[FT] Show me the money
AugustusV
Day 1,136 | December 31st, 2010
[FT] Issue #5 | Show me the money
Almost a month as passed since the new eCanadian Prime Minister, TemujinBC, stepping into power, and after much publicized campaign promises, FT has decided to take a look at how our politicians are dutifully keeping their promises.
The great barren wastela- wonderful nation of the North, eCanada, faced a new and "exciting" change back on December the 5th, 2010, when a Crimson took power as chief executive. All jokes aside, TemujinBC promised to be a wave of change, and having spent all his "apolitical career" in eCanada's largest "apolitical group", TemujinBC was set to show the government baddies what him and his e-biker comrades were capable of. My apologizes for not putting all jokes aside as promised, but I wanted to pull a TemujinBC.
26 days later and although eCanada is not teeming with virus-infected dioists, the situation is not better than before, in fact one could arguably (a politically-correct term for "basically") say that we're actually worse off than in November. Facts of course will be used most generously to declare any counter-argument invalid.
The Promises
Let us start simple, and go where all politicians make their debut: the platform. In a quick analysis, we've narrowed down the things TemujinBC had planned to do by January 5th alone:
1. Spend RL money to buy newspaper, tv, radio, etc ads for eRepublik. On one IRC convo the President-to-be said he would easily go up to 2000$ or more if needed.
2. Through promise #1 manage to raise the population to at least (the most conservative estimate possible) 8000 citizens by Jan 5th.
3. Create many charitable (or not) lottery draws and articles and somehow get these through unspecified means (most likely through sheer awesomeness alone no doubt) into the top 5 for all new players to be able to see.
4. Absolutely no changes to the value of the CAF unless his obviously-successful citizen growth plan works out.
5. Save up lots of gold.
6. End war with the eUK
7. Prevent Indonesia from taking over Australia
8. Invade Paraguay and take the Chaco region.
9. Resign from TCO
The Analysis
Early on you can quickly see that the proposed citizen population growth is at the focal point of the platform, if not the only part of the platform, with the rest being sloppily-put together plans to give the illusion of an actual platform and prevent the obvious realization that the player who is so fabled for spending tons of RL money to buy gold to fight in wars, will be spending tons of RL money again to do what no candidate possible can. Basically, the rest of the platform was totally unneeded as he was already unmatched even before he even wrote his 3rd proposal.
But in all fairness, let us look at what exactly has been accomplished, because it's a much shorter list than what hasn't been accomplished.
Social Platform
Frankly, it failed. Miserably. Let these charts explain better:
If you cannot see images well enough, either zoom in on your browser by holding CTRL and pressing the plus (+) button OR click on the images.
Figure 1: Population of eCanada during November 5th - December 4th (Fox Blutch's Term)
Notes: As you can see Fox experienced a nice boom in population near the end of his term, only to be unpleasantly knocked down back to where he started by the end. All in all, he never made grand promises about population if any, and the population was no better off before or after his term. In all fairness, eCanada lost some regions to eFrance and eUK near the end of his term even though Quebec had not yet fallen and all the provinces taken had in between 10-90 citizens.
Figure 2: Population of eCanada during December 5th - 31st (TemujinBC's Term)
Notes: We'll start off easy and state that eCanada was in turmoil when TemujinBC came to power, and population drastically fell when eCanada was being held hostage by Pheonix. However eCanada today has all her regions back, at even at their worst, eFrance only held Quebec for a little while, which means that all other provinces were utterly useless in terms of population. eCanada today has less citizens than Dec 5th, and is arguably is one of the lowest levels of population in almost two years.
Figure 3: Population of eCanada starting with Fox Blutch's term on November 5th, and ending on December 31st, near the end of TemujinBC's term.
Notes: I put a divider on December 5th, when TemujinBC became president to show the difference between the two months.
Where oh where are the "at LEAST 8000 citizens" by January 5th? Are they all coming on the 4th? Not only has TemujinBC failed miserably to reach his minimal target, but has managed to embarrass eCanada with one of the lowest populations in our history in times of peace. Lowest probably since we first passed that milestone way back in our early days as an e-nation.
The newspaper, tv, Radio, etc Ads
Frankly, they never happened. Miserable failure again.
TemujinBC never made any sort of "ad" for eCanada. The man who has spent hundreds and hundreds of REAL Canadian dollars buying eRepublik gold to fund for his personal glories in battle has utterly flopped on provide even 1$ of support for his proposed ad campaign, the one that none of the other candidates could match of course.
In a last ditch effort, Coda (not TemujinBC) has helped by making fliers. Fliers which WE are supposed to print out and paste everywhere we can to get people interested in eRepublik. Isn't that a dirty trick you'd say?
