NationStates

Commend Northern Chittowa
A resolution to recognize outstanding contribution by a nation or region.

Category: Commendation | Nominee: Northern Chittowa | Proposed by: Sedgistan

Description: The World Assembly,

Aware that Northern Chittowa has been a key member of the Global Right Alliance, responsibly administrating their forums, and helping to keep the region stable, secure and active, despite the combative nature of its residents,

Recognising Northern Chittowa as an important participant in the Founderless Regions Alliance (FRA), an organisation dedicated to the protection and stabilisation of founderless regions across NationStates, through such actions as:
• Founding the alliance alongside Big Killer Babys and The Merlion,
• Serving as Arch Chancellor of the alliance for 3 terms, comprising a total of 9 months, in the process professionalising the organisation, as well as rescuing it from the brink of death after the failure of Falconias's term as Arch Chancellor,
• Participating in the FRA Rangers, the alliance's military, for over 4 years,

Believing that Northern Chittowa has made a significant contribution to protecting the sovereignty of founderless regions through the aforementioned actions,

Observing that Northern Chittowa established the 'Defender Awards' in 2006, an annual awards system that has now been successfully running for 5 years, and has helped to unite the defender community,

Recalling that Northern Chittowa was a leading member of Lazarus for a number of years, holding a number of governmental positions, and serving as delegate for five months until June 2008,

Applauding the nominee's actions in magnanimously putting the interests of the region above prestige, by stepping down as delegate upon realising that their presence as delegate was leading to the region being targeted by invaders,

Noting that Northern Chittowa's honourable and diplomatic behaviour is acknowledged even by invaders,

Asserting that those nations that contribute to NationStates as significantly as Northern Chittowa has, whilst maintaining the respect of their peers, should be Commended,

Hereby Commends Northern Chittowa.

As promised, the second of two commendations. Comments, suggestions & random abuse welcome.

Sedgistan wrote:Observing that Northern Chittowa established the 'Defender Awards' in 2006, a successful annual awards system that has now been successfully running for 5 years, and has helped to unite the defender community,

Instead of two adjectives, go with one.

Recalling that Northern Chittowa was a leading member of Lazarus for a number of years, holding a number of governmental positions, and serving as delegate for five months until June 2008,

Can Lazarus eject? If not, that may be worth mentioning... people who go for government positions in ejectless regions are dedicated.

Applauding the nominee's actions in magnanimously putting the interests of the region above prestige, by stepping down as delegate upon realising that their presence as delegate was leading to the region being targeted by invaders,

Aww.

Asserting that those nations that contribute to NationStates as significantly as Northern Chittowa has, whilst maintaining the respect of their peers, should be commended,

He seems like a really good candidate, now.. RaNDoM aBuSE... *smacks Sedge several times with a lollipop*

Made the first change, will have a think about how to do the second one.

Aglrinia wrote:

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I would not commend you for such behavior, and you're spamming a mod's thread -->

Unibot II wrote:

Aglrinia wrote:

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I would not commend you for such behavior, and you're spamming a mod's thread -->

I'm sure Cinistra would commend me, and it's not meant to be seen as spam, I combined them all in one photo and a spoiler so it wouldn't seen as picspam. Anyways I'm banned from the WA, and I would rather not have my puppet nation join it. However since it has to do with the FRA i would vote no.

It is spam, because it really isn't at all relevant to this proposal. You should know better by now.

An animation in a WA proposal? cool.

yeah, i'm talking about the flag.

and nice proposal.

Thanks

I've now submitted Commend Northern Chittowa.

NC is awesome.

This is a very good idea.

Yes, I guess government police forces protecting public schools from the threat of protest. Those naughty protesters. That's Commendable of Northern Chittowa just on its own.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces. Excellent, those children should not spend time being loved to become a well rounded loving species.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, corporate 'hostile takeovers' now involve ICBMs and main battle tanks. The ever peace promoting Northern Chittowa.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products.

Need we say any-more!

Envoy CJ

Oh, and in case you were wondering....Against this proposal.

Shouldn't really be posting here i guess, but i just thought i would say that issues are not a part of how i play the game, they are of little interest to me and therefore they are not reflective of my actions in game.

As for those examples, I'm pretty sure you can add a lot more to that which, if i were to focus on RP and issues, would be warrant enough for a condemnation let alone anything else

Parti Ouvrier wrote:Yes, I guess government police forces protecting public schools from the threat of protest. Those naughty protesters. That's Commendable of Northern Chittowa just on its own.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces. Excellent, those children should not spend time being loved to become a well rounded loving species.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, corporate 'hostile takeovers' now involve ICBMs and main battle tanks. The ever peace promoting Northern Chittowa.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products.

Need we say any-more!

Envoy CJ

Oh, and in case you were wondering....Against this proposal.

NC is being commended for gameplay action and out-of-character contributions to the game.
The player is commended, not the nation.

