[UK] Event Over, Back To Normality
Day 3,663, 07:43
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by 10 Downing Street
The 10th anniversary event has come to an end, leaving havoc and mayhem (and a largely wiped South America) in it's wake and seeing some ridiculous amounts of damage dealt worldwide. While it didn't particularly affect us, it gave everyone chance to get plenty of those lovely medals - provided you managed to stock up well in advance before the commodities prices spiralled out of control!
Training Wars
The Concessional Uphill Gardening (to paraphrase Rob's rather insightful term for our training wars with the US and Colombia) still continues. I have been trying to negotiate concessions with the US for a return on taxes, and the American President appears amenable to the idea. The amounts aren't huge, but it should placate some of the more critical elements of my administration. Unfortunately, Colombia seems unwilling to talk to our Minister of Foreign Affairs for some reason...
Foreign Affairs
Since we are not technically "at war" Germany will not be renewing their MPP as it is considered a waste of money. A more concerning issue is the loss of our long-standing Serbian MPP. This is due to pressure from the Asterian HQ for Serbia to sign an MPP with Colombia. While we remain friendly with Serbia, I personally feel that this is a sign of the failure of the two main alliances. Neither Asteria nor Pacifica are willing to provoke the other, as seen with the recent failure of Hungarian and Serbian NEs to pass, on Romania and Hungary respectively. So it doesn't look like there's going to be a world war any time soon, sadly.
Domestic Issues
A recent late night conflaberation with Wayne came up with an idea to hopefully provoke activity. For those of you not in the know, the UK Government has a set of organisations, many of which have been left to linger over the years. Since they aren't exactly doing anything, it was decided that we should make some use of them and attempt to provoke some activity. The proposal is thus:
Each of the top 5 political parties will be given access to an organisation, complete with a seed capital of £20,000 from Government. Over a period of time (maybe a couple of months) the parties are encouraged to use that money and the org to make as much as possible. Profits can be used by the party as they see fit - reinvestment, market trading, helping new members - but the seed capital must be returned after this initial period. Failure to do so would see access to the organisation revoked. Parties are encouraged to share their methods through media articles (which might be one way of raising more capital, through endorsements to a party organisation news article).
The scheme has thus far received cross-party support and I am hopeful to roll it out before my term comes to an end.
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I wouldn't talk to your Mofa too. She's a cancer.
hmmmm, yeah, not to keen on the revoking aspect of the idea. A party could lose the money by just being inept. Obviously, if a PP or someone just takes the money, then that's different, as is not providing any information, accounts, details of why you lost money. To me the idea has many components, one of them is the weeding out of poor gameplay and the highlighting of good gameplay. Shine a spotlight on the do's and don'ts, allowing everyone to benefit. Simply saying, 'your idea failed, you can't participate now' is a little harsh.
You give a fair argument. Revoking access should only really be limited where there's a case of abusing the org, like taking the seed money and running. Although 20k really doesn't buy much nowadays...
and people say I'm the heartless, dictatorial one...
Haven't got a million spare, otherwise it might be tempting 😉
We will have... we can turn 100k into 1 million in no time, we Pirates...
Coke > Bananas
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Excellent idea. Not that I think it will stir the 2-clickers out of their apathy, and unless we get an influx of new players (and please stop dissing them, all of us were new once) we can still expect to see the game spiral down into the abyss. Or further down, for those who think we're already there....
no one 'disses' em, aint heard that word since the 90's...
we just explained that with data that new players are too sporadic nowadays and as such we don't need a 'Minister to find and encourage these fabled 'new players'', it should be party focused. Many eyes make light work or so the Chinese proverb says.