Revolution.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
UberKruX is right, if he says, that something has to change. I have supported this too, several times in the near past. These turnchats are indeed a big waste of time. 2 hours to get 3 or 4 turns done, that's bad. In this time I'm through the whole ancient era, and may be even farther. Of course, the way UberKruX intends to manage this change, is just ridiculous. There have been some useful threads about turnthreads and alike. Why not support and further develop these ideas instead of launching silly "revolutions" like this?

By the way, I did also not vote. Not even for Abstain. But to stick the head in the sand like an ostrich and to hide in some "embassies" is also no solution, not at all.

Sir Ralph. Sometimes to get the wheel rolling drastic measures must be taken. The system has been flawed and opposed for a while now, but it wasn't anything large scale.

People ignored it.

Now people are voicing their hatred of the system under my complaints.

Sure, it might not lead to a revolution, but you know something will get done RIGHT NOW.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by DAVOUT
Uber,

With only one post, you have already obtained a lot ; among the many answers you received, some where purely dialectical and could not help, but others where plainly constructive. It is now generally accepted that changes must be made, and the proposals offered by Spiffor and Sir Ralph are completely in line with what you want, and they are widely supported.

In fact, if you don?t make of this a personal affair, and if you were given reasonable guaranties that the changes urgently needed will be enforced within, let say two weeks, there seems to be no serious reason not to come back within the safe borders of the law.

Incidentally, we have heard no objection to the construction of a huge arc de triomphe devoted to your person in case of a brilliant success in the battle of Paris.

Exactly my point. The government was growing stagnant with threads on useless topics, and complaints were lost / etc. The system wasn't changing at all.

How long have you guys been debating the Impeachment things? I stopped following it after page 2. Just tell me when I can vote to oust Punkbass and how to do it. I'll wait for people to polish that one.

And a major point is that we need to do this soon. The orders are just going to pile up more and mroe each turn. The elections are soon. Why would we vote for a Science Advisor if in 2 weeks we're not going to have one. The time for change is NOW. BEFORE elections.

[GePap]

First of all, perhaps I should sue Uber for taking my ideas for government reform without mention Only half kidding of course, since I have been proposing a change in gov for a while, and Uber's concept looks very similar to one I posted in one of the governor threads. In theory then, I would approve of Ubers cahnge, in fact , I do, though he forgets about the whole changing the sliders for the econ, which I guess he would put under Domestic. BUt I wholly disagree with the premise of the thread.

As is obvious from Ubers logs, I was there, and I agree with him that we were overly slow- but the problem I saw was not kidding around-that always happens, it was an inablity for people to take responsibility. We need cabinet members to make decisons- sadly we have too many cabinet members so when several don't show up, either for just one turnchat, and punkbass, never, we are left wth the question of who should take over- this is when the "I don't want the job' mentality mixes with the 'democracy' notion, and everyone says they can't do it because they were not elected, and we need one or another form of quickpoll. For the life of me I could not figure out why it took 6-10 minutes to chose what tech to research next- we can change that at any moment without consequence, so anyone coul have just said-pick X, and we can change it at any time. Even when we had the quickpol, it tok a while for the outcome to become action- too long.

While I think that Uber's proposed new system would greatly help, I think his actions yesterday, and this thread, are another form of that giving up responsibility. We elected ministers and they not only should be in turchats but stick in there, and if they need to leave, they should leave orders. Good-Fella got sick of things and he left, but he told everyone ahead of time he was leaving and left orders for the rest of the turnchat. If Uber felt he could no longer take it, things were going too slowly and people are not taking things seriously, fine, tell everyone "I am sick of this, I need to leave, this are my orders for the future, blahh, bye" then leave,but just leaving, without warning and without leaving orders I can't support. We elect members to the cabinet not just to make academic plan, but to govern also- that will not always be fun, it might be exasparating, but it also means taking responsibility for ones actions and how they wil affect others and the game.

