【PM】Updates and Mongressmonday
Day 3,828, 00:30
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by 10 Downing Street
Greetings, Mad Paulys. Since my last update, many things have happened. Thailand came, and left. Another impeachment proposal got voted down. The devil returned. 17 New players took part in two consecutive NPFs, and 13 others managed to take part in one of the most recent ones. Our Discord is brimming with newer players eager for enlightenment and handouts, and Chris tarrant started playing eRepublik.
As well as that, I admitted defeat, made concessions, and got blanked. WOE BE ME. However, whilst my ego is huge (and to some, unreasonable given how awful I am), the reason I'm writing an update today isn't to seek
Last month I made a commitment, and I do my best to try and follow through. I promised to try to give mongress a purpose, and get them involved. Today, we begin our first attempt at getting mongress to do something useful. I have uploaded links to all new UK players (upto last Friday) and sent out those links to all congress members, as well as some guidance on what they could do to help new players. I've also included a link to the list below, so even if you aren't in congress: add these people, send them a nice little message, or drop them some merkelgoldz. They'll be grateful, although possibly silent. But I have always maintained that on eRep, as the odds are stacked against the newer generations, they should always be the main focus. Older players should not be forgotten, but the simple principle of "you're already here, so i'll be nice but not to nice" applies in all aspects of today's life: erep should be no different. Just as new customers get better deals to coax them into signing their life away; new players should get better rewards, to coax them into erepping their life away.
For a list of a ton of new players (be aware, this may include some who have since died) please click here. As I sai
😛add them as friends, be nice to them. Maybe they'll stay, and steal my permaCP seat in the future. Maybe they'll be the next UKs Finest. Who knows, but unless they stick around, we'll never know!
Finally, once again please remember that the RAF is open, paying you to fight in every air round we're deployed in, and will be announcing further rewards and upgades to the program on Wedsnesday to coincide with Weducationsday. For info on the current setup, check out this article
~jw
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Come on mongress, be useful please \o/
i'm a useful cnt now give me wnker role pls.
Good ideas
Good comment o7
Voted for love and friendship for everyone
I love you too :3
Erepping my life away as instructed
It's a very slippery slope 🙂
Devil reporting in. Maybe I should change back to purple drapes...
It's called Congress, not some other stupid name that is simply an insult
Mongress is not congress, mongress is mongress.
No days of the week start with C, so it was mongress tongress wongress fongress or songress. Mongress sounds better.
What about Christmas day? That starts with a c.
fake news, that clearly starts with x.
Your mom plays in movies that start with x, end with x and have an x in between the first and last x.
I'm a fan of Diwali dongress personally.
This is a paradox: if mongress does something useful, it will no longer be mongress. If it will no longer be mongress, your instructions to do something useful will no longer be addressed to it meaning mongress can stop being useful and become mongress again. But if mongress is mongress, the it will have to do something useful, at which point etcetera...
Point is, I blame jamesw.
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Thanks for the shoutout! Endorsed.
I always greet newbies with an invite to NHS, unfortunately I only see the ones that join RN as well.
v + c
Didn't realise there had been so many new UK players, shame so many are already flagged as either dead and/or permanently banned. Also a lot look as if they had one look at the game and ran away screaming into the hills. Can't say I blame them really.
jamesw getting bored at the top it seems, though smarter move to go from insulting the country to a subset, who just happen to be it's most active players... oh wait, that's a shit idea.
The job of congress is to hold the government to account, acting as a damper on crazy ideas. It's first responsibility is to act as a voice for the people that have elected their representatives. Quite often this is because people vote in a party or leader on the basis of headline policies, but have serious misgivings about one or most of the others.
It might have been an idea to run this idea of using other peoples time and money passed those other people, say in the congress thread. Instead of band standing your dedication to resolving a problem that isn't an issue - through your tireless personal effort of spending other people's funds for them.
So this problem we have of people not getting free stuff and having no access to information, well I can sympathise if you've joined TUP. Most people that join a group, realising that it's dead, are going to leave and try another.
As mentioned it's an alien concept to some, but the party you join has the ability to foster their players, shaping them into the player of tomorrow - why? Because it benefits them to do so.
Similarly, players joining a military unit are going to find, depending on which they join, an availability of funding matching the ambition of the units leader - why? Because it benefits them to do so.
Friend lists are for (displaying your popularity/vanity) whatever floats your boat. For me, it's the people I know, associate with, history with, frenemies, etc. It's not to blanketly add every day old player. Not only are they getting bored of clicking every name in the lists of players (actually this isn't a thing either, they love it), *no* now we have to friend them. Maybe we should just ask them for their account details and we can 2-click for them.
So in future, might I suggest that the best way to make congress look good is to let it function by bringing your eCrap idea and gaining consensus, instead of trying to turn congress into egress.
what he said...
3/10 almost believed.
Haven't really been all that active, but nice to see that jamesw has gone from insulting the entire nation by calling everyone "peons" to addressing articles directly to me, even though they're always TL😉R walls of text that I tend to largely ignore...
Wake me up when there's a change from this awful, tedious, sleep-inducing government.
"I promised to try to give mongress a purpose, and get them involved."
Isn't getting themselves involved their responsibility? They have most of the buttons you have.
Send gold o7