Election Nomination Thread

[=OttomusCeasar=]

So, when are the elections?

[Watergate]

Civ3-Democrazy Game

Dear Gamers,

maybe this is not the right place for a post like mine, but i just spent a couple of days and a nice bunch of hours reading about the great role-play you're doing and I suddenly feel the urge to give you a little feedback from OUTSIDE.

I don't know if you had this in mind, but it IS definetly great entertainment you're performing not only from a players but from a READERS point of view.
You may be gaming, but you're also storytelling. And I like it.

And what a great story it is. It's partly newspapers and partly Pentagon Papers. It is politics and poetry, history and hysteria, psychology and psychedelia. It is the small stories that make the great one that is more than the sum of its parts.

Of course it is a romance too. I always fall in love with Joan of Arc and it's not the same to see her on the negotiation screen or Chancellor Bismarck. One thing is a man to man fight another to beat a woman. (In my own games I always try to please beautiful Joan with diamonds and luxuries until my empire is on the edge of ruin.)

The game considered a mere game is already big - considered as a story it becomes boundless.

Thank you

Best Regards

Watergate

[DAVOUT]

The dream of all writers to have talented readers ... becomes reality ! We are fortunate to have one !

Thanks.

[adaMada]

Added Prez and VP campeign threads.

If anyone else is planning on running, now might be a good time .

-- adaMada

[Jonny]

adaMada, I'll go ahead and add the IE campaign thread, ok?


And in case anyone cares, this is actually my 5th time running for IE minister. I have been winner once in the four previous times.

[adaMada]

Originally posted by Jonny
adaMada, I'll go ahead and add the IE campaign thread, ok?


And in case anyone cares, this is actually my 5th time running for IE minister. I have been winner once in the four previous times.

'k. I'll add it once it's up.

Fifth time running for IE minister?

I thought this is only the fourth term, lol?

Must have been a mid-term election...

Well, you're very devoted to the position, anyway . (You'll hate me when I propose that we destroy it as part of the constitutional convention, but that's another thread...)

-- adaMada

[Jonny]

Originally posted by adaMada
'k. I'll add it once it's up.

Fifth time running for IE minister?

I thought this is only the fourth term, lol?

Must have been a mid-term election...

Well, you're very devoted to the position, anyway . (You'll hate me when I propose that we destroy it as part of the constitutional convention, but that's another thread...)

-- adaMada

The thread's up now.

Yea, there was a mid-term election in the 1st term, when Timelime stepped down to become Vice-Pres. That was the time I won.

I'm not really unhappy that the office might get disbanded. A new government position might appear that interests me as well. (perhaps governor?)

[adaMada]

Originally posted by Jonny

The thread's up now.

Yea, there was a mid-term election in the 1st term, when Timelime stepped down to become Vice-Pres. That was the time I won.

I'm not really unhappy that the office might get disbanded. A new government position might appear that interests me as well. (perhaps governor?)

Yea, got the thread as soon as I saw it go up .

As for the office, I don't want to go too off topic (UnOrthO's gonna kill me when he sees how I've totally off-topicized his thread ) and I'd love to discuss anyone's thoughts via PM or a seperate thread, but to quickly answer what you said... I think the IE minister is running out of jobs to do, and I think the job could be reassigned to the Minister of the Economy or to the City Planner. When we can't muster up enough canidates to have 'real' elections for half the positions (and I know we could always use more Deputies), we really don't need to have a full minister for choosing city spots, though right now it's coming in useful because of Uber Island (in other words, our current IE ministers are doing a necessary job, but I don't think it'll be needed after another term or two).

-- adaMada

[E_T]

Running for IE

I'm putting my hat into the ring for the Office of Imperial Expansion.

[adaMada]

Wow. A four person election, lol. Very cool .

Putting your name in now...

-- adaMada

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by adaMada
Well, you're very devoted to the position, anyway . (You'll hate me when I propose that we destroy it as part of the constitutional convention, but that's another thread...)

-- adaMada

Where do you propose its powers go, I agree it doesn't do much but what else is there? Perhaps combining PW and IE? Would the current ministers of the positions run against the ministers they were merging with so the people could decide who they prefer?

[adaMada]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb

Where do you propose its powers go, I agree it doesn't do much but what else is there? Perhaps combining PW and IE? Would the current ministers of the positions run against the ministers they were merging with so the people could decide who they prefer?

Not sure about where the powers could go yet... maybe PW, maybe City Planner, maybe MoE. Again, we haven't really gotten any plans down yet, so this is just my opinion (I probably shouldn't have even brought it up). The switch would probably happen between elections, and if the current ministers want to run for the other position, then they'd be free to.

-- adaMada

[Will 5001]

I'd like to pull out of the election for Minister of Imperial Expansion, I think I don't have enough free time to do a good job, I'll still be around but won't post as much!

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by adaMada


Not sure about where the powers could go yet... maybe PW, maybe City Planner, maybe MoE. Again, we haven't really gotten any plans down yet, so this is just my opinion (I probably shouldn't have even brought it up). The switch would probably happen between elections, and if the current ministers want to run for the other position, then they'd be free to.

-- adaMada

What I'm getting at is the people elected those Ministers to do specific jobs (hopefully) believing that person was the best qualified to perform that job.

If you take a job and give it to another minister, the people should vote on who among the those ministers they feel is the best qualified to do the combined job or which set of talents is most needed or important to them. They may prefer the IE minister over the new one.

Otherwise, you risk defying the vote of the people and simply reorganizing how ever you see fit.

Personally. I think any drastic changes to elected positions shouldn't go into effect until the election immediately after the adoption to the new constitution.

[adaMada]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb

*big snip*
Personally. I think any drastic changes to elected positions shouldn't go into effect until the election immediately after the adoption to the new constitution.

Sorry, that's what I meant in my other post in saying that the changes would be 'between' elections -- the position would be dissolved at the end of the term, before the new officers took over.

-- adaMada