[CP] Labour Day
Jacobi
Labour Day, September 3, Day 1749.
Quebec is back, Newfoundland is back, Nova Scotia should be joining us momentarily. Poland could NE us, and knock us down like a piñata in direct wars, but they can’t escape the truth that they are holding too many countries at the same time. There’s a limit, and Poland is experiencing that limit. Oh, but to be clear to all the Polish trolls who will accuse me of “lying”, yes I’m certainly aware that having to fight a few wars at the same time does complicate matters somewhat and etc etc etc. The point still stands: if you have a lot of battles to win, you might not win all the battles.
The Next President must manage the American relationship carefully. It is silly to make presumptions but I can see vividly a future with the United States shunted into a CTRL like alliance and I can see a future country that will NE Canada again. People asked me, perhaps semi-seriously, whether AA had a deal with Poland to divvy up Canada between the US and Poland – I certainly doubt it. But if their relationship is formalized by a future alliance I can expect them to have a similar conversation depending on resource needs and various considerations.
I’ve been wrestling with writing this, but in the interests of making sure people are aware of how things have progressed, it does not take a cynic to notice that the Spanish colonies that Civil Anarchy proposes to dump could be easily replaced by a future administration attacking Canada.
That brings me to the elephant in the room: Terra is dead. It fell into a deep coma when the US and Brazil left, now populated by a bunch of medium powers with a lot of love but little coordination. I enjoy France and Germany and I will gladly set prio for either one of those countries. Colombia has proven to me that it’s an ally Canada needs to keep. Frankly I didn’t have a lot of conversations with either Russia or Cyprus but that might simply have been an off month for them. But effectiveness in a formal alliance has to be considered, and effectiveness no longer has any tenuous connection with Terra. The next President will have to decide with Congress where the future of Canada lies. Will it be with EDEN, will it be tying our horse to the Americans, will it be a hodgepodge of independent ties to various old friends in numerous alliances? Future Presidents ought now to be speaking about the direction they believe our country needs to head.
In August, Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared an article and PM with helpful tips for players just starting their game in eRepublik. Just over 100 players were contacted and given tips/links to such things as the Ministry of Health put on by Doctor of Souls. More could be done to reach out to new players and it would mainly be done by ‘grinding’ through party membership list and MU rosters to find new players hanging on at the bottom. The few replies to these MIA PMs mainly consisted of (to quote one person yesterday): “Thank you for the info it's much appreciated. Although, this information would have been much more useful when I first started the game.”
The best way to get that info to new players sooner is to have an active MIA next month with even more active deputies. In fact, this does not even need to be an official Ministry…mentorship of any sort can be taken on by any group of likeminded players.
I’ll will be publishing one more “wrap up” article tomorrow, otherwise comments, concerns, or questions? My door is open.
Comments
Great article! Lays out things nicely for the next administration.
Looking forward to tomorrow's wrap-up!
So prospects for eCanada vis-à-vis its place in an alliance are...to be determined...hey, at least we've kept afloat through all of this so far. There's something good to be noted in that.
Good stuff.
~hyuu~
~fedora~
Canada + France + Germany = Brothers
Huh who would have thought?
Hopefully the next President takes these words into consideration.
Don't worry Vrykolaus, they won't.
Welcome to eCanada.
I sure hope they will.
Welcome to New eCanada (eCanada v2?)
You've served us well this month, Jacobi.
Indeed.
Funky Compliment?? It appears I can now leave eRep, I have seen everything there is to see here. But I won't.
"...and given tips/links to such things as the Ministry of Health put on by Doctor of Souls."
If it doesn't already, couldn't the "Welcome Message" to new players incorporate one primary link to an article, with a detailed list of "things you should know", an article that would be kept up to date, maintained by this Ministry? The "primary" link would have to be a stand out, because I think as new players, sometimes we're impatient to get to the game & just skim over stuff.
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A great artcile from a great CP. Congrats Jacobi, great CP so far in my short eRep life! 😉
Good old germany.
"If it doesn't already, couldn't the "Welcome Message" to new players incorporate one primary link to an article, with a detailed list of "things you should know", an article that would be kept up to date, maintained by this Ministry?"
Yes, it could. Sperry designed the New Cit Message as a googledoc that was meant to be easily updated by those with access to it.Sperry disappeared and so no one has access to it.Creating a new message with a new googledoc will have to go through Congress
..a Congress vote in-game after being proposed by the CP in-game, but likely not before being debated on the forum and yadda and another yadda.
Seemed easier just to PM the info.
I hope the new president will have as good relations with the United States as Jacobi did.