[GNIL4CP] Raise the Bar, Lower the Threshold
Gnilraps
I am excited to run for Country President again.
I want you to get as excited about it as I am. So for my first campaign article, I want to lay out some philosophical underpinnings about my Administration that I intend to treat as promises. This is what the Executive Branch of eUS Government is going to look and feel like for as long as you and I keep it going. 1 month? 2 months? 3? We’ll see. But my goal is to make such good work of it that we'll all want to keep things in place.
In a Gnilraps White House, the Executive Branch will not be populated by the following kinds of people:
Incessantly rude
Incurably stupid
Desparately lazy
Government that is serving its people cannot if it is rude, stupid, or lazy.
By raising the bar on what a Government worker looks and sounds like, eUSA stands a better chance of being a good environment for gameplay.
In a Gnilraps White House, the Executive Branch will take full responsibility for engaging the entire ingame eUSA community.
In fact, from day 1 you will begin to see changes in how we are conducting our affairs. For starters, you can expect the number of people involved in the Federal Government to increase. This is a game that thrives on activity, and it’s leadership’s job to make that happen. Our current system is being run by a very few people who are always readily available but who are not always proactive. eRepublik is a horrible game when it is on low idle. But when you press the throttle, there is much fun to be had.
By lowering the threshold for getting into Government, we will be increasing the overall activity level in eUSA.
In a Gnilraps White House, the Executive Branch will be committed to improving eUSA’s rankings among the world powers. We are capable of being a top-3 producer of damage in the skies. I want to make that happen. Starting on Day 1, eUSA will begin a long-term focused project to earn improve our already decent capabilities in Air Combat.
By raising the bar on Air Damage Output, eUSA will experience a substantive benefit in our Foreign Affairs and Pacifica will be that much more of a force.
In a Gnilraps White House, the Executive Branch will once more be committed to the education of eAmerican citizens. The game has seen a trickle of returning players recently, and my work with them has reminded me how much our game has changed in two years. New players can easily make small mistakes, returning players can easily make huge mistakes. We MUST have an active Education program at the National level, because critical mistakes lead to logouts.
By lowering the threshold for playing the game well eUSA positions itself to retain new and returning players.
So this is the philosophy of a Gnilraps White House:
Raise the Bar, Lower the Threshold
Raise the bar on every metric that makes us better.
Lower the threshold of every doorway into our community.
Raising the bar means expecting and achieving more excellence in what we do.
Lowering the threshold means eliminating roadblocks and stumbling stones.
Let’s make it a Gnilraps White House by electing me Country President on March 5th. And I vow to leave things in better shape than I’ll find them.
Keep watching as election day draws nearer for more information on all that we will plan to accomplish together.
And if you want to help raise the bar and lower the threshold of eUSA Government, Sign up here
You may now return to your regularly scheduled clicking.
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Raise the Bar
Lower the Threshold
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2665435/1/20
Gnilraps for CP
Not enough medals, idiot?
How about you run me for CP instead and then just tell me what to do? 🙂
eBabies Truth or Myth?
erepublik.com/en/article/2665397
I always collect the most comment spam.
I guess its not you its the article :/
I see what you are saying. I read your article earlier today and found it quite good.
o7
Did you see we got you some help? Emgg will be running tanks with ye
It's been slow lately. Help is always appreciated. Thanks!
Full Support, always fun when you're around.
What eRep needs is another DC4CP
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Would be cool, but for now, I don’t have many political friends, I’m too unstable.
you'll always have me
and me
Go for it, DC.
i'd vote for you
Full support my friend.
Hopefully you will make changes in several departments as well...best of luck!!
Well we've got a lot of work to do, don't we?
Trolling without insulting is a worthy challenge, lowering the threshold on what we be tolerated, while raising bar on what we be viewed as a good sTroll, I wholeheartedly endorse a new standard.
we = will
Indeed. Trolling is an art.
Lower my goddamned taxes
How much do you pay in taxes?
About $190 a day, which given the current climate means an effective 45% rate (I make food for my own consumption, I sell WRM and FRM and the current price x my production= roughly 400 per day)
The dollar amount may not be much, but the effective rate makes the difference between this game being fun as I get richer (and afford more weapons to fight more etc.) or just stagnate unable to get past the barrier the whales put up to keep people from growing.
At 2% I'd be taxed at about 33% and at 1% about 15%
You do realize the so called whales pay even more than that? I pay approximately 700 cc a day. Not sure if I qualify as a whale though. I WAM my factories in order to support and supply No Fed Left Behind and FediCare. I'm able to turn a tidy profit in spite of that and falling prices. This combined with generous donations from other "whales" ensures those two programs will be around to provide assistance for a very long time.
Do you honestly believe the current tax is in place to prevent you and others from growing? A nefarious plot to keep everyone down? Could it be more likely the rate is at 3% To ensure we'll be able to continue enjoying the best bonuses in eRepublik? It was not that long ago the debate was cutting taxes from 15% to 12% to 8% and so on. I fail to see anything sinister about 3%. I just don't.
So, it looks like my comment worked, taxes are lowered, and there's such a thing as marginal utility, as incomes are lowered each USD holds a higher marginal utility to the player, you may pay more, but you also produce much more. So for you to say "Well I'm paying more than you and it's not hurting me" ignores that.
And I don't even consider myself to be a poor player, maybe lower middle class, I can only imagine what it's doing to noobs.
Think of it this way, IRL if Bill Gates saw a $1 bill on the ground, it would have no real positive effect on his wellbeing if he stopped and picked it up, but unless you're some secret billionaire, it would to you.
Each dollar that is taken out from lower income players represents a greater loss than higher just as finding a dollar would benefit you more than Bill Gates.
That being said, I wouldn't support a progressive tax system (if it were even possible in this game) because higher and lower earning players shouldn't be divided into some sort of class warfare, but working together.
Full Support, always fun when you're around. x2
I expect your participation
Full Support, always fun when you're around. x3
This is exciting news.
I'm on board
That means a lot
Could be good. Could be bad. Depends on the people you take with you.
I put my name forward on your Google Form. Education and training are too important to be left to something as ad-hoc as the party or MU you join as a n00b.
Ilene has done this role before and excelled at it.
awesome.
o7
Love it, love you
Wooow M2G 💞 long no see
Hi!
Sounds great!
Sounds like a good plan.
Best of luck on the run.
Raise the Bar
Lower the Threshold
Gnilraps for CP
So, what is your plan exactly, for this "fun to be had"?
I'm gunna eat his ass
Why do you always get to have the fun?
honestly, my definition of "fun" is having stuff to do in and around the context of the eRepublik game itself. So figuring out ways to meet challenges like party growth, national growth, military growth... stuff like that I call "fun". For too long we've blamed Plato for ruining the game. Well he's not done us any favors. But he cannot be held responsible for how much energy WE inject into things.
My plan is to inject energy at every level I can.
I've got more to answer than that, but i'll wait until I'm voted in before I get too specific.
If you decide to vote elsewhere, I'll have to live with that.
I like fun. A return to the glory days would be awesome. Vote Gnilraps!
Full support! I promise I won’t even try to overthrow the government this time!