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I didn't suggest this as your goal. I do state this as the most likely consequence - IG as well as OOC.


Well, probably. I can't remember, though, a single local assembly in Davae animated by more than the presence of Libi Freldo in the Speaker's chair.

Personally, I think that the idea to trim down the frequency of regional vs. national assemblies to some extent is not bad. It may depend on the situation of the nation in question whether this means 1:1 at once or not.

In the desert, I would consider any trimming down unacceptable before and unless the function of the missing Akenos has been restored through by-election and/or nomination of provisional Akenos for the missing ones. The voting rights of the cities must not be infringed, that is not only true for Dyron, but also for Hoi-Cho, Windermeer, and Davae (I cannot speak for the english speaking community, and find the total lack of their presence in this debate lamentable).

The french friends should please reflect that this initiative, nearly unanimously approved by their community as far as expressed in the french forum, may have risen new concern and suspicion rather than contributing to strengthening the ties. In Germany there is a proverb "let's go fishing, the angler said to the worm" ;).

You know, if you want to have more akenos/awakened/vassal/taliar, you just have to ask the conditions to the event mnager present ? They often aren't really hard to get, and the event manager won't probably refuse one people (because we aren't a lot, at the time), except if it is clearly troll/too much OOC.

How about we let each community choose its own pace? If French trykers want 3 local assemblies and it still seems too few, host 3. If English Fyros don't really have much to say, host 1-2 between national ones. I'm sure the event team would not mind.

Yes, they must be a function of the people's involvment, if the akenos stopped caring that's for a good reason, and if people aren't scrambling to take their place is for an equally good reason. Fix the people's desire to RP before you attempt to build politics on top of a shaky foundation.

Regardless it seems to be a little late I want to explain my very personal point of view to you.

On Leanon I've been the first ambassador of the Trykers and I did this job with great fun until the servers merged.

Now I will never have a chance to even play a small role in international politics because my English is poor so it’s easy to be misunderstood and that could be deadly in diplomacy. Also I can't react in discussions in time because until I understand the first argument the discussion stepped forward for five or six new statements – even with translation.

My only chance to be activ in a political way are the regional assemblies. So I'm looking forward to the new Tryker constituntion to install a local law for Windermeer where I can act as a citiy council or maybe even as something like a mayor. For national and international things I’ll have my Chanchey.

With an official mandate of my city I'm able to speak in another way to regional (German) assemblies than a mother, a jewelist or a member of The Free Soul. At the moment I have to follow the assemblies silently.

I have two projects for Windermeer in my mind and maybe there are some more ideas. At least one of them may breathe new life into the German assemblies and may be discussed in others.

So I need the regional assemblies for my personal roleplay.

But I’m only one player of I don’t know how much.

I vote other.

When I created NASA (ASA before the second swarm), one of the research topics that were launched by two old atysien fellows was:
"how can we make meetings more dynamic, shorter and less tedious among other with reports? "

When we got to get together after the second swarm with our new friends from other languages, we have taken as much as possible this research both for RP and OOC.
Very spontaneously - and in my humble opinion, with some success - , we were able to manage trilingual discussions with some very talented and very patient friends. With a few jugs of Tryker beer and a bit of Zoraï wisdom there was not only possible but also very funny.

The problem is not, according to me, the problem of translation. Everyone speaks in NASA meetings in his language and translators transcribe. I think the problem is the length of the meetings ... and we are trying to reproduce the default OOC "réunionites" (a French pejorative word made with "meeting-nitis") :/ There are too many points discussed as if we were afraid to miss one idea, while the majority of the points in the meeting does not interest everybody. How many people come only for "their" favorite topics and not the rest. It is not disinterest, but because the days have only 24 hours, one has to chose priorities.

At NASA, we study also how to improve the meeting itself. Sometimes we shamble OOC and RP (how often, how to manage priorities, events, game ...?). We do not have a miracle solution, but against all, those who are interested do not hesitate to participate and to enrich the NASA experience (I repeat that it is both OOC and RP) or just come and see how we are living our meetings. (Marauders are also welcome évidement ;))