Trash Trips Ass TTA (working title)

[Meshelic]

Okay guy's I figured we were getting boggled down with only one thread so here's another one open to the TTA.

I suggest we discuss picking our civ here, as well as deciding how we want to run that civ. As in , discussions on poll usage, elections, nominations, political jargon etc etc. All these can be stated here!

[FrustratedPoet]

How about we discuss changing our name?

[Meshelic]

Who should be elected and appointed in our government? I think the Prez should be elected but the Vice-President should be appointed amongst those willing. What about the SMC and Foreign Ministry? What to do to get those positions full? And the office of Imperial Expansion, should we have one or should we all unilateraly vote on where to settle our cities?

Do we even want to elect our leaders? There are other ways as well. We can rotate despots like the roleplaying team talked about doing...I'd rather elect the leaders but some may have different ideas.

What government posts do we want in the first place, or what do we think is necessary for this game?

And we still need to pick a civ dammit!

[Spiffor]

I'm no member of the team, but I find its name most appealling If you change the name, please at least name your capital Trash Trip's Ass

[Meshelic]

We could use the letters T.T.A. for something different other than Trash Trip's Ass (although that is still a good reason to play a game, hehe)

Any ideas?
Maybe 'Time To Attack', or 'To Triumph Always'

I know these are kinda cheesy but that's what results are for, to get to the bottom of things through rough ideas like those...

[Meshelic]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I'm no member of the team, but I find its name most appealling If you change the name, please at least name your capital Trash Trip's Ass

Yes, Trash Trip's Ass has pretty much been the rallying call for this team; it gets the members that's for sure.

And they thought we'd have to MERGE with another group? Ppfffhh

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Meshelic
What government posts do we want in the first place, or what do we think is necessary for this game?

I think all we really need is:

Military
Trade and Diplomacy
Science
Public Works

The Prez and Vice-Prez can be chosen from these four people (someone has to play the game, and we need an appointed back-up person). I'm tempted to say that we shouldn't have any of the above positions, but someone should have ultimate decision-making powers in case the group is split 50-50 on an issue.

Maybe all we need is a Prez? He could act as a tie-breaker to any very contentious issues.

We need to keep the beauocracy and government positions to a minimum - we don't have all that many players anyway.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
I'm tempted to say that we shouldn't have any of the above positions, but someone should have ultimate decision-making powers in case the group is split 50-50 on an issue.

Maybe all we need is a Prez? He could act as a tie-breaker to any very contentious issues.

That's what I was thinking. we vote and if there is a tie, the pres decides. Do we need specified roles? i think we are a small enough group to allow everyone's voice to be heard. Also, since the map will be smaller, there won't be as much stuff to decide. If this doesn't work, then we can figure something else out later.

[Harovan]

I'd approve a name change to "Time To Attack". It's politically correct, does not harm anyone (at least verbal), and ... well ... all we know what T.T.A. really means, don't we?

About the decision maker on 50/50 ties: Who else than the group founder could this be?

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
About the decision maker on 50/50 ties: Who else than the group founder could this be?

Nobody else, unless NYE doesn't want to do it for any reason.
I doubt we'd even have to bother voting, I'd be surprised if anyone opposed NYE as our President/Team Captain if he wanted to do it.

I'm happy with "Time To Attack", especially since our team philosophy is that we consider each situation on it's merits, rather than proclaiming ourselves to be warmongers or builders from the beginning.

We wait until the time is right: the Time To Attack.

[alva]

I agree on the -keeping the red tape to a minimum- approche here.
so just the prez: IMO founder NYE (where the h*ll is he btw?
vice-prez: even rotation is fine by me (give everyone a chance to eugh???

other then that? Well I' havn't done any of thes demo game, so i'm gonna leave it up to you.

maybe just someone who does the 'press-releases' , hmmm, let's see, who could we put in charge of that??

TTA: this IS more difficult I don't like "time to attack". Sounds to much like that other team

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by alva848
vice-prez: even rotation is fine by me

I don't think the Vice-Prez will really have any power when the Prez is active. He'd just be the one to physically play the game if NYE was unavailable for any reason.
Because of this we may as well just assign somebody to this position as and when it becomes necessary.

maybe just someone who does the 'press-releases' , hmmm, let's see, who could we put in charge of that??

TTA: this IS more difficult I don't like "time to attack". Sounds to much like that other team

got any other ideas?

[alva]

Does any vice-prez have any power?

Maybe we should come up with some keywords.IE each of us should write what he feels we stand for?

let's see:
improvisation,
anarchy,( but in a Holy-Grail kind of way )
wits, humor, irony
manipulation, deviousness
innovative,creative
strong,ready to act

hmm, these do resemble quite alote of the characteristics of a big putty cat, i happen to know

[Meshelic]

Originally posted by alva848
Does any vice-prez have any power?

Maybe we should come up with some keywords.IE each of us should write what he feels we stand for?

let's see:
improvisation,
anarchy,( but in a Holy-Grail kind of way )
wits, humor, irony
manipulation, deviousness
innovative,creative
strong,ready to act

hmm, these do resemble quite alote of the characteristics of a big putty cat, i happen to know

All of the above tie in well with my conceptions of the players here (myself as well) and how this team will handle itself.

Others come to mind: noble, cunning, reactionary, ruthless, subtle... enviable..

[alva]

well, if we add all the words up, we end up with Deity or God.