[MoHA] New minister, same issue
Ministerie van Media en Recrui
Citizens and other readers,
I, Flando, have been named Minister of Home Affairs of the eNetherlands by President Odan.
There has been a lot of work to do for my ministry, of which the most important is: education. Lately, this has been less and less important, since there are basically no new people joining.
The MoHA has a bigger problem, the biggest problem of the whole of the eNetherlands, in fact. Our big issue is our active player base.
We do not have enough people to fill our congress, and those who get in it, do not vote on laws. Most of our proposals do not meet the required quorum.
This problem is ofcourse game-wide, and not solvable by a minister, since game mechanics and a fleeting player-base create the problem.
Does this mean your government will look our nation and community die out? Never!
I have made it my task as MoHA to find ideas to counter our problems with any means. I'll need ideas, and everyone that has one should let me know. It does not matter how weird your idea might sound, we need imput.
Let me know how you think we can make the game fun again for our community, reply to this post or send me a PM.
What do I plan to do about it as of now?
1: I'm currently trying to organise a big conference of nations with the same problem. It might be they have ideas. We need to get together.
2: I want to form a group of thinkers, a group of people trying to think of a solution. This group will not be political, nationality will not matter.
Last but not least: I can Always use a State Secretary in my ministry. Do you want to help out in the government? Send me a message. This also counts for the new players, this can be a great way to get involved!
Thanks,
Flando
Minister of Home Affairs, eNetherlands
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Welcome back Flando! Go to see you on Mona! Goodluck!
Goodluck!
Welcome back!
Oh, and one of the ways to deal with the quorum issue is to remove all totally non-forum visiting CMs. Typically 30-50% of congress votes, meaning we may be below or above quorum. If a few CMs are removed we'd always be above 40%.
The 4 CMs who haven't logged in on the forum in months:
niekhzm, Zeeuwsmeisje, dennis plaza, & james
Removing them would leave us with 25 CMs (including the CP), and therefore a quorum of only 10 votes, instead of the current 12. Recently, we've always had at least 10 votes.
I really think you are on to something here. I'll contact you about this soon! 🙂
It's one of the things mentioned in our lawbook:
http://enetherlands.nl/viewtopic.php?f=174&t=8707
Article 2.3: Members of Congress lose their forum Congress rights upon the decision of the Chairman of Congress, who will state the decision and the reason for it in the Private section of Congress. This can be done after a Congress Member (...) hasn't logged in on the forum for 14 consecutive days without notice.
But it is entirely the CoC's decision.
Oh wow! That law wasnt there back then. Thanks for the heads up!!
"Lately, this has been less and less important, since there are basically no new people joining."
Really? I don't know what source your looking at. Forum perhaps? In game it were around 20 last 30 days or so. This calendar month only it are 12 players.
Main problem is more like nothing is communicated to players so they have no clue on what we are doing and nothing is happening.
Oh and as a result; They quit. So our community ain't growing. Thats been going on regarding politics for as long as I play and military as well last couple of months.
Of course they could take a hint from the in-game media.
By the way 27 is the number for the past 30 days.
http://www.erepublik-deutschland.de/en/tools/newplayers is a great way to find them...
And if our MoC, uhm, MoR, uhm, our MoHA(?) could contact them it would be indeed be great. It seems recent governments have had no real interest in this important task, as the most responsible minister seems to be the MoHA by now, instead of someone responsible for recruitment or coaching...
8 of our new citizens are in DAF, and 3 are in ReL, no other MUs or political parties.
Perhaps ReL is communicating with them? Or do they just decide to join the largest party?
The last governments, from september till now, have contacted every new citizen in eNL. I don't know how this is right now, but Gwom was in charge of it the past few months.
@Spir Tus: Gwom went from MoRC during your term to SSoHA during NoTie's governments. If he basically did the same job except for the reposting of the coaching articles, why did NoTie not leave him as MoRC?!
That would have been a way clearer message.
Basically his message now seems to have been "Contacting new citizens? Ah, we cannot have a minister performing such an unimportant job, let's give that task to the SSoHA." That sounds totally upside down...
The MoI, MoRC and MoHa were doing almost the same job. It wasn't clear who was responsible for what task and activity in these ministries was also very low. So after my term, Mattio came up with the idea to merge the three ministries into one, with two SS's who replaced the Ministers. Thanks to this merge, there was one Minister in charge of all articles and the several jobs. They workes together instead of working apart, which is working better I think.
gwom is still doing his job in that regard.
But this time as ssoI? See, how confusing this is...
The last I can find about Gwom's position is: "Gwom will lead the Ministry of Home Affairs," a position from which he was later demoted to ssoHA.
The last article I have detected about new citizens is the following article, published by the MoHA at the time when Mattio was MoHA, and gwom was ssoHA: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-moha-new-citizens-of-week-43--2559760/1/20
he is personally contacting all new citizens. and well i didn't have a MoHA at that time so i thought i might as well make him the secretary of information.
Well! be assured that I'll look into this too. Just joined the game a couple of days ago, so my current status is making up our current situation. Thanks for the tip!
Is een van de belangrijke redenen van de teloorgang van E Nederland niet dat onze taal niet wordt gebruikt? Dat schrikt heel wat potentiele spelers af ...
do you really have nothing else you can say?
the game is in english. dutch kids can read english on a pretty good level by the time they are like 10.
also the fact that a sizable portion of eNL isn't rl dutch...
Het schrikt ook een hoop potentiële spelers af als we alleen maar in het Nederlands zouden spreken. En de Engelstalige sprekers hebben een hoop meer te bieden dan de meeste Nederlandstaligen.
Daarom pleit ik ook voor tweetaligheid!