Hark, hear the llamas sing!!
I’m back, running for our region’s central executive office for the fourth time, and hopefully with a little bit of a different campaign than before. A little more vision, a little more vibe-heavy. We’ll see how it goes!!!
Here’s the BLUF: We should be more party, we can be more gregarious and outgoing, and we absolutely must do some recruitment to stymie our post-Frontier numbers if we want to have more than 2 people run for office.
The Party
Where’s the party at!!! It exists in lampshade-bar on Discord, but where is it on the forums? How much of it is maintained on the RMB? Can the Assembly repeal its rule on drinking SPIT at the dais?
In short, I think we can do a better collective job at being more energetic, more varied in how we interact with each other, and a little more consistent on the forums in having some discussions and conversations on a range of topics. We used to have South Pacific University, let’s see what classes can be brought over to the new campus.
The Friends
We’ve done a lot of good events over the past term, and I appreciate the Minister of Culture, Silva, massively for cooperating in their planning and execution on sometimes very short notice. It’s amazing stuff, and I want us to keep it up, essentially. Let’s keep doing smaller events with more varied regions, including ones not traditionally aligned with us, and work the scene on establishing a bigger reputation as a fun region to just do stuff with. Party region needs party friends and we can absolutely afford hosting a few parties ourselves.
As for the rest of our foreign policy, we ought to continue the press to shift power towards Aegis, as it remains the best forum to engage on faction wide issues and concerns. We have the support of some other regions in this, as well. For getting our people involved in FA, I’d like to keep our prospects to folks who are a little more proven in their trust and confidence, such as those who have participated in the SPSF a fair bit, a history of FA-related discussions in the Assembly without foreign entanglements, or a history of SC participation without foreign entanglements, to name a few avenues.
The People
I say to all who have not yet experienced this great region, its culture, and especially its people: Where Y’At!!!
The frontier update halved our native spawns, and the region has essentially done nothing much to respond. We haven’t doing API or stamp recruitment, we didn’t keep on with SPROUT, we didn’t drastically change how we handle integration, we didn’t change our culture in welcoming folks in. No ill will is intended to anyone for this, it’s a browser game and easy to get focused on the more important details of life like living, but it’s also something we can still work towards slowly, if slow is what we can afford.
Let’s convene a discussion on establishing an API recruitment process, or continue the one on using SPROUT, so that we see it working by the end of the term. Let’s also ask better questions of our newcomers, such as “what brings you to NS” to see how best we can integrate them into all of what we do here. RP, RMB, Assembly, and more, there’s a lot here to do stuff with. Finally, let’s revive the discussion on Pathways to Engsgement to see where these changes fit in with the broader strategy and get a plan together to implement what hasn’t yet happened.
Conflict of Interest
Member, Legislator, Coral Guardian, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister of the Coalition of the South Pacific
Former Minister of Culture, Prime Minister of the South Pacific
Crown Prince of Selene