Also to fill in the last bit, there was not even one charitable (or not) lottery draw of any sort on the part of the administration, let alone "constant ones" even though I'd say this one was an easy win for the President. However Kronos Q did manage to create an excellent new player guide which of course TemujinBC has no part in making but a large part in boasting about it as his own creation.
To finish, this administration could rival that of Karsten Skeries who took over for a week or two as President after the infamous Rolo Tahmasee was impeached. It could rival it in being eCanada's most uncommunicative administration ever. Even Alias Vision and definitely Fox Blutch beat TemujinBC and that IS saying something.
The Economic Platform
What economic platform? Saving money?
Well if that can be considered a "plan", TemujinBC decided to blindly fulfill at least one of his "plans" so he savagely cut the Canadian Armed Forces budget (you know, the money to pay for weapons for our soldiers) exactly during the time we started getting invaded by eUK and eFrance.
Of course it didn't take long for us to start losing the war and for high members of the Canadian Armed Forces to threaten to go public in letting everyone know that they cannot fulfill their duty with limited funds. Thus TemujinBC had to go right back to spending every penny we had in the war. I'm not necessarily saying it wasn't money well spent, I'm just musing about another failure of his proposed plan for eCanada.
The Military Platform
We'll keep this one short too. We successfully ended the war with the eUK and TemujinBC successfully managed to quit the Crimson Canucks. Congratulations to the president for making 4th graders everywhere proud and completing two insignificant promises.
However, we did not obnoxiously invade Paraguay which would have been not only impossible to take over, but also maintain, and there was probably a joke with this proposal that I didn't understand. Also, Australia got wiped out by Indonesia.
To Conclude
I will not insult the reader's intelligence with any more obvious conclusions to TemujinBC's term as President. With that being said, I found it rather amusing that our President has also managed to be the most childish and unprofessional President we've ever had. Of course, all this arrogant and obnoxious acting was because TemujinBC was sure we'd all make him our idol after lifting our nation to glory. All we got though was the douchness. I want my money back.
In real life Brazil, a former clown ran for Congress this year to mock politicians and managed to get landslide support. TemujinBC may have gotten landslide support for his Presidential bid in virtual Canada, but it seems the joke's on us. Again.
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Octavian_F is the CEO of the Investment Bank CIBC, eCanadian congressman, and Chief Editor of the Financial Times.
Comments
voted before reading
Show me the money! \o/
Haters will always hate!
I love you, Octavian.
Vote TemujinBC on January 5th
I just feel in love with Octaivan_F
If you put same amount of efforts on the battlefield then you spend searching bugs, Canada would never lose a single battle...
Has some points but is overly biased like only Octo can be. Obviously the country ahd to save gold as a plan after the left and had to find any and all means possible to build a stack of it.
Not sure what punishments Rolo was given for crippling the nation but they should be inforced. TCO supporting someone like that is a mockery t what TCO mainly CC used to stand for.
Biased? Not at all, I voted for TemujinBC on December the 5th. There is lots of sarcasm, but all of it is deserved I'd say after so much ego was poured into the Presidency this month.
I never said it was a bad plan to save money, I just said how it failed and how it was implemented exactly at the worst time and then allowed to simmer for a bit and throw the CAF High Command into rage.
And TCO created, and supported TemujinBC. That should speak for itself.
"Even Alias Vision and definitely Fox Blutch beat TemujinBC and that IS saying something."
Oh god, I cried.
Shudda supported penguin... oh wait i did : P
^ Penguin was truthful at least:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/penguin-comic-hey-look-penguin-is-running-for-congress-major-update--1495367/1/20
Good idea comparing Fox's term against Tem's to date re: population, the same occurred to me the other day.
Alas, even though your point are correct and thought-out, the Crimson kids likely won't have their opinions changed
Voted. TemujinBC is a Joke o/
You have valid points, so i am not going to claim youre biased or whatever. But i have a feeling the analysis wouldve been different if Tem wasnt in TCO. But thats just opinion.
Haters will always hate! x2
But in all seriousness i respect your opinion and the fact you took so much time and effort into this, keep writing ; )
Damien, do you remember how I wrote about Jacobi or WD, etc? It's what I do to people in power who do stuff I don't like.
I really don't have anything against TCO, I just have an issue with connecting the government to TCO without TCO making any concessions on their part however I still respect a bunch of people from TCO and I am not against the organization itself. When I was part of it however, it was different, and I do not like the new types of things they are doing, especially in influencing politics, but that is a totally different debate.
Thanks for the commentary.
Wow...
