Leave your Clique - Party Review Finale
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by Topher Fair
This week I've been looking at the state of the UK, with review articles focusing on each of our political parties. Here are my conclusions:
UKRP built the Government as we know it and entertained players who hate war/economy simulators by expanding the political game. They expanded it too far and started playing their own game, forgetting the actual buttons needed in the actual game.
TUP got the UK more deeply invovled in alliances and used the support of other countries to help and defend the UK. They got so invovled that they eventually forgot about everyone else and only played for the sake of their alliance and not the UK.
UKPP fought hard to get things back on track when UKRP and TUP started playing poorly and got more invovled in the military game. They became so antogonistic that they lost the trust of other parties and even their own military players left to become neutral.
BP fought even harder against the other parties running the UK into the ground and do whatever it takes to win, even if unfairly attacked in the media. They have so few limits that they eventually did the very things they were attacked for and are seen as untrustworthy.
WRP treat everyone with respect and do a solid safe job, especially when everything else is going wrong and a safe pair of hands are needed. This makes them so boring that they rarely get many congressmen and can't implement a lot of the good things they want.
Some of these parties are so old and their players so inactive that they don't do anything anymore, so the good things they were known for are things of the past. SO what needs to happen?
Political Parties need to focus on the things they do well and make it their selling point. Don't back off because someone "important" will have their ego bruised. If you are unwilling do this, disband or leave the party. Open up a space for your players to adapt or for someone else to make a new party.
When players start to tell you that you are going too far, take a step back to look at things from their point of view. Try to tone it down since once everyone hates you it'll be difficult for the UK to work together and your policies will be dumped once you lose power.
Work with the other parties, let them be good at something and don't try to trash it as they could be benefiting the UK. Work on your own thing instead. For example if you think BP is full of multi accounts, help them move them to an enemy country to vote or fight and use their energy to beneft the UK.
We really don't need an 8 year old party playing by out of dates rules, if you don't like the game as it is now, leave. UKRP does nothing but provide inactive crap CPs. TUP does nothing since it's senior players left. These parties most of all need to get active or get out.
This stuff seems obvious to me but it's never acted on. Right now it looks like UKPP and WRP are the most credible to work together and move the UK forward. Join one of them if your own party is inactive, you can talk to friends in any party. Leave the clique, take responsibility.
Topher Fair - UK Political Analyst
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Great work and analysis Topher. 🙂
Good to have you in our community.
As new citizen, stuff like this help me a lot.
Thank you, it's all been worth it then 🙂
Indeed UKPP is best for the UK.
Looking forward to our identical update another 2 years from now Goku!
Do you want to link the interviews and party analysis I did last time?
The UKPP didn't lose the trust from other parties due to being antagonists - we were never trusted from day one as the more military outlook as.you put it was incompatible with the other parties' "let's make allies so they can protect us". People like Wayne, Big Arse and the others came later and really cemented the image.
In terms of the "their military players left to become neutral" comment, I think it was more to do with the changing climate of the game. All parties had their associated military unit in the early days but you can't really say that is true anymore.
People often connect BA with UKPP, but in truth he was in the party for a few months. Do most people forget that he was a ESOer for way longer?
I joined UKPP because of the abuse they were getting and the perceived image they had at the time. You guys never took anything lying down and always came out swinging. It was a natural choice.
I can only think of two times we had mass movenment out of UKPP. The 'Great MWC Clearout of the BA Virus' and the time a load of the weak willed members ran away to UKRP when the going got too tough for em. The Sambo's, the fata's and the Rob the Bruces of this eWorld.
I know BA was only in for a few months, but as the first UKPP CP he stirred up the establishment a bit. The fact the likes of Sir Apples has linked BA and UKPP on numerous occasions just goes to show how big of an impression that was made despite the shortness.
I recall he was in ESO - I can't recall if he was behind the creation but he was for a long time the face of ESO. I'm trying to recall if he was their first CP....
I don't think he was the first ESO CP, he served 2 terms as ESO CP? it's so far back I can barely remember it.
As I've said many times in the past, in a different eWorld, BA woud have made a fine DCer... he get's painted as a UKPPer at times cuz it fits nicely. I think hardly anyone see's BA as a UKPPer.
If we are talking about people who 'created' the image of UKPP, then I would say Sir Nick and Alfa were the guys that cemented the heart of UKPP, the anger, the brashness. Me, Garth and RFiest then softened the edges and brought mass appeal. Which created what we have today. A group of guys with an unwritten ethos of fighting for what they believe is right, but also knowing which battles to fight. I've always liked the fact UKPP will get down and dirty and rip people new arseholes when needed, but most of the time we are chill as fuck.
"We really don't need an 8 year old party playing by out of dates rules"
Which rules are those?