Have You Been Entertained? (dictatorship)
Exalted Druid
Have You Been Entertained?
We are now firmly into a dictatorship.
As you remember everyone was so bored with dictatorship last time we decided that risking a foreign coup was preferable to living another day under this game killing mechanic .
When I say boring I’m not talking about clicking the ever exciting fight button 500 times in 10 minutes. I mean the CP election means nothing. I mean the congress election means nothing. Your party is a pointless entity.
Why are we back here?
Well Rylde did not get the speaker he wanted in congress and went on a 2 day rant that ended with him blowing the whole thing up by pushing the coup button. God forbid he does not get his way just once. Remember the last speaker was from his party as well, Muglack. Someone I believe I even voted for.
Why did people support Rylde?
Besides those who just like free tanks, the reason I was given was the coup was supported for the entertainment value.
That answer made me scratch my head. I never met anyone who even likes the dictatorship module except the dictator himself, so what entertainment value is there?
Then I saw that Rolo had crawled out from under his rock and was having the greatest time trolling around trying to get angry reactions out of people that did not support Rylde.
That is when it dawned on me the only entertainment value they get is our reaction to them. Think about it you are playing a game with people who just do stuff just to piss you off to get a reaction out of you.
Not much point reacting or playing with the idiots is there?
Clearly we can move back to democracy in a few weeks when the determination bonus gets big enough and we do a little fund raising but what would be the point? eCanada is invested with trolls that find pissing off everyone else is where their entertainment can be found.
If we were not here what would they do for entertainment? If we did not react to what they did they would get zero entertainment out of it.
When you ask people why they play this game it always comes down to community and not the game itself. Well it is time people started to take more responsibility for their community.
Seriously if your only way to get your entertainment out of this game is to damage the community and watch the reaction, soon there won’t be any community left for you to abuse.
As I just mentioned, winning a revolution will be fairly easy but without a functioning community, there is no point. If congress does not take action to protect the community from Rylde’s next temper tantrum we will right back here in a few months any way.
Demand our congress make the changes necessary so after we win the revolution we will not be going back to Dictatorship based on a single well healed individual’s personal whim.
That means having defensive funding available against all coup’s either domestic or foreign unless that coup is approved by a 66% majority of congress or a CP election. By that I mean the CP ran in the election based on becoming a dictator and he won the election.
After the coup I wanted to run for CP and pushed the button but now I realize there is no point going back to democracy until we have a system that fights to maintain democracy. If Rylde wants to piss his and our money away again that his choice, but we will not be rolling over, ever again.
The election that matters will be the congressional. If you support democracy, only support parties committed to it. Vote for parties willing to set aside the funds and the fast acting mechanisms to defend it.
Yours Respectfully
Exalted Druid
CPF party president & Congressman
To late to change CP candidate
Comments
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I use a lot more than 125 tanks a week fighting for Canada and Canada's allies. the same cannot be said for a large majority of the folks who would call us traitors. We can all see the damage and kills for the current week and last four weeks.
I follow Rylde because he is fun and entertaining; exactly what I am looking for in a game. He takes the parts of the game (battles and strategy) serious that need to be serious and has thick enough skin to laugh off the sluggards who do nothing but run their mouths.
I do agree with you that we need an effective Congress if we want change. I am unhappy with Canadians who will take their Congressional gold and not do the job they get paid to do. I will support an active Dictatorship over an inactive congress every day of the week.
Right no else does a thing but you and yours.
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sorry, posted molly reply here so just moved it
Yeah you do more damage, but how much of that comes from Energy bars and gold? Not every player is going to or has to spend money on this game, I refuse to so myself, doesn't mean I don't give my full weekly fighting. :/
Don't try to mix up arguments please. ED likes to say Rylde buys loyalty with tanks while he has my loyalty without any tanks. My point was I use more tanks than my MU can give me, so ED's assumption was incorrect.
I'm not trying to mix up anything, I'm making a point on your comment about damage and kills. Your totals are that of someone who puts more then food fights in, and that's your choice, but beyond what I get in a day and energy bars I earn I'm not investing, and to say anyone who doesn't invest isn't on par with those who do or even sound like that's the way to play, well it pisses me off.
Molly, that is not what I said. I have had plenty of months were I didn't invest in any packs but made sure to log in and empty my energy daily in Canadian wars. I am talking about kill totals for people that can't even log in and do 25 kills a day. We had 31 D3 nations log 175 or more kills last week. A tourney week that awarded gold for kills. Only 15 with 350 or more kills, which is 50 kills a day. We all have the energy for 50 kills a day whether you spend gold or not. The previous week it was 18 and 12 and the week before that it was 22 and 9.
Voted for use of the word "sluggards."
Boycottin' Canada.
Aries is not supportive of eCanada because he didn't get his way. He is pouting, don't let him get control of the Legendary CAF, He WILL use it to ruin the rest of his reputation and he WILL destroy the CAF in the process. GO HOME Aries! GO HOME!
