[IRULE4POTUS] The Importance of Opportunity
irule777
I am running for President this month on a platform that is very heavily focused on domestic affairs, and I am proudly doing so. America needs a very domestically focused President now more than ever. While I promise that I will continue to put a large amount of work into ensuring we improve relations abroad and secure our nation and our overseas regions. It is essential that we pivot our focus a little bit more towards some important areas that have been widely neglected.
I think DMJ has done a wonderful job in many areas as President. I applaud him for a great month of service, but I am running because I have ideas for departments that desperately need work done. While I plan to continue the work he has done for this nation, this is a campaign about the ideas of the future, and I think it is essential that citizens vote based on what ideas they want to see next month.
When a new player starts into this game there is a feeling of being overwhelmed. Between companies, parties, messages, MUs, economics, politics, battles, and more, there is a lot to learn and a long way for them to go to get involved. We lose a lot of new players fairly quickly, and we probably always will. But if America is going to push itself to grow and become a better, more active nation, we have to do the best we can to keep these new players and to get them involved.
I talk a lot about retention, and yes, a lot of it is retention. Making sure new players have access to our strength programs, our food programs, different MU and party programs. Making sure new players have access to guides, the DoE website, the DoE forum, and more. These things need to be improved upon to start. This month the Departments of Education and the Interior did little in the way of posting articles and advertising these programs, and many new players find it very difficult to find them. Even with the DoE website. It is important these programs become better advertised through articles and the welcome committee which can give far more information than just the President’s new player message.
But on top of retention, there is a lot more. There is whether or not we give new players the full opportunity to become experienced players. Yes, some people do very well flying through the ranks on their own. Many parties and groups do make it easy. Nationally we do not, and we do not include everyone. It is essential that we provide new players the chance to get involved through things like the worker program, ambassador jobs, staff jobs on the cabinet, deputy roles, party jobs, and military unit jobs, as this is by far the best way to keep players in the game. Players who have jobs, who have a reason to get on everyday, and who feel like they are doing something important (and they are) are far more likely to come on IRC, to come on the forums, to run for congress, to present new ideas, and to run parties and MUs. America could use far more of all of that.
America could use more IRC activity, we could use more forum activity, more events, more games, more leaders, more competitions, and an overall better community, and there is no reason that we can not get there. Am I asking for the most active nation? Of course not. But am I saying we can do more? Of course.
This month I loved helping new players in the worker’s program. I loved seeing them come on IRC, I loved seeing them get involved in their parties and MUs, and I loved seeing several run for congress and do very well. There is no logical reason why this can not happen more often other than laziness and a lack of focus on the importance of providing these opportunities.
In the end, it becomes how we treat these new players, how we help them, and how we get them involved that determines largely whether or not they’ll keep playing and become part of the community many of us know and love. In the end, it starts with saying that we want these new players, we want their ideas, and we value the energetic nature of many of them that seems to annoy so many older players. To me, I see a younger future Secretary or President who is dripping with potential. Who is so excited to get involved that, for instance, they build a new Department of Education forum like I had one member do this month. This energy is not something we laugh at or try to calm, this is something we apply to the work that needs to be done. This is something we should be wishing we could bottle and inject into every cabinet member, because in the end, it’s something that can truly help our nation.
I hope America votes in a manner that can give players this chance. We have no ambassador program, we had a hard time coordinating jobs with the cabinet, we have little domestic activity in specific departments, we have a welcome committee that could have more staff and new player involvement, no one coordinating events and competitions, we have no strive to become that much better. And frankly, we should.
~On August 5th, vote Irule777 for President of the eUnited States of America.
Let’s refocus America’s attention on player retention~
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Whether Irule wins this election or not, I hope everyone takes something from these platform articles. The bottom line here is that we, as the eUS community, can do better. We can do more to help people get involved and keep them involved; we can do more to build this sandcastle we all play in. Right now, many of us (myself included) don't often go the extra mile for new players, but I have to stop and think, "Why not?"
Sure, what we have now is good enough, but should we strive to just be good enough? Good enough does not breed new ideas and new players that can change this mediocre game for the better. Whoever you vote for, for whatever reason, I hope you at least read this article and think about the solid points Irule has made in this campaign, stop, and try to do something great. Be better than good enough.
I mean, let's face it, in a game like this, where the admins consistently make bone-headed moves and mechanics favor he who buys the most gold over community builders and new players with potential, good enough might not be good enough for long.
Irule777 doesn't care if he is president or not to act on this plan, he offered me help as a young blood. I being new didn't know how to approach it, being the fool I am, I denied it. Now we still talk and we still work together.
Win or lose, these domestic programs are SUPER important. Too many new players get left out or left behind. As the Fed Fun/Retention Director and HAMMER Director, we try and fight this fight everyday. A national focus would be a huge step in the right direction.
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