Just my 2 cents...

Day 1,019, 12:18 • Published in Netherlands Netherlands • by Deviltje

Dear Readers,

Sunday the 5th of september we must choose a new CP, there are 2 candidates:

- Coolissport (IP)
- Tim Veltkamp (I&W)

Coolissport is supported by: IP, LSD and CPNL
Tim Veltkamp is supported by: I&W, GLD, UND, TI* and DOP

*TI changed their opinion and support Tim Veltkamp now.

(note: glad that both have set goals for next month! Not something all candidates did last months)

In this article i will just give my opinion on the programs both made and i wil give a reaction on an article of Tonie112.
(So this aint the opinion of IP, as people in IP should decide themselves)

Activity

As we all know activity is going down really, really hard since V2, eRep now has +/- 203,000 active players. Before V2 is was almost 600,000 active players. eUNL has 828 players. Both candidates are willing to work on a BabyBoom. According to Tim Veltkamp government and Congress should work on this, Coolissport thinks the R&C department should do this together with the CP.

Personal opinion: Government and Congress will never work on it together, i rather see 3-5 citizens working on a Baby Boom. Especially citizens who WANT a Baby Boom, not just saying it but also really wanna work on it.
(have to say that eRepublik.com must also advertise more)

Activity of both candidates

For being on IRC Tim veltkamp wins big time (however he is always away😁). But If we look on the forum Tim Veltkamp has 268 posts and Coolissport 261 posts. Not much difference i would say. (these are just facts)

Coalition Government or CP Government?

Coolissport is in favour of a Coalition government, while Tim Veltkamp is in favour of a CP government.

We tried the CP government some months ago, but i think we all saw that activity during the congresselections went down hard. Most parties didn’t even bother anymore to get last minute voters, cause the need to get as much congressseats as possible wasn’t there anymore.

Tim Veltkamp used also this argument: “one thing i noticed that we are one of the only ones who use this system in erep, this could cause more confusion within Phoenix, as we get a new government around the 25th-30th and other countries have it around 5th-10th, but not the only reason why i prefer a CP Gov based Government. now we only have people from 2-3 parties in government, well this may be fine for 'party activity', its not fine to place people in a department who have no experience in that department, CP Gov will eliminate this as the 'experienced' players will be in a department helping other new people in that department..”

Phoenix doesn’t rule our country, if our citizens want a coalition government, then that’s sorry for Phoenix, they have to deal with the possible confusion then. (althought i dont believe they want as to adept to the other countries)
For your other argument, players with no experience in a department can always get help from more experienced players in the Government. Furthermore most experienced players don’t want to be in the Government anymore because they have been it for months. Nevertheless they are always willing to give tips or help the less experienced players.

The Coalition government helped to get some more activity in parties and we got more discussions on the forum and ingame.

Trainingwars

Coolissport favors (training) wars for the eUNL. Tim Veltkamp says that most countries don’t want an MPP with the eUNL, because we do too “little” damage. In my believe this can be solved in one way, we pay the MPP for both sides. Wars are really important for the eDutch weaponcompanies ( economy!) and also to the citizens who don’t want to move out of the eUNL.
Furthermore we need an elite army back again (i know people are working on that already)


This are just my two cents on both programs.

Tonnie112’s article

“We need someone with experience and international contacts, especially now the MoFA hasn’t none of these. Of course the current MoFA still has to learn, a progress with can be helped by an experienced CP, with Phoenix experience.”

In my personal opinion yes a CP has to make international contacts, which i think he can also make after being elected. Most players dont have that many international contacts, because they don’t need them for eRep, Tim Veltkamp has them because he has been MoD for months.
I remember when Artemivanov became president his international contacts also weren’t that good. He picked that up really fast with help from the MoFa.

I don’t believe that having international contacts or not, should make a difference in whether someone is a better CP.

Deviltje
Chairman of Congress
PP of IP
(but this article is not based on any of the jobs, just my personal opinion)