Intelligent Holograms

Indeed. My technical knowledge ends at being able to type so I have no idea how you're going to get around that problem or any other. The telegrams you've done, if you could post them here for pear review, thanks. Thanks for all the hard work Archsium.

To be honest, I don't think we need one. If at some point we do, it's good to know that the option is open to us.

*Takes notes* *Finds a dusty edition of the "TAO GUIDE TO HUNTING MARSUPIALS"*

Indeed.

Thank you for your interest and we definitely still want help. I haven't had the time lately to sit down and write the telegram but I will sometime next month. I'll put you on the list.

Pillaging as they went, no doubt. Perhaps we can persuade the Admins to create a pirate tag.

Is there a procedure for detecting marsupials?

That would be a good compromise, though I doubt the current Guardians nor WECA would agree to it.

Guardians do not get elected, they are appointed. I'm sure, with enough support, the Guardians will step down. TWP should not be defined by it's use of Guardians. There is much more to TWP than the fact there are Guardians and we are unique by more than that.

The infighting that the Guardians bring often makes TWP look petty and certainly 'silly' to NS. I mean, if you can't live up to the Guardian badge and protect TWP, then what are you for? Why have the Guardian badge at all? Not that long ago, Eli (Wickedly Evil People, a Guardian), took a run at the Delegacy and about half an hour before update, Yy (Yy4u also a Guardian and Delegate at the time) stood down whilst ejecting Guardian Darkesia from the region. We are only vulnerable due to the image this gives the rest of NS. No other region has Guardians in the style that TWP does and I'm sure that we could do perfectly fine without them.

That would have been my idea. What can I say? I was in a Pirate mood.

In theory, yes, but in practice the Guardians are hardly ever used to stop an invasion; most of the time, the Delegacy is threatened and taken by the Guardians themselves. There is simply no nation in NS that has a military large enough to take the Delegacy, even if several militaries worked together, what would they achieve? TWP is a virtual fortress with it's high number of active ingame players and a Delegate with a large endorsement count.

Thanks WW, I'll certainly put these ideas to good use.

Queries and suggestions should be posted in this thread. We also want to know what type of event you want organising! Post here if you have a suggestion and we'll try to make your suggestion a reality! IH

I thought it was high time I actually did something as Minister of Interior so, without further ado, I present to you the "Plans for Interior"! This thread will be a constantly updated list of things that are going to happen in Interior with a timescale attached. 1. Start some games (1 a day for the next week (starting Monday) with a new one every week after) 2. Organise a Debate (I will publish information towards the end of the week and start signing teams on Monday) 3. Put together a team to help moderate Debates and such (Starting Monday) 4. Organise an interregional event (In about a months time when my RL calms down) 5. Get recruiting going (In about a months time when my RL calms down)

In the founding post of WECA, Eli, you declared that WECA and it's Guardians were taking power for the "restoration of traditional West Pacific values of order, discipline, and allegiance to the Guardians." It's my belief that Eli enjoyed the stagnation that had overcome TWP, why else would he attempt to take power during the resurgence of activity? The Guardians have often stated that they want no part in any regional governance, this is clearly not the case. The only aim of Guardians (Eli at least) is to make sure that Dictatorship reigns in TWP and, naturally, they do all of this without engaging in debate and without leaving their protected forum. The Guardians are not guarding TWP's wishes, they are guarding their own agenda. Their seems to be some confusion on the forum elected Delegate front. Nobody forces ingame WA nations to endorse the forum elected Delegate and yet they usually do. So perhaps a compromise, the forum elects a nation to become Delegate and then, if they want to, WA nations can endorse this nation and he can take the ingame seat. This maintains WA nations electing their own Delegate and the Delegate can work on the offsite forum. If the Delegate then wants to work with the forum he can do so, if he does not he can, like Chairman Milograd, take power and rule how he likes.

Not at all, we simply believe that the forum government and the ingame should work in harmony as opposed to separately. NationStates is nothing if not the bare bones of a political simulator, it is up to the players to expand upon what has been given to them.

Bias, me? No...

It's good that new players are coming in asking questions and don't worry, a solution (if there is one) will not be found soon. The Opposition follows the principle that the ingame and offsite should be extensions of each other, working in tandem with each other for the betterment of both. We also believe that the principles of democracy should come through in the elections of Government and possibly working for a government where this is possible. We believe that Guardians have no place in TWP and that they are unnecessary, whilst we do accept the great service they have done for our region. WECA believes in clinging to ideals of the past, TWP's tradition; we believe that TWP should look to the future and throw off the past. IH (Both sides argued extensively a few months ago, links: Wow...these forums are dead...where is everyone? was the most active.)

They want diplomatic relations purely because we have a tag? So they don't care about the region behind the tag, just the fact we have a tag. I'd say keep the 'anti-fascist' tag for the moment and drop the 'silly' tag.

I am always open to talking.

^There's no better.

Welcome to the West!

Welcome to TWP! *Offers... hmmmm... a box of collectable TWP stickers*

Thanks for the update!