[Kravenn] There is something rotten in UK congress
Kravenn
Well, last month : eUK had a lot of wars and each time, we were victorious. These wars were against Belgium, Bulgaria and France. Of course, we weren’t alone on these wars and we received help from TWO/ACT members and also our proTWO friends (mainly Argentina, Colombia and Romania).
Each time, we had a good reason to enter in war :
- against Belgium : It was to avoid an airstrike on our Slovenian friends
- against Bulgaria : NE was launched after we received one from their CP, they tried to escape from Romania
- against France : a former CP (the one elected in September and was impeached) clearly mentioned that he will attack eUK after RW North Calais. It failed when UK was fast than them to launch Natural Enemy proposal.
Naturally : UK moral was quite high. Nobody complained and even some people were thinking about a new British Empire.
War summary from the last month
Couple of people reclaimed new war, expansions, … Their reasons could be various : fun, dreaming about an empire, TP medals (but we had RW for that too), … and a Natural Enemy law was proposed against Norway. By having 1 region : they were an easy target. I know that they had a strong shield but few allies, … and after some ping-pong : UK gained Vestlandet.
For UK economy : gaining that region has no interest (we don’t need a 3rd oil).
But every good thing needs a end. After winning several regions, your moral is too high and you take the risk to overvalue your strengths. And it is what happened.
A stupid Natural enemy law was launched against Ireland. With a 20B shield and current relations between our two countries : Ireland wasn’t a threat. But launching this proposal can have bad consequences. Some irishs proposed high CO in every RW against UK. Which means that we lost every RW (and a fruit region).
This NE law wasn’t supported by UK government (and the speaker sent a PM to every congress member to vote NO). Lot of congress members voted YES probably without thinking to consequences (Oh, we don’t like Ireland => I vote YES). But before launching a NE proposal : ALWAYS talk about that with congress, and UK government. This last one is in contact with TWO HQ, …
On the same time, Gov didn’t hide that there was another war scheduled in the month. This plan is good to go to garbage because one congress member decided to launch a rogue proposal. Currently due to his fault : eUK lost fruits resource and we received a natural enemy law coming from French CP.
What could be good for you isn't specially good for the country
Poland decided to NE France, and like expected France put prio on UK (their CP attacked as soon as possible to keep a chance to escape). Hopefully : TWO HQ was contacted shortly after the beginning of the campaign (on the 10 first minutes) and we had top prio. By this way : we were able to win against France.
But some people are always angry and requested an impeachment. Why ? Because UK lost colonies and some irishs put high CO against us ? Whatever the CP party : we shouldn’t be able to keep everything (and the war with Ireland wasn’t an help). Do you think that when USA received 5 Airstrikes and 3 open fronts : Sack the CP was the best option ? Whatever the party : he should lose regions. It was a bit the case here (with less fronts).
Of course : you can say “put higher CO” but if Ireland puts higher ones, it will be an neverending race. And at the end : you aren’t sure to win (if we lose : you will blame CP for spending lot of money for nothing)
Now, a congress member launched an impeachment against Bohemond4 : what are his reasons ? We ignore it. The only thing that we know is that he will claim loyalty to UK, ...but it is the same citizen who launches filibuster when you talk about immigration reform (and he will say that he isn’t opposed to that). And few weeks later : he will give citizenship to a well known citizen who fought against UK (and proud to do it). When explanations were asked, his answer was like “I’m sorry, If I knew, I shouldn’t do it”.
An impeachment should never been launched without good reasons : here, we have none. We only have some grumpy congress members who only say “Impeach, and we can do better things (and without explain how).
But the saddest thing was just coming. We had the minister of education (now former MoEd) who proposed a bribe : If Bohemond was impeached. He should give 5G to everybody who voted YES (10G if you are from TUP).
Here comes the bribe
What currently happen in eUK isn’t good : you have congress members who are only thinking to their own welfare (Need more war when we can have TP medals, and also having an “empire” (which will not happen as long as we have less than 5.000 citizens after the babyboom “drop”). We also have corrupted congress members (the one who proposed the bribe and probably several who voted YES thinking to win 5G).
Currently, there is something rotten in UK congress but in a week : we will have congress elections. Clearly, it will be time to takin out the trashes : Vote for a party who will prefer to put eUK citizens interests near from their heart. Vote for a party who isn’t focused on their own interests.
See ya,
Kravenn
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pertamax
I was scared, I thought another tutorial was ready or worse, another telling of the events of ...Serbians wars of 2009. I am relieved, it's just the usual eUK politics, with its shadows and darkness.
How about no.
Silly people are silly.
Theres a disconnect between what groups of people find fun - some do everything simply for the lols and cause they can. Others prefer to build, develop and create. Some hold themselves to moral standards - while others see only the game mechanics as rules to follow.
With erepublik becoming worse and worse the 'for the lolz' group is becoming more vocal/powerful.
This is simply a bi-product of that imho.
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Good article and very true, but you'll never stop the haters.
I offer my sincere apologies that the instigator of the Irish debacle was voted into congress on the UKPP ticket. Hindsight is a wonderful thing; shame it can't work in reverse so you get a premonition of what is about to unfold, had I had one, I would never have taken the UKPP into an electoral coalition with the BEP [then SLP]
Most of us voted yes, the game is based around a republic, that is all.
The game has evolved to be more developed than the game you talk (and possibly dream) of. You talk of V1 erepublik.
