House of Representatives candidate forum

[Esteemed Jimmy]

The biggest issue facing Atlasia is inactivity. I have to agree with Scott that this problem requires a cultural solution, not a legislative one. No bill can effectively stop party machines that basically do all the work of doing gotv, where a candidate doesn't even need to start a thread or campaign for themselves at all. It'll require the parties themselves to pull support from their own candidates that are inactive. Until this happens, the root cause of inactivity will not change.

In a related issue that some blame for inactivity are the zombie voters or offsite recruits, those who only vote and don't play an active role in the game. The problem with this is that reducing the number of those voters doesn't actually increase the number of active players. The idea of making voting requirements higher just reduces the number of votes, especially when the changes would have disenfranchised already-registered voters. Increasing activity requires increasing the number of active voters involve din the game, not just decreasing the number of zombie voters and saying problem solved.

[Esteemed Jimmy]

Second question: How much of a role should regions play in this game? Do they currently posses too much or too little control?

Regions should play a big role in the game. It's a good way for new players to get involved in the legislature. The amount of control they currently have over policy is perfect. I oppose attempts to unnecessarily weaken or reduce the importance of the regions.