Pierconium wrote:The problem with separation is that there is no direct game-related impetus to join the offsite if the government of the offsite is completely apart from the ingame reality. If you want to have a RP-only region then so be it, but if you ignore the Delegate in a GCR are you actually still playing NationStates or are you just taking part in an offsite community that has no actual relevance to the game?
I'm not sure where you're getting that the off-site community won't have any relevance to the game or that on-site will be ignored under a system like this. This isn't 2005; we have Regional Officers now. And even apart from Regional Officers, there are ways to integrate the on-site and the off-site without having a ridiculously powerful executive Delegate. It's really more about integrating the on-site and off-site communities than it is about integrating on-site and off-site power under one office.
Pierconium wrote:Also, if the Delegacy is completely separated from the offsite, how would one even define a 'rogue' Delegate? The offsite community would not depend on who was Delegate and would not even depend on being present within the region, which goes back to the question of whether or not you would even still be playing NationStates at that point.
Again, this is a view of on-site vs. off-site that reduces everything down to a single office. A rogue Delegate would still be a Delegate who overthrows the constitutional government of the South Pacific, which is what has always constituted a rogue Delegate. The idea that the off-site community wouldn't even depend on being present in the region is, frankly, preposterous -- this isn't TWP, the off-site government is the legitimate, constitutional government of the South Pacific, both in-game and off-site. Residents who have little or nothing to do with the off-site government have fought against coups that have sought to overthrow it. Not everyone in the NationStates world reduces regions down to their most basic game mechanics, as you do.
This honestly isn't my favorite way of organizing a Feeder or Sinker government either, but it seems to be what the people of TSP want.