Crane for Game Moderator: nomination thread

[Mr. Reactionary]

Considering the posts you made as the current Kansas Crisis began, can you say now that you will both remain neutral on this (and other future crises) and not attempt to ratify or otherwise retroactively make true the statements you made, ones that the previous GM has already said were false?

Considering the posts you made as the current Kansas Crisis began, can you say now that you will both remain neutral on this (and other future crises) and not attempt to ratify or otherwise retroactively make true the statements you made, ones that the previous GM has already said were false?

I am seconding this question. The Kansas issue is by far the thing that makes me most scared about the nominee.

Excellent questions! To clarify, my only posts about the issue have been to report on specific details of military actions that occurred. I took no position one way or the other and as a southerner I have no interest in the region actively losing territory. I certainly intend to abide by all previous pronouncements, and the current president has indicated he is complying with the recent court order. In the future my intention is to seek equitable resolutions for any narrative arcs that arise.

Your post sought to put the South in a bad light, so clearly you have a bias. Presumably, your move to the South was only to challenge Governor LT and out of no personal (non-political) regard for this region. Your pronouncement was also directly contradicted after the fact by then-GM Lumine. Given that Lumine's leadership had been by and large greatly successful and wholly unbiased it seems that if you are confirmed you could take the GM department in a direction where the canon of the game becomes overwhelming anti-South, anti-Federalist, anti-civility, and anti-democracy as governmental leaders and yourself have pushed for in the past several days over Kansas.

I'm not sure exactly how to respond to this? As I explained, while what I wrote was an attempt to provide an interesting narrative to the game events, I've obviously abided by the game manager's pronouncements since that time. It seems you have some pre-existing anger you're working out through your rants in this thread, and I just don't think that's a productive use of yours, the Senate's or my time. Also I resent your challenge to my southern residency, I live in Virginia and am very loyal to the region.

I think the concern with your interesting narrative is that it sought to assume control over another player's duties and powers. Only the Southern Governor had the right to deploy national guard (which never happened) and you wrote a fake news post claiming that southern national guard had not only been deployed (which was not true) but also that they had murdered civilians (which is crazy inflammatory). This fake news hoax appears to be a main reason that tweedledumb and tweedledumber illegally invaded Kansas over the weekend which resulted in NPCs dying.

[Mr. Reactionary]

An additional question for the nominee; can you commit to being active and to running an active GM office? And what do you think is the solution to the activity crisis?

I certainly do plan to be active enough to be effectively responsive to whatever events are occuring in-game as they happen. As for the activity crisis, it's a tough question to answer because it basically comes down to the amount of people who are actually interested in the game and you can't really force anyone to participate. The reality is you could be game manager for only a couple dozen active people, which is no different than, say, a large D&D campaign. Ultimately I think the best strategy to pursue, with the caveat that no strategy has a guaranteed success rate, is just to make playing conducive to new players as I mentioned earlier. In my opinion, that means lowering the activity barrier by making legislating easier to understand, producing a "game bible" to show what laws have already been passed and what the current budget is, which is something I advocated for as CG and sadly was never acted upon (I myself have not been in the game very long so I wouldn't be able to identify this information, but would be more than happy to attempt such an undertaking with the assistance of longer-tenured players, such as Fremont First Minister Truman and Senator NC Yankee.)

In reference to this I can say a long term goal of mine is to get the federal wiki up to date and add a separate page where we list laws by topic to make research easier. Im almost done with a similar update for the South. A compendium (including colored maps for map fans) identifying which regions have adopted various policies could be helpful.

[Mr. Reactionary]

I actually like Comrade Crane as a poster but between Kansas and the insane gun bill im afraid Im voting Nay