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Andusre wrote:

An idea I had a lil while ago which I asked Cerd about in #ns-pol of Thaecord was the idea of multiple "rooms" for each branch of Congress. The idea, in its very rough & unrevised form, is that the HoC & Senate regions become administrative hubs with a further 3 subregions called HoC Room 1, 2 & 3; Senate Room 1, 2, 3; whatever you want to call it.

This enables the chambers to juggle legislation - a skill which we've seen could be very very helpful, but it has its setbacks.

Namely, it would make the already difficult job of recordkeeping in Congress for the Speaker & Chairman even more difficult. It would also increase the workload on individual MPs & Senators which may be manageable but it's a risk.

I've been long opposed to this idea because I feel like it will cause us to start doing too much legislation too fast. We used to have the problem of not having enough legislation to do and many people feeling like Thaecian politics had got boring because there was no debate points anywhere. Creating more "rooms" will just amplify that problem- it has started to die down a bit now with more debate going on (still almost unanimous agreement on most things though), so I don't want to see it immediately coming back as we clean three bills at once.

Expanding the debate time won't even really help with that, it'll just delay the problem, at least in my opinion.

Islonia wrote:

Using onsite RMBs for that is a horror. Offsite forums or discord servers are much more organised and easier to use for that type of stuff.

And this I totally agree with. As ICH has somewhat raised the point (altho I think as can be seen in my last message, in a not great way, but eh) of non-Discord users being unable to see Congress debates, I feel like people that have privacy concerns over emails and IPs will not want to be using forums and such. That means MPs and Senators might not be using it which would be horrible. And we already know that sometimes we have non-Discord congresspeople.

Prussian Sail Nation once praised our region for not being too focused on off-site stuff like Discord- he said he disliked regions that were entirely on Discord. He received the highest first choice votes in one of the elections he ran in despite never having been in Discord. If we mess that up, we're throwing away beautiful opportunities like PSN was. Food for thought.

Andusre wrote:

If the rumoured talk of forums coming is to be believed, I'd be in favour of holding off on that idea. Forums would be much much better. But we need a bit more, Brototh forgive me, tranzparanzeeeeeee, from those who are planning the forums.

I don't get it, I basically publicised everything I've done for the forums in #general thus far. There's nothing being hidden from anyone here, I'm very much so open to suggestions. We want it to start off with a character and/or nation rp first and then we will look to expanding it a bit more, as we've said for the last few months pretty much.