We have a system I think we do need to change- I think debate on radical change is needed- I think we need a better CoL- but we must get there throguh agreement, not confrontation- most revolution eat their own young, destroy quickly and leave a shattered behind- many people may vote for the revolution in this poll, but how many of them are simply voting out of frustration and themselves have no clue about what to do next? Can those people who support the revolution write a decent CoL, and avoid this game loosing 50% of its citizens? That so many people are fed up means we need real change- real reform- but not revolution, for that may tear this game apart and end it, hardly the best outcome of all.

[Kuciwalker]

The game cannot be fixed internally. The CoL is too messed up for that. We need to completely rewrite it.

[jdjdjd]

Certainly, we all have rights under the Code of Laws to amend them and impeach officials. Those polls could be posted according to the CoL, and they would need to garnish 2/3's support.

If you feel the whole system needs to be thrown out, that would be a simple amendment to the CoL on a grand scale, and require the same 2/3 vote. (it is an amendment to delete the CoL in its entirity or much of it, and replace it with new laws).

You could do it if you want. I can't say it would pass or that I agree, but is within the realm of possibilities.

The problem with a revolution here is that you can not intimidate or destroy the powers that be or your opponent, so those that wish to preserve the status quo could vote against your revolution, and therefore defeat it..

Please, this in no way is a statement for or against a revolution, but just a clarification, if you will, of its legality within the system on such a scale. I mean I voted for many or all of the people arguing, including Uber, so I am not looking to chop heads, but, merely point out that in our context a revolution would have to take the form of a 2/3's vote in an official poll for impeachment and/or amendment to (or erasing of) the CoL.

[jdjdjd]

Originally posted by skywalker
The game cannot be fixed internally. The CoL is too messed up for that. We need to completely rewrite it.

Easy to say, now back it up. People won't listen for long when you don't.

[Kuciwalker]

This would be a simple majority vote. Does anyone really want to try and force more than half of the citizenry to follow rules they don't agree with? Either the Demo Game will be destroyed by this, or it will come out all the better for it.

[Kuciwalker]

Jdjdjd - just read our CoL. It's huge. I got bored halfway through, and I'm the person whose remedy for Civics class's bored was to read the Constitution. The document needs to be thrown out and rewritten, not just have a little notice tacked onto the end.

[jdjdjd]

Originally posted by skywalker
This would be a simple majority vote. Does anyone really want to try and force more than half of the citizenry to follow rules they don't agree with? Either the Demo Game will be destroyed by this, or it will come out all the better for it.

Not according to the current CoL.

[Kuciwalker]

This isn't an amendment. This is a simple poll about GETTING RID OF the CoL. Therefore, the CoL has no power over it.

[jdjdjd]

Originally posted by skywalker
Jdjdjd - just read our CoL. It's huge. I got bored halfway through, and I'm the person whose remedy for Civics class's bored was to read the Constitution. The document needs to be thrown out and rewritten, not just have a little notice tacked onto the end.

I have read it many times, or sometimes I skim through and look for the section I want. Its amazing.

But if its too long for you, you could include in your amendment to erase the CoL.

[Kuciwalker]

It's not an amendment. A revolt is not an amendment. It is a revolt.

[Spiffor]

You're the only one revolting skywalker

[jdjdjd]

Originally posted by skywalker
It's not an amendment. A revolt is not an amendment. It is a revolt.

But in the context we have here it is not a true revolt, you are not going to take over by force, you can't. So, you have to put it into the context of what you have here. You need to discard the CoL, but you can't just do it. You need significant support from the population, not just 18 Yes votes out of 200 some odd members, with clearly indicated abstains or people passing on voting because they do not find this forum valid.

As you indicate the majority must be behind you, it clearly is not based on this thread.

I am saying you can do it, but you need to do it the right way, or even less of the citizens will participate. Like someone once said, "What if we had a revolution and no one showed up?", well, you couldn't have it then, could you.

Again, in no way do I condone or reject a revolution, just trying to put it into context of the game.

[Kuciwalker]

Look at the poll. "Yes" happens to be winning.