do it for them.
That would be the case when a country has regions. In a country without regions, the CP gets "Your country is not involved in any campaigns." on the spot where the CP can set the CotD.
We should be able to spot whats helping us or hindering. And fix that.
communication in game is for a large part through MU feed. Lets use that to our advantage.
I asked the moderators for a country feed. (because thats the same idea) but thats not likely to happen.
think about it.
As I said so many times before: United we stand, divided we fall...
Nice to see that there are more people who think that way!
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we have 9 MU's just not all are showing up.
for communication we have IRC, the forum, and the individual mu feeds. the commanders of the MU's get their orders and info from the MoD, they relay that to their respective MU.
Correct, we have a pm system where MoD communicates orders to all Commanders.
the PM system works fine, but its less interesing for finetuning actions. Also because it is only suitable for smaller audiences.
9..wow i didnt know that. 🙂
However, my point is that we do have the tools, but we are not using them as effective as possible. Let the number of regions we have be our Judge.
Don't forget some of the ego's we have in this game. I am sure some of them don't want to lose their job as Commander or disband their private MU. Maybe some things can be tuned, but you're never able to control every bit and byte.
@EG, yes i know what you mean and I agree. But thats exactly the point. Ego's in the way of our success.
Lets put it that I mean that we should 'temporarily'work together for the greater good, and after that everybody can play commander again, or cm, or whatever. Without cooperation we are not going to be on the map for a long time. And guess who has the last laugh..
Deciding how to work will be the problem. Working together is no problem for anyone if you're the one pulling the strings. If we will do something like you proposed, there should be one or two coordinating the stuff. And there will be always people who disagree. You cannot change that imo.
Very true. But imo its the cp/mod coordinating this kind of stuff. Thats already the case so a quick first step taken. Theres still tons of things to improve
That's correct, but Commanders are not always following orders. I agree theres enough what can be improved.
yep, you can find all 9 here: http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Netherlands#Military_units
Personally, I would like all MU's to be disbanded except for the government MU's and Praetorian Guard. This isn't to show favoritism or promote some personal agenda, but the other MU's are simply inactive or too small to really make a difference. It would be better to consolidate some of them.