The Movement for Four Regions (M4R)

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No.

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No. Instead, how about we try to improve the Midwest so all regions can prosper. Don't get rid of them. People like Maxwell and MaxQue are helping their region, and I think that instead of ditching it, we all should improve them.

Indeed. Activity is cyclical, and won't be solved by just amputating different aspects of the game. I remember a time when most regions were total wastelands of activity, and that changed with time as regional reformists came and went. We're trying our best to undergo that same process in the Midwest right now. The Mideast has had trouble in the past, the Northeast has been reformed numerous times, the South used to be nothing more than a system of initiatives. Shooting the Midwest in the head just because they don't reach the standards of the other regions at this point in time is crazy.

It would help, of course, if people would actually stop leaving the region.

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No. Instead, how about we try to improve the Midwest so all regions can prosper. Don't get rid of them. People like Maxwell and MaxQue are helping their region, and I think that instead of ditching it, we all should improve them.

Indeed. Activity is cyclical, and won't be solved by just amputating different aspects of the game. I remember a time when most regions were total wastelands of activity, and that changed with time as regional reformists came and went. We're trying our best to undergo that same process in the Midwest right now. The Mideast has had trouble in the past, the Northeast has been reformed numerous times, the South used to be nothing more than a system of initiatives. Shooting the Midwest in the head just because they don't reach the standards of the other regions at this point in time is crazy.

It would help, of course, if people would actually stop leaving the region.

But wouldn't all those seem to point to the idea that we can only sustain four regions (with different regions being inactive at different times)?

No, that's silly. It's not like the activity genie keeps moving around from region to region. It's just about the right people at the right time. Not all regions are going to be running at level eleven at all times. The idea that we should just snip one of the five pillars that the entire game is built around and re-arrange everything just because one region is having structural problems that we are actively trying to solve is bananas.

With all this anti-Midwest stuff and the Senate trying to basically act like it's a parliament, I'm beginning to think this game is full of awfully impatient people these days.

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I agree with SJoyce. All signs point to the fact that Atlasia can sustain only four regions.

All signs?  No, the way you weirdly read the signs points to that opinion.  We have plenty of people registered, and we sustained 5 regions with much less.

Yep. Some people here don't seem to have any sense of history. The Midwest will be righted because when regions have trouble, or seem ripe for the picking, people move there and fix it. A couple of years ago, the Northeast was a basketcase, and many people moved there (including myself) to help participate in fixing it.

The game is constantly self correcting in that way, and the same will be true for the Midwest. Eventually other regions will fall on hard times. These things cycle, nothing stays the same for forever. Part of the problem is strategic registration; people see the Midwest as "safe" for a certain segment of the game, and so no one moves here to compete, which is basically the exact same problem the Pacific had for a good long time, until party dissolution and the region has undergone a real renaissance since.

This cycle has repeated many times, and will repeat many more, long after we're gone, Simfan.

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Maybe to bump up midwestern activity we could allow anyone who wants to to move there regardless of how long until they get a move.

An excellent idea!