Cormactopia Prime wrote:I'm curious, not so much because I want to argue with you about it (surprise!) but because I genuinely think your opinion could be helpful, what do you think UCRs should be doing more or less of in order to bring change to GP politics and culture? I agree it will take a lot of work, but I think it could be worthwhile to talk about what UCRs ought to be working toward, obviously beyond the basics of region-building because everyone knows that work has to be put in for a UCR to succeed.
I haven't been in a UCR in what's approaching like a decade, so I don't have advice at all on growing a UCR community internally, though I can't imagine it being that much more different than GCRs. The programs built by TSP and TNP, for example, are basically turn-key and can be applied to any region.
For growing UCR influence in GP, though, I think the most important thing is that UCRs should be the ones originating things. Oftentimes, UCRs are followers in GP. They want to join GCR alliances, GCR-led initiatives, seek the approval and partnership of GCRs. Even though there are UCRs that outnumber GCR populations and military sizes, it's GCRs that have the upper hand by being coveted. Most of inter-regional politics in GP is driven by players in GCRs. Things like the NS World Fair were run by GCRs. The big media outfits are run by people in GCRs, even if you have a case like NS Today where they aren't owned by a GCR. There isn't a lot of innovation coming from the UCR sphere, if any at all. Unless you look at UCRs like Europeia that have been intertwined with GCRs and part of the establishment for so long, they're in own not-quite-UCR/not-quiet-GCR class.