This place could sustain the number of offices it currently holds if it actually offered something interesting. Right now it's a glorified circle jerk that only welcomes the same tired wankers. The game is not accessible to new players because it has drifted so far from reality that it's not even worth playing. Add onto that the fact that we've already tackled the big issues, and it's no surprise people have lost interest.
We do not need to lower the bar. We need to cast it aside and use a completely new bar. Atlasia? What's that? We need a new country, a new system of government, a new process for electing officeholders, and a blank slate. Period. Consolidation will not solve anything. Because in two years we wouldn't have enough players for three-region Atlasia, either.
Drastic change.
Griffin won. And look where we are because of it.
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You're so full of sh**t. First of all, way to blame it on me: everybody remembers you doing all of the same things I once did but failing miserably at them. I suppose that failure gives you a clean conscience and the ability to forget about how you were every much a machine politician and powerplayer at one point as I once was too. Your hands aren't clean: you were literally the number one element of obstruction to changing this game at several points over the past two years because "muh regions" and "muh federalism".
Not even two months ago - in the midst of this trend that has been present for months, no less - you were still harping about how nothing was wrong with the game, the regions were fine, status quo blah blah blah. You can pretend that your qualm was against the changes to the game that I wanted to bring for over two years now, but the truth of the matter is that you've never put forward any substantive idea to reform or alter the game yourself because you never believed in changing the game. Do I really have to go dig up dozens of quotes from you over time to show that this has been your consistent position for years?
As the Chairman of what was throughout many points of 2013-2014 the largest political party in the game, you had the ability to champion reform - you chose not to, and that says all that needs to be said. Your track record of opposition wasn't one of "this doesn't go far enough to fix the game"; it's always been one of "nothing is wrong, keep everything the way it is, and stop trying to fix what isn't broken". Now all of a sudden, you're speaking as if you've been a messenger for change this whole time. Hilarious. Way to blame it all on me, too - the one person who has actually consistently pushed for new and tangible reforms to both the regions and the game that don't involve scraping the bustbin of history for solutions. None of them were ever accomplished because of you. If you do end up de-registering and decide to come back at some point, maybe try not being so bitter and resistant to everything new.
Consolidation is lowering the bar. A new country with completely new governmental bodies and electoral methods is finding a new bar. That includes a complete reset: throwing everything away and starting from scratch. Everything.
That was on no one's radar when I was chairman. I proposed no new ideas because I didn't have any. I still don't. But something does need to be done. You can put words in my mouth, but I haven't been against every single reform we've seen. I supported a district system. I supported Marokai's move to bring Canada into the fold. I support things that make sense. Once again, for the millionth time, lowering the number of elected offices in the game is a quick fix that will not change any of the institutional problems with Atlasia.
As for my motives as chairman, I wanted a Federalist to be elected president. I failed. I failed at lots. But my intent was never to take over the game and beat it into being an extremist state. That has happened. But I am wrong to blame it all on you. Your work would have been for naught (and basically was) without the real heavy lifters you occasionally found in people like TNF.
Anyway, cheers. Beat it into the ground for all I care, folks.
