Dissolving Atlasia Act

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I consider pulling the plug on Atlasia "just like that" as irresponsible and, frankly speaking, pointless, as saying everything's fine. Is there a problem? Yes. Does Atlasia need a serious changes? Yes it does. I've been speaking in favor of a serious changes for a long time, including presenting detailed proposals (unlike some fellows who likes to complain without offering anything constructive).

But no serious change can be accomplished without a serious deliberation and consideration from all points view. Otherwise we may "reset", but we'll inevitably repeat the same mistakes.

Repeating the same mistakes is my major concern. Aside the fact a lot of folks lost interest now (though some obviously did so for unrelated reasons, as Blair pointed out in the other thread), this game isn't institutionally any diffrent from what it was a year, two or three ago. What's the guarantee that after reset we won't just go down this conservative (by which mean afraid of any original ideas and thinking outside the box) path again? We'll never have a diffrent way without actually understanding what went wrong and what could or still can be fixed. This is why it's far too early for unplugging the game.

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What happens if we do dissolve the constitution? Do we go back to previous ones? Do we start over with a ConCon? No one has proposed any solutions to the current problem.

Good point. This is a total grey legal area.

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However, for the same reason I don't think a parliamentary system would work, I don't think this would work, either. We need to keep it similar enough to the US to hold interest on the US Election Atlas forum.

I like nothing more than a functional parliamentary system. I don't think that keeping this game modeled on the U.S., just because it's the "U.S. Election Atlas" is a right approach. We need to have an ability to develop our unique identity, instead of following one template.

However (I believe it was Oakvale that pointed this out one day on IRC), we're not big enough to adopt a functional parliamentarism, that is we're not large enough to be able to crave out working parliamentary constituencies.