[CP] We are often our own worst enemy
Alias Vision
The pride of India was not lost in Gujarat.
The honour of India was not lost in Gujarat.
Some have been asking me why I haven't responded more forcefully to the people personally attacking me and the individuals working with me. A lot has to do with the fact that I needed to decide just what I wanted to say and what I could say. It would be easy to attack back, highlight their half-truths and outright lies or attempts to manipulate and control the message. But all those things would destroy at a time when India needs to build.
But hold it you cry! How can you speak of building when you just sold India's last region?
The friends that India has, have friends of their own. When all the friends call you at the same time for your help, you don't have a choice but to prioritize where you go and what you do. You simply can't be everything to everyone.
So our friends prioritize
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Themselves first.
Their alliance second.
Their geopolitical interests third.
This does not make them bad friends, it makes them human friends. Nations (careful, not individuals) are only selfless once all other of their needs are met. Because we live in such chaotic, alliance shifting times, those needs are rarely entirely satisfied.
Part of the problem for India is that we don't currently have enough alliance friends. This is not due to any one individual or Government but it happened by attrition over time. So the task of any new executive is to build new relationships and new links. This takes time. If we pressed, I'm confident we could sign many new MPPs in short order but how many of those would count? How many of those would be mutually beneficial?
MPPs cost money. India happens to have a healthy reserve. The reason we have this reserve is because subsequent leaders, as disappointing as you think they may be, made an effort not to throw good money after bad. We could spend 100k cc on alliances and 500k cc on damage tomorrow if we wanted... and yet would be no further ahead in a week as we are now because that damage and those alliances would not be sustainable.
And that is an important point. In India, the treasury is a finite resource that is not replenishing.
Bulgaria has been to our aid in the past and the present. They will come to our aid in the future. Bulgaria is a sustainable alliance and so that is why we are renewing it. Others will be signed and renewed but they will have to meet minimum hopes of providing us with benefits.
My job as CP is to take the assets we have and use them to the best of my ability. That sometimes means taking one asset and transforming it into something else for a later use. Gujarat was an asset we were losing and I attempted to transform it into something that we could use later.
I can hear the owls now... Gujarat is not an asset! You understand nothing!
To your outrage I'll ask... where was your outrage that last two times Croatia eliminated us from the map and we had to start back from zero? Where was your outrage when BiH was allowed to enter our lands? Where was your outrage when Pakistan was allowed to gain a foothold and eventually move their capital to occupied territories?
Could it be that it was because you understood the difficulty of our situation back then and that India needed to learn to adapt to move on? Or worse, could it be it was because you were inactive or didn't care enough to try and be outraged?
Because while this apathy was going on, some continued to work. Some asked for help. Some were willing to put in the hours to find solutions.
There are only two things that will allow India to dictate her own terms. The first is a greater engagement from its current citizens and a willingness to sacrifice some personal rewards for the group's gains. The second is a bigger population. The great hope, a baby boom.
Well... I've been looking and not many who are outraged also have society builder medals. So use your passion and your desire and get people involved, invite people. Build a critical mass that will allow you to stand on your own, fully free and clear of outside interference.
In the meantime, those like me who have been elected to do a job will continue to do that job. We will continue to try and use our assets for the greater good and we will continue to try and build the relationships that India will need tomorrow and all the further tomorrows to be successful.
Thank you,
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All I smell here is ego speaking volumes...
1. When Pakistan entered India and offered us deals we refused right away and we fought for it. Very unlike having deals with Albania before the war is over. BiH deal was because croatia promised to return 10 regions though that didn't happen.
2. having society building medals doesn't mean that you actually get people into the game. if you want to know more about the effort that we put there are tons of resources available online not just on erepublik and that inc. youtube,facebook, twitter, gaming forums, spending rl money and effort, organizing rl events, organizing various guides, having a strong retention programme, mailing and retaining people individually... etc.
To begin with you haven't even changed the welcome message as xordin's name appears as the CP of India..a message that was not also written by him.
3. As far as CoT is concerned I think everyone needs to know that the biggest opposition coming right now is from US and that is because of bad blood between their CP and your PM. Rather than doing something to improve it you rather change your focus on improving relationship with other country that has nothing to do.
Yes we were inactive back then, and we are back now. Just because someone was not around when xyz happened and is present when abc happens doesn't mean they should stfu..If something wrong is happening we speak for it, if you don't agree you can counter it by giving your own views, if you accept it you can promote it and if you don't have time to do anything you can ignore it...But stop trying to be dictatorial.
The most important thing rather than changing the mistakes done by the previous govt. you want to continue with it and your explanation is "Hey, it was done in past so I have all right to do that now as well..don't oppose me"
So if you read all the media in India, you will be left with I am a Serbian dictator egomaniac.
I'm not sure how you could possibly be further from the truth.
well there should be a reason as to why it is happening. Just because it didn't happen when mistakes were done in past few months doesn't mean people have lost their right to speak now or in future.
And yes during my tenure there were several articles in the media attacking me and the decisions of the govt. But no I didn't go around telling people to stfu or ask my detractors to stop writing, rather you can still see my article and comments. I've always said everyone has a right to give his/her opinion, even if it is against me or the govt., it's an individual perspective, I was happy back then that the media was active and people were expressing their views and I am now as well. It brings the game and the country back to life, and also gives the newbies a medium to get their voice heard and express their opinion.
I haven't told a single person to STFU. Not you, not Vlad or any of the others. I don't even think I've been rude to people PMing me and a LOT have been doing so expressing all kinds of views. Same with IRC. In fact, I've tried to make myself even more available than I had been before the weekend.
