Why are you running?
What are your intentions for the cabinet (also where is your campaign at)
What is your actual platform as PM?
I just came back from breakfast.
ahem
So hello to all my TSP friends, I am Name 0. I am here to run for Prime Minister to make TSP better through my plans for the cabinet if ever I win Prime Minister. I was actually nominated by Utopia last PM election (where Heliseum won) but declined, but now is the opportunity for me to run. So let us start.
CULTURE, GAMESIDE AND INTEGRATION
Why would I start with those two at the same time? It is because in my opinion, it is an amazing idea to make those two ministries collaborate, cooperate and integrate. For Culture, the ideas of contests such as banner contests, culinary contests, and poetry contests are great. It’s the same with pollmaster, TSSG, SwanVision and roleplay activities. For Integration, it’s a great idea that we recruit people to join our wonderful community, but there’s a problem in both ministries.
People tend to CTE after they are founded 28 days later. It’s either because they think the game is boring or they forgot about it. Many active RMBers aren’t also active on Discord, and not all TSPers have the chance to check out the TSP forums either because they are underage or they just don’t want to.
Here are my plans for those ministries:
Plans
- Welcoming Messages both on Telegrams and NS RMB + Bot
We need a new welcoming message to not only welcome them to show our NS activities like contests and Knowhere, but to encourage them to participate to show their creativity and imagination. We should also add more info on forum activities and discord activities so that they can also experience more stuff like Military and Roleplay and to know more about us in the Forums and Discord.
I suggest creating a bot named Coconut Bot, based off our Discord bot to also in NationStates to welcome people every 1 hour.
- More RP opportunities in NationStates
Have you guys realized we have 3 different RPs in TSP Forums, one modern, one for the future, and one for the medieval fantasies. How about we also do the same in NS? We only have one modern-era RP in the NS RMB named Knowhere. I suggest adding 2 new RPs named “Universalis” for the futuristic space lovers, and “Charlemagne”, named after the King of the Franks, to symbolize the medieval era.
- Fix delays in TSSG and RMB Awards
Have you realized we had a big delay in TSSG? It’s not good right, especially if we are in the middle of a different month. I suggest recruiting more people working in certain ministries, encouraging them to help out in TSSG. Same thing goes for RMB Awards, to recruit people to help in the list.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- Strengthening Foreign Relations through Fun
We have lots of embassies for TSP. What I mean in strengthening foreign relations through fun is that we should not only share about TSSG, and our recent news, but we can also share our polls IF ALLOWED to hear people’s opinions based off our polls. This is the same thing I did as RMB Mayor, make polls mostly for all nations but there were times it was only for TSP. Even though I want all NSers to join, there should be a limit for people to join so our respective ministries won’t have a hard time.
WORLD ASSEMBLY AFFAIRS (OWL)
I love the idea on how in TSP Discord, we got “WA Update” pings for people to vote for the Delegate so that the Delegate can vote in the WA Assembly GAs or SCs itself, so in my opinion, this is already perfect enough, I don’t think there should be a change.
DEFENSE
Lastly, Defense. What I have experienced in R/D is that there are two updates, Major and Minor. The problem is that based off my experiences, it is not equally scheduled, like most goes to the minor, but less focused on the major due to more nations being active. Here’s my plan:
- Make two branches of military for the SPSF
The two branches I propose will be named “Major Military” and “Minor Military”, for each update. People will choose when they can be available so they can get the chance to practice R/D if they have time so they can gain experience in the future participating in military-based events.
Conflict of Interest
2-time RMB Mayor of the South Pacific
Legislator, Citizen and Member of the South Pacific
Ambassador of TSP to Balder
Ambassador of Forest to TSP
Others
Former MoFA of a small region named Persatuan Negara Sosialis Kapitalis
Part of Internal Affairs and Military in NPO
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Now I get people would not vote for me due to my former affiliation with NPO, but I assure you, I do not affiliate myself with that region anymore nor communicate with them. I am a proud TSPer.
how would you say the minor and major militaries differ from the tidal and tsunami forces?
I am not in the military so I don’t really know about the SPSF that much. However, based off my knowledge in r/d, there’s two kinds of updates that happen every 12 hours. Major update happens when I am normally awake in which I participated very few times. Minor update happens when I sleep.
