[CP] Manifesto part 2/3 : Foreign Affairs and Military
Day 895, 03:57
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by Apotygma
Hey
Welcome back to read my second manifesto (first one can be found here) , here is will talk to you about military and foreign affairs. Both are closely linked and essential to a country. As a neutral country, foreign affairs should be one of our main areas, talking with our neighbors and the big alliances, being aware of what is going on to be prepared. If something happens around us and that could threaten us, WE HAVE TO BE AWARE.
http://www.erepublik.com/images/parts/icon-law_valid.gif ">Improved embassy system
http://www.erepublik.com/images/parts/icon-law_valid.gif ">Presence around the world
http://www.erepublik.com/images/parts/icon-law_valid.gif ">Better relation with neighbours
Foreign affairs should become one of the main focuses of my administration. Only a few things happened this month, some embassies where settled in the countries around us, which is a good thing, but it is not enough. Having an ambassadors is just not enough, we need someone active on their forum that can warn us if something is said there about us. Someone that can interact, that will be on their national IRC and represent us. Just having a post saying : “Hello this is our government” is just NOT ENOUGH.
I would by this like to improve our embassy system. One person should only be responsible for 1 or 2 countries, and only 1 of our direct neighbors. A presence on their IRC is also mandatory, even if it is only to say ‘hello, I am ambassador of eBelgium, if you have any question, please ping or PM” and this every time you log in.
Secondly, we should have a presence on the forums of the great alliances. Phoenix have their official forum, but no Belgian has ever set foot there to ask for an ambassador mask. We need to be over there so that we can talk to them, same for EDEN. We are, again, not living on an island and a isolationist politic is not was this country needs !
http://www.stella-aviation-academy.nl/img/bullet_arrow_white_orange_right.png"> EDEN
http://www.stella-aviation-academy.nl/img/bullet_arrow_white_orange_right.png"> PHOENIX
http://www.stella-aviation-academy.nl/img/bullet_arrow_white_orange_right.png"> SOL
Military
http://www.erepublik.com/images/parts/icon-law_valid.gif ">Rebuild our military
http://www.erepublik.com/images/parts/icon-law_valid.gif ">Have fun
Currently our military force is inexistent and this is not good for us. We need to focus on the importance of increasing your rank, fight everyday and then heal. Increasing your rank is not only a way to improve, but also the best way to ensure that you are growing and protecting your country ! Having a highly trained military force will allow us the keep our stands and defend what we believe in. If we have no one to defend ourselves militarily, every single person that whishes will be able to invade us.
How can we improve this? For the moment, all this is under the condition that we have the financial means to do so, but my plan is to create military companies where people can work against minimum wage and get free guns every day. Some of our military would probably be sent abroad to produce iron, but also provided with free guns. This would allow them to increase their ranks rapidly and defend us when necessary. No deployments are planned as we didn’t join an alliance, but still possible if requested AND approved by our congress.
This system would of course require the reinstatement of a military force, with commander and squads. Better organized than it is now, obviously.
Secondly, we need to issue more military articles, even only to give orders, explain when the next battle will be or organize a strike. This is mostly for fun, but can bring people together and make them bond : which is my main goal ! My goal is to improve our average strength. It is only 3 at the moment making us rank among the lowest in the world. This should be improved through player retention and fun !
So this was it for the Foreign Affairs or military. If you have any question or comment, please feel free to write it in the comments and I’ll try to answer you as fast as possible.
Greetings
Apotygma
Candidate CP
May 2010
Welcome back to read my second manifesto (first one can be found here) , here is will talk to you about military and foreign affairs. Both are closely linked and essential to a country. As a neutral country, foreign affairs should be one of our main areas, talking with our neighbors and the big alliances, being aware of what is going on to be prepared. If something happens around us and that could threaten us, WE HAVE TO BE AWARE.
Foreign affairs should become one of the main focuses of my administration. Only a few things happened this month, some embassies where settled in the countries around us, which is a good thing, but it is not enough. Having an ambassadors is just not enough, we need someone active on their forum that can warn us if something is said there about us. Someone that can interact, that will be on their national IRC and represent us. Just having a post saying : “Hello this is our government” is just NOT ENOUGH.
I would by this like to improve our embassy system. One person should only be responsible for 1 or 2 countries, and only 1 of our direct neighbors. A presence on their IRC is also mandatory, even if it is only to say ‘hello, I am ambassador of eBelgium, if you have any question, please ping or PM” and this every time you log in.
