Ministers / Advisors

[Juliennew]

This list is fine in my opinion. But who would be responsible of the SE ? Perhaps we should choose it by a poll when we discover a technology that brings a new SE possibility ? And the Presidents running this poll ?

[Kassiopeia]

Commissioner - plays the game, overseas the Ministers
Alpha Talent - Commissioner's Aide, does everything Commissioner forgets
Minister of Exploration and Intelligence - initial exploration (scoutrovers and patrols) and probe teams
Minister of Terraforming and Colonization - controls colony pods and terraformers
Minister of Energy and Industry - SP's, base structures, crawlers, worker placings, energy, .....
Minister of Research - labs rate, research goal
Minister of Social Engineering - psi rate, specialists, drones
Minister of Foreign Affairs - contacts with other factions, planetary counsil stuff
Minister of Defence- designs new units, controls military units. ORBITAL DEFENCE PODS?
Librarian - tells the story
(ministers can also be called advisors/directors/secretarys/something else)

^^^
I modified the earlier list a bit.

[Anodyne]

Juliennew> There's a Minister of Social Engineering.

Although I do agree that SE is a matter so important that it shouldn't be resting upon the shoulders of just this one minister. The whole council with President should oversee it.

[Kassiopeia]

Uh, of course, Minister of Foreign Affairs, not Diplomatic Advisor.

[Anodyne]

Kass> WTF?? Diplomatic Advisor?? You saatanan hilloperse! It's Foreign Affairs Minister, or Foreign Minister. Diplomatic Advisor makes it sound so... lower in value than the others. Like an errand-boy...

"Come here, Advisor-boy and say this and that to the evil Hive while we big Ministers make all the important decisions"

Change it, or you're a kyrpä-anus.

(sorry, I'm tired, don't get offended )

[Anodyne]

God dammit, ahead of me AGAIN!

[Kassiopeia]

The Minister of SE would be the poll-arranger and our expert on Social Engineering and psi control (drones etc.).

[Kassiopeia]

Ade,

[AdamTG02]

I think there should be one person in charge of setting the science, economy, and psych rates. If we have three people, either they all have to agree or two of them can set the third's rate without that person's consent.

Granted, the rates will be set by poll anyway, but for simplicity it makes sense to have once person do all three.

My original idea was a Commissioner for Energy, but under the current plan the Minister of Social Engineering fits nicely into the role. All we would have to do is make her or him responsible for the entire energy allocation (an SE function anyway), rather than just Psych.

My 2 cents.

[Kassiopeia]

Adam, I apparently fumbled there; It's been my intention all along to have the M of SE to control the rates, but my point was that the M of R and others will be lobbying to have rates they benefit from raised.

[AdamTG02]

Makes sense.

[Method]

would the minister of defence be responsible for orbital defence pods, or the minister of Energy and Industry?

[Leland]

Does the Minister of Energy and Industry decide all by himself what the bases should be building? That gives him huge powers, because he can decide whether to build military units, crawlers, colony pods, or base facilities... then again, I suppose that if he cannot negotiate with other ministers very well it will be remembered in the next election.

[Lemmy]

i think there should be seperate ministers for air, land and navy, and let them design their own units, and terraforming units should be designed by the minister of terraforming

[Leland]

By the way, I propose that they be called secrataries instead of ministers, this is after all UN faction...

EDIT: Ugh, I must've been thinking about Soviet Union.