NSG Senate Lobby: No Hacks Here

[Lamaredia]

*admin hat on*

Thanks for raising these concerns. Voting will continue for the moment but we'll try to figure things out shortly.

*Takes hat away.

*admins hat on*

Alright, the voting will cease, given not all the names were included. However, I want make clear that if you are going to declare your run for the House of Tribune and or Presidency, make an additional character in the yellow pages and link it. That's why a few you weren't included because you didn't make a character profile, you need to do that.

So, we'll give everyone time to do that but, going forward, if you do not have a profile created and linked, you will not be included. So, for those that declared and don't have a profile, make one and link it. Otherwise, no new candidates will be accepted.

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[Soviet Canuckistan]

Not counting the nonsensical, non-serious, unhelpful, intended-to-harass-players-and-kill-this-game "pigeon candidates," here's the human characters that have declared candidacies by the time campaign season ended / voting was supposed to begin.

#JusticeForHermesAndBubbles

Somehow more RPing will kill the game??? Not exactly sure how that one works.

[Roosevetania]

#JusticeForHermesAndBubbles

Somehow more RPing will kill the game??? Not exactly sure how that one works.

NB logic.

[Martune]

Somehow more RPing will kill the game??? Not exactly sure how that one works.

NB logic.

It's just the pigeons man

[Improved werpland]

When will voting restart?

[Nulla Bellum]

When will voting restart?

The admins are giving three days for players that had declared candidacies to make character entries in the Who's Who National Database. I'm guessing Wednesday-Thursdayish.

[Osea 767]

I've added a character. Isadora Demetriou will be my person running for district 2.

[Nulla Bellum]

I've added a character. Isadora Demetriou will be my person running for district 2.

Updating my unofficial list with new info:

If the player's name is marked with an asterisk, that candidate declared before election day was supposed to be (saturday 3/3), and has as of this writing a character profile in the who's who:

President
Roode Mann (Ind.) - Ainin*
Cacafuego Coccydinia (Ind.) - The Sarian

District 1 Trubune
Claudia Pesaro (DP) - Malgrave*
Alexander Xenophon (Ind.) - Coconut Isle*

District 2 Tribune
Gary Tyreea (FIRE) - Martune*
Alexandra Hatzipapa (CHU) - Vedastia*
Konstantinos Basilopoulos (PTJ) - Ikania
Marinos Andronis (DP) - Galendia*
Isadora Demitriou (CPG-M) - Osea 767*

District 3 Tribune
Abrahamo ben Levi (AfC) - House of Judah
Bobodan Nainavich (CPG-M) - Merizoc*

District 4 Tribune
Giovanni Escalus (DP) - Techtonix*
Gokhan Turker (FDP) - Improved Werpland*

District 5 Tribune
Fiorino Sciarra (Ind.) - Costa Fierro*
Argo Tassos (AfC) - Archism

District 6 Tribune
Katerina Kritikou (AfC) - Crylante
Katerina Ahmeti (CPG-M) - Socialist Nordia*
Anastasia Giannopoulos (DP) - Lamaredia*

District 7 Tribune
Xander Diamantakos (FIRE) - Nulla Bellum*
Parla Bartalotti (FDP) - Van Hool Islands*
Ioannes Draco (CHU) - Paketo*

So, there's now 5 players needing to make a who's who profile for their Tribune candidate.

[House of Judah]

I frankly object to this decision by fiat that has zero basis in the history of this RP. Character profiles have always been extra that can done for some additional fun. The GEA establishes that the representative and tribune characters are separate ICly, but there is no reason to mandate that people establish character profiles.

[Collatis]

I frankly object to this decision by fiat that has zero basis in the history of this RP. Character profiles have always been extra that can done for some additional fun. The GEA establishes that the representative and tribune characters are separate ICly, but there is no reason to mandate that people establish character profiles.

I agree. Character profiles have always been recommended, but never mandatory. Also, if more was done to encourage new members to make profiles in the first place then this wouldn’t be an issue.

[Soviet Canuckistan]

I frankly object to this decision by fiat that has zero basis in the history of this RP. Character profiles have always been extra that can done for some additional fun. The GEA establishes that the representative and tribune characters are separate ICly, but there is no reason to mandate that people establish character profiles.

Hear, hear. If people want to hinder their chances of getting elected, so be it.

[Zurkerx]

I frankly object to this decision by fiat that has zero basis in the history of this RP. Character profiles have always been extra that can done for some additional fun. The GEA establishes that the representative and tribune characters are separate ICly, but there is no reason to mandate that people establish character profiles.

Hear, hear. If people want to hinder their chances of getting elected, so be it.

That will be the case going forward.

Edit: I will also specify that the reasoning behind the profiles regarding the House of Tribunes was because we felt it was necessary to distinguish between people's IC Representative and their House of Tribune characters.

[The Miaphysite Church of Coptic Archism]

#JusticeForHermesAndBubbles

Somehow more RPing will kill the game??? Not exactly sure how that one works.

I agree with NB on this. When the RPing is about semi-sentient pigeons targeting specific characters and running for political office, it adds very little to the Senate as a whole. I know I personally enjoy the Senate because it is at least a rough approximation of a realistic national political simulator. Sentient pigeons kills that feeling entirely.

