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Orders are good. Seen orders are better. The more eyes the merrier.

I logged onto my wood-smuggling ring and found this lovely sight before my eyes. I almost choked up and cried.

You should too. It. Was. Just. That. Beautiful.

[img]http://sites.google.com/site/elmerfuddguns/_/rsrc/1252717658238/home/ordersads.JPG[/img]

Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you!

I have said before that the very best and possibly only really justifiable use of party gold is for advertisements in the national interest. Here is a superb example. I want to congratulate the parties who have funded this and the people who made it happen.

The national defense paper is a critical instrument of any country, as it is typically how a majority of the fighters from a country knows where to strike; the military units being able to strike hard, at various locations, and often with good timing, but not in the same absolute number of damage as the hordes of fighters under no direct command. This ad blitz is a great way to increase the visibility of the paper. Most citizens in any country who are following orders get them from such public sources.


(The chain of bureaucracy may be important in real life but maybe not always so much here.)

There are more ways that this could be done. The Russians have an excellent strategy. When they really want a battle to be fought over tooth and nail, they will post in their defense paper to "comment and if you are between strength X and Y you will get N Q1 guns." Then quartermasters distribute the Q1 guns to commenters as the day goes on. This has two benefits. For distribution, it means that all who received know where to fight and are online to fight, both of which are pretty important. Distribution is also easier because it's entirely "passive" and, yet, can easily reach as many or more people as a more structured enrollment system. For broadcasting, it means that the newspaper article will get high visibility in terms of votes and just more eyeballs overall. Many will be seeing it because of the high placement of the article, but even more come from the fact that everybody loves free stuff and will check regularly. This means many more see it, supplied or not... and even on days when there are no free distributions.

This is not the only possible strategy, but every country needs to be as creative, resourceful and diligent as possible in providing orders to citizens. Other possibilities include informal "squadrons" where "commanders" recruit as friends entire regions of a country, or subsections (such as by level), and just shout that there are orders out to their friends lists as they see them in the paper, with a link to the paper (preferrably, encouraging the click to find out what the orders are). I have never seen this implemented on a rigorous scale, but it is an informal method of fighters everywhere desperate to see damage go the right way. Why not formalize and organize it just a bit more?

Also, many countries have two broadcasting arms (with the same message), a script using Greasemonkey (yes, Greece has one) and the defense paper. However, and this is a failing, the defense paper does not always promote the script. The defense paper should promote the script so that it finds wider distribution and also so that users of the script vote up the paper in greater numbers.


(She is ready to strike at your command. And she's cute.)

There are, of course, many more strategies and tactics that could be devised in the war against errorism (fighting in the wrong place, or not at all). What do you think or suggest?