A bit confused with some of the wording, but regardless, I firmly believe each individual should be able to make their own decision on which region they reside in. I think this amendment would be extremely harmful to the game.
Indeed, part of the fun of Atlas is the regional diversity. The random #'s might turn this into a bland social liberal game.
If you were paying any attention to recent events, you would realize the nationwide the divide between rightwingers and leftwingers is virtually even, and we've had a number of competitive nationwide elections over the last year. The same cannot be said of the 5 regions, with few exceptions.
For my advocacy, I would quote Supreme Court Justice Oakvale's initial proposal of this idea. I don't think I could be more eloquent or forthright in any statement of my own than he was in this post.
This has occurred to me a couple of times over the last few months as the consolidation debate raged on. It's clear that reducing the amount of regions is a touchy subject, and one that it's going to be very hard to find any agreement on.
Similarly, we all know that one of the major reasons we're considering consolidation in the first place is because of the drastically varying levels of activity between regions, something aggravated by strategic registration. Strategic registration isn't always malevolent - a left-wing member will naturally gravitate to the Pacific or Midwest while a right-winger will naturally gravitate towards the Mideast or Southeast. Then of course there's the other side, where parties strategically stack regions with an influx of new members to swing local elections.
This all creates an unhealthy balance in the game, where competition naturally declines as people register in the regions they feel most politically comfortable in.
It's because of that that I'm proposing a radical reform to our system of government, and what I think is a viable, and more manageable alternative to regional consolidation.
Random registration.
My idea is this - when a new member registers, the RG will randomly assign them to one of the five regions. This can be simply done with a random number generator. Current members would not be affected, and would maintain their registrations, but when a member moves region that would also be assigned randomly.
Any thoughts?
