Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:34 pm
If UCRs can pull of independence, why can't GCRs? At the end of the day, GCRs are not as differant from UCRs as they'd to think.
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
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Unibot III wrote:I disagree, the original EPSA struggled to get off the ground and I think your heavy bias to Independence as a military ideology is informing your opinion of a military organization that you had little interaction with at that time.
Silver Seas wrote:If UCRs can pull of independence, why can't GCRs? At the end of the day, GCRs are not as differant from UCRs as they'd to think.
Tim-Opolis wrote:As for EPSA, if you'll remember, I'm the one who actually communicated with them rather than sellthe UDL and basically bend over for them at the slightest mention of them defending. Example: The UDL/TEP Treaty that TEP disregarded... while you went into total denial of their disregard until the Lieutenants put their feet down :|
In fact, of you'd remember, EPSA was succesfully doing invasion/tag operations without anyone elses support during the time you mention. That sounds at least moderately succesful to me; though that might just be because you wouldn't let UDL defend those raids... Moral Crusade until a chance for political influence appears, right?
2. Again, GCRs don't have Founders. This means that they are typically democratic with relatively high Delegate turnover, obvious exceptions being The Pacific and in a different way The West Pacific. Again, because GCRs lack a Founder to set a clear direction for the region, people of various backgrounds join the region, and the moderating influence of democracy leads to "independence" becoming not doing anything to piss off the people of various backgrounds in your region rather than working independently on both sides of the R/D spectrum.
Unibot III wrote:I would disagree, Todd. I think you're being too charitable to the original EPSA, which really struggled for activity until opening up to participation with other military organizations during AMOM's term. Its prior history as a neutral army was not particularly successful and I think trying to balance a more Invader stance now would be disastrous for the modern EPSA.
Likewise, TEP has been previously inactive on and off for years under its most neutral regimes -- more so than its fellow GCRs who flirted with a moral direction.
There's a lot of lessons from "The False Independence" that TEP has already put into action to help succeed and I imagine TEP will continue to take cues from this new emerging direction that is counter to the old Westwindean Consensus (activity = chaos; R/D is limiting; military focus should be attacking fringe minorities).
Wickedly evil people wrote:2. Again, GCRs don't have Founders. This means that they are typically democratic with relatively high Delegate turnover, obvious exceptions being The Pacific and in a different way The West Pacific. Again, because GCRs lack a Founder to set a clear direction for the region, people of various backgrounds join the region, and the moderating influence of democracy leads to "independence" becoming not doing anything to piss off the people of various backgrounds in your region rather than working independently on both sides of the R/D spectrum.
Why whatever do you mean Cormac?
Well I find that the notion of raider/invader and defender ignores the real question of what constitutes respecting sovereignty of other regions, does respecting sovereignty entail maintaining the integrity of a region as is, or instead the extent of social harm to a community; a NS community is not always socially harmed by a raid or an invasion, in fact it can be quite the opposite as raiders and invaders can become contributing members to the community. You could combine both into a non-interference principle i.e. an NS 'Prime Directive', but such an idea isn't popular among raider/invader or defender camps for obvious reasons.Klaus Devestatorie wrote:The essay has merit, but it appears to mix up multiple brands of "Independence" and mix and match between specific tenants of each brand for it's own convenience. It would be better if individual brands were identified and then addressed each in turn.
Wickedly evil people wrote:I would say TWP and TP are more democratic than the sham regions.
Wickedly evil people wrote:I would say TWP and TP are more democratic than the sham regions.
If you're in the WA you get to vote for the Delegate. If you aren't you don't.
If you have the Delegate's chair you can use game rules to help your successor, but if the WA nations aren't engaged politically by the Delegate (meaning that you've acquired a ruling mandate via those doing the voting) it does not matter how good your advantages are via influence and game mechanics you are doomed to fail eventually.
Remember Wickedly evil people being overtaken by Rolheath ?
That was because I didn't pay attention to my constituency's needs and was overthrown because of it.
I modified my behavior since then to be sure I'm not on the wrong side of political movements within the region.
We are democracy, the rest of you aren't. No offense
Wickedly evil people wrote:Todd McCloud wrote:It's an interesting move to proclaim the two GCR regions with the oldest-serving delegates as "more democratic" than "sham regions", but okay.
Sham regions have fake elections, the same players as all the other regions are 'citizens' you go round and round with the same old cast. WA nations in the region have to apply for citizenship? That's the sham.
Mind you if you guys want to run every region and pretend to the WA nations that you're all different players that fine with me. Seems a lot like franchising fake democracy TNP style to me.
Cerian Quilor wrote:First of all, Law and Politics, while related, are not the same thing. Second of all, banning murder is productive for a whole laundry list of reasons unrelated to morality.
Zemnaya Svoboda wrote:Punk Daddy was not even slightly active in TNP when he became TWP delegate, for the record. His originally feeder is TSP, in any case.
Lots of Ants was, in part, a Gatesville agent.
But you've deliberately ignored my point regarding the Commonwealth. ROLHEATH did not happen to be able to defeat you with solely TWPers, because of your position as Delegate. The Commonwealth intervened at a minor update, boosting his endorsement count over yours.
Wickedly evil people wrote:Zemnaya Svoboda wrote:Punk Daddy was not even slightly active in TNP when he became TWP delegate, for the record. His originally feeder is TSP, in any case.
Lots of Ants was, in part, a Gatesville agent.
But you've deliberately ignored my point regarding the Commonwealth. ROLHEATH did not happen to be able to defeat you with solely TWPers, because of your position as Delegate. The Commonwealth intervened at a minor update, boosting his endorsement count over yours.
I knew who LoA was, believe me.
I NEVER have known or even thought about what the Commonwealth is or was. I had no clue until this post that they were even involved or who was involved other than I think I recall Blue Wolf helped, but I might be wrong.
I would say TWP and TP are more democratic than the sham regions.