Nomination thread for 2nd term government

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Sharpe
has everyone on the list accepted nominations for those posts?

Yes, every one of the nominees accepted his nomination.

[Jack_www]

Well I would like to let everyone know that once I have more time I would like to run for office once again. Would any support me if I did in the future?

[Jack_www]

I also think that vondtrack will make a very good president, and you have my vote.

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Jack_www
I also think that vondtrack will make a very good president, and you have my vote.

Thank you, Jack, I appreciate that a lot. I am really glad there are no hard feelings, even though I was a little bit harsh on you on occasions... I very well know what it means to be busy and short of time - it is just very few years ago that I had to work like 18 hours a day and I was still not able to catch up on things...

[Tiberius]

What are we going to do about our ambassadors?

Here is the current list:

Ambassador to Gathering Storm: quantum_mechani
Ambassador to Neu Demogyptica: Colonel Kraken
Ambassador to Glory of War: ZargonX
Ambassador to Roleplayers: Nimitz
Ambassador to Vox Controli: Odin
Ambassador to Lux Invicta: lmtoops

From our six ambassadors, only 3 are active (ZargonX, Nimitz, lmtoops). It is true that we haven't met any civs yet, but in a few (~20?) turns we are going to build our first galleys and we may need them shortly after that.

AFAIK Jack has sent a message to the inactive members, so we should wait for an aswer first, but in max. 2 weeks we will need to replace them if they don't come back.

Anybody willing to take over an ambassadorial position ?

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Tiberius
Here is the current list:

Ambassador to Roleplayers: Nimitz

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Nimitz for fulfilling his ambassadorial duties in an extraordinarily great way. I just wish we had more of such devoted ambassadors. Even if you do not see Nimitz posting often, he is bringing invaluable information from RPers all the time in!

Great job, Nimitz!

[ZargonX]

A definate for Nimitz's abmassadorial triumphs! I shall try to learn from his fine example in dealing with the GoW. Speaking of which, we never quite decided whether we wanted to go ahead and try and arrange for some of their guarnateed trades. Would you like me to contact them and find out if that offer is still on the table, or do we not want to deal with them due to their show of dishonesty in regards to the Neu Demogyptica affair?

[Jack_www]

Well i might take an ambassador postion if no one else does. I have time on the weekends to do it, just not a lot of time on weekdays.

[vondrack]

I would not pursue the guaranteed trade scheme for now. Not that I would mind what GoW do... dishonesty may be too strong a word for their strategy... it's often difficult to tell where cunning diplomacy ends and dishonesty begins... basically, I believe that if it works, it is fine. If it doesn't, it's not...

But currently, I can see very little we could gain... we have no idea how long it will take to make contact with GoW. We seriously consider going for the Great Library, too. Even though I believe that once we meet them, they will be willing to trade quite a lot with us, I would wait and see what we can do at that time. I am quite sure we will have the upper hand in the eventual bargaining.

[vondrack]

As for ambassadors... I believe it will be best to wait until we make a contact and make it an issue only then. Even though I admire how actively Nimitz takes care of our relations with RPers, I don't expect everybody doing the same (also because RPers seem to be the only ones willing to cooperate that closely). Once we really need an ambassador to a certain team, we shall handle the situation appropriately, either "activating" the currently designed ambassador one or replacing him by whoever will be free/willing to take care of the negotiations at that time.

[lmtoops]

I would like to continue as Ambassador to Lux Invicta.

I have not tried to initiate any discussions with them. I didn't see a need. I have monitored their public team thread, but nothing going on there. Mostly trash talking and tons of SPAM.

[lmtoops]

We don't need mulitple canidates for each position. First of all, we are so small that it's not practicle. Also the top positions require much more time and not every active player is willing to make the time committment.

I know that I cannot make the time committment at this time.

[Tiberius]

The nomination phase is almost over and the voting phase should begin today at 12AM GMT, but ... we don't really have what to vote.

Since we have only one candidate for each position, I suggest we should do it this way: anyone who has something against these candidates speak here and now. Unless at least 2 or 3 people will speak against the candidates (in which case we will hold real elections, namely a poll), they will automatically enter office on February the 1st, 2003.

[redstar1]

Perhaps, we should mention something in the main forum, about a change of government, or a bloody coup!

[Sharpe]

Ambassador to Gathering Storm: quantum_mechani
Ambassador to Neu Demogyptica: Colonel Kraken
Ambassador to Glory of War: ZargonX
Ambassador to Roleplayers: Nimitz
Ambassador to Vox Controli: Odin
Ambassador to Lux Invicta: lmtoops

As was mentioned earlier in this thread, several of the Ambassadors are either inactive or not as active as before.

In the "Inactive" thread, Colonel Kraken mentioned that while he wished to continue as part of Legoland, he would be more of an observer.

quantum_mechani just came back after being inactive for a while and Nimitz, lmtoops, and ZargonX have been active players.

So we have a few questions.

1) Do the active members wish to continue as Ambassadors or not or do they wish to switch duties (due to lack of time or now being part of the Cabinet).

2) Is Colonel Kraken willing or able to remain as an Ambassador to ND? (Preferably we should have someone from Europe)

3) What is the status of Odin - I have seen him posting on Apolyton plenty of times recently - but I don't recall seeing him here recently. The Ambassador of Vox may be very important as they may be our closest neighbour and we may meet up with them soon.

If we do need additional ambassadors, I can probably take one and there might be other volunteers available.

EDIT:

Just noticed this post from Vondrack earlier. If this is the government position on this, my apologies for the post above.

As for ambassadors... I believe it will be best to wait until we make a contact and make it an issue only then. Even though I admire how actively Nimitz takes care of our relations with RPers, I don't expect everybody doing the same (also because RPers seem to be the only ones willing to cooperate that closely). Once we really need an ambassador to a certain team, we shall handle the situation appropriately, either "activating" the currently designed ambassador one or replacing him by whoever will be free/willing to take care of the negotiations at that time.