Lost in Diplomacy - TUP Party Review
Topher Fair
This week I'm going to look at the state of the UK, with each article focusing on one of our political parties.
Last week I interviewed the Party Presidents of the top five parties and while I've not been around for a few years, I saw many of the same names and the same issues as when I played long ago. So while I may be slightly out of the loop and would appreciate lots of comments (positive and negative!), I think I can also be quite neutral about the current situation.
Yesterday I analysed the United Kingdom Reform Party (UKRP) and everyone agreed I’m at least a year out of date, bear with me though there is a point to all of this! So now let's move onto the The Unity Party - TUP...
TUP are the second oldest surviving UK political party and were founded back in 2008 to save the then broken UK from UKRP. Sound familiar? Like UKRP started reforming the UK in 2008 and stopped in 2009, TUP started reforming the UK in 2009 and stopped in 2010. They ruled pretty much unopposed though UKRP occasionally took the Presidency, until UKPP started to regularly challenge them in 2012.
TUP are a clique who love being citizens of international alliances. They go for the "diplomatic victory" where a strong group of countries, led by themselves, dominate the eWorld. For them it’s bigger than just the UK.
TUP brings a number of positive qualities to eUK:
* TUP guides world events to put the UK in a better position. Under their rule the UK may pick up extra resource bonuses or regions and fight in interesting battles.
* If the UK is attacked, TUP’s links with other countries ensures that there will be loyal foreign soldiers to defend us. These relationships are built through fighting for our allies, having foreign players in TUP in the UK or working with them in alliance HQ.
* Even with other parties in control of the UK, TUP players will remain with their alliance and continue to hold influence and counter any risk taking or war mongering from other UK players.
TUP have also caused great damage to the UK:
* TUP can be insular and elitist, new players are recruited early with freebies and hidden away, immigrants to the UK have to be TUP friendly or they are dangerous and must be blocked, players in other parties are stupid and not worth listening to.
*They are masters at “Moralfagging”, saying that the actions of one party giving away food, using multiple accounts or recruiting foreigners is bad, while doing those exact things themselves. This creates a culture of bad feeling and distrust, making TUP perhaps the most hated UK party.
*Senior TUP players sometimes forget that they are elected by and are from the UK, as when you are manipulating whole continents into world wars, it's easy to forget a smaller piece like the UK. They might think that the all-important final showdown between Poland and Hungry #69 is more important than tiny insignificant UK losing regions.
Now as we found out yesterday, some of your consider my observations to be a year too late, but what I’m trying to get across is the inherent culture of each party at it’s best and worst for the final point I’ll make later in the week.
If their worst is in the past, great! I'm glad that UKRP is more sane now. If their best is in the past, too bad. The current alliance situation certainty looks like TUP's involvement in mega alliances is over. Sometimes you just need to look back to look forward.
Topher Fair - UK Political Analyst
Comments
All your knowledge comes from 2013, the year your love interest was born.
TUP does things?
They used to!
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Still on my first account.
You are on your second you've told us about right? 😉
fair enough, on your #999 identity
Go on, list them then... It's cute that you think that I was ever away 😛
good call
Another outdated one boi, though the moralfagging is still partially relevant. Gonna be interesting to see what this all actually leads up to, is the conclusion of the saga gonna be years out of date too or are we gonna get a shocking twist?
The best these parties can be may be out of date but maybe reminding them of who they are will prompt them to go for glory again.
Or they could just leave bitchy comments and learn nothing again! We got got a few commenting above already 🙂
Similar to the one on UKRP this is an interesting analysis. Where I would argue is that much of this relates to the position three years ago - we are a pale shadow of what TUP once was I would be the first to admit.
Not a bad assessment, eUK could do with a strong TUP once more. Can't see it happening anytime soon though.
To be fair, you've acknowledged the fact that it's based on old info and you've put across both positives and negatives. It's interesting if anything to see your perspective, however different the people your writing about see themselves (or each other). It's not what I would write but that doesn't inherently make it wrong.
I'm interested in what the 'overall message' will be. I'm really looking forward to some of the 'newer' parties. Will you be looking at the whole genesis of these parties (I.e. the oldfags that set them up?) Or focus only on the current iteration.
Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you!
I am not sure that this form of analysis is particularly useful. My doctrine has always been to vote for the person - not the Party.
The in-game system is such that the only way to get into Congress (and have some influence on what happens within eUK) is to be a member of one of the larger Parties and pick up a Congressional nomination.
As personalities come and go (then come back again) in this game - the character of each party does tend to 'evolve' somewhat over time - so declaring that a certain party always does a certain thing or in a certain style is simply not true.
The challenge that gets me excited is how to get all of eUK united to work together towards a common cause - such as recovering all of our occupied regions. If anything your analysis will work against this aim - by reinforcing Party divides and fueling the stupid inter-party contention.
For the record I am quite happy to work with good guys from WRP, TUP UKPP and even the BP if it means that we can become more effective together.
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PS - I stick with the UKRP because we have the best cocktails - and I have a mice comfy airchair over in the quiet end of the UKRP Club in which I can doze off in during the afternoons....
Your PS is the exact thing I was talking about in my UKRP article. What the hell. You are not a 70 year old retired civil servant. Target demographic is probably 20-30.
There is a place for everyone in here - not just teenagers and 20-somethings. How old do you think *I* am? Not quite 70 - but old enough to be in receipt of a full miltary pension...
No, the information is probably older than that. Those who gave away stuff to newbs etc have been long gone from the eUK. They left before I got heavily involved, and I've been heavily involved for a few years now.
If we see anyone in TUP creating multis, we're going to report them to the mods, same as if we see anyone else. TUP does not hold with multis, although we cannot control our members (and unfortunately, we can't kick out members who do not act in ethical fashion - the other parties have the same problem).
We work closely with other parties and if asked, I tell people to join a party which best meets their views, rather than say "you must join TUP". Of course I think it's the best party - but it's not the right party for everyone, same as any other party.
I would love to see an analysis of the parties as they stand today, not as they stood 4 years and many changes of citizens ago.