Sweet Drinker and the eIreland Of The Day After Tomorrow!
The Irish William Wallace
Firstly I'd like to introduce MikeBane as my Minister of Public Relations. Mike will be breaking up my eye-bleeder walls of text and generally making CP updates less soul destroying. Mike enjoys writing articles, editing pics etc, while I do not. If an asset is available, I'll avail of it 🙂
Ofc if expedience is critical on an update, a dreary Sweet article will forego this system.
Seanan will be running the MoD as per usual. Smart, reliable, loyal, perpetual, what more could you asked for?
Seanan and I have been speaking about improving our military supply.
Sweet-"Hey mate, could the MoD use more weapons?"
Seanan-"Yes..lots"
Sweet-"Ok, I'll make it happen. lemme know if there's anything else"
We have a working history, which we look forward to reinstating
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Appleman will continue as Govenor. He's been doing great work with the assets at his disposal. We've discussed making more assets available for him to dispose, and we're both happy with the arrangement.
Coleman will continue to work in the Education Ministry, releasing educational articles, steering NC's in the right direction etc. It is likely he will be expanding his responsibilities this term, but that is not yet confirmed.
I've an old-style view of the MoC: that it is independent of the government (indeed I've been severely chastised for trying to make it otherwise in the past!) That was the original tradition of this social project, and I believe that should continue.
Brian Boru will head the MoFA. This may surprize people as Brian and I have obvious differences of opinion. However Brian is very experienced and knowledgeable internationally.
In Foreign Affairs the old adage applies more than anywhere else: "It's not what you know, it's who you know." Brian knows the players who swing national stances. Which is very often not the people you see on the national administration page.
Raven Anarcho will manage the Ambassador Program. Raven is hard working and thoughtful. He's made the ambassador program interesting for the communty, which is an accomplishment in itself. Anarcho is one to watch
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Columbia will be representing us at the 3rd international eRepublik meeting
She has been authorized to mis-translate our rivals statements into threats against the admins, and seduce/assassinate anyone at her discretion to forward our agenda
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Other stuff:
*My aim is to rebuild the foundation our previous strength stood upon. Obviously finances are a focus and strength for me.
*A supply system reminiscent of what we ran a year ago will be reinstated. If you'd like to be part of the supply team contact Seanan, it's a big operation.
*National unity: I'm approx 0.5% of our population, the other 99.5% will have to commit to unity aswell as myself. There aren't many people here innocent of causing the rifts we have in the community, I've my share of responsibility in this situation like everyone else.
I'm cautiously hopeful that getting some of our mechanical problems back in order may encourage everyone to resolve/abandon the social problems we suffer.
*Baby Boom: I ran statistics on populations internationally awhile back. The good news is that based on RL populations eIreland has the highest player/population ratio of any English speaking nation in the world.
The bad news is that based on BB's of other anglophone nations, adjusted for RL population, a babyboom in Ireland would likely result in only 40 long-term players joining our community.
It seems apparent that eIreland actually had our BB at one point several years ago. It's just that based on our population a BB could happen here without our noticing.
The key to eIrish expansion lies in immigration, which can outstrip likely BB results monthly, and reliably, if we become a nation attractive for others to join. Not that I wouldn't welcome some Babyboomers! But my long-term strategy is focused on a much more reliable Seniors boom.
The whole "no regions thing": tbh having or lacking regions has no real effect on players like myself. Old, well established people are basically immune all that. However I understand that the situation does have an impact on others. And basically as a nation... it sucks having no regions.
The economic impact on our citizens can be negated quite easily. We can quickly rebuild old infrastructure allowing our population to have a better quality of eLife than our neighbor. That in itself will be somewhat demoralizing to a nation intending to suppress us.
This will also have an immediate, and if we're smart, permanent effect on our military output. Immune to our situation on the map. That too is a discouraging fact for rivals.
The whole "UK situation": I spent more than a year of my game life with the singular objective of fighting the UK before we finally came to a long-term peace. I spent a few hours talking to the current UK CP on IRC the other night, and Ayame Croc is pretty cool actually. I can tell you right now we're not dealing now with the wankers we had to back in the day.
