[vCP] Domestics: A New Way Forward
Day 2,246, 15:00
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by Addaway
Well Hello there.
Over the past few weeks, the Domestic ministries (Home Affairs and its sub-ministries) have come under criticism from some people in the eUK for being irrelevant, outdated and just unnceccasry. In some ways, I get that point of view. The same old tried and tested methods had been used for months, and the MoHA's focus had lost sight of the focus of eUK society.
This month, the Domestic ministries have started a long overdue process of reform to their objectives, focus and methods to create a MoHA that is both more effective, and more relevant to the needs of the people.
Fundamentally, eRepublik is a war game. The Political and Economic modules have been gutted by the admins, turning party politics into electing faceless lists of players with zero accountability and the economy a simplified shallow shell of its former self. As well as this, the slow decline of player counts in the game has seen the media module dwindle, and the social side of the game dwindle in importance.
No, what is left now is a war game. A game where countries compete to control the most regions and bonuses, to accumulate the most country power and become an 'Empire'. And so, naturally the traditional role of the domestic ministries has dwindled in importance, with Defence and Foreign Affairs now more vital to the nation than Home Affairs.
However, it is still my opinion that Domestics has a role to play in eUK government and society. Firstly, it provides a ministry which provides probably the best access point to government for new players, as deputy ministers and apprentices abound for players looking to gain experience. The second way in which the domestic ministry remains fundamentally relevant is through a renewed focus on education.
Education is the only essential role that the Domestic ministries now perform, with it being vital that young citizens are clued up on the knowledge they need to succeed in this new, war-focused game that we inhabit.
This month is seeing reforms to the way we do Education, with Education now a full Government Ministry with its own newspaper and a trebling of staff on it from last term. The MoEd's articles will be more focused on things to do with the military module, with the first articles this month on Training Ground loans and the Freedom Fighter medal, examples of this. In addition to this, the MoEd will begin running a comprehensive mentoring program for all young citizens that sign up to the NHS and request a mentor.
This month the focus is on developing a new style of education which will provide a better foundation for young players, to prepare the eUK’s soldiers of the future, ideally with the kind of low-division, high strength model that the eUK so badly needs more of.
Cheers,
iAdrastos
Vice President (Domestic Affairs)
Over the past few weeks, the Domestic ministries (Home Affairs and its sub-ministries) have come under criticism from some people in the eUK for being irrelevant, outdated and just unnceccasry. In some ways, I get that point of view. The same old tried and tested methods had been used for months, and the MoHA's focus had lost sight of the focus of eUK society.
This month, the Domestic ministries have started a long overdue process of reform to their objectives, focus and methods to create a MoHA that is both more effective, and more relevant to the needs of the people.
Fundamentally, eRepublik is a war game. The Political and Economic modules have been gutted by the admins, turning party politics into electing faceless lists of players with zero accountability and the economy a simplified shallow shell of its former self. As well as this, the slow decline of player counts in the game has seen the media module dwindle, and the social side of the game dwindle in importance.
No, what is left now is a war game. A game where countries compete to control the most regions and bonuses, to accumulate the most country power and become an 'Empire'. And so, naturally the traditional role of the domestic ministries has dwindled in importance, with Defence and Foreign Affairs now more vital to the nation than Home Affairs.
However, it is still my opinion that Domestics has a role to play in eUK government and society. Firstly, it provides a ministry which provides probably the best access point to government for new players, as deputy ministers and apprentices abound for players looking to gain experience. The second way in which the domestic ministry remains fundamentally relevant is through a renewed focus on education.
Education is the only essential role that the Domestic ministries now perform, with it being vital that young citizens are clued up on the knowledge they need to succeed in this new, war-focused game that we inhabit.
This month is seeing reforms to the way we do Education, with Education now a full Government Ministry with its own newspaper and a trebling of staff on it from last term. The MoEd's articles will be more focused on things to do with the military module, with the first articles this month on Training Ground loans and the Freedom Fighter medal, examples of this. In addition to this, the MoEd will begin running a comprehensive mentoring program for all young citizens that sign up to the NHS and request a mentor.
This month the focus is on developing a new style of education which will provide a better foundation for young players, to prepare the eUK’s soldiers of the future, ideally with the kind of low-division, high strength model that the eUK so badly needs more of.
Cheers,
iAdrastos
Vice President (Domestic Affairs)
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MegaPole
This article is pointless.
You know what else is Pointless? The Ministry of Home Affairs
That's because this whole game is pointless. You just sit on your bum, pressing a few buttons and typing up a few shouts and articles now and again for what? Some virtual currency that means nothing? Maybe a medal that does nothing but sit there on your profile?
So of course Home Affairs is going to be pointless, because every single aspect of this game is completely and utterly pointless. But still you play this game despite the pointlessness of it and allow it to exist, so why can't the MoHA? It just as much pointless as eRep.
Out of all the LLamas you're my favorite *Heart*
At least someone has been listening...
Home affairs should just focus on coordinating our resources to improve our players. Setting up schemes like the Funky Factory plan, continuing the TG, training contract and RM loans and finding every opportunity to reward active players. The decline of erep is still on and the mythical "power of the 2-clicker" is coming out as the farce it is, nothing you do or say will change their involvement because the game is too crap to grab the attention of most people. Domestics need to scale down, repost some tutorials and pump funding into people who are gonna' be active and attract active players/tanks from foreign countries to set up shop over here
The Job of Home Affairs is being done by players. NHS funded by players, Funky Factory scheme, Guides and entertainment articles all achieved by people who aren't 'Ministers'
I wouldn't be disagreeing with you Angela, but weren't you in MoHA at one point? Surely such a extraneous ministry wouldn't be worth your time even applying for.
Indeed I was.
Although the work I did as MoHA was basically just did Guides/mentoring and handed out food.
So I would say either make the NHS Home Affairs or kill Home Affairs as currently it really doesn't achieve much.