I’m from the Philippines so basically it happens like at 12PM estimate in Major Update and 12AM estimate in Minor Update the last time I did military stuff
What’s the point of this? Many people (including me) already don’t participate in one of the updates and are still advancing in the SPSF.
A1-0 and Aurora are already canons specific for that purpose, so this is not needed. As a TSPRPer myself, I’d also like the cabinet not having any control of the roleplay community.
- I thought of this because what I experienced was that not all people have the chance to join in training due to their sleep schedules.
- What if the RPer is underage and can’t join the TSP forums? And I do not look forward to controlling the RP, I just want to help people give more opportunities to join RP.
Training falls generally into a two categories:
- When there’s a new recruit or someone asks specifically for training we schedule that at a time that works for them and whoever is training them.
- When nothing is happening in Libcord during an update sometimes someone will run training. This is spontaneous and not scheduled for any particular time.
Splitting the Tsunami Force between major and minor only serves to create bureaucracy and limit members who attend both. Any SPSF member can attend any update they want (their schedule permitting), and training is dependent not on which update but the schedules of the officers and the trainee. We can train people at both updates, so splitting them has no bearing on training. Scheduled training will never be affected because that’s already held at the time the member needs, and spontaneous training happens when it happens. It’s spontaneous.
Good Phil’s Good Questions | PM Special Elections
I. Outside of what you’ve said in your campaign, what do you think makes TSP’s government stable? What features of stability can we expect to see under your Premiership?
II. What are your thoughts on Foreign Affairs outside of Polls? Where is TSP failing, and where and how can it improve?
III. You have said often that you are quite popular with the Gamesiders. Would you continue to advocate for more interactions and enculturation of our RMBers even if you lose? Would you be willing to do so under one of your current competitors as a Minister? Why or why not?
IV. What kind of discussion space should TSP cultivate offsite? Should we encourage discussions of the Issues we solved today, or our nation’s stats? How do you think that will help, or won’t help…
That said, all the best for your election!
Under age users can join the forums though?
Just in case you didn’t get it, people below 13. I think they aren’t allowed here, I don’t know.
I. Outside of what you’ve said in your campaign, what do you think makes TSP’s government stable? What features of stability can we expect to see under your Premiership?
Answer: What makes it stable is that even though there were recent problems such as the recall of Griff in CitComm during Utopia’s PM term, his cabinet were in my opinion, amazing. I will try my best to make our government stable by making my cabinet perfect and suitable for our TSPers to make TSP amazing and fun.
- What are your thoughts on Foreign Affairs outside of Polls? Where is TSP failing, and where and how can it improve?
Answer: The foreign affairs in my own words is a important ministry as its in charge of maintaining relationships with other regions. Based on my experience, we recently had a brief problem with TPOP and TSP as a lot of RMBers were being suppressed there for complaining about Legion’s ban and as a result, a certain someone wanted to “abort the embassy” with TPOP… I can fix this by always reminding people to behave by adding certain rules about it in the Community Standards if ever they aren’t seen.
- You have said often that you are quite popular with the Gamesiders. Would you continue to advocate for more interactions and enculturation of our RMBers even if you lose? Would you be willing to do so under one of your current competitors as a Minister? Why or why not?
Answer: Yes, I would advocate for more contests and more fun. We should have newly themed contests aside from culinary, and more. This can show more creativity and more fun.
- What kind of discussion space should TSP cultivate offsite? Should we encourage discussions of the Issues we solved today, or our nation’s stats? How do you think that will help, or won’t help…
Answer: In my own words, I think that would help make the TSP forums active because people would have more topics to talk about in the lampshade bar.
There was no mention of me saying they have to choose one only, so they are encouraged to join both if they wish to.
To my knowledge, there’s no TSP prohibition against young members on the Forums. That is against discord ToS, but discord membership is not required whatsoever for forum roleplay.
https://thesouthpacific.org/tos#heading--permission
It’s against our ToS for our regional forums, you have to be at least 13.
Which region or organisation is the toughest one for us to deal with diplomatically?
Many TSPer government officials consider NPO as one because they say they are not that amazing at alliances due to incompetence.