By all means keep writing Uv Ajed, you are one of the most capable writers in India. And I think I know you well enough to know that you will own your words. I just hope you realize their full impact.
"To your outrage I'll ask... where was your outrage that last two times Croatia eliminated us from the map and we had to start back from zero? Where was your outrage when BiH was allowed to enter our lands? Where was your outrage when Pakistan was allowed to gain a foothold and eventually move their capital to occupied territories?
Could it be that it was because you understood the difficulty of our situation back then and that India needed to learn to adapt to move on? Or worse, could it be it was because you were inactive or didn't care enough to try and be outraged?"
"Well... I've been looking and not many who are outraged also have society builder medals. So use your passion and your desire and get people involved, invite people. Build a critical mass that will allow you to stand on your own, fully free and clear of outside interference."
what is that then?
I did it in my article, I did it in personal mesage and I do it now and here. I ask forgivness for have mistaken the RL nationality of Alias Vision (as serbian).
AV even though I don't agree with the deals I am with you.You were in the heat and you did the best.That's all YUUVA and eIndia asks of you
I respect you AV but of course don't agree with this deal. I will only suggest whoever is responsible that don't cut deals with weak countries like us (if you do deal with strong countries that is still ok as they can give you something). What eAlbania can give it to us (30K does not matter at this point)?
Excuse me president, but now it seems that Croats are not willing to return region to us. What if they dont do it? We will still rent our regions to Albania and live without a country? I think that making this deal didnt just leave us without our pride and dignity, but without a country too, which was your reason why you signed this deal right?
Before Albania came we had at least 1 region, now we rented our last region to the ex friend who invaded us because of its own interests and forced us to sign a deal we didnt want, and now we are landless. And your UAgg master called you best president India ever had, what have you done so good for this country? I see only mistakes made. You are leaving things that happened before your turn unanswered, people who made mistakes are not brought to justice and actually you are not just repeating their mistakes but also marking us enemies of the state.
And how can we trust you? UAgg leaders claim that they will do everything to ensure India stays occupied and yet you are the guy from their ranks, claiming to be our Country President. Is this how they are going to destroy India? By sending you as punishment??
Who sold India?
Who stole our money?
If he keeps this way he will surely f*ck up eIndia
I do not know all the ins and outs, but I know what I read. The critics attack personalities; AV addresses issues. The critics talk about pride, but pride does not win wars, strategy does. AV has a strategy, still developing, but building forward. The critics talk about the past. AV plans for the future. I hope he succeeds.
the only one in eindia to have a good observation..
Sorry but I don't see any strategy anywhere. All i see is India without a region and a bleak future in terms of CoT membership.
1) Albania won't pay, we all know that
2) Cryatia won't give back any regions
3) There are 4 countries in eIndia's cores, none of them is eIndia
4) The CP is doing nothing at all to help the eIndian situation
Yes, the "strategy" is working really nice.
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AV, you have tried your best, and I am with you. and I am sure that all YUUVA will be with you
wtf
Now tell me something, is a CP something like an building administrator ? Should he only try to make all fit, the maintenance is he's job only ?
Then who will have the vision, the will and the power to impel actions ?
"Ab Pachhataave Kya Hovat Hai Jab Chidiya Chubh Gai Khet "---- 1.
"Tabelaa maathi Ghoda bhagi gaya, have tabelaa ne talu(lock) maarine shu faayado(profit)....2.(gujarati)
"I do not know all the ins and outs, but I know what I read. The critics attack personalities; AV addresses issues. The critics talk about pride, but pride does not win wars, strategy does. AV has a strategy, still developing, but building forward. The critics talk about the past. AV plans for the future. I hope he succeeds."
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Let's act a douche once more:
I'll start with the cabinet:
1. CP: Former member of UAgg, proEDEN MU that fights vs eIndia. Also an Albanian lover MU, pretty funny isn't it?
2. Mo😨 A level 24 player that started playing eR on January, lacks experience, and since eIndia hasn't won a war since AV is the CP I guess he also lacks enough strategic knowledge to be a MoD.
3. MoFA: He has been playing since October, so far he hasn't start neither an embassy project nor an approach to CoT or other countries apart from (FYROM, Chile and Bulgaria)
4. PM: Well, he got a nice BH medal for Albania vs India, do I need to say more stuff?
Now let's see other stuff:
5. Why does eIndia surrender to eAlbania before ending the war vs them? Serbia and Thailand were fighting for eIndia, so don't say the "Serbia is afraid of having Albania in Europe and they would hit against us" bullcrap. Read the point 1, we can find there the answer.
6. Chances are eIndia won't have congress this month, at least if the eIndian's keep playing with this attitude.
7. eIndia is not working in improving their relationships with any countries, they got rejected by CoT, so it won't be a bad idea to look for alternative alliances (NaN invited eIndia to their alliance not so long ago).
8. Newbies have to much power in eIndia, so some oldies (Asmita, Abhinay...) lie to them to gain their favoritism and have more votes after them to keep ruling in eIndia.
9. Hamturk got impeached (twice) for much less than AV, so eIndian congress, what are you waiting for?
That's pretty much how's eIndia going, it seems like a good idea trying to do something about it and make a change, and this time for the good.
AV has been in office for about a week. He made one deal, a province for money. That made peace with one of our multiplies enemies. Now we have one enemy to concentrate on. The critics have never explained why a glorious defeat would have been a better strategy for the future than what AV did.