Send me 5 gold and I'll think nasty things about Bohemond!
Send me 10 and I'll scowl whenever his name is mentioned!
Horice q:
How can you filibuster in Erepublik?
I was very proud of that as it happens xD
Kravenn quoting Shakespeare : the irony of this is not lost on me.
As for the impeachment proposal, I think I would have doing the people who voted for me a disservice if I didn't propose it.
There are many in the eUK dissatisfied and underwhelmed with boh's premiership, esp in relation to our recent battles.
The discussion was on the Congress pm's and I wasn't the only one to call for him to impeached, clearly.
If you have Congress passing a vote without agreement or prior discussions with Government... It is ONLY Government's fault when it leads to repercussions?
Where is the discussion on everyone who voted yes, resigning their seat and falling on their own sword, instead of trying to pass the blame?
well, the government forgot to supply them with swords, so I guess that is again the government's fault
I do know what it is.....
YOUR ENGLISH!
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Nice article Kravenn. " I feel that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark "
If congress are let out of their cages unsupervised then this horrendous abuse of legitimate powers is bound to happen.
Rather than there being any flaws in the structure; In my opinion they have simply not been beaten enough or put in their place adequately. I believe the position of their carer - Mr. Speaker - needs to be reviewed.
Rotten is the british name of Roto?
wow! without wanting to interfer in to your problems, it seems that you have major ethic problems... as an idea and what we have in eGreece, try get all the partys together and make a constitution (or basic laws for beggining) for the congress wich everyone will accept
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pls vote this:
Mafia: History
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-1-2330746/1/20
Don't like Congress?
It's called democracy, deal with it
actually what erep is using is a democratic/republic system, as one group says everyone votes on everything (democracy) and a republic is when a form of government that is created has votes on things
OK . .
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1) dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.
Those in power
Dishonest
Fraudulent
Bribery
TUP negativity this week is very discouraging, there is something rotten in Congress however, that being the majority group fails to provide structure and leadership.
Bribery is pathetic.
Cyg is even more pathetic.
Zaphod is jelly.
you didn't send to all congressmen, the only PMs I received regarding the matter were to vote 'no' which i already had
Sorry Neil I must have overlooked you I got at least 30-35
The only Rotten thing in congress is you Kravenn , how are your best friend chile now a days ? you sh1t on them didnt you ?
Don't be a knob all your life
How are your friends in the eUK that you fought against for Ireland?
Alliances and citizenships change. Shit happens
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Those of us with honor and trying to play eRep as an extension of rl, the ability to partake in a struggle not otherwise possible - makes me sick to be manipulated. I expect my elected representatives to to behave with respect to due process; the power of congress and all elected members is to be discharged in the completion of their duties, not for personal gain.
The idea that it's someone the electorates fault is a really poor cop-out, if we keep voting in with majority known idiots, then yes. But we should not expect that everyone and anyone will have no respect. It is the PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY of each and every congress member to know exactly what they're voting for and the repercussions on other government policy. Congress exists to provide fail-safes for the country, not for subverting duly elected members governance.
A public record should be made and maintained by each CP of congress members shamed, ensuring these individuals don't get multiple chances to do the same - in my experience the 'I like flying monkeys' voters along with the deliberately deviant schemers don't change their behavior.
tl;dr If a congressman misbehaves, put him on the naughty step.
Absolute rubbish!!!! Congress is also elected and and just because the CP or his party doesn't like it, is no reason for anyone in Congress to swallow his/her integrity by slavishly following the CP.
Aye mate, I suggest playing a game where you actually vote for your Congressmen this isn't one of them 😉
I was saddened to not be offered 15 gold! Surely the PM voting yes on his own impeachment would have been far more glorious than a mere TUPite q:
Would anyone have noticed?
Ahhh Kravenn, we all enjoy the game for different reasons. How about you and your party practice what you preach first, get your own house in order and then call others out for their performance...
The party with the largest percentage each month should be setting an example to the rest of us...
So the second Congress defies the wishes of a TUP CP it's 'rotten' all of a sudden?
PLEASE don't use acronyms that not everyone will understand. Worked out the NE - but what it CO? Second time I saw it, I stopped reading.
All of you in the "inner circles" need to write for the masses, not just for each other. And the masses haven't yet learned the acronyms, slang and personalities involved.
Combat order or something along those lines. It is the thing that MUs can set to pay people to fight on the battlefield when the wall is under a certain percentage.
Now I'm even more interested in finding out what all this means. I've heard of MUs... led a regiment for quite some time (which has to be the most useless job on the site) but no idea how MUs work or how one even accesses that information. Oh for someone to provide a link to a part of THIS site (ie, not IRC) where one could look up information on any topic relevant to the game.... anyone here play KingsAge? Have a look how their help area is set up, that's exactly what we need here.
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Military_unit
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Combat_Orders
The wiki isn't always reliable, but it's a good start-point for you on these topics.
Check this page regularly for updates and new info http://www.erepublik.com/en/main/latest-updates
Good luck.
What a little baby John Kravenn is ,get back to newsround
And what a complete tool you are so sod of back to where you came from and let us rip the crap out of each other ourselves
I'm everywhere trust ! like a virus
The main difference between you and a virus is you use a needle with a vaccination to prevent a virus, whereas it's all the smack needles you stick in yourself that encourage your behaviour.