Parti Ouvrier wrote:Yes, I guess government police forces protecting public schools from the threat of protest. Those naughty protesters. That's Commendable of Northern Chittowa just on its own.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces. Excellent, those children should not spend time being loved to become a well rounded loving species.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, corporate 'hostile takeovers' now involve ICBMs and main battle tanks. The ever peace promoting Northern Chittowa.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products.

Need we say any-more!

Envoy CJ

Oh, and in case you were wondering....Against this proposal.

If you need an IC explanation as to why those are irrelevant, perhaps those pieces of legislation aren't enforced... I mean if real countries enforced all of their legislation, the world would be hell.

Frattastan wrote:

Parti Ouvrier wrote:Yes, I guess government police forces protecting public schools from the threat of protest. Those naughty protesters. That's Commendable of Northern Chittowa just on its own.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces. Excellent, those children should not spend time being loved to become a well rounded loving species.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, corporate 'hostile takeovers' now involve ICBMs and main battle tanks. The ever peace promoting Northern Chittowa.
3 days 7 hours ago: Following new legislation in Northern Chittowa, corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products.

Need we say any-more!

Envoy CJ

Oh, and in case you were wondering....Against this proposal.

NC is being commended for gameplay action and out-of-character contributions to the game.
The player is commended, not the nation.

So what you're saying is, the player is being commended for role playing activities, is that what you're saying?

Gameplay activities, not role-play actions, or nation-management (ie issue answering) actions.

Sedgistan wrote:Gameplay activities, not role-play actions, or nation-management (ie issue answering) actions.

What's the difference? Is it not the case that gameplay is a form of roleplay? I think you are splitting hairs.

It's really not... roleplay is stuff you make up about your nation, and is usually done on forums (this one or off-sites). Gameplay is what you actually do with your nation within the game - so invading/defending, and stuff like building up & running a region.

Sedgistan wrote:It's really not... roleplay is stuff you make up about your nation, and is usually done on forums (this one or off-sites). Gameplay is what you actually do with your nation within the game - so invading/defending, and stuff like building up & running a region.

But the fact is, it is all pretend and not real. I think gameplay is another form of role play, although I guess you could argue they are different, but the difference between gameplay and role-play is very nuanced.

Parti Ouvrier wrote:

Sedgistan wrote:It's really not... roleplay is stuff you make up about your nation, and is usually done on forums (this one or off-sites). Gameplay is what you actually do with your nation within the game - so invading/defending, and stuff like building up & running a region.

But the fact is, it is all pretend and not real. I think gameplay is another form of role play, although I guess you could argue they are different, but the difference between gameplay and role-play is very nuanced.

Nah. A Delegate is not just a powerless RPed head of state, but has actual power and can force other nations to do something (move out of the region ---> eject and ban). And invasions have a physical impact on the game : a region can even be destroyed (and its data physically deleted from the server) after an invasion.

Parti Ouvrier wrote:But the fact is, it is all pretend and not real. I think gameplay is another form of role play, although I guess you could argue they are different, but the difference between gameplay and role-play is very nuanced.

It's not, and any gameplayer or roleplayer will tell you that. Gameplay actually affect what happens to your nation (whether it be your stats, the region you're in, or whether you're a delegate or not), so is 'real', whereas no matter what you RP, it doesn't actually change your in-game nation.

Anyhow, back to what you were saying about the proposal - this one commends NC for his international/interregional gameplay activities (ie interaction between nations/region), rather than his nation management (the way he answers his issues). If you're looking only to commend people who are perfect across all areas (gameplay, nation management, RP, WA...) you're going to find the list of candidates is non-existent. It's why commendations (and condemnations) tend to focus on one or two areas of a player's activities in NS.

Sedgistan wrote:

Parti Ouvrier wrote:But the fact is, it is all pretend and not real. I think gameplay is another form of role play, although I guess you could argue they are different, but the difference between gameplay and role-play is very nuanced.

It's not, and any gameplayer or roleplayer will tell you that. Gameplay actually affect what happens to your nation (whether it be your stats, the region you're in, or whether you're a delegate or not), so is 'real', whereas no matter what you RP, it doesn't actually change your in-game nation.

Anyhow, back to what you were saying about the proposal - this one commends NC for his international/interregional gameplay activities (ie interaction between nations/region), rather than his nation management (the way he answers his issues). If you're looking only to commend people who are perfect across all areas (gameplay, nation management, RP, WA...) you're going to find the list of candidates is non-existent. It's why commendations (and condemnations) tend to focus on one or two areas of a player's activities in NS.

Well, yes we can question how 'real' is 'real' and the story of the butterfly by Zhuangzi and other philosophical musings, but I just do not see this commendation as deserved, I see nothing remarkable here. Besides which, a whole load of players are active in 'defending' or holding government positions and have been for a long time, this is nothing new.

I see no problem commending NC for his international contributions to NS (his gameplay & OOC actions), even if his internal affairs (issues) aren't too good.