THE DUBLIN COMMUNE
Sweet Drinker
eRep is a funny old game and if you’re a local, it’s probably as weird to be reading my tribute to MikeBane as it is to write it. But here we are!
Mike wasn’t someone I ever really worked with. Frankly I don’t think Mike ever did any honest work in erep. He was usually aligned against me politically, and accused me of absurd misconducts. Sometimes I’d honestly have to Wiki the things we’d been called.
I suspect Mike would have taken any opportunity he could get to “beat me” in eIreland. He once started a thread ILP’s private forum hatching a longplay plan to infiltrate my Ministry (finance) and eventually depose me! I have a lot of legit reasons to dislike MikeBane tbh.
But somehow it just worked.
While other players would meet fierce rebuttal to any accusations they might make, Mike could basically say or do anything he wanted because he overshot the mark so high! ILP likes to demonise its rivals, but Mike’s outlandish articles and behaviour became endearing to its targets as often as not. He seldom did any real harm, and never had any ill-intent. To the players who routinely had to shoot down his starry-eyed ideals, Mike’s only crime was attempting to fly before crawling, often seemingly in a spaceship to another galaxy…
MikeBane had the big ambitions of someone who is unaware of the impracticality of achieving them. So it shouldn’t be surprising that nobody ever lived up to his expectations. But hey there’s no harm in asking right?
Ultimately Mike wanted to help “the people rise up”. Erep is commonly categorized in 3 modules: military, industrial, and political. I think in the end Mike saw a class struggle in eIreland, with many of the Political Class showing a white-collar disdain for the blue collared Military & Industrial Classes, and so lead a campaign to put the common players’ destiny into their own hands. We all know Mike didn’t support our Military Dictatorship out of a hate for democracy, but rather saw it as the birth of a kind of Labour Union.
I like to think that, despite being one of the “capitalist-vampire/fascist-monster/jellyfish-conspirators” of Mike’s articles, I’ve participated in some of eIreland’s best attempts change our community’s fortunes. Today I’m lucky enough to speak about our attempt to salvage a little more of Mike’s dream from the shell of a battle simulator this game has become. Ofc, it’s not everything MikeBane envisioned, just the best we can offer within current game mechanics.
The Dublin Commune:
The current administration and counsellors are selecting members, from all walks of eIrish life, for a new government thread. Congress as an institution has continually failed eIreland because it invariably devolved into a personal/political battleground rather than a device for cooperating on behalf of the community. That is what a government is supposed to be and that is what we hope to achieve in The Dublin Commune; a device for eIrish players to cooperate with.
Membership is limited to a single ingame thread. We are prioritizing active players, but of all backgrounds. This will be the place for discussing ideas/concerns for the nation rather like a Senate.
Holding a place on The Dublin Commune is earned by demonstrating the ability to remain civil and a team-player even when in dispute with other members of the commune. Tell the administration we’re stupid/doing everything wrong/killing Plato/Sluagh-raided-your-potato-patch: Fine. But behaviour obviously intended to scupper cooperation of the commune itself will quickly have players removed. Nobody is entitled to be there. We’d really like to populate the thread with eIrish players who don’t need to have the difference between discourse and disruption explained to them
If you are a reasonably active, civil, civic minded eIrish player looking to participate in eIrish National Government The Dublin Commune is for you. You’re not required to do anything as a member, but most government staffing is likely to come from the Commune’s membership. We’re encouraging players who tend to disagree with the current administration as much as those who mainly support us, as long as everyone can do so in a constructive manner. Don’s Airstrikes and my Investments get shot down too, we all have to accept disappointment in this world..
The eIrish Military Dictatorship is not stepping down. I’m sure some will complain the The Dublin Commune Members are still facing a central oligarchy deliberating verdicts on their ideas or complaints. It’s true. Department heads need to have final say on whether they are even capable of fulfilling a request. You can’t simply command engineers to stop a bridge from collapsing during a flood to make it so.. eIreland’s various decisions need to be grounded in a longterm strategy. Or the only thing we’ll be talking about is “whose fault is this…” again.
tldr; If you’d like to participate in governing the country (but don’t know what to do cause it’s not a traditional government) then come join The Dublin Commune! If you despise the current administration and vow never work with us, This should adequately facilitate your need also.
eLife is,
Sw33t
Governor of the eIrish Empty Vault
Comments
Great article!
Anyone willing to participate constructively is encouraged to join our discussions and make administrative decisions, all you have to do is ask.
Interesting article and a possible move towards democracy.
christ if you this is a "move towards democracy" then sadly you are delusional
It is nothing more that an attempt to keep the natives quiet while they rape the place
Your sentence sense not mae
>Implying anyone in an online game is a native.
Oh you.
wtf?
rape the place of what exactly?
your crew took the treasury when you got voted out (money my crew gave u in the 1st place btw).
your crew had eIreland face down in the dirt. taking it dry from Lithuania. with you telling everyone how lucky she was to be in your care.
the Military Dictatorship picked eIreland out of the puddle you had her laying in and gave her back her dignity.
and again the lies (you never tire of telling them do you)
We never "took" the treasury as you well know...but your good friends Sluagh did! And Marcus & Oj and etc
Lith were booted on my watch...but don't let truth get in the way of the fact we were wiped by Lith because you and your chums did the dirt on the eCountry.
The Junta just put a boot on this eCountrys face and mashed it into the ground...to be fair you did it well I thought you would be proud not lie about your intention...there is no need as admin helped you keep it.
I might be delusional.
It is up to those who want democracy back to go and get it.
Interacting with these institutions might be a way of getting it back.
I guess sitting around waiting for everyone to e-die is also a way of getting it back too.
If I had any trust in those setting up said institutions it might be but we both know they are utter scam artists and we both should know this is only another way to appear to be something they are not...fair players.
They lie, cheat, steal,abuse and corrupt their way though this game so why would now be any different...do you suggest after all this time they all together saw the light and are going to do a 180 and play the game honestly? If so I admire your optism but I cannot join you in it
"Lith were booted on my watch...but don't let truth get in the way of the fact" - Winston Hope Smith
^This is exactly the sort of political BS everyone is tired of. Everybody knows Lithuanian were removed while you were CP just as well as they know that you did absolutely nothing to accomplish that and that the current administration organized eIreland's freedom.
You smoke a bag writing all that?
we've been discussing The Dublin Commune for 1/4year.
it took *many* bags to write this 😃