A Strategic Vision for the eUK
Mr Woldy
Hello, I am Mr Woldy. You may remember me as the original safe pair of hands. In this article I would like to paint a picture of a driven eUK with clear goals we can all rally around.
I believe that articulating a long term strategic vision for the eUK will not only help offer political direction but also be a force for unity - something we can agree on and which will remind us of our common purpose. This vision needs to be understood as distinct from policies - the strategic goals are a long term aim, which is delivered by our operational policies.
Articulating our aims is crucial to our Politics functioning - we need to know what spending public money is meant to achieve. What are the desired outcomes, how else might we achieve them? How do we know it's working? In the absence of clear goals, these questions can’t be adequately answered. Let’s change that.
My vision is to drive consensus around four strategic goals, and give us common purpose again. I hope you will consider endorsing this vision by voting for me in the Presidential election.
We all know I have a bad habit of writing long articles. For those who want to read more, some further detail follows. If you're done reading, that's fine too, you've covered the key message. For those die-hard readers who may want maximum detail, each section has a link to click through to info cards. By all means get in touch or comment if you want to know more.
Doing anything in this space requires an active and affable Cabinet, and a coherent approach for the Ministry of Education, NHS and Immigration Ministry. These can work together to plan and propose incentives, evaluate what works and provide ongoing support to citizens. Most importantly, they should be doing something.
We need bespoke support that helps people, not to throw technical manuals at people or tell them they’ve got to catch up to old players. That will put people off!
For a full statement on this goal and these policies click here.
The lion’s share of our income is funnelled into rewards programs with nebulous goals, sometimes it is ‘be stronger by ranking up’, sometimes it is ‘have fun’, sometimes it is ‘fighting can be expensive’. The current approach to rewards inadequately addresses all of these things - the absence of a defined strategic aim means they are trying to be all things for
From a purely military perspective we need to increase the numbers of players whilst having a program dedicated to incentivising fighting (see next section). In the spirit of incentivising everyone I will not require people to comment to claim. I would also see pre-epic damage raising and other coordinated activities (such as live-fire exercises) receiving rewards bonuses on top of the baseline offering. This would encourage people to interact with the MoD and their MU’s.
For a full statement on this goal and these policies click here.
First and foremost I believe a foundation package of support for eUK citizens should come from using our Money Market trading pot as a Citizen Dividend. This means that in a four week period all profits made via trading are distributed equally amongst the active population. This is good for the economy!
On top of this we can add other incentives, such as fighting rewards. These should operate on a fixed-cost basis, with a simple algorithm to determine reward value based on what percentage of the eUK’s kills a player did (capped initially at 10k kills). Players get the equivalent value of the rewards funding. This promotes fighting regardless of who is doing it.
This means a budget can be agreed for rewards that doesn't fluctuate wildly. When added to the Citizen Dividend, the level of support remains very high. Based on these two programs alone 80% of citizens would be better off. Here’s a worked example if I have not described the approach clearly enough!
For a full statement on this goal and these policies click here.
The eUK is a pretty good place to play but your chances of stumbling upon flaming, trolling or worse are fairly high too. We should be invested in being a nation where people want to interact, want to read the media, want to participate in Congress. Not one where you have to read 40 messages of people repeating unclear questions, baa’ing at each other or going full-Jim Davidson.
The Presidency can do a lot to help this culture shift along. I believe the presidency is the pinnacle of example setting and should stand up for decency, minimise ambiguity and clarify matters of past and present policy to help bring disputes to an end promptly. If I were to be elected I would not vanish if my supporters were going feral, but would stand up for facts and challenge trolling and abuse in my own support base as much as in anyone else's.
For a full statement on this goal and these policies click here.
Hopefully these top-level goals and policies provide a more positive and driven vision for the eUK,
At the moment the eUK has no long term goals, it runs programs and maintains Training Wars, as it should do, as everyone does. It does not represent all we can do by any stretch of the imagination. Holding it up as the peak of Government outputs it is like a restaurant boasting about having cutlery. Instead we should state how many Michelin stars we want and what we need to do to get them.
Blanket phrases like ‘player advancement’, ‘rewarding determination’ and ‘supported to thrive’ don’t adequately explain why public money should be shovelled towards some players and not others, or why some ideas are advanced and funded and others are not. As an example, if we want to increase the eUK’s damage output, we would have universal fighting incentives paired with specific coordination rewards. We would definitely offer migration incentives. If we want to support everyone and grow the economy, we would distribute funds much more widely. If we wanted a great community, we would lead from the front - after all communities aren’t built in silence. Setting clear strategic goals helps us assess what is working.
Such clear goals also matter when it comes to transparency, accountability, and fairness. Ultimately without succinct strategic justifications, how do we know what spending is meant to achieve for the nation? How do we know if it is working? How do we know if we should be paying for it?
These are all burning questions. Help me answer them by voting Woldy4CP on Sunday.
