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Yep, ban WEP, sure, he was over the cap, but no need to ban Eli, even if Eli was a little brash and somewhat rude

Advocate Carl Icahn is pleased to announce that your region's entire assembly has been layed off.
 
 
A pyramid scheme works wonderfully until it's exposed. Only an incompetent manager would allow that to happen before he was prepared to make a getaway.

It's because he's a member of the NPO.

It's because he's a member of the NPO.

So, we're just taking the Union and turning the DA's into "Governor" Ministers ?
 
Other than the addition of the Vice Delegate, which has nothing to do with the government, I don't see any real change here.  So what was the point of  dissolving the Union ?

Good input, thanks for taking the time to think that out. I won't address your points specifically, but I think the current crowd of regulars will.
 
I will offer one piece of feedback to your post, though. When it comes to fixing (recurrent) inactivity, I think you need to start with yourself. Every citizen should ask, "What do I want to do in TWP's government?" TWP's scenery has changed entirely this year - there are new Guardians, and even more new leaders - but fundamental issues such as productivity haven't changed as drastically. There have been ups and downs. In order to have success in that realm consistently, I still think the region needs to:
 
Figure out its goal: What is the end-goal for TWP? I don't mean "transparent government" or "elections", but rather, what constitutes a successful government? What is the goal of TWP's government? Is it to provide a service for the community? To achieve international power? If your goal is left ambigious, you'll never achieve it, because you won't know what you're trying to accomplish. And if your goal doesn't naturally energize people, you'll get no momentum. Take inventory of its resources: Round up people in this community and pose them these questions. What do you enjoy doing in NationStates? In TWP? What skills do you possess? Are you willing to take ownership of an aspect of TWP and lead it with vision? What direction would you ideally like to see TWP go? What are the things about TWP you would not want to see changed? Apply the information to a gameplan for pursuing its goal: Numbers 1-3 all work together in helping develop an efficient civil service. Number 1, 4, and 5 help you figure out what the interests you're dealing with are. If your goal is vibrant regional culture and bountiful activity, you need to make your decisions in an economic matter. Knowing interests is a part of that. Look at the cost each choice you make moving forward will have on your resources. The most important resources in NS are people's energy, people's skills, people's loyalties (not just to TWP, but to concepts, e.g. supremacy of the in-game mechanics, open citizenship, anything), and headcounts. Try something and remember that your goal doesn't need to be 100% achievable, so as long as it is 100% pursuable.  
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We could engage in some lovely corporate takeovers too.

TWP should become the headquarters of an interregional corporation with board members, shareholders, subsidies, foreign offices, trade agreements, and a menacingly loose definition of "resources".
 

TWP should become the headquarters of an interregional corporation with board members, shareholders, subsidies, foreign offices, trade agreements, and a menacingly loose definition of "resources".
 

What are you talking about? My secretrary wrote this for me, and just doesn't have a forum account. Didn't you see the signature?
 
I don't speak in the third person.

thanks for the update Milo.
 
 
If you want the definition of self important delusional twattle read Unibot or listen to Llamas for 30 seconds, then when you're tired of it you banject Llamas and laugh when Unibot claims his year as Delegate in the RR was 'democracy'.
 
 
Llamas sounded like Unibot without the OCD

The trouble with leaving TWP for a while and then returning for the occasional pop-in, is that you've not the slightest idea what's going-on; most of the old regulars have left, you don't know many of the active new regulars, and they haven't the slightest idea who you are!  Severely limits the understanding of any gossip that's gone-on, or anything else for that matter!

That guardian symbol turned out to be a remarkably fit logo for URAP, looking back...

Good.
I like talking with you.
Re: re: llamas, yes, he's not very into this whole ingame-offsite split we have either. So he wasn't a great fit.
And to address your very last point- no, no I don't think anyone would

Thank you, and again, good luck to you to. I really do think you'll do excellently.
 
Also, I'll probably visit here whenever I get a hint of NStalgia, so I don't think this is the last we'll speak.
 
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RE Llamas: Sometimes unpleasantry is a necessary vehicle for moving conversation forward, or starting one entirely. I didn't plan on that, but I thought it might happen. All I knew is that something would happen, which was my goal. His politics are the complete antithesis of mine: I like honest top-down control, whereas he likes Santa Claus and the democracy fairy.
 
He's very naive about NS GP and I basically exploited him for labor for the duration of our NS relationship. Great guy OOCly, atrocious player ICly.
 
 
I wonder if someone would read it past the first paragraph.

*wonders if Unibot will write a follow-up article to “Oh the Places You'll Go, TWP”*

Thank you, and again, good luck to you to. I really do think you'll do excellently.
 
Also, I'll probably visit here whenever I get a hint of NStalgia, so I don't think this is the last we'll speak.
 
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RE Llamas: Sometimes unpleasantry is a necessary vehicle for moving conversation forward, or starting one entirely. I didn't plan on that, but I thought it might happen. All I knew is that something would happen, which was my goal. His politics are the complete antithesis of mine: I like honest top-down control, whereas he likes Santa Claus and the democracy fairy.
 
He's very naive about NS GP and I basically exploited him for labor for the duration of our NS relationship. Great guy OOCly, atrocious player ICly.
 
 
I wonder if someone would read it past the first paragraph.

what happens if the Delegate banjects the Prime Minister?
 
 
Is it then time to get a new Prime Minister?

An announcement: The Revolutionary Party is hereby officially disbanded.
 
Why? Because Milograd's a prick. He didn't care for TWP, he was an NPO member who wanted power. He proved that in Lazarus.
 
All former members of the Revolutionary Party are strongly encouraged to join the Democratic Union Party, which seeks to establish true liberty, justice, and equality for all TWPers. Onwards, to freedom!

I'm sorry people but the NPO ran Lazarus before the so called coup, if anyone didn't recognize that I would suggest that you're blind.
 
 
Where was the outrage before the so called coup?

I have made a statement of neutrality on the Laz RMB.

He made me an admin.

January of 2006, it was an adaption (theft) of an flag idea of one of the opposition types, or perhaps it was similar to what they were using already here in TWP and I just gave it to Winni to clean up.
 
 
I'm kinda color blind and not real impressed by that type stuff.
 
 
I was in a motel in Jackson, TN on a business trip and had just got back from happy hour, F&P insulted me for what was going to be the last time (it wasn't), I went banject crazy, and we abandoned the old forum. I banjected everyone with over 50 endos, except for clockwork isle and Faeya.
 
Heck I even banjected BBD, he came around though once he figured out I wasn't anti-community, I was just anti-jackass :ph34r:

The development of our civil service departments is the real goal.

The development of our civil service departments is the real goal.