[FED] No Perfect Plan Unfurls

Day 2,627, 20:40 • Published in USA Japan • by Nohime

Anyone remember this header? It was such a gem; still is.

tl;dr?

I see the parts but not the whole
I study saints and scholars both
No perfect plan unfurls
Do I trust my heart or just my mind
Why is truth so hard to find in this world? - Thrice

You know what else is hard to find in this world? Writing. If you’re thinking about writing you’re already working too hard. With that being said I’ll just let it flow like Elsa in the snow lets it go. I’m pretty much shameless anyway.

In the past I used to write for the Federalist Press. I reviewed my past contributions and lets just say my material was pretty generic at times. I bought article votes a lot and eventually that’s all my writing became. But what it taught me well was how to tell a story. And for this FPR, I shall.

Its been a while since I addressed the Federalists as a whole, Dio knows my fellow SHIELD members wish I would shut the f*ck up sometimes, but these past few months, since I turned over Command of SHIELD to nick bergman, have been enlightening to me. For those who didn’t know I took a trip abroad to eUK. I had an idea to try and see what I could do to alleviate the friction, or rather, mend the bonds that have been broken for so long with our brothers and sisters across the pond. The only thing tying eUSA to eUK was a MPP; and that was barely held by a thread. We had no alliance affiliation because most of the world NAP’d Asteria, eUK was bitter about eUSA ‘abandoning’ them, and there was little to no communication between the two countries. The only link over the past couple years was through an alliance called Sirius...and look where that got everyone. It was rather disconcerting that this butthurt still was so deeply embedded in the current eUK regime, but I did not let that get me down. I had worked with some of SHIELD’s leaders to see if we could start an overseas organization that would work to bring unity to both nations and see if we could make reparations for the butthurt or, if I’m being nice, ‘neglect’ that was immediately apparent as I dug into the politics. Most of eUK speaks English so why not give it a whirl?



Little did I know that a megalomaniac was running a tiny country with puppet presidents, while he beguiled his citizens and other miscellaneous ‘leaders’ with his never ending CO’s. As I had made good friends with several members in the UKPP (the second largest political party in eUK) eventually some of my ideas panned out, but were met with swift haste in threatening tones and labels that my presence there was a PTO. Call it what you want it, I’m a f*cking alcoholic… tl;dr I appeared to have abused my welcome there and immediately attracted a horde of eUK PTOers, or what we Americans would call “Ajay’s”, into the ranks of STRIKE (the new MU initiative) and the UKPP. I had painted a target on my new friends and was swiftly chastised and exiled for this.

Its too bad this happened the way it did because it honestly sounded good in discussions, but it definitely gave me some valuable perspective on what is most important about SHIELD, and especially The Federalist Party. I have neglected the party, and the MU. I’ve realized I have a place here in USA and that is to first and foremost help all players who I come into touch with. This leads directly into what SHIELD MU has been working on the past month:

SHIELD Command has gone through a re-imagining of the HAMMER program. Although HAMMER was a great program, and had many success stories come from the graduating classes, we have felt that the program is entirely too constrictive to a player’s development. And it is entirely geared towards strength training; almost suffocating a player to irrelevant tasks that don’t benefit the party as well as the player.

SHIELD is The Federalist Party’s Military Unit. Unfortunately, it has neglected to consistently and completely foster the political realm of its existence; I blame myself because the program lost that ‘pop’ since the days BamaBettie ran the program with crashthompson as her supporter. All this time and dedication to the program has not directly been spent maximizing its resources in creating fully optimal soldiers as well as Federalists. This is also inclusive to a player’s development through meta game. Basically, 90% of eUSA’s erepublik takes place outside of the actual game itself through National forums, IRC, email, etc. HAMMER was not focused on these important aspects of the game and this is certainly no one’s fault: it was an opportunity we addressed as we learned what came out of our 2014 HAMMER babies. Going forward SHIELD plans to produce more Federalists in the process of developing a future soldier at the same time.



What happened to the current HAMMERS from the 2014 class?

As we close this chapter of the great book of HAMMER [in 2014], I want to recognize the final class of participants of the first iteration of HAMMER.

* Private Supersillygecko (Chandlerz12345) and Private Thomas Killah only recently joined HAMMER and, yet, while their stays were short, we hope they've come away with a passion for the game and a desire to stay with the program in it's newest form.
* Private Bryan Sime and Private Mr. Self Destruct joined in the same class of late November and have since increased their strength by 672 and 962 respectively!
* Finally, Sergeant Arg_ha, Sergeant Irene Scafidi, and, myself, Captain Orikfricai, all joined way back in August and we're still banging around. We've increased our strength by 2524, 2339, and 3744 respectively!

As the Assistant Director and oldest, current member of HAMMER, [WookyJack and] I hereby graduate all of these players listed and, with a heavy heart, close this chapter in the HAMMER history books. We look forward to seeing what direction HAMMER goes and given its rich history and tradition and the bright minds here at the Federalist Party and SHIELD, I know the next chapter in HAMMER will be its best yet! - Orikfricai

✓ Why is The Federalist Party different from other parties?

Answer: The Federalist Party is different from others because it has always had the goal of recruiting new active players and helping them rise through the ranks so we intentionally have continuous turnover. Having the same people running everything for months and years just simply doesn’t provide the party or the country with anything useful. Having a large base of people you can look to is far more productive and honestly makes people happier. Now with that said if you don’t want to rise past a certain point we won’t pressure you to but we will still ask you on occasion in case things change. Never fear talking to anyone in our party leadership as we are always willing to help those both old and new alike.

If this is something you can get behind or one day lead yourself, then come on over. We’re pretty accepting just in case our large numbers appear overwhelming.
http://fedparty.forumotion.com/t2-introduce-yourself-and-gain-access-read-first

✓ Have you not seen your buddy in a while? Want to meet someone new?

Friend a Fed.
http://fedparty.forumotion.com/t7401p15-friend-a-fed-program#159528

✓ Interested in joining the SHIELD Military Unit? Come on over. We bite, but not hard.
http://fedparty.forumotion.com/t5257-s-h-i-e-l-d-military-unit-access-requests



That’s all for this press. Blame Jude, my boss, if you didn’t like this.

Otherwise, in the words of an old dead frien😛

Stay Thirsty My Friends. - Gulden Draak

Director of all things written awesomely; Jude Connors ☮
Some deputy who writes sh*t when he finally gets around to it; Wooky Jack ☣

These are the words.
This is our flag with our colors.
Fly it high, fly it proud and ofc, fly it horny.