[Moo] Plan for How to dramatically change our country.
moomoohead
This is the 5th time I have run for President during the almost 4 years I have been playing this game, and have to say this is one of the best elections I have been a part of for three reasons. For the most part it has been a clean contest, name calling and mudslinging hurts the whole country. Second there are a lot of good canadites running, I think all four of us could do the job good. The biggest reason this is a great campaign is the voters have a choice, not based on popularity or social circles, but based on deliverables. MUFC will work to get us in an alliance and training wars, Conway will create wealth for the country and share it, BB will bring unity, and I will focus on a Baby boom. It will be interesting to see what the voters think is this country’s biggest issue. One thing I would ask is do not let someone who calls themselves a “leader” decides for you, vote who you think has the best plan and can deliver on it.
…………COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY……….
Most of the time ePoliticians are vague on how they plan to achieve their goals. If they throw out the details, others can poke holes in them. It is much easier to say things like “it is in national security to not give details” or” I will let the people decide”. I am not going to do that, I going to state the 7 steps I plan to take to get a baby boom.
Why do we need a baby boom? More players’ means:
1. More influence in the world
2. High-energy enthusiastic positive people playing
3. A better eIrish Economy
4. More War
5. A better game to play
To put a baby boom in scale, we have 200 active citizens. Columbia was bringing in 2,000+ new citizens a day when they implemented a similar plan as below. They are now the number one country in the world. We enact this and Ireland will be one of the largest countries in the game in a month. Think about that for a second.
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THE PLAN
STEP 1. Form a committee- I am laying out a plan but cannot do all the work and know that others ideas would greatly improve the plan. I have asked Noggin and Yddub to help on the committee, two people that I trust for advice (even if one of them yells at you a bit). I have not asked Seanad, Irisian, Snake, CT, and Ian Coleman yet but am sure they and others would help for the good of the country. We would only spend 3 or 4 days refining the plan, then divide up the work and make it happen. I will also ask other countries who have done this, if some of their representatives can advisor us.
Step 2. Raise 1,000 Euros of real life money. Yes I have not gone mad and said 1,000 euros. I do believe we have enough people that have the means to get to this target. The fund raising will last 2 weeks. Money will be donated into a pay pall account administered by someone trust worthy, other than me. All books will be open and transparent. I will not have access to funds. We will funnel friend requests and use incentives from the national treasury to help raise the money needed. I will personally pledge the first 100 euros.
Step 3 Design Banners We have to design a banner to attack the most people. We could use a standard game one or design our own. We need a strap phrase around it like “Be Tashocih for a month”. I do not poses any artistic or creative abilities so will be realigning on others for this. Which size banner will also have to be determined by the committee?
Step 4. Get best prices we can on advertising on top Irish web sites with the correct democratic. The listed price to advertise on the internet is about 10 to 5cpm. Our goals will be to get more than 250,000 page views of our banner for our 1,000 euros. If we estimate a 0.75% join rate that puts us at 2,000 new citizens, or 3X our current size. A better understanding of these rates will come from working with countries that have done this. We will target web sites like poltics.ie and RTE.ie that have demographics that match the player profile of this game. Because the overall market in Ireland is limited we might target Irish ex pats sites too. We might have to run some smaller scale tests to prove the system.
Step 5. Funnel new players through the right path for the first 24 hours. Does the banner take them to a web site first or right into the game? What should the new player message say? Do we funnel them in as friends of the donors? How do we get them to join boot camp right away? We would have to map out this process in a way that gets us the most citizens joining at the right place. Boot camp was set up to see if we could retain new players, we need apply the lessons we have learned to date on a large scale.