I come back from hibernation and things are the same thing as before, a drunken narcissistic man-child taking his anger out on an entire community. Rylde didn't you shout that you have spent $10,000 on this game over the years? I've spent $0 on this game over 6 years and can guarantee that I have gotten more enjoyment than he has. It's just sad, really.
Euro's not dollars. I don't want to ever know my number. Zero sounds much better then what ever it is.
History is way more fun when you revise it to suit your own agenda, isn't it?
It's fun how this whole thing is being painted as someone having a hissy fit because he didn't get his way one time. That's the entertainment - watching the hippies cry in their pies and point fingers instead of doing something useful.
Here's what I saw happen: three candidates ran for Speaker - the Whorehouse candidate Joseph Rich, that prick McVicker who basically trolled the country for a month as your duly elected CP, and a French candidate who (let's be honest) didn't have a chance in Hell of winning anyway.
The Whorehouse voted for their guy, because a) he's their guy, and b) the other guy who could have won was McVicker, and you have to be a halfwit with a short memory to want that self-important drama-whore in charge of anything.
Now, instead of accepting that fact that at least 30% of Congress simply hates that prick McVicker (probably WAY more, really), Rylde was singled out as some sort of villainous manipulator flexing his evil muscles to coerce his flunkies into voting how he told them. And this was presented in a manner suggesting that that is somehow a bad way to do things, as though it's not how the country has been run for basically ever. Not only that, but he probably never even did this allegedly horrible thing of which he is accused, because he didn't have to. McVicker sucks, and people will naturally vote against him of their own free will.
So instead of just accepting a righteous loss by merit of how much McVicker sucks, it was turned into a pathetic pity party that vilified one person for imagined crimes against beloved Democracy. And you whinged and cried so hard about it - essentially employing the tactics you had accused your pet villain of using - that the election went to the lesser candidate.
Now you're all whinging about being "trolled."
Glorious Dictatorship is too good for you worthless hippies. Go drown in a puddle of bong water.
Lol didn't read.
You used to be cool, bro.
You created a monster!
My God imagine party politics involved in a vote involving parties? It was just a speaker vote for crying out loud.
Share your sarcastic wisdom with the dingbat who wrote multiple articles bellyaching about it. It will sound better coming from a fellow hippie than it will coming from me.
I don't control any other hippies actions but my own but i thought his reaction was as over the top.
It's called manipulation 😛. I just didn't think Rylde was such a big baby that he'd blow everything up because he got bested in his own game. But I guess when you spend $14,000 Canadian on a BROWSER game you become pretty retarded.
Welcome to the conversation, dingbat.
I'm not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse about politicians "manipulating" things, or if you are genuinely unaware of how political business is and has always been conducted. Either way, you don't appear to know what the hell you're talking about.
Rylde is far from being the only one who has ever worked back-room deals or swayed voters to his cause. Every party leader does it, or should if they want to have any kind of political impact, because all the other ones are doing it. Unlike the other party leaders, though, Rylde is currently the only one with the means to take direct in-game action when dingbats like you go flapping around knocking things over and causing a nuisance.
How much do you imagine one of your virtuous pinko political heroes spends on marihuana over the course of six or eight years? Imagine how "retarded" someone gets after smoking $14,000 worth of weed. Actually, you don't need to imagine it - just read the semi-literate conspiratorial hippie trash you CPF goons keep spewing into the media.
Dean22 has been gone so long and is so naive that I can't decide if its funny or sad... He thinks he's playing 3 dimensional chess, when he's really just playing checkers, by himself.....
"...you have to be a halfwit with a short memory to want that self-important drama-whore in charge of anything."
thought you were talking about Rylde there for a second.
Those that are brave enough to lead leave themselves open to those who can't or wont.
You got that right.
Voted and sub, btw. I do like articles that are well written and yours are always that.
So how long until you start fighting against Canada's interests while I wield the power of the one ring. Do you dare promise you won't and just be patient.
Once you kick me out of the chair if the determination is high enough I'll just come right back a few days later.
You guys beat the drum so hard we were a threat to be united in congress that I figured I might as well make you right for once.
I cannot control anyone else's actions but my goal is to return to democracy by wide consensus so that it is permanent.
That is why I want the funding and the congressional mechanics in place to prevent all future coups not approved by the people first.
I suppose it's an exercise in futility to point out the inconsistencies in what you are saying.
Tell people what to do, or don't. You can't have it both ways. If you have no wish to "control anyone's actions," creating a set of meta-game laws to do that very thing seems like an inconsistent goal.
I did not say I did not wish to control them I said that it is impossible to control another's actions.
Even if I get what I want I still cannot prevent anyone from pushing the coup button but I can make it less likely to succeed and a hell of a lot more expensive to succeed.
"Have You Been Entertained?"