The UK of old attempted to pto us, was hellbent on occupying us, attempted to exterminate us permanently (it was believed possible to permanently remove a nation at one point). The UK of today is merely pissed at us, and tbf, eIreland gave them cause.
It's unlikely that Ireland&UK are ever going to be on the same side, our friends just don't get along, but they can be sound, and we can live along side each other cordially if we are reasonable.
Most of the UK knows who/what I am, and they rest will soon enough. I don't really want to spend another year of my life fighting them, they won't want to either at the end of the day.
However it is entirely possible that the UK administration will wish to continue hostilities for the foreseeable future.
Britain has almost 4x our population,
Britain has 12 MPP's... we have 1,
Briatin is a member of the strongest alliance in the game... we are not a member of any alliance.
None of these are facts which would encourage Britain not to occupy us
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Add to that, from what I've heard, we've been pretty obstinate when dealing with them.
Should the UK resolve to concentrate on occupying us there are two options available to us:
A) Becoming really annoying by focusing on heavy RW implimentation.
Pros:
It's really goddamn fun! (seriously wasn't the Cork RW awesome)
It ties UK's resources up (needing to enlist allies to suppress a nation our size doesn't look great for a TWO nation)
Moar TP medals
Cons:
While we can RW regions back onto the map, we can't oppose an MPP battle against 13 TWO nations, UK can afford to allow Irish regons to reappear and then remove them at their convenience via MPP battles (most likely just in time to prevent Irish Congress)
This is an extremely insular and selfish policy. It may seem bad for us here, but many of our friends have it much worse out there atm. We can't devote ourselves to helping friends if we are obsessed with our own regions.
😎Ignore them
Pros:
Internationally we will be Awesome
We can participate in geo-politically significant battles effecting the outcome global conflicts
We will become unpredictable. UK will never know when to expect us suddenly swinging our resources against them.
If the situation with our friends abroad improves, we stand a better chance of regaining our regions permanently
Cons:
It's not as fun ignoring your own regions
less TP medals
UK will also be free to aid their allies more than if we apply pressure directly to them.
If this is what it comes down to for us, we'll have to decide as a community which direction to go. My preference is option B. However as I stated above, the immediate lack of regions may more of an imperative for you than it is for myself.
Alliances: No alliance was ever perfect. Given that, we must have realistic expectation on the ones that exist currently. I don't feel compelled to rush into joining an alliance. But there are some nations out there that have been super-awesome to us in the past. And things aren't great for a lot of them atm. I do feel compelled to rush out and be super-awesome for them!
That is the essence of my foreign policy at this juncture in time: Go Out And Be Awesome To Our Friends (GOABATOF... acronym open to negotiation).
Long-term: I'd like to return to the practice in large scale government investments in our citizens as we had when I was MoF. Along with the powerful supply/distribution system of that time which made us fierce.
However it's important that people understand that while I managed to achieve some things which previously seemed impossible, they only SEEMED impossible. It actually took months of careful patient work to make those things happen.
While I can immediately begin to rebuild some of those assets we used to have, I am not a unicorn! A mythical beast is not going to move into government and magically make everything better overnight.
I can get the ball rolling, with the diligence of many people we can eventually become a nation of reckoning again.
Also, I've been told there will be The Word. If I receive confirmation as to what Word that is I will keep you apprised.
That's about all for now. I look forward to seeing this god-awful monster in Bane-O-Vision!
Written by: Sweet Drinker
Comments
about time \o/
SIGNED
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Sweet as a true british agent refused The Word......and why ILP member praise kunt member when there is ILP CP candidate?
Why mike keep shifting his mind?
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MikeBane a selfproclaimed watchdog of ILP betrayed ILP for some pathetic position.....
You forgot Raven Anarcho, he's the ILP PP atm. And his agreement to work nonpartisan in rebuilding the nation clearly must constitute a greater act of betrayal by the definition you've adopte😛 "betrayal==being productive"
Being part of the government and publishing promotional article are two diferent things.
And betrayal means you being part of kunts who openly betrayed this country and who acrively helping brits to occupy ireland.
