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MrWhereItsAt
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New Year's Resolution: 2005 is the year of Where It's At - come get some.
Nov 2001
time: 17:28
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Wow - quite a position. 
NukeMaster - that is a great roleplaying idea, but I see some issues with it. In a Parliamentary Democracy like Canada, New Zealand and even Australia, the monarch (currently Queen Liz) is technically ruler of the country, and her representative for each country is the Governor General. Now the Governor General is symbolic, but he/she does actually have some power as you say, but very very limited. In the case of recent times, the only thing the GG has done apart from "officially" open Parliament and gift the Government to the winning political party(ies) is to call for a reelection in the case of a Governmental split. This has happened about 50 years ago in Australia, and caused no-stop problems.
For us, it would not be possible to have someone in every chat. It would not even be likely to have one of two people in every chat. Secondly, we have decided upon being a Democracy game, pure and simple. We poll on as much as we can in the most Drmocratic way we can - we need a leader as we can't poll on everything, and those plans that are cooked up in the chat are carried out with a quickpoll approval of those in the chat - the next best thing to a full poll. Thirdly, I think this is really pushing towards the sort of total control/elitist idea that we don't want to go towards in the DG. There have been lots of Presidents, and that is the highest office you can attain here - it seems to me to act as a humbling factor. If I thought I was hot stuff, I would look around and realise that I'm not better than everyone else - there are lots about here who have had the top job before, and lots who will in the future.
I think it's important we stick to our Democratic ideals here, as much as they seem to work. We are all supposed to be considered equals here, judged only on what we do, not what title we hold. If we had a GG, that would change. The PtW team games and, in a way the ISDG game have some elements of Governor-Generalship, and they can work well, bt they are born of either necessity or of roleplay. We have chosen a different path, and I think we should try to stick to this for this game.
This isn't attempting to shoot you down, NukeMaster, I can see your enthusiasm for the game. I just think that this idea, whilst looking great for roleplay, both cannot work easily and might cause us to go in a way I don't think the game was designed for. Perhaps I am alone in this, and if you get some positive replies here you might want to poll on it - that's what a Democracy is for.  Maybe for the next game we would decide this is a good idea, but, for me, I would like to stay as we are.
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16-06-2003 04:34
, why not , ...... 
NO
Some people cant even explain themselves *sigh*
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