Above Constructive Criticism
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by chickensguys
President Carlos, who I have complimented on many occasions for his personal articles, has shown himself to be thoroughly submerged in self-love and complacency. When his own cabinet members readily assault the American people in the national feed for not following military orders, it increases the ire of even your truly and so we know there is certainly a problem afoot.
Exhibit A 
Exhibit B 
So what does Carlos say when I say you must do more than post orders in the national feed
As you can see, Carlos claims he messages Legends; maverick packs holders, everyone in the air list, and Congress, NSC and MU commanders.
So what’s the problem?
What Carlos fails to mention, is that air thread is almost 3 months old, and the orders are posted infrequently. People on the air rankings tend to be fairly fluid, and are subject to change, people leave the country, people enter the country, people quit buying packs and start to buy packs, this is to say the Air messages do not accurately reflect the actual situation and should be updated. I can’t speak to the other threads since I am not in them but I can certainly say, it is reasonable to think that those threads are also treated in a similar fashion. Moreover, the people that need communications the most are not just the NCS, Congress, or the legendary fighters; it is the average player who logs in on Thursday evening. It is your D1-D4 fighters.
Finally, people have accused me of division for daring to bring up this subject, but I literally offered to assist in creating the messages that would improve this problem. So it is rather absurd, when Marius CB, asked if we could "ban" cg, and WhydoIbothertoo says "stop creating division and start being part of the solution". Can I do more? I raise genuine grievances and propose genuine solutions but Carlo’s sycophants assault my good name and character with such harshness and disrespect I see little hope.
PostScript
After writing the above Carlos posted the following which deserves a response, Carlos said "What I am disagreeing with you is our "complacency" when we do articles weekly / discord, pm and national feed orders day and night." To this end, I say only this Discord, National Feed posts and Articles are commonplace for many players, but that does not fix the problem or mean you are doing a sufficiently good job. Moreover, I have been fairly disappointed about the activities of this administration on discord, there has been a poor showing of combat orders in the #American, #Airborne and #Strikeroom channels. I rarely see Carlos on discord, and I rarely get pinged with combat orders in those channels.
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Complacency abounds?
i just finished reading this debate in the national thread. It is my SOLE source of orders.
Have you tried sending a PM to Carlos, Colin, or anyone relevant?
i would NEVER bother such busy leaders. Maybe, in the future when Carlos no longer is POTUS...
i may ask for links to get orders for my mu... should i command one then.
Way to be proactive, the martyr card looks good on you....
i just have a big respect for time... something which SHOULD always be on our side.
No clue what that means, you can’t demand someone answer a question you refuse to ask
i am neither demanding nor asking... sorry... a 'communication gap'?
Bridge the gap?
shall we go pack to the beginning?... where i said i had just 'finished rea... ... my SOLE source of orders'. ... whereupon you seemed to be offering me suggestion that i might contact appropriate leaders... with a 'pm' [ a pm?] i am a 'nobody' in the world of politics but even little me gets a great number of pms per day... too many... almost dread logging in, lately.
Still... i have things to do, and one priority is fighting effectively. FEW of us have enough time to figure out when important battles will open. i APPRECIATE the nat thread. i wish there was more and i'll likely soon need more but pms are a major traffic jam waiting to happen.
Not trying to be ANYTHING but a simple economics player.
Nice humble brag about how many PMs you get. If effective fighting is a concern, talk to your MU commander about updated orders (pretty simple if you’re in a legitimate MU). They may even be able to help with proper use of quotations and capitalization. I like your moxie, I’ll be willing to hold your hand and help you out with fighting. Anytime you get confused, send me a PM (I know, I know, you’re popular and get a ton) and I’ll point you in the right direction. I don’t do this for just anyone.... so, you’re welcome.
not popular... just very busy.
... also, thought Colin was just being sarcastic. Carlos is seriously overworked[imo] but doing more than i've seen A POTUS do since 'RISING'.
garbage, not worth the time!
Inaccurate
What precisely did I say that was inaccurate?
Ugh, literally everything. Even the title is wrong
I miss our old greasemonkey military app, never any question on what to do it was always displayed right on your screen no need to go look for anything. While perhaps no longer practical, in today's age discord should be the most up to date followed by national feed for those casual folk or those that don't care to invest adt'l time efforts. If a prio changes during the course of the day a quick update in the respective discord channels could keep us on target. (If its a major prio change then the nat feed update would also be appropriate). Our MU leadership is good about updates over the course of the day as I'm sure others are too but the less we leave to chance the better. CG and I don't often align but one can not simple discard this article as "pot stirring".
Well, reading the text, division is already made: legendary fighters that have all the attention and rest of us (me included) that in governments eyes we do not deserve their attention. It is easy for legendary fighters, loaded with weapons and bars, production but what do we, lower ranked players do?
In a way I am disappointed were US is going, we are taking some territories in Greece (that we will probably lose in immediate future) while we should fight to liberate our own soil. Economy production (that I cant do because of embargo) doesent exist, so how can we do something, if we dont even have a base to fight
Battles are broken up into four divisions, legendary fighters can't do anything in 1-3. Recommend joining EZC for more direction in battles, guidance, and supplies
O yes they can, most of them use div switcher.
I guess, still would recommend joining EZC to help
Siaan - How are you not important? Who says you do not deserve attention. All I was trying to show is that I am in communication with a lot more people that CG knew about.