Ah Yes, Valid point. Like i said that was just my humble opinion, wasnt an accusation ; )
Happy New Year BTW! : D
All in all it's a quite good summary. However, there's a little mistake in it. Coda made those posters only because she was paid by Tem with real money. I'm not sure if he did more to advertise eRep and eCan.
Anyway, isn't it always the same? Politicians promise wonders, mostly unreal things and even if they try to achieve them (rarely), they fail. We shouldn't be surprised.
PS I voted nea milosu
Moo!
And the worst thing that has come out of all of this? TemujinBC is running for president of eCanada again... 😕
Don't look now, but its starting to look like half of eMexico has moved here - wish they stop taking job offers and working at low wellness
Maybe there should be an eMexico Ghetto in eCanada
VOTED
Baters gonna Bate
Tem has been working hard for eCanada. I want to see you work, apparently you are too lazy to hand out fliers. This is not a one-man job, this is a group effort.
Also, how about you pay hundreds of real money fighting for eCanada. Don't attack somebody for not doing something when they are doing much more than you will ever do.
TemujinBC is on IRC up to indecent hours, he spends a BUCKETLOAD of personnal money on this game and instaured some very good atmosphere.
Haters gonna hate 😛
Working hard or hardly working eh supabeasty?
LMAO, my joke of the day! Thanks Octavian_F, "Congratulations to the president for making 4th graders everywhere proud and completing two insignificant promises." xD!!
The graphs were well presented but I feel dumb because I can't tie in the title of the article with its content. You want him to spend more money? wha?
the pictures were very nice! Tip of my hat to you good sir
Graphs make stuff true! It's a Fact!
Plugson, it would help for some proof of the "money" he spent on real life ads for this game. Cmon out of all people I expected you to understand that much. Also, "show me the money" is a well-known money cheat in the original Starcraft, lol. \o/
The graphs are good, but a graph showing how many Canadians think Tem is a butt will be even better.
Yesterday, 67% of the Canadian population thought Tem is a butt.
meant 69%
Saltywolf? are you sure your not Fingercat?
octo have u goton starcraft 2 considering u know the money cheat?
it was good at first but got stale after the second campaign playhtough and the multilayer was not that exciting
Thanks for explaining the title, Octavian. I never really played Starcraft much but I was leaning towards the RL money for ads side of things.
Another thing I remember was a multi farm explosion about a month ago. There was that article explaining how to get to Level 15 in one day. It sparked off a fake babyboom, as I recall. Was that factored in?
speaking of multibooms, hello there mr. wolf and welcome to the team
No it was not factored in and I did not necessarily suggest that it is TemujinBC's fault that our population has fallen however given his "conservative" estimates of at least 8000k citizens by Jan 5th to "help lift eCanada to glory" the plan failed so bad we couldn't even prevent falling population let alone get anywhere near 8000 citizens.
He promised things which no one could beat because he promised RL money. I saw this as a heavily undeserved CP win unless he actually pulls through with that promise, and I will continue to hound him until he does.
I voted penguin. then when penguin wasn't there, I voted for a pokemon.
I always thought our president should be somebody more... respectible. suit-and-tie kind of guy. tem is the guy who shows up to an important office meeting in his gym suit. That, and his promises felt unrealistic, even before you showed me how horribly they failed.
Who cares. You've got way too much time.
hey octavian, how many elections have you failed in again?
You can hardly blame the population level on Temujin, Octomom
Hey Scorpius, how many elections have you run in again?
just proves that to spend money on a PC game is pretty stupid, considering the odds that the money someone just spent will be effective and worth it.
Too many green arrows.
We all know there is only one Green Arrow.
http://thefaust.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/green-arrow.jpg
ive run in several, but not in a while. and ive actually won most of them. can the same be said for you?
Well Scorp seeing as how I won every congress race since I won my first one almost 2 years ago then I'd say we're on the same leve. However I wouldn't really consider that such a "big achievement". I know you like to praise your mediocre political career but really now, have you ever had the balls or courage to participate in multiple CP races as I have? Could you come up with a platform? Face the opposition?
When you do, you can scoff at my runs, until then, you're impressing nobody.
...... wait this is an article about your candidacy?
i couldnt even tell seeing as it was buried underneath a bunch of pathetic trolling and an excessive amount of graphs, but hey the fact that youre running makes things even more entertaining!
best of luck to you!
You obviously couldn't distinguish anything that your teenage mind does not like as anything but "trolling".
Also, you can't say anything about the fact that you run your mouth about things you know nothing about i.e. running for President.
actually australia didnt get wiped out indonesia just took 3 states at the moment and tem did help get it back whole for a short period of time