Greetings Islanders! Welcome to the first NRS run debate for council elections! Bear with me as this is the first crack at this.
So this is how its going to work(hopefully). I will be posting a question a day leading up to the end of the election. After posting these questions I encourage each candidate to respond honestly and comment on each others responses. The goal of this is to have each candidate interact and debate each others opinion on the various questions and issues. Public comment on each candidates response is allowed and encouraged.
Here is your first question. Lets start with the obvious one. What are your plans to improve RP activity during your term as Himes west?
I look forward to your responses!
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1.I think we should do more polls, about fun facts about a lot of things; 2.We could create challenges for people participate in some Threads; 3.And for new people participate more, I think we should do Shop things a bit more cheaper for them. (I don't think that I can do that but it can help people a lot). 4;Also, we should create awards for records as "more posts" or "more threads creation";
If I have other ideas I advise.
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Post by Marxist Germany on Nov 13, 2019 14:29:38 GMT -5
So here's what I think should be done to improve regional RP:
I will hopefully be cooperating with the vice cartographer to create more maps when we start getting RP going. To begin with, I will be discussing RP more in the RMB and encouraging people to participate in some short RPs possibly. I will also try to encourage players to share their fact factbooks on the RMB and forum. I will try to host some RP events if possible, which will be short 1-3 week events where we RP something. I also plan on creating some Facebook competitions with Taco Awards, this should hopefully encourage worldbuilding and lore writing. This is all I've got for now, more to come during my term hopefully!
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1.I think we should do more polls, about fun facts about a lot of things; 2.We could create challenges for people participate in some Threads; 3.And for new people participate more, I think we should do Shop things a bit more cheaper for them. (I don't think that I can do that but it can help people a lot). 4;Also, we should create awards for records as "more posts" or "more threads creation";
If I have other ideas I advise.
I would like to ask my opponent Haivon some questions about his proposals.
1. Polls are already being held by Pollsters almost weekly, do you have certain changes you would want to make? 2. This is a bit too vague to be meaningful, do you have specific challenges you want to set in threads? And how would this improve the regional RP? 3. As you told me previously, you would consult the Regional Reserve when doing this, however, this in my opinion is unrelated to the Regional Roleplay, so how would it affect that? 4. We already have awards for having a thread go on for 10 and 50 pages, we also award 15 tacos per post. Again, how would this relate to RP?
I hope I didnt ask too many questions, and look forward to hearing back.
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1.I think we should do more polls, about fun facts about a lot of things; 2.We could create challenges for people participate in some Threads; 3.And for new people participate more, I think we should do Shop things a bit more cheaper for them. (I don't think that I can do that but it can help people a lot). 4;Also, we should create awards for records as "more posts" or "more threads creation";
If I have other ideas I advise.
I would like to ask my opponent Haivon some questions about his proposals.
1. Polls are already being held by Pollsters almost weekly, do you have certain changes you would want to make? 2. This is a bit too vague to be meaningful, do you have specific challenges you want to set in threads? And how would this improve the regional RP? 3. As you told me previously, you would consult the Regional Reserve when doing this, however, this in my opinion is unrelated to the Regional Roleplay, so how would it affect that? 4. We already have awards for having a thread go on for 10 and 50 pages, we also award 15 tacos per post. Again, how would this relate to RP?
I hope I didnt ask too many questions, and look forward to hearing back.
1. Yes you are right in saying this, but I think that we should do like two posts at week. Yes, I think that it isn't possible, but it would improve the RP a lot, I will ask Jabberwocky that is the Pollster if this is possible before doing something about it; 2. Eh, this is a bit vague, so let me explain: challenges as I'm saying are not disputes, but riddles for people to solve, and it could be weekly as polls, and in my opinion this will make the RP more fun, so it will improve. 3. This will affect the RP by make new people don't think that is 'impossible' to have sufficient tacos, so they will try on post more knowing it will b more easy and them improving the RP. 4. You are right in saying that we have awards for that, but I think we should do more awards for these two topics, as Guinness Book: you have a lot of records for the same topic, so why not creating a lot of records in the same topic in the Forum also? And about this being related to the RP or not, you are right on this, this is about awards, that are also in the Senator for Himes West function. Since there was no Thread about this in the Forum, I decided to post it in the same place of the RP post talk. But if a debate about this part happens (if there is one and I don't know, pardon me), I will be gladly to post in this Thread. Don't worry, you didn't asked too many questions. This is good for both sides to explain it's campaign ideas further more. It's how real political debates work, and we live in a Democracy, don't we? *Sad North Korean Noises*
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Post by Jabberwocky on Nov 13, 2019 21:55:05 GMT -5
Haivon, are we talking about NS polls or forum polls. While we have NS polls running most of the time, there are options: 1) A dedicated forum polls thread/board; 2) Run concurrent NS polls, if that's permissible. The downside of that is the likelihood of waning interest in participants. However, I am always open to new ideas for polls, and welcome suggestions.