Greece territory is a temporary solution to ensure we do not get wiped. They are our allies and its our "base" and we are protected. We are trying to remove MKD who is the one with the least damage of the 3 occupiers. I have articles detailing that. We cant do anything about the embargo. You might want to complain to the Serbian / Romanian Politicians who decided that.
How can we improve in your eyes? Where could we post to ensure you get the details / orders you need?
Well, for my misinformation about Greece, I didnt understood why, seemed like we are giving up US and going somewhere else.
It is very discouraging to see players with rank over 1 000, even over 100 to fight in div 1. Makes me wonder what is the point. I cant compete with them and most of the times I go fight where I can do something (like try to get BH or be in first 374 players to get a gift). This way, my 8M of damage cant compare with someone who shoots 5 times and makes from 7 to 12M.
When it comes to communication, I cant say much, as I dont use things outside the eErep. Leaving orders in comments can be confusing, as I said, with Greece I didnt know what is happening and as I only read articles on my lap top, I loose a lot once using cell phone.
To improve, maybe not only to focus on legendary players (not that I am saying they dont need it) but try to get in contact with others. MU has regiments, why wouldnt there be something in communication, based on rank. Someone in charge for each group that could pass orders and put lower players to help in a best way possible.
I am far from a legendary fighter, currently have only 20 Q7w in stock (I've got a few bars but hell, I'm almost 10 years old), and do not feel like I'm being kept in the dark. At all.
"Fighting to liberate our own soil" won't accomplish much if we can't hold it - and at the moment, we can't. Our Greek allies are allowing us to continue to exist as a functional nation even if every original region is taken. It's actually an excellent option that we should be delighted to have imo.
I feel that this is in reference to Air flyers... You are doing a good job in land keep it up no elite thread for ground fighters that I know of just mostly DOs.
I'm sorry to say, but the lower level players don't matter in a war. It's about the people who buy packs and hit hard. That's how the military module is. Benefit the payers.
I just shipped my pants
Your methods of pointing what's wrong in your opinion is not building the relation and trust for everyone to work with you. Instead why don't you offer your help to them if you want to help...
I have done so, did you not read my article?
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Dude Carlos and team have been MORE active giving clear, relevant and timely orders via national feed than any other administration in recent memory. While I'm a member of the discord, I really don't want to play this game "out of game" and don't want to go to a different app for battle orders in-game. The national feed is an IDEAL place for regular timely updates to orders.
We're also cooperating more with allies than in recent history rebuilding our international name that was 'Mudd.' Also how is 'Exhibit B' relevant to your point? Seems pretty normal and straight-forward to me.
You really do have some solid points occasionally but you routinely start flame wars and point fingers at the "elites" even when they're doing good work, better than administrations before them, which you should be recognizing and celebrating as a step in the right direction, even if you think more can be done.
X2, I very much agree with you on this one, success should be celebrated, accomplishments cheered, no pointing fingers. There are much better ways to get things done, and to improve.
I am super disappointed in this article. Thought you would be better than this.
I have never attacked you, have always listened to you and think you have great energy for this game.
Can we improve on what we are doing today, absolutely. Do I think your ideas have merit? Yes. - My only complaint was you generalizing things and calling my cabinet and I lazy.
I would rather not make this personal. I have highlighted the problems that can be improved and I hope you take them to heart.
I have 0 interest in personal. I have interests in your valid ideas, and I have interest in you helping.
Check your discord.
chickensguys is a pain in the ass for YEARS!
I can say you're wrong at least in the part of "air" orders: Carlos (and his staff) own an in game mass PM to the top 100 air ranked players of the USA, and they give us orders every day, and often even twice or three times in a day.
I was surprised too when I recevied these messages first time (98th in air rank), cause I'm just a little shit compared to the real aviators of eRepublik, but I can assure, if the message reached even me, also the other 100 big players can read it and follow good updated orders every day.
On me, this is great, cause I'm not in Discord channels and I almost never follow meta game and Forum, but the chance to have in-game orders like these is good, believe me.
The Mike started that thread over 2 months ago, I am saying we are missing people that entered the top 100 in the meantime.
CG. maybe you are just being excluded, after all you turn on every player who has ever done anything for you?
Over the years I have watched your pattern and it never fails. Perhaps no one wants to play with you anymore?
The WTP is very happy. We frequently mourn players, like Oblige who were treated very terribly by rather nasty people and quit the game. I know you would like me to quit, but I am slightly too stubborn.
I miss Oblige a lot. TBH: I could care less if you quit or not. I know what you do and learned years ago to never trust you or your promises.
Oblige had this country better organized, the US is broken
go back to sleep CG...
happy new year!
Not worth commenting on..
Doing a great job Carlos
"Carlo’s sycophants assault my good name and character with such harshness and disrespect I see little hope."
A shameful act which is rooted in jealousy and egoistic tendencies! We need to fight for CG!
Even if he has a good idea, from the mouth of CG it falls flat. CG is an enemy to this country and he has proven it multiple times. Go hide CG and don’t come back.
One of the most ridiculous articles ever in the annals of eRepublic. Carlos lazy? If CG spent the time he spends trying to cause friction in the eUSA on helping the eUS I might listen. But CG's history on eRepub speaks for itself. This guy is a thorn in everyone's side.
I guess I'm lucky my MU updates it's order throughout the day.