First Presidential Election

[regexcellent]

Unfortunately you jerks aren't running for office and we only have two candidates. As great as it would be for Wiglaf to be President I'm not allowing you to nominate other posters for obvious reasons. Here's the poll.

[Aeson]

What are your platforms? How are we to decide when we dont even know which party you are from? We at least need some sleazey attack ads to sway us... Im trying to vote my conscience.

[Aeson]

From the names we can infer the following about their platforms:

A Space Ostritch:

Like "space-anything" is well-suited to a sci fi themed game.
Affinity for nature. (Harmony)
Large nest egg leads to rapid early growth.
Aggressive and defends it's territory.
Moves quickly on the ground but lacking in air and sea support.
May at times stick head in sand rather than listen to advisors.

regexcellent:

Efficiently selects game settings.
Affinity for computers. (Supremacy and Espionage)
Runs on energy, expect lots of Generators and Solar Collectors.
Interacting with often leads to unexpected results.
Handled improperly, may crash the system entirely.

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From what is publicly known about them on Apolyton:

A Space Ostritch:

A Mystery. Brings a fresh vision to Apolyton.

regexcellent:

Efficient Food production, but with disregard for Health. Strong but decentralized military advocate. Will settle in rich areas.

[regexcellent]

Handled improperly, may crash the system entirely.

I don't think that's true, unless you're talking about extensions to standard regular expressions. Regular expressions in their original specification aren't turing complete (that's the whole point--it's a regular language) and are guaranteed to halt.

[Aeson]

I was thinking something along these lines:

http://www.funduc.com/registry_toolkit.htm

[A Space Ostrich]

Can I shamelessly tout high resolution screenshots as an election feature?

[Aeson]

What will the screenshots be of?

[A Space Ostrich]

The game state for those of us that are participating but don't own the game. I could also do videos but my upload speed is a bit abysmal.

[regexcellent]

The plan is to stream it over twitch so upload speed is important. Reminder that the President may delegate who actually plays the game.

[A Space Ostrich]

That is a good point. I live in the actual polystralia and despite our strong economy we have whoa I affectionally refer to as Ghettonet.

[A Space Ostrich]

If the poll runs down and ends in a tie. We could do a consul sort of thing. That, or I would cede due to bandwidth reasons.

[regexcellent]

I'm the banana vote fyi

[Hercules]

Ah the old crucial banana vote.

[regexcellent]

I am disappointed at your turnout, much like the Democrats this year

Looks like I won but I am liable to cede streaming or something to you if you want, Ostrich

[A Space Ostrich]

Nah. I'm good.