The Rylde Effect
Rylde
I've been sitting here staring at the computer drinking beer occasionally scampering to the bathroom to smoke cigerettes while my pregnant GF plays fallout new vegas wondering WTF to do.
I'm not a bad guy and I don't want to be. I wish to be fair about safeguarding our nation
Having a dictatorship has always been my dream. In Dec 2010 me, Muglack and powerown created the Military dictatorship party as screw you to mechanics. It was all about who's going to make trouble against the ruling order. Who's coming with us for fun and activity. Now after all these years its finally being realized.
The game doesn't have the mechanics for a true Dictatorship knob.
Anyone that's ever been in the MDP grew up with those words being thrown in our faces. I won't laugh about it as it took over 4 years of waiting. We can't laugh because it took so long and were still here.
Just want to say since its birth MDP is and has always been here without PTO or name change. (Sasha and Aeriala don't count go screw a goat)
This drinks for you Muglack...Cheers
Miltary plans
If you saw my article a few weeks ago I outlined how I would be a very boring peacetime president. I'm sorry to say I'm not coming in guns a blazing advocating war and entertainment for you as a dictator.
Can you blame me, this endeavor just cost me 200k.
I'll be moving forward with a very conservative plan of rebuilding the govt coffers for defence. Sorry but after so much war and spending we need our cooldown period. We'll sign MPP's so MU's have something to fight for and start counting coppers.
Rylde's Wants
The 200k I had on stand-by in Cordis Die was for the defense of the country. I'll be using taxes to replace 100k which will be replaced back into the MU for the exact same reasons. Its was alot of money and its fair as I plan on trying to be fair holding this position.
I'll be dictator for 2 months with an option for a 3rd month. After that elections rule and I'll step down.
Rylde wins the game!!!
That could easily be the title to this article and you would all have to suck it until you raised 200k cc to fight me.
Political Module
What we have up there is an open page to write. I enjoy the infighting and the disgusting politics of this nation. There's no way I will let that die.
Congress
Congress has always been a bit of a joke. Fighting for players to be active, join the forum and vote when required. We barely meet quorum anymore even when its something important. Now we can be done with that and make it what it always was. A cash grab.
The govt will pay every elected congressmen 5 gold in CC every month under my watch. It will make party politics relevant to a degree. You will support a party and get your friends money but have nothing to vote on.
Party Presidents
Being a party president has always been a thankless job in this game. I want to change that under my dictatorship.
The party presidents of the top 5 parties will receive 10 gold in cc after elections.
Democracy is not dead.
11 Vote system
An in game pm will be created to vote on national affairs.
Under my rule all commanders of the top 5 MUs will receive 1 vote.
I can't base a top 5 MU's soley on damage, membership matters
Current top 5 MU's
#1 Cordis Die
#2 CoI
#3 Pickles
#4 Nights watch
#5 CAF
It comes down to a mix of membership size and damage output. Will be reviewed every 15 days.
Under my rule all Party presidents of the top 5 in game parties will receive 1 vote.
Dictator will receive one vote.
All votes will be honored
No Govt laws will even be proposed until a majority vote is achieved.
Votes can be stacked by position.
Taxes
We want our defensive bubble and politics so i'm sorry to say Plato can't pay the bills, we'll have to. I'll have a sit down with our smart minds and i'm guessing 8 MPPs plus our politics payouts will put us around 7-10% in taxes. Drunken estimate.
Comments
Peacetime-Rylde with reins firmly in hand is going to be interesting to see.
o7
Very interesting proposal, creating your own congress of sorts. I take it that the top 5 political parties will be as determined in game, based solely by membership? Will the same be true of MUs or will you use the ingame ranking that is based solely on opponents killed the previous day? Will that change day to day if an MU manages to spike it's kills into the top 5? Or will this be a running average sort of thing? I'm just wondering how you plan to implement your council.
Military Republik, did you read Miccivellis book by any chance?
I find this entertaining, and I'm not even Canadian.