Yes.
"I mean the CP election means nothing. I mean the congress election means nothing. Your party is a pointless entity."
The CP and Congress elections haven't really meant much for awhile, as they favor party lines and the blind loyal voting that set up brings. A vacation was due. Every house opens up it's windows to blow out the stale air from time to time.
As for political parties, the one I'm in continues to be an awesome hangout for game players to chat. Still working just fine.
"I never met anyone who even likes the dictatorship module except the dictator himself"
Except for the dictator's party, his friends, the new players benefiting from his social program, and the people fighting in his solid war planning and execution. Mmmm, extra production bonus...
"Seriously if your only way to get your entertainment out of this game is to damage the community and watch the reaction, soon there won’t be any community left for you to abuse."
This is a bit of a pot calling the kettle black, as I can't think of any party that hasn't at one point or another attacked every other party (though generally not at the same time). Basically, no one hear is innocent.
I have little doubt that democracy will return (as will dictatorship after it), as it appears to be the new cycle of things. It also doesn't mean that it's the end of the world. Enjoy the game. That's what it's here for.
The real problem is there are to many parties and not enough truly active players but we are forced by game mechanics to keep at least 5 parties alive no matter what.
if i where a foreign diplomat i would get worried. last time they started acting this way ended in oinyo causing a international incident and being escorted away in a cop car. cabin fever etc etc.
has anything really changed?....really?
a bunch of congress windbags dont get 5 gold?
Only 1 vote is required for just about anything. We have replace about 45 in game positions that mattered to the people in them with 1.
I was one of those 45 and I dont notice a change in game play except we are pretty much guaranteed war
i used to really get off on that 1 extra click I got to do each day. Dictatorship has taken that away from me.... it's like there is nothing to do now and there was so much more before....
everything rylde does is for his own pocket he is the trico of canada as soon as people gets that he sponsors them from their own pockets they will wise up even in his own mu.
for example he demanded 50k for his own pocket to not fight against ireland. which was paid by the way. he is probably paid by slovenia to attack the uk. himself not the country. so start doing the maths. these old players that was so many times cp etc slowly siphons themselves into riches and thenuses that same money to gain even more money and power.
correction he demanded 100k and was paid 50k.
Canada does not make the funds to be a Trico. I was going toe to toe with Ireland in CO's in Dublin and after we both blew around 100k I said I'd go away for the night for 50k cc.
They offered another 50k cc if I would no longer place CO's on RW's.
I forgave the last 50k cc to start the current TW. Obviously no one trusts you enough over there to keep you informed.
rylde rylde rylde my good man finally after putting out so much bait i meet you face to face. im on every friggin thread there. i blew 100k you say but from where you amassed your wealth me wonders.
steps in whack rylde with a tornado hand and spins his head of his body up and away!
also remember trico personal friend of ireland.
Add me as a friend when the next set of packs come out. I ignored you for so long ss your a player who likes to get a rise out of others. I identify my own.
^ I lol'd. Classic Rylde.
rylde tylde rylde not really i get under peoples skin . remember what sopranos taught us. if your illegtimate:
1. keep your maniacs alive the more you kill off the more you lose your strength.
2. when your yielding this much power you have no real friends only yes men. remember tony's wife pointed that out to him he tested it and found his "friends" laughed at the most stupid jokes.
3. when your over estimate your own strengths you make mistakes. by killing off his most powerful allies his 2 psycho nephews he no longer had the men to fight new york.. also he started to make weak mistakes . dinner was to close after he whacked his opponents.
4. finally when your base of power is based on a crazy concept - you only attract creeps and pshycho s.johnny approlio was the biggest creep in the series. remember the jacket thing.
rylde v sopranos lots of yes man and woman : mary chan, foxfire etc, lots of creeps , and psychos, poor base of power his 125 supply is a joke i pay much more to my top fighters. he overstimated his power. although the political types is weak in warfare their strenghts can keep bigger opponents of your door. if a big country AS Canada his whole s*house will go up in flames (jim morrison)
Lets all be honest here. When is the last time you remember having this many battles FOR eCanada. The Last 5 CP's didn't do half what has been done for eCanadian fighters as Rylde has done. Remember the TW that DMV3 did? No you don't remember, that's because he was so ignorant to eCanadians he didn't tell anyone what was going on and when it would start and no one knew about it. I remember the last exile that a number of us took from eCanada because we didn't agree with the policies that were going on. This time I took the side of Rylde. Why you ask? Because in a fight game you have to fight, you dont run away or boycott the place you claim as home. YOU FIGHT! It's a FIGHT GAME, get your tanks and fight...get your nearly free Battle Hero awards. FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT. Forget the politics! The politics of the game should be who do we fight next and IDGAF if they whine about it. Go buy your tanks join Cordis Die and then get some more tanks and FIGHT!!! If your not fighting in a fight game you should go find another game to play!