(Sorry, when wanting to make my longer post into two parts and adding something it went totally wrong at first and ended up with quoting my own post - my apologies!)
Daomei is not completely wrong though when voicing doubts.
* a number of German-speaking of players have in fact refrained from wanting to take up RP-politics, some are now less active than before and some have even withdrawn their characters from their former polticial positions completely - all of that because reading and writing English in a fast pace is too hard on them. Even the very good translation-work at the first four National Assemblies somehow did not seem enough help for them; they still feel that they cannot voice their opinions well enough and also quickly enough in English
* some German-speaking and also English-speaking players are unhappy with being the minority at National Assemblies, so their suggestions are sometimes either ignored or outvoted, but also their IC-opinions are sometimes drowned out by the numerous French-speaking representatives. Some even have the very sad impression that certain players are "ganging up" and forcing their IC-decisions on them with all kinds of methods and even tricks; like trying to provoce wars and force alliances together against the will of their "colleagues" whom they should treat as equals. If they were respecting other players, fair-play and RP-logic
* this makes National Assemblies less and less popular. Also members of the normally regular attending audience and even ambassadors feel driven away from National Assemblies...
I myself already suggested to have a national Assembly each Atys-cycle (18 RL-days). However I'd like to add a timespan for local issues as well; let's say one hour before the National Assembly will begin. If the regional Assembly should be cancelled or if there should currently be no regional matters to discuss the audience can at least attend to the National Assembly afterwards on the same day.
There could be additional extracurricular regional Assemblies whenever needed between these dates too - ideally on a day that the representatives can decide on themselves, so more of them will be able to attend. I think we should be more considerate for people's real lives, most of us are grown-ups with demanding jobs.
Still it seems that some cities do in fact have more language group events and also numerous regional matters to address. The Event Team Manager who's playing the Sage Sens did not agree to having only National Assemblies because of that. And Jen-Lai, blessed with events and having a nice number of regularly active representatives, proposed an order of one national Assembly, followed by one regional Assembly, then one national Assembly again, one regional, and so on - which has been agreed to for the time being.
Daomei is not completely wrong though when voicing doubts.
* a number of German-speaking of players have in fact refrained from wanting to take up RP-politics, some are now less active than before and some have even withdrawn their characters from their former polticial positions completely - all of that because reading and writing English in a fast pace is too hard on them. Even the very good translation-work at the first four National Assemblies somehow did not seem enough help for them; they still feel that they cannot voice their opinions well enough and also quickly enough in English
* some German-speaking and also English-speaking players are unhappy with being the minority at National Assemblies, so their suggestions are sometimes either ignored or outvoted, but also their IC-opinions are sometimes drowned out by the numerous French-speaking representatives. Some even have the very sad impression that certain players are "ganging up" and forcing their IC-decisions on them with all kinds of methods and even tricks; like trying to provoce wars and force alliances together against the will of their "colleagues" whom they should treat as equals. If they were respecting other players, fair-play and RP-logic
* this makes National Assemblies less and less popular. Also members of the normally regular attending audience and even ambassadors feel driven away from National Assemblies...
I myself already suggested to have a national Assembly each Atys-cycle (18 RL-days). However I'd like to add a timespan for local issues as well; let's say one hour before the National Assembly will begin. If the regional Assembly should be cancelled or if there should currently be no regional matters to discuss the audience can at least attend to the National Assembly afterwards on the same day.
There could be additional extracurricular regional Assemblies whenever needed between these dates too - ideally on a day that the representatives can decide on themselves, so more of them will be able to attend. I think we should be more considerate for people's real lives, most of us are grown-ups with demanding jobs.
Still it seems that some cities do in fact have more language group events and also numerous regional matters to address. The Event Team Manager who's playing the Sage Sens did not agree to having only National Assemblies because of that. And Jen-Lai, blessed with events and having a nice number of regularly active representatives, proposed an order of one national Assembly, followed by one regional Assembly, then one national Assembly again, one regional, and so on - which has been agreed to for the time being.
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