The NPG could've been a contender
Funky 24
"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance."
eCanada's moment of utterance
With the interesting April 15th PP elections in the mirror, I thought a quick reflection would do nicely. As you should know, all four Norsefire parties were challenged by a loose coalition of candidates, with the late-name of the New Power Generation. Mia Angela Carina, killer2001, OLloyd and Ardikus V2 all contended to what was exclusively a PTO attempt of Norsfire.
As I called it, they all lost to what was probably a strong campaign by Rolo Tahmasee to keep his small empire of political parties under his control, through "activity awards". I don't think there's any reason to suspect there could've been any other result.
I was and still am skeptical about this movement. I can make the exception however for the least known of the bunch, Ardikus. When CanVision was around and actually approaching the Top 5, it was a fresh, if generic, party. From what I remember, they were fair to Rolo before they lost control of their party. While it might be too late now one avenue would be create a new party, instead of taking over one. I don't think asking Rolo for reparations would work unfortunately. Rolo claimed that the CanVision party didn't achieve anything. From the competitive viewpoint as a rival Party President, I would easily incline to express my skepticism of what was unique about CanVision from say, the CNC. On the other hand, it grew quickly and I take that as a sign that there was more to it than met the eye.
The collection of the rest of the characters however, were not the men and women that could convince me this was the time for aggressive reform. The multi, the noob and Mia was born on April 1 and within a matter of days producing articles that dwarfed anything I have written. The lack of any activity since then have only cemented the notion that she was a multi of either an EPC member, or someone not confident enough to work in the open against Norsefire.
OLloyd is as polarizing as anyone as I've ever seen. To his credit he predicted Wally's motive for taking control of MOO. But the rest of the time he is too unpopular to lead an uprising.
Killer2001, also new, I've more than once wanted to report for spamming my feed. To me, and presumably others, he's still just a super-active political virgin.
They were called a multi, fool and spammer respectively. As a consequence they could only rely on repetitive, populist calls to the population in general to volunteer their votes (devoid of any allusions to their own ability to lead), and that's where we have the other problem.
Your efforts' worth is largely predicated on the results. None of them got any official backing from an MU, a party, the(/a) government or even the EPC. As far as I know, they didn't appeal to any of these factions directly. For the parties and MU, why would they risk joining a poor attempt to dislodge the Norsefire if all it would mean, was drawing his attention? If you have no plan beyond publishing articles and spamming up everyone's feed, then you're wasting everyone's time.
Operating without any organization to back them does give them the opportunity to get into vote-buying with nobody to worry about getting tainted through association. It does go against part of the reason why people want Rolo gone however. But if you're going to try to kill the beast by yourself, why not go all in, especially if you're just using fire on fire?
I would have had a ranking of results most preferable at hand
1. Victory without vote-buying
2. Victory supplemented by a vote-buying campaign
3. Defeat without vote-buying
4. Defeat despite using vote-buying
As the CPF PP, I've mixed my party's ideology with realist politicking all the time. While getting the result you want is the most important thing, it's always good to do through the optimal means if you can (such as through the party's belief structure). The NPG never had a realistic strategy, meaning the defeat was inevitable. Logically this means that unless they try again a month from now through different means, what they trying to do is a waste of energy and worse than at least getting together a distasteful, but effective strategy of targeting the ones willing to receive bribes.
The NPG has had its abortive run, that while decent has served little purpose as we now return to another month of the same ranking of political parties. Fortunately for them, Rolo doesn't have a guillotine for his enemies at his disposal...
...yet.
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/me least known but been here since 2010...
Also lost only by experience.
Still least known.
Hunh.
A Funky article that I understand and like.
"If you have no plan beyond publishing articles and spamming up everyone's feed, then you're wasting everyone's time.'
thats money
:/ my entire eLife has become void of all accomplishment now.
can anything here really be considered an accomplishment?
I almost won mine? Thanks for the support crisfire
Ardikus....if you had more experience than Kippers, they would have jammed 1 more vote against you. The only reason they didn't is because they had you on experience. You may as well of lost by 10 votes.
Indeed.
Sry Ardikus i meant can anything in eRep be considered an accomplishment
Oh, well, Meh, Retirement?
Not sure where a simple plan could go wrong. For having spontaneous roots in the imaginings and writings of a 2 week-old citizen, I'd say the display was more than could have been reckoned. Anything that gets us geezers off our self-entitled arses and talking about something is a fairly big to-do.
Yet, you do raise valid points, Funky, indeed.
the NPG movement is the only fresh, worthwhile movement in eCanada in over a year. The attention and endorsements it received are unmatched in recent memory. All I see here is a bunch of complacent old farts, waving their fingers, saying " do it our way" and "we warned u".
what have the old farts done except maintain the status quo?
the last time eCanada went through an extended period of succes in game and roleplaying was in the first terms of the Jocobi administration. those times were lead by inexperenced newer players who defied the "old ways". Some off the persons showing indifference to the NPG today were new and a big part of the Jacobi 2009 terms.
Was not Ryldes victory in MDP a step forward?
Looking on the bright side: They did bleed off 2500 of Rolo's Q6s, as reported by The Thief, if he f can be believed (which he can't). I'm all for making Rolo's control of the Norsefire parties as expensive as possible to him. To my mind, that's 2500 less Q6s he has to buy votes next time out. That's 156 production-days at 16/day. Or 208 production-days at 12/day.
@wilhem: It's nice to see rolo pay a larger price then normal, but your forgetting just what he stole from us. He stole Q5 companies that I'm sure are upgraded to Q6 by now with 1000's of gold he got away with. I'm not even counting the profit he has made selling Q5 weapons and food for last 18 months to buy and upgrade more companies.
I'm not certain, but I feel 2500 Q6's is drops in the bucket.
Coulda been a baller, a shot caller...
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda.....
o7