Open letter to new government
Day 1,143, 08:02
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by Misanthropist
OPEN LETTER
A new government means a new start.
In general, uniformity of design lacks on all different levels of the government. I’m not talking about the content, but only about the visual aspect. In order to appear as a united, well structured nation, the visual aspect has a big influence.
A strong appearance
First I’ll look to the newspapers. I notice MoD en MoFi have the same banner. The MoFa and Education and Culture share the same newspaper, Belgium.info, with a quite ugly banner. Other problem: There is a huge error in the spelling of the MoD banner. It says “Defentie” instead of “Defensie”. I think it’s unacceptable for official logos that contain such mistakes. As I mentioned in my previous article, I can only repair the spelling error if I have the original file of the banner with all its layers. But the man who made it left eRepublik. Question: Will other ministers get also their own newspapers?
Solution: All newspapers need same kind of banner. I’m willing to make new designs. Look at my previous article to see a prototype.
Secondly I’ll look to the officials. Suggestions circulate to have an identification mark on the avatar if you’re an official (congress, minister, country president). It doesn’t need to be something real fancy. Just a symbol in the corner of the avatar will do. In that way everyone can still use his/her own avatar. Again I’m willing to make some designs which we all can choose from.
Third category is the army. Same story as the officials. Notice, I suggest no different symbol for every rank. Why? It will become too bureaucratic to change it every time. It wouldn’t be efficient. Just a simple symbol will do.
If my ideas are generally accepted, I’ll start to design for each of the categories. I hope there will be more reaction on this article than on my previous (only 8 different people reacted). It’s all for the best of our country. Please vote my article up, so more people can join the debate. You can also follow the debate on the eBelgian forum.
For those about to debate, I welcome!
Yours truly, Misanthropist
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I'm not in the new government, but i will react if you allow me... 🙂
New governmental, congressional, and presidential lay-out have been designed not latter than last month by M.Leviathin, which was the Minister of WebArt.
I find his work a-ma-zing!, and i'm not for changing the officials lay-out each month. It require a certain longetivity.
About the spelling error on the MoD article, i will try to help you with that. But there is no need to change everything for it.
About identification marks for officials, it can't be forced, and it's the player choice to use it or not. So if you like your idea, you can just create some "marks" and propose them on the forum. It don't have to be official...
About the military, why not creating a design contest ingame with a little price to create the new army avatar ?
What kind of crap would that be if evryone had to add something to this avatar to show you what position he is? If you get on the forum evry now and then, you should be able to get those things realy easely. For the army I agree, and also for the papers. But there's being worked on that. U're running behind on those things 🙂
@Theneka: please react less offensive. It's just a proposal. There's no need to react like that.
I saw the avatars on the forum but they were to bombastic, in my opinion. It's better to keep it plain and simple.
As mentioned on your previous article, Misanthropist, I really appreciate your offering solutions and not just criticisms. I really do encourage you to continue bringing these to the forums for discussion and the ultimate decision of our active citizens.
Theneka isn't overreacting. You have made your proposal for your banners, some of us didn't like them and now your trying to push this new banner in everyones face again bad move, I really know your trying and really hard but you come on the forums a lot more often and you will have a chance of doing great things like the things I've achieved in such a short time.
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@Blackshark: is that French for "I'm being a dick and refuse to be constructive while other people try to make an effort for eBelgium"
About the avatars: +1 Thomas
Misanthropist, if you have something I can use during my time as eBE MoF, I'm happy to apply it. Just create something, put it on the forum, and I'll apply it as avatar! Maybe others will follow... : )
PS: Constructive suggestions. Keep it up!
Thanks. I've just recieved some news and the upcomming month will be really busy IRL. So I can't promise to design in the upcomming period...
@ Misanthropist : report for vulgarity.
kind of childish, don't you think Blackshark. I also see you've removed me from your friends, lol.
First you provoke and then you start whining when you get a response...
Misanthropist: good job 🙂
get contact with the responsible ministry, and I think that your help could be appreciated 🙂
I like you ideas Misanthropist. We are currently working on getting avatars for the BAF, in fact I just approved the CA to use one they had designed. Hopefully the Royals and the Paras will also design one soon.