Also, I know it's not your intent, but you know, if you do happen to get wiped, there's no way for anybody to unseat you until you're back on the map.
The game isn't fun unless you have people to play with so there's no reason to abuse what I've been given.
Yep, and for what it's worth, I agree with your idea to make being PP more rewarding, and in general, I like the idea of a dictatorial commission.
Honestly, I'm looking forward to seeing how this will work out for you. Done well, it could be a lot more efficient and interesting than the limited democracy eRep has been up till this point.
Good to see. Will be interesting for a while.
PTO of the CPF and then Dictator of all Canada... it's been a good month to be Rylde.
endorse my article and I'll give CPF back
You resign, it goes to Rolo.
Lead us Rylde!
This is how the game should be played, ladies and gentlemen.
Hm, sounds interesting.
Interesting but a copout from a so called "dictator"
I kind of honestly want to see you be the true dictator you claim to be and just take 100% control over everything.
Do what you do best and make the game fun and interesting for us.
Do not let "us" impede the fun you want to provide for us.
Also why resign? Losers resign 😛 Be the dictator. Be the man until you eDie lol
You hop around like a frog in a blender.
Ha ha.. Would the frog be able to hop though? I don't think it would get a single hop off once you push the button. Even if you don't it wouldn't be able to hop much due to how cramped it is.. Also the blades would cut its tendons pretty badly making it crippled..
How terrible of a thought Pickle.. You are a horrible horrible person lol
Traitor dicktator
I grow the strongest off whiner tears.
This has been, for some time now, a war game. Democracy doesn't work very well in war time. Having 40 people bicker and whine when action is required doesn't work. Some of the best months in eCanada have been when the country was wiped and the CP alone lead the country. This may finally be the fix that stops us from ripping the country and each other apart.
I look forward to Rylde's reign as Dictator, both as the potential for a positive change and for something finally new in what had become a stale game.
7-10. Welp, that ends WAMing daily.
7 not so much, we were doing 5 before the wipe. 10 is a bit much, if set too high it's counterproductive as everyone quits working and revenue falls off.
I know from experience that 10 is too much - I left the eUS precisely because of the 10% WT. The really irritating thing is that this increase appears to be due to the promise to pay Congressmen their 5g - the whole benefit of dictatorship is no more Congress
I don't know if it is for the gold or to build our reserve faster.
and they dont even vote on this? just pick a number. all politicians should be given 100 rubber plantations and after 30 days if their still successful they should be given a chance to run the country.
Biggest of hues my friend.
o7
You should have two votes rather than one as Dictator. 😛
Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither in fact was Macedon. You have my Pike Phalanx my friend o7
May we live in interesting times.
The King is dead.
Long live the King!
Just like in real life, politics is just a load of bollocks
I think this is great. I know we talked about this kind of thing on IRC on more than one occasion and the fact that it finally happened is fantastic.
I've been around for a long time and I played this game side by side with the eCanadian Hall of Fame.
In the Pantheon of eCanada's greatest players I don't think any of them would be more suited to the title of "Dictator" than you are.
Plugson could write an article, Crisfire can manage people and resources, TemujinBC could get people to push a wall, Jacobi could spot talent, Scorpius (through Citizen😎 could grease palms, and TFD could champion a cause, But at the end of the day I don't think any of them would have had what it took to push that button.
We haven't always seen eye to eye, but at the end of the day we've always had eachother's backs and after years and years of waiting I'm glad that this game, which you have dumped so much of your time and effort into, had finally given you the chance to achieve the one thing you never thought possible.
Now do us all a favor and don't F%^& it up.
I would endorse this comment with 25cc.
~hyuu~
Congrats. Well deserved after fighting for many years.
I'm happy to be a part of the journey.
Greatness has been granted. The glory is yours.
such a suck up.....lol
I see what you did there.
Love it. This is creative and different. Let's see if it will work well.
Good luck!!
Good luck. Will be interesting to watch from down here o7