ADP - Some thoughts... Actually, quite a lot of thoughts...

Day 2,898, 18:57 • Published in Australia Australia • by Mongoosier


Greeting, fellow Australians!

I was going to reply on some other media threads with my usual insightful and cutting wit (surely, “boring and pointless inanities”? – Ed) but the more I typed the more I thought this might be worth a little article of my own. And by “little” I mean massive so apologies in advance.

Let me first declare an interest: I’ve been ADP since Dr Hugh lazarused this party long, long ago. It’s been up, it’s been down but it’s been my party.


During that time, I’ve been one of the worst PPs of it the game has ever seen, I’ve spent some hard hours, (well ok, minorly inconveniencing seconds) writing articles, helping with food drops, and so on.

It’s my party. Why?



There are two principles that have been the foundation of the ADP since its relaunch:

The first one is free weekly food drops to all members to help keep the fight going. Most senior members refuse this but when I was starting out in the game this was hugely helpful and I hope it is to our newer members these days.

The second one is the most important though – we are the party of the young player. By this we mean that everything we do is with an eye on youth development – kinda like my football team Everton but the ADP do it because we believe it’s the right thing to do and good for the future of Australia, not because Bill Kenright has been singularly unsuccessful in his increasingly desperate efforts to find a rich Sheikh or deranged American to buy the bloody thing off us.

I digress.

But I think this second principle is hugely important – and from the debates and arguments around this country so do most people here.

So, it saddens me to see my party being maligned in the media by others.

Although I did love the one about KH “selling its sole” to the ADP.

Rather more this:



Than the presumably intended this:



Unless this is an attempted pun on the fishy nature of our PP in which case cracking work, RD.

To (finally) work up to the point of this article… it seems the recent success of the ADP is being put down to sinister forces. That we somehow have evil intentions and by our landslide victory in the recent election is down to some hideous and perverse attempt to hoodwink the people and steal the country by stealth.

Well, apart from the fact that we have a Dictator, meaning that even if we had a Putinesque 120% of the registered vote we wouldn’t have any sexy buttons to press, I’m not buying that for even an instant, so I thought I might set out an alternative narrative.



As the official Lurking Menace (thanks JT) of the ADP, I’m privy to all high level discussions in the party, as well as some very, very low ones. So let’s just take a couple of random stats from the last few months of ADP PM threads:

Number of times an ADP member has insulted Guag in a childish and spiteful way, to which Guag has responded by threatening to send naked photos of himself: 83

Number of times an ADP member has tried to gather support for or create a sinister cabal intent on destroying eAustralia from within: 0

Number of times I’ve had to say the words, “sorry I’ve not been around much for reason – back now and can’t be bothered to read all the threads so what have I missed?”: 114

Number of times an ADP member has suggested we usurp the chosen and elected leaders of up eAustralia, slaughter the entire Cabinet and seize power in a coup so bloody it makes the October Revolution look like a teddy bears’ picnic: 0

So what else could the explanation be?

Could it be that we are doing our bit for our country? Making and sticking to some simple clear political ideals designed to foster growth and engagement amongst new players?

Let’s take a look!

JDS – the greatest and sexiest new player scheme in the eWorld! Yes, I may be slower than a week in jail at getting the admin done, but this is still a fantastic scheme. From memory this amazing endeavour has been run by an ADP member ever since I rejoined the game a year or so ago

Nooby Tuesday – a weekly article (doing the job of the seemingly non-existent DoEE) helping new players find their feet in the game and helping them out with food on top of that. That’s run by an ADP member too!

Young players in Congress? Well, this is kinda subjective but if we use level as a proxy for age (not quite true with the experience blockers we have now but as close as I can get) then we have four members from D1 in our Congress group of 12 (33😵 compared to four out of 20 from other parties combined (20😵. Not bad, not bad. I’ve LOADS of other stats on this btw – don’t make me unleash them 🙂

The Mentor Scheme for new players? I’m not part of this anymore, mostly because most players when they reach level 8 have a greater grasp of game mechanics than I do, but when I was last involved this was mainly being run again by… ADP members, including being led by one. This may be true now, it may be not – let me know if it’s not. But in the time I was involved it certainly was true so the point stands.



Let’s look at something else, maybe activity? We are constantly bemoaning the apathy of so many in this country. Well, it’s been a lot bloody worse over the years, but yeah it’s not great. But once I hit the button on this rambling tripe, out of 12 articles in the Aussie media there will be seven from ADP members – 58% of the content.

Compare and contrast with a whopping one article from the Government – and that the DoD daily orders rather than anything more illuminating or insightful.

Let’s leave it there as this is far too long already and I can’t be bothered to upload more images to break it up but I can assure you that the vast majority of discussion in the ADP threads is about how we can better serve new players – whether ADP or any other political affiliation – and to further our great nation, rather than how many used tenners to stuff into the latest brown envelope to facilitate another shady back room deal.

I’m not saying that we are the only party doing something to move this country forward. There are a few others out there who are getting off their arses too so good on you.

But let’s just say if all parties did as much for this country as ours does this would be a better place.

TL/DR: ADP TILL I DIE!
Mongoosier