I'm debating whether to have a hissy fit that I'm not included in this awesome list of ministers/plans or just wish Sweet luck (not like he needs it)...
Good luck man.
Yes the Cork RW was fun.
Vote Sweet.
ACroc isn't a bad person, for a thuggish dictator of a nation that is a lackey of the tyrannical ePolish overlords of TWO.
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Pretty good article, the basic platform looks good.
V good luck
This is exactly the team that Ireland needs to get her back on track.
Best of luck to you Sweet.
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About the Baby Boom: Ireland has a population of 6.3 Million
Irish Americans number 36,2 Million.
There are 800 thousand born Irish persons in the UK with 6 million persons with irish ancestry.
Totalled that makes : 49. 3 Million possible players. Cutting away demographics and hitting a range of 18 - 45 still gives us a possible 13 million players.
Figuring in that there is atleast 40% Croatians and players of other nations that would mean 360 players per 13 million possible players or 0.0027 % of the possible players .
I assume you went and did a side by side comparison with other nations which is wrong as a nation like Brazil may have 100 million people but how many even own a computer?
I suggested 3 target sites for you Google+ - small but dedicated groups that is willing to take up new games
Facebook- Mega number of users
Twitter - demographics now show that more teens are leaving Facebook for Twitter and it has existing masses of people.
We have 27 people per possible million players. And you must remember you can never exactly define the number of players that will join a game.
I like some of the other stuff you are saying but your estimates seems off with all due respect..
concerned our international Irish relatives, but deemed it completely impractical to advertise for them (in a case like USA) or detrimental to advertise for them (in a case like UK, we'd create more Brits than Irish)
my comparisons were run against anglophone nations, poland, and balkan nations. our stats most closely matched anglophones.
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I actually find myself agreeing with Krakken about the USA in particular being a huge untapped resource for potential new players. Not only are there more Irish in America than there are in Ireland, but there are lots of Irish-American forums or Facebook groups and things like that we could advertise on that hardly be impractical. Do not underestimate the pride that we Irish-Americans have in our heritage.
perhaps its so that stats say something but unless you actually do the legwork you will never know. all we can say 100% is that without a baby boom our numbers will probably continue going down see its now 480 from 600 and US dropped from 14000 to 8800
Those stats aren't important tho. Ireland hasnt really had 600 citizens in years. its active population that counts. Use election data for more accurate data. The large population drop is due to admins 'burying the dead'.
Running numbres on theoretical BB's isn't great science in any rate. So many variables. % of NC's who survive for instance.
However what can be tabulated much more accurately is the ratio of cs passes available monthly (when we've a Dail) to the active population. The active population could be doubled in mere months with stable players if we've a strong immigration system
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2241411/1/20
This is roughly the active population stats for eIreland. "Active" simply meaning an account that regularly signs in on election days.
Sweet is right that immigration is atleast about equal to NC in terms of increases to our active population. When I worked for several months as a MoI I saw first hand how the noticeable changes to our vocal population were driven greatly by immigration.
On the other hand I'm really of the view that the USA/Canada have a lot of potential for recruitment. I'm my own example in this case.
Ok Condiment Alcoholic perhaps the next CP will put the idea of a Baby Boom to some kind of vote but I see I'm not gonna convince you.
we had many votes on BB issues before. there is never anyone opposing a BB. everyone would love for it to happen, its just that it never does.
Lose toxic Kurgan and you'd clean up the place for noobs, and get a fair few oldfgs back.
His latest offering would offend anyone with pride in their Irish heritage:
"irish people were bending over to brits for 800 years"
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/patriots-2271952/1/20
lol. Lose a person to some ill chosen words. I would say ill chosen words and the freedom to use it here is one the best things of this game and not something you need to curb Granny!
he claims he's not a person. so we'd not be losing one
then again im a sea monster summoned by some weird greek guy [they did promise me a seat in Olympus {LIARS}[All I did was my job eff up the world they said and then I semi effed it up before being killed by Perseus. But no suddenly Im not good enough for Olympus : ( ]
Hey if you're that squidy thing that ate Jack sparrow you'll always be welcome here as a member of our navy
This is what eIreland's been needing!