Unifying Citizen Damage
Gnilraps
Military Dept
Day 1,308 of the New World
"...and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming..."
— Tom Waits
As an Easy Company member and journalist, I want to suggest the following proposal to our Nations Military specialists. I want to talk about DoD.
The current DoD orders paper lists much good information, and provided it is kept up-to-date, it is our best hope (other than a script) for getting orders into the hands of the populace, and for drawing them into deeper military involvement. We all know the major damage is being done by the formal militaries and militias with their highly organized infrastructures and communications channels. But directing citizen damage is important, even if only for the sake of morale.
I propose the following nuances be added to our current National protocol. The aim is to maximize our National response to DoD orders.
(Note: all times quoted will be eRep system time. The times chosen are a suggestion, the clocks can be adjusted based on the informed wisdom of our National Defense Team)
~~~~~Citizens should be requested to put themselves on a 0700, 1400, and 2000 “damage clock”. In other words, Citizens should be guaranteed that DoD orders will be updated at those times, and they should attempt to save their fights until those times, after which they spend their damage and reset their health clocks.
~~~~~DoD should further assign battles a priority according to the following parameters, Priority 1: do not work in any company, train, then spend your entire health allotment on damage; Priority 2: Work in your companies first, then fight. Additional accommodation can be made to ask citizens to hold damage until some later time if it is somehow strategic to ask that.
~~~~~DoD orders should be cross-published in all Media Categories. It takes less than 2 minutes to copy/paste the BBCode into a fresh newspaper page, then publish it in another Media category. A citizen should find DoD regardless of what Media Category he/she clicks into. Once there are 6 copies out there (it takes 60 minutes’ wait between publications) it will not be hard to put them on a rotation for being refreshed. The Media Module offers very liberal options for editing, not just content but title also. It is not difficult to maintain a top presence in all 6 categories at all times provided you keep getting the votes. I can share details of how this should be coordinated if anyone cares to ask.
~~~~~All military personnel should be ordered to vote for DoD orders – in all 6 Media categories. Again, this takes mere moments, but will guarantee DoD the top Media spot it deserves – at least in such dire circumstances as the present.
~~~~~Part of DoD orders should include actually voting for DoD orders.
~~~~~National give-away programs such as Bewbs 4 Newbs and Arm America should offer bonuses during special “Hot Zones” – for instance during the 30 minutes leading up to the 3 main changeovers (0700, 1400, 2000), thus further focusing the Citizen damage such as it is. Citizens requesting supplies during these times get extra.
These changes woul
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~~~~~give DoD some more detailed control over directing citizen damage,
~~~~~give citizens a sense of participation, possibly drawing many into military membership of some kind,
~~~~~dramatically increase readership of DoD,
~~~~~hold DoD accountable to have updated orders,
~~~~~unite our Citizenry around National Defense,
~~~~~increase participation in our National Media,
~~~~~ensure that our Citizenry is part of a highly organized communications system that can be made available for other emergencies that may arise (such as evacuation orders).
I humbly request that the aforementioned changes be discussed at the highest levels as soon as possible, and unless a better plan is proposed, that this one be implemented.
Gnilraps,
16 Shells
Media Professor of the Federalist Academy,
EZCompany Journalist
Former Federalist Party President
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Voted. I'll be sure to start shouting DoD Orders again.
It should also be simplified. It is too busy and might prove overwhelming for newbies. Make the Orders banner smaller and leaner, same for the the clickable banner battles.
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If the DoD orders had links to the JCS military like it used to , I might consider reading/voting it again... Hell I'd be happy to vote it if Glove held true to his deal of putting it back in for damage we did... but until that happens, I'll just keep following JMO's and leave the DoD paper to the congressional military.
It also needs to be updated more and have a LOT less graphics. Copying the style of the UK/Serbia's orders was a poor step. Complicates it way way too much. Strip it down, keep it up to date.
It now does Relorian.
Hot stuff for sure
Yes to exact times they will update the DoD! Tangible times helps direct citizens damages more effectively.
Pick anything above this comment, anything.
Pickle agrees 110%. Especially agree with Relorian. Now is not the time to let petty jealousy and bickering distract us. The whole JCS affair should be put behind us NOW in the interests of national security.
One tiny thing I would do MORE than Gnilraps suggests, turn Arm America completely on to the max. Any American citizen that request food and arms gives their amount of hp's to recover, they get max food and weaps for that amount of hp's. The money's there, CBO can release it with Congressional approval. CBO can choke on all the money in the treasury if we are over run. That's one of the reasons that reserve is there. SPEND IT! DO EEET!!
its funny how Relorian is still angry about his organization turning into a militia.
We are pretty much past that, Relorian. Catch up with the times.
Stop trolling figs. Contribute something about the article which is about DoD orders. Otherwise, find another venue for your trolling. At least Relorian offered alternatives. You provide none.
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Great read Gnilraps.. excellent ideas and very well laid out. As Pickle said it was right on point, especially the Arm America part. Giving out food at the specific times would be a great way to get people on a specific time/fighting cycle.
Figs, dont you have anything better to do than fail at trolling? I mean hell you tried trolling Peffifer to no effect, your troll here is worse than that.
Where are you militia boys? I mean you talk a good game about being organized, doing good things and yet when I look at the battles its either unaffiliated players or the same hand full of people laying down the damage.
Few more suggestions: JCS military run Orders that publish the JMO's in game so we have something to vote/reply to.
More Updates to DoD orders, Less "Editing in" orders. Publish at least once a day then update, not just update yesterdays orders.
Encourage more Two clickers to fight, Yes Boobs for Newbs and AA are great programs but the new players and the two clickers I've talked to either dont know about the programs or dont use them or get less than others get because they dont care for IRC.
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@Relorian: really think that the DoD is our best chance to reach the newbs. It's how I originally figured things out almost 2 years ago, and I dare say it had a lot to do with most of us figuring things out at one time or another.
I think the Media Module blows, but it is still able to function if worked properly.
Wow, deja vu all over again. Still worthy ideas.
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