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New tai pei wrote:

New Tai Pei is Tai Pei with dual personality disorder.

Interesting thought. Sometimes people create 'altar ego' nations on NS, I have before. Right now, the closest I have to it is Prussian Sail Nation, which is the idea of a militaristic vassal.

Also, thanks The black snake with green eyes for the Stamps. I think I might give the TG template a once-over first to make sure it is all good for it, so what I am going to do is post a dispatch with the recruitment TG in it so that everyone can have a look at it and give suggestions for improvements.

Pinges: Devionsa, Seven Seas, Tiddles the cat, Totalitarian superstate, East Dralaxy Fre. I have pinged mainly main nations.

The black snake with green eyes wrote:

Alter ego nations? Interesting...

You're welcome for the stamps. The recruitment TG looks great, I look forward to seeing it in action.

Anyway Sail, how about we get some nations from Thaecia and other democratic regions? From what I've seen of Thaecians, they're competent, and could be useful in governing Celtia.

I might give Thaecia a go, but I'll be careful to not act like I'm recruiting. I'll probably do the same as what I did when Lorania was losing nations, that is posting saying that it might be worthwhile for some nations to send a puppet to the region to either help out or just to get the numbers up.

I'll start sending the TGs tomorrow or the day after.

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The black snake with green eyes wrote:

Sailiopia

As Regional Judge, I have to declare that our current recruitment TG is illegal, as has not gone through the legislative process. I officially call a referendum on whether Celtia accepts it or not.

OK then.

Do you immediately take office if there is no competition in an election, or do you wait until the time when you would have been elected, presuming that you would have won the election?

Question of the day:

If you could go anywhere in the world (after Covid, with no travel costs/time or implications on environment etc.), where would you go?

I think I'd go to Canada - looks like a better, more picturesque version of the USA (from my perspective as someone from the UK). However, as a sailor, I'd probably prefer to sail a fast sailing boat on a trip somewhere (even though I usually sail much smaller boats).

Harkagrad wrote:

I hereby declare my candidacy for the Druidic Council.
North Wales.
You’re a sailor IRL?

North wales is great. Quiet beaches, castles and sheep.

Sailing is a hobby for me - I sail little dinghies on lakes, which I do find fun and relaxing. Obviously haven't done much sailing during Covid and lockdown, but I was able to do a bit in the summer last year while Covid cases were low. The name 'Sail Nation' came from sailing (even though I don't like that name anymore and prefer Sailiopia). Does anyone else find it difficult when you're creating a username (or nation name, in the case of NS), and you can't quite find the right name, so you end up making a bit of a weird name?

A funny thing is back at the start of Lorania, we had 3 boat-related nations - me, Seas and Saint Sully (who had a Viking-style flag). There was even a suggestion of creating a political party between us three, however that never happened, and I don't feel like it's the right place to explain here why it wouldn't have been.

eh, I'm here and will be running for said druidic council shenanigans.

Sailiopia wrote:

Just checked up on recruitment statistics and it shows something about the hardness of recruitment. Only 7% of nations that get a recruitment TG actually read it. Whether it is disinterest in the game or simply being overwhelmed by telegrams, it does make recruitment hard.

That is troubling, as it seems the only solution to that is to send more TGs. I've just bought another 8,000 for you, since 2,000 TGs managed to get us 3 more recruits. Sending 8,000 should get us around 4 times that number.

Sailiopia wrote:

But we're slowly getting more nations, which is great in padding out the region. The more nations we have, the more likely nations will see us and join because we look more active. I'm still not an advocate of only focusing on regional growth, but it is relatively important.

Having more nations has it's pros and cons. On one hand, more nations gives other regions the impression that we're a bigger region that what we are, which will earn us good friends and more nations. But on the other hand, it can fill regions with dead weight, often outnumbering the active members of a region. At the moment however, Celtia is small and needs friends, which forces us to recruit indiscriminately. We did mention recruiting players who are fed up with their current region, but the difficulty is finding them, and apparently it's considered poaching (according to Excal).

Sailiopia wrote:

And I am going to start some focus on embassies, as that is usually helpful. I will look for relatively small regions with 10-50 nations in them, and ask for embassies. I will not create embassies with any region that is fascist, communist or of another hateful ideology.

Good, we are going to need embassies, if we want others to know about us. As a region, having friends is very important, as it increases awareness of regions, which could attract valuable players. Also, it can do various other positives such as, help defending delegacies etc. We should also pursue some kind of friendship with Lorania, even if it's not embassies. I also recommend we propose the construction of embassies with the Union of Democrats and Old Zealand, both democratic and around the same population as us.

I'd like to declare my candidacy for the Druidic Council.