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Alright! I'm happy to see the debate is going well. Here is the second question pulled from a previous election. Credit for the suggestion goes to HumanSanity!
Will you Roleplay actively in this community for long enough so that you get a sense of the situation, or are you going to only observe?
I will add mention that you can still of course discuss the previous question. Let the debate continue!
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Haivon , are we talking about NS polls or forum polls. While we have NS polls running most of the time, there are options: 1) A dedicated forum polls thread/board; 2) Run concurrent NS polls, if that's permissible. The downside of that is the likelihood of waning interest in participants. However, I am always open to new ideas for polls, and welcome suggestions.
In theory it would be fun to have it in NS, but for me it is fine for develop more polls only in the Forum, (option 1) like three at time, since Islanders can vote whenever they want. I will advise them by the 10000 Islands Message Board when polls are happening for those aren't member of the Forum yet.
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3.And for new people participate more, I think we should do Shop things a bit more cheaper for them. (I don't think that I can do that but it can help people a lot).
3. As you told me previously, you would consult the Regional Reserve when doing this, however, this in my opinion is unrelated to the Regional Roleplay, so how would it affect that?
3. This will affect the RP by make new people don't think that is 'impossible' to have sufficient tacos, so they will try on post more knowing it will b more easy and them improving the RP.
As Regional Reserve Chair, and thus tasked with overseeing shop items and Tacos, this thread caught my attention. I want to thank the candidates for sharing their ideas and discussing them. As this idea was raised by Haivon, the questions are mostly directed at them; however Marxist Germany may also answer if they feel they have a good answer. So in these ideas and answers I am noticing that there are two different areas of suggestions; one related to shop items specifically, and the other addressing posting. So I will ask two questions:
A) During Sargon’s term as RRC the homesteading stipend was increased to 40,000 tacos which can be claimed by new nations. We also have the Startup Items set which are easily affordable at 1,000 tacos. As RRC, I have also periodically included holiday bonus payments (10 Tacos per item owned), rebate programs to increase shop item ownership (upto 25%), and have increased the potential monthly industry bonus (up-to 5000 per item for a selected industry). All shop items pay their owner back the initial purchase cost over a 20 month period, so 5%. If a nation buys 40K worth of items at 1000 per item or 40K worth of items at 20K per item, the monthly payment would be the same, as 5% of 40K is still 2K. The only advantage more items brings is the increased payout if the item is selected as the monthly industry bonus. That however does come with a couple of caveats: With more shop items the frequency chance of any specific item being selected declines, and there is also a chance of increased losses on Mortimer Disasters, where the monthly industry bonus that month is negative. So, given all that information, would you be willing to provide a bit more detail on your thoughts, and where current shop items prices or regional reserve policies make it hard for new nations to get invested and involved?
B) Given that the goal of reducing shop item cost, is aimed in your view at providing nations an incentive to post and thus get taco rewards for their posting counts. I should also note that it has been raised before, and we are currently piloting a program to address this: posting generates tacos only if the user is using the desktop version of the site. With many users interfacing with the XKI forum on mobile platforms (mobile web browser or Tapatalk,) or switching to a mobile interface: How do you feel the regional reserve should address the disparity in payments for posts?
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Post by Marxist Germany on Nov 15, 2019 13:28:56 GMT -5
Sorry for the late reply, I have been really busy IRL this week.
I think it is important to participate in RP as opposed to only observing. By participating one contributes to the activity and potentially helps RPa from dying. I will be participating as much as I can.
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