Secondly, we should have a presence on the forums of the great alliances. Phoenix have their official forum, but no Belgian has ever set foot there to ask for an ambassador mask. We need to be over there so that we can talk to them, same for EDEN. We are, again, not living on an island and a isolationist politic is not was this country needs !
Military
Currently our military force is inexistent and this is not good for us. We need to focus on the importance of increasing your rank, fight everyday and then heal. Increasing your rank is not only a way to improve, but also the best way to ensure that you are growing and protecting your country ! Having a highly trained military force will allow us the keep our stands and defend what we believe in. If we have no one to defend ourselves militarily, every single person that whishes will be able to invade us.
How can we improve this? For the moment, all this is under the condition that we have the financial means to do so, but my plan is to create military companies where people can work against minimum wage and get free guns every day. Some of our military would probably be sent abroad to produce iron, but also provided with free guns. This would allow them to increase their ranks rapidly and defend us when necessary. No deployments are planned as we didn’t join an alliance, but still possible if requested AND approved by our congress.
This system would of course require the reinstatement of a military force, with commander and squads. Better organized than it is now, obviously.
Secondly, we need to issue more military articles, even only to give orders, explain when the next battle will be or organize a strike. This is mostly for fun, but can bring people together and make them bond : which is my main goal ! My goal is to improve our average strength. It is only 3 at the moment making us rank among the lowest in the world. This should be improved through player retention and fun !
So this was it for the Foreign Affairs or military. If you have any question or comment, please feel free to write it in the comments and I’ll try to answer you as fast as possible.
Greetings
Apotygma
Candidate CP
May 2010
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Yay for military! 🙂
Now that I've got that out of the way, good article. Mabe someone will finally take over one of my 5 embassies.
I <3 Elisha Cuthbert
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Good stuff, Apotygma 😉
Our low average strength is due to the high number of new citizens who joined in the last two weeks or so (the population in Brussels grew with 200+ people, and there are probably some who never managed to move from Flanders and Wallonia). But we really need to have some military orders - most young citizens don't understand right away when the battles start and how they are spread over two days, so they sometimes miss out on fighting chances.
Indeed, military orders and squad organisation are very important !
Good luck Apotygma !
Voted...
Another great manifesto from our (I hope) future Country President!
Good luck!
Heil Phoenix
Good luck mate!
Voted, goodluck !
My only concern is that a stepped-up ambassador program looks good on paper, but in practice it is difficult to find enough active people in eBelgium willing to do this - especially with the dedication you describe. Good luck anyway.
good luck
@Stilpo : I know it is ambitious, but necessary. I think you understand that 1 ambassador for 7 countries (like we have now) is barely possible and that change is needed. We can find people, we only have to advertise it right.
Zarsky publisched a news story to recruit new ambassadors this month and we didn't get a big response. But I suppose if we could get congress to financially support a more aggressive advertising campaign that might help a little.
I think we need to review our current arrangement for training wars. Training wars that start around 22 o'clock for RL Belgians are very bad. A lot of people aren't on their computers any more at that time and don't check their accounts in the morning before 9...
A training wars that starts around 19 o'clock would be much better for RL Belgians... as that is the group you are aiming for?
Good luck!
interesting.
About the military force, making soldiers work in companies can be a good idea but if you think about it carefully, you will realise that it's almost the same as letting each soldier buy his own weapons with his money. The main difference will be that old players will pay for the new ones with your system.
That can be a good exemple of solidarity but that may also prevent a lot of old players to join the army.
Also, you can usually get more weapons by working in a highly profitable company and buying your weapons with your income that just earning the weapons you built.
For exemple, I can create 7 weapons Q1 with my skill but taking into account that you will need another soldier working in an iron company to give the raw, I would only get 3,5 Q1 a day.
But since I work in a Q5 company, I can buy 5 Q1 weapons everyday.
@Talions : Wages in Belgium are very low, even I with a skill of 8.54 cannot pay for 5 Q1's a day here in Belgium, where I could buy somethig link 8 in Serbia.
@07Raul07 : we know it is a bad thing, we where looking into things with Venezuela, but things died out apparently. We can hardly do anything against it as we don't decide when they occure. The battles are chosen so that we have to spend the least money possible. We apologize for it, but can barely act as it is a word agreement (and for some others it is perfect).