[MERIZoC]

I frankly object to this decision by fiat that has zero basis in the history of this RP. Character profiles have always been extra that can done for some additional fun. The GEA establishes that the representative and tribune characters are separate ICly, but there is no reason to mandate that people establish character profiles.

I....agree with Judah?

[The Miaphysite Church of Coptic Archism]

*admin hat on*

Thanks for raising these concerns. Voting will continue for the moment but we'll try to figure things out shortly.

*Takes hat away.

*admins hat on*

Alright, the voting will cease, given not all the names were included. However, I want make clear that if you are going to declare your run for the House of Tribune and or Presidency, make an additional character in the yellow pages and link it. That's why a few you weren't included because you didn't make a character profile, you need to do that.

So, we'll give everyone time to do that but, going forward, if you do not have a profile created and linked, you will not be included. So, for those that declared and don't have a profile, make one and link it. Otherwise, no new candidates will be accepted.

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[Nulla Bellum]

Somehow more RPing will kill the game??? Not exactly sure how that one works.

I agree with NB on this. When the RPing is about semi-sentient pigeons targeting specific characters and running for political office, it adds very little to the Senate as a whole. I know I personally enjoy the Senate because it is at least a rough approximation of a realistic national political simulator. Sentient pigeons kills that feeling entirely.

Really, it's harassment / hazing / bullying, and should be warned and banned as such.

[Nulla Bellum]

Hear, hear. If people want to hinder their chances of getting elected, so be it.

That will be the case going forward.

Edit: I will also specify that the reasoning behind the profiles regarding the House of Tribunes was because we felt it was necessary to distinguish between people's IC Representative and their House of Tribune characters.

I'm here for the roleplay, would prefer to have my characters interact with characters rather than cardboard statues. If players want a character to run for the Tribunes / President, or participate in the HoR, they should actually make a character to do so. Weed out the people just here to disrupt the world-building.

[Nulla Bellum]

*Takes hat away.

*admins hat on*

Alright, the voting will cease, given not all the names were included. However, I want make clear that if you are going to declare your run for the House of Tribune and or Presidency, make an additional character in the yellow pages and link it. That's why a few you weren't included because you didn't make a character profile, you need to do that.

So, we'll give everyone time to do that but, going forward, if you do not have a profile created and linked, you will not be included. So, for those that declared and don't have a profile, make one and link it. Otherwise, no new candidates will be accepted.

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That leaves the elections patiently waiting for The Sarian, Ikania, House of Judah, and Crylante to make a character profile for their Tribune candidates.

[Roosevetania]

Really, it's harassment / hazing / bullying, and should be warned and banned as such.

Lol more RP is harassing him

[Martune]

Really, it's harassment / hazing / bullying, and should be warned and banned as such.

Lol more RP is harassing him

It is with pigeon dookie

[Nulla Bellum]

Really, it's harassment / hazing / bullying, and should be warned and banned as such.

Lol more RP is harassing him

Might I suggest you download Angry Birds to your phone, and leave a national government simulation RP to those who wish to play it?

I can't imagine this continued nonsense is reflecting well of the overall desire to attract new players. If I can't appeal to the decency of not harassing new players, at least make amends about the electricity you are wasting on making an ass of yourself.

[Nulla Bellum]

Lol more RP is harassing him

It is with pigeon dookie

And directed at our characters and their party with the intent to sour roleplay and maintain a toxic environment of hostility. Of course, if we were to retaliate with rats, flies, and vermin attracted to the stench of their characters and roleplaying ineptitude, that would be "godmodding."

The.attempt to run birds as candidates for political office in this game should be regarded as a blatant attempt to derail the game and dealt with accordingly.

[House of Judah]

It is with pigeon dookie

And directed at our characters and their party with the intent to sour roleplay and maintain a toxic environment of hostility. Of course, if we were to retaliate with rats, flies, and vermin attracted to the stench of their characters and roleplaying ineptitude, that would be "godmodding."

The.attempt to run birds as candidates for political office in this game should be regarded as a blatant attempt to derail the game and dealt with accordingly.

They're hardly the strangest candidates we've ever run.

[Nulla Bellum]

And directed at our characters and their party with the intent to sour roleplay and maintain a toxic environment of hostility. Of course, if we were to retaliate with rats, flies, and vermin attracted to the stench of their characters and roleplaying ineptitude, that would be "godmodding."

The.attempt to run birds as candidates for political office in this game should be regarded as a blatant attempt to derail the game and dealt with accordingly.

They're hardly the strangest candidates we've ever run.

I'm not even remotely interested in the past efforts to kill gameplay and repel interest in this game.

[Paketo]

They're hardly the strangest candidates we've ever run.

I'm not even remotely interested in the past efforts to kill gameplay and repel interest in this game.

Kill interest? Players having fun with one another and candidates is hardly trying to kill interest. Sov can had pigeons attack some guy I controlled and there was no problem with it. It’s all in good fun and rarely has daily life events like the pigeons actually crossed over to the real IC events of the senate.