Changes in the Dictatorship: take a decision
Day 3,384, 08:06
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by Redi Jodikku
Goedemorgen citizens of the NL (I know it's not the morgen, but i don't know how to say neither afternoon nor everning).
As some of you may have seen, some changes have been introduced to the dictatorship feature. You can find it in the Latest Update section, but to save you time I will copy-paste the content here.
"Also, in response to the Community’s requests regarding Dictatorship, we decided to make some changes regarding the mechanics of opening a Civil War (liberation war included).
First of all, from now on you have to be a level 25 Citizen in order to create a Military Unit. Furthermore, in order to open a Civil War, a Military Unit needs to be at least 60 days old. Only commanders who are in charge of such military units for at least 14 days and have reached experience level 25 can start Civil Wars. The Dictatorship mechanics have also been revised and a Daily Dictatorship Upkeep cost will be introduced.
In order for the dictator to remain in power, a daily currency fee will be automatically deducted from the Country’s Treasury. If the payment can not be done, Democracy will be reinstated automatically and Dictatorship will be removed without any liberation war. The amount of money needed for the Daily Dictatorship Upkeep will be 50% of a Country’s Income, with a minimum value of 25 Gold at Monetary Market Exchange Rate.
The Upkeep will be in effect starting 31st of March 2017 (Day 3,419), thus giving all countries time to set their political affairs in order. "
I recommend you to read it carefully, some things are really good (imo) and we can't really do anything about it, but there's something we need to talk about.
We are currently under a dictatorship for safety measures, but if we keep it after the changes are implemented, we will need to pay about 10,000cc each day until our treasury is gone, so, the question is, do we still want to have it? What do you think about it?
Post your ideas and concerns on the comment section so that we all can take the best decision.
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Main reason we needed it for safety measures were MTOs. Given the severe upkeep this is less of an issue now. The only thing we need to make sure to have is a solid plan to safeguard the money in the orgs in case of an MTO, as that might still make it worthwhile otherwise.
Other advantages of the dictatorship were its anti-PTO options: one person had the power to let immigrants enter the country. Without dictatorship this will be handled by congress, meaning CMs will need to follow the decision made on the forum, and not act on their own.
Also, we did not need to be cautious with who we elected as CP, as the CP would have to order the dictator to do things, and this served as an additional check preventing this CP from bankrupting the country. Without this safety, we will need to be more cautious again in who we want for our CP...
And of course, the dictatorship already has its disadvantages. The inactivity on our forum is definitely one of the consequences of not having an in-game congress (with power) for a long time. And in total, the gold from congress medals is more than the gold the dictator gets each month.
Congress and CP are indeed an issue at the current state of the country, but it does not seem to be economically sustainable to keep the dictatorship in place.
I agree, all in all it's wiser to finally get rid of the dictatorship and restore Democracy!
I'd argue that it has nothing to do with the dictator ship inactivity of the forum and congress, it's more the game dying
There are a number of reasons, which combined gave this effect. And true, the game attracting less and less players definitely plays an important role.
saving cc and gold is the best... we should reduce all expenses.
A very interesting update...
This changes the way we have to handle our political systems completely. For now it seems the fee is quite high, so we need to decide if the extra safety is worth that much money.
we should analize if our taxes should be modified a lil or not
Dictatorship has to go unless we have an angel investor, that's it
10.000 cc a day for a small country is a lot - it's like you would sign one MPP a day. Small countries are definitely out of the game (unless the dictator will agree to pay his medal and throw away money)
now seriously... get back to democracy and save money for hard times....
Imo we should look into getting a free liberation coup take out all our gov funds and put them in a org so that trannsvaal can't pay the dictator tax.
Once we've established democracy again, we will need to set some safety meassures our National treasure should be kept safe from possible PTO's. I suggest like in the UK, to devide some of the money either over active trustworthy players or orgs or a similar sollution.
I also suggest we start looking for a region deal with e.g. Germany to limit our Congress but also give us regular wars to fight in.
In many e-nations some trustworthy citizens have been assigned as safekeepers for their countries funds, this is something we certainly should look into. But it's safe to say that the days of dictatorship have finally come to an end and Democracy will be restored!
No need for a coup. Just decide where to put the money and do so just before changes take place so first day can't be paid. We end the dictator first day for free then which should be fine. Perhaps some activity will return then. Hopefully in a better way than in the past regarding forum otherwise we will have no dictator nor a working congress...
Very much true but there are people who want a libration medal since they become rare now. We can offer them a medal 🙂
Also i'm a sceptic to a better working congress. Guess we should start the ingame chats again. The first 3 months without dictator will be critical. Many people don't know the congress rules e.g. 50% of gold returned to gov. Also the gold can be an incentive for epoeple to run again which is good. We'll ser what happens
that's exactly what I mean.