Step 6. Support them first month. Three things are needed here. Information through articles. Our top articles have to be guides for the new players. Second, people stick around for the community they meet. We would have to assign people to different regiments of boot camp to act as mentors, we would need lots of them. Third is challenges. We would have to make regular challenges like “move to Japan and receive 5 Q7 weapons” or “comment on a newspaper article and receive 50CC”. These types of things give new players things to do and teach them about game mechanisms. Jobs will have to be created in the Irish Market to support the players. We will also need to raise or conserve funds for this. Countries in the past have gone bankrupt supporting a baby boom.
Step 7. Give them a reason to want to come back. A lot of baby booms have been built around Real World conflicts spilling into this game. Poland did it when they said the Germans were invading them. Argentina and Chile both created one when they were at war with each other in game. We need to create our own story line or crisis, to keep people thinking that logging in to this game matters. We need entertainment for the new players.
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This would be the biggest undertaking this eCountry has ever attempted and will not be easy. The whole country would have to work to this goal. If it is successful it will change our eCountry dramatically. I have been asked to help other canadits running for CP in the area of baby boom if I do not get elected. I have said no because I think to pull this off the whole country needs to be focused on this and no other priorities. If I do not get elected, I will fully support whoever gets elected in their goals. If I get elected, I promise you I will work my butt off to make the above plan happen.
Sorry for the wall of TEXT, did not want to dilute the message and could not be bothered with pretty.
Comments
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Quite a goal you've set for yourself Moo.
I ran calculations against other English tongue countries and projected via proportionate RL populations that a babyboom in Ireland would be approx 200 new players, 40-50 of which would survive 3 months.
I've never wanted someone to prove my projection wrong so much!
You have a good point, that is why I think we need to expand to the ex pats population which is much bigger then the actual population.
our RL weather, austerity, etc could become an ingame advantage. There's plenty of Irishmen out there with nothing better to do!
aye sweet, we could get 50 of the most active motherfckers in the world lol
Also, the data available to make that projection was patchy at best. Was really just a idle tuesday evening project.
I don't doubt that it will be a very difficult task sweet.
But it's one that is worth doing, for the sake of the community here, and will bring out the people who really want the place to succeed.
You need to include the diaspora in your calculations, particularly Americans.
I think it's worth a shot.
If we are ever going to have a babyboom then I think moo will be the one to deliver.
As always moo, you're willing to take a shot, for better or worse. I'll be happy to do whatever I can to help and will also throw in another 100 euro.
moo is a serious candidate in this race and one of the best citizens we've ever had. we've had our differences over the years, but there's no-one I respect more.
moomoo ABÚ
Good luck brah.
This is great goal and certainly something Ireland needs 🙂
I wouldn't be sad if you win elections..
This is a great idea, Moo! If you get elected, I'll do what I can to help with money as well. 🙂 We'll get it done.
This was nice hallucination......
We should all vote for moo..clearly ireland can't have a decent CP so why not give power to greek Libertad.
Aim high Moo. I hope you take your baby boom idea and run with it, whether you win or not. Good luck with your project, and good luck in the elections.
I think moo needs to be CP for this to happen tbh
People will not part with RL cash unless they are sure the project is being given the best chance of success possible.
Other candidates have stated their priorities already and this would not get the same focus under anyone else's Presidency.
That's what I'm hoping too 🙂
voted, GL
for the Moo!!!!
all the best luck for you moomoohead : 3
Best of luck Moo!
Moo look at thejournal.ie, its comment section is by far the most active in online news & it attracts a lot of readers per day.
Spamming its comment section resulted in myself & PP both get Society Builder medals (and IP bans) however of the 80-90 people that joined from our referals none are active today.
That good idea like I said already in that PM we had. Too bad we didn't had organised anything to welcome those new citizens
thejournal.ie comment section? Oh jesus....
A lot of opinonated so-sos on that site. They'd fit right in!
Id say thejournal.ie & a few republican forums, with a staged war with britain in place during it.
Irisian here, if you do become cp let me know what I have to do. : )
Best of luck mate.
Id donate a €100 if this idea gatheres momentum.
I'm good at banners and such. I'm in.
In!