Thanks for reading!
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‘ The eUK is a pretty good place to play but your chances of stumbling upon flaming, trolling or worse are fairly high too. We should be invested in being a nation where people want to interact, want to read the media, want to participate in Congress. Not one where you have to read 40 messages of people repeating unclear questions, baa’ing at each other or going full-Jim Davidson.’
This is coming from one of the most notorious gaslighters and trolls on the menu
Don’t be deceived lads, vote Huey o7
I could count the people who characterise me that way on one hand. I think most people will relate to the sentiment behind calling for less trolling.
That is a very accurate way to describe yourself o7
You’re not that notorious, you give yourself too much credit
Consistently the hardest working and most active fella around.
I'll keep working til arthritis starts
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Finally \o/ head and shoulders above the rest o7
Vote Woldy for a brighter future!
In all seriousness though, this seems like a well-thought out, fairly bipartisan manifesto.
Player retention, strong coordinated goals and wealth redistribution are sensible, proactive ways of driving the country forward.
You have my full support!
Thanks o7
I think it's safe to say nobody has put as much thought into writing a manifesto for years.
There is a lot of good stuff here - especially like the economy section!
Tbh, I'm already impressed by eUK's current activity level, your support of (new) players, TARE etc. You've clearly invested lots of time and effort into your vision. I don't know anything about eUK's politics, but I wish you best of luck. 🙂
come over 😉
just wanna say I want your RL job Woldy - You seem to have so much more free time than I do -🙂 defo over 1000 words
Haha no comment about what I was supposed to be doing when I was writing this
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Your commitment to re-creating an active community is commendable 🙂
Wow - lots of words here - but not a lot of real substance.
I shall be voting for Huey, who continues to deliver financial and political stability.
[/me braces for the usual TRS-ing that normally follows]
Which was your favourite policy? 🙂
If you don’t think there’s substance you haven’t read it. Simple.
Didn't realise consistently overspending was "financial stability"
Constantly putting a shift in Woldy, I don’t know how you do it!
Isn't putting a shift in Woldy painful?
To be fair he's used to getting politically shafted.
At first glance, my old failing eyesight read "A Strange Vision for the eUK"
I think I'll stick with that.
You certainly maintain your theme of living in an alternate reality
Specsavers has some good deals on. I just renewed my prescription
"policing TWs to international standards"
got a link to them international standards? or this somthing you just made up.
I don't make things up 😛
Most rules base it of T- without damage levels. As described we've somehow managed to do both and publish 21 rules. Check these out for comparison:
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/ejapanese-training-war-rules-farming-2776043/1/20
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-e-etaiwan-training-war-rule-2774742/1/20
https://m.erepublik.com/uk/article/north-korean-training-wars-how-they-work-2755274/1/20
A player in eIreland is compiling as many rules as possible for publishing and acknowledges there is a mix, but so far most published rules follow a pattern of being based around times and generally having 3/4 rules it asks players to respect.
o7
Given there are 74 countries represented in eRepublic it would appear only a tiny minority have rules concerning battles, can't really call it an 'international standard'
You are right that most don't have rules but I don't strongly get the impression we want to do away with all guidelines in the eUK. The principle will be to align with the way nations who have TW rules go about it so our players don't approach battles with a different understanding to everyone else. People literally complain about some of our battles because there's no common understanding/approach
Since we acquired a MPP with Spain there seems to a number of Spanish players who seem to think they have carte blanche to nip in and grab the eUK BH after 1or 2 minutes. So much for respecting guidelines.
We should ensure guidelines will be reciprocal before signing any MPP in my view.
We can't expect Spanish players to know if the UK gov hasn't agreed it with the Spanish gov and equally, we can't really expect anyone to remember 21 rules. I don't think it was handled as best as it could have been
To be fair to the Spanish players, they are following the new guidelines
https://prnt.sc/CA-bZZg5ZwZs
Why t0? It's hard enough finding eUK battles to fight in with the overhitting rules, letting Spanish players in at t0 is totally crazy
It's really not ideal when our MPPs are two big fighting countries. In the event I'm successful we will have a new set of Ts proposed in a week to address this sort of thing.
I've no idea, presumably there is some reason for the Spanish MPP, you'd have to ask the CP or a congressman.
From the Congress side the two things to point out are that we didn't get any further consultation on the guidelines than the public got via that article that came out.
The Spanish MPP was proposed by Huey on the assumption day 6000 would require people to fight via MPP, and it was seen as a nice extra to have on top of the Estonian one. That assumption obvs proved to be a bad one. I returned some money to the CA for my part in voting for it, it was against my better instincts as I was expecting day 6k to be a bit banal 😛
https://prnt.sc/Grzlb9bVmVU9
This is a well written piece. Thank you.
good article, with good positions, well-thought arguments and reasons on how to implement each initiative.
very good work, bravo!
Thanks o7
Woldy4CP!!!