What the hell happened.

[Vice President Christian Man]

I would personally oppose the idea of the game shutting down unless we run out of potential candidates. The game should progress down whatever path it's meant to go down.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Fundamentally people hated at the time  but it could work . Basically you’d split Atlasia up into 4-5 nations that each govern itself domestically and could conduct player to player foreign policy . Of course they would have to be uniform rules as well :

- Basic requirements to hold elections in the regions

- no war on Atlasian territory but to nations in Atlasia could go to war with each abroad

- uniform registration rules

- no loss of voting rights in a region without a conviction too


You actually would revitalize the game and see actual foreign policy skill of players too

Somewhat related I wish more Atlasia players would learn and play Diplomacy. It's a great FP simulation that requires a little bit of practice early on (and time and level of interest/dedication - but that's expected for all this stuff) but it involves far more political strategy than what Atlasia normally has, which is more personality-based.

[Former President tack50]

I have not paid attention in a looong time and did not even vote (I forgot) but if there is a commited group of players I don't think the game needs to be shut down

I do not know about the bare minimum amount of players, but I'd say it is probably around 10 or so active players to staff all mandatory roles?

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I have not paid attention in a looong time and did not even vote (I forgot) but if there is a commited group of players I don't think the game needs to be shut down

I do not know about the bare minimum amount of players, but I'd say it is probably around 10 or so active players to staff all mandatory roles?

Assuming no Constitutional Amendment:

Game Moderator (3)
President
Vice President
Attorney General-Secretary of Internal Affairs (combined role)
Secretary of State
SoFE/RG (combined role)
Supreme Court (5)
Senators (18)
Lincoln Governor
LGC (3)
Fremont FM
Fremont Parliament (3)
Southern Prince
Southern Vice Prince

41. You could of course have some dual officeholders, shrink the Senate and/or SCOA and/or abolish the regions but this is the current base structure.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

This is what happens when the Will of The People is ignored for so long. They back their bags and go home!

[Mr. Reactionary]

This is what happens when the Will of The People is ignored for so long. They back their bags and go home!

This game structure is designed to ignore the will of the people. A constitutional amendment was "adopted" recently despite 2/3 of the popular vote at referendum voting no. Proposed amendments to fix this anti-democratic process were killed by the do nothing left because they said it wasnt a problem. They recently passed another constitutional amendment that only got half as many total popular votes (7) at referendum as the number of elected Senators who voted to send the amendment to referendum in the first place. They used this broken, anti-democratic process to dictatorally target the only active Region in the game to effectively kill its productivity.

They routinely run candidates who decline to take office so that party bosses can make undemocratic appointments for a full term without the appointee receiving a single popular vote. Again, proposed amendments to fix this anti-democratic process were killed multiple times by the do nothing left because they said it wasnt a problem. Then when the only region to have a true direct democracy overwhelmingly passes laws by popular vote, the do nothing left whines, and sues, and writes dumb stories no one reads or cares about claiming the NPCs are rioting over laws that 70% of the actual voting electorate supports and voted for.

Suing does nothing however because 40% of the Supreme Court is vacant and there is a backlog of 15 or so cases pending from 2023 still. Once again, proposed amendments to fix this problem were killed by the do nothing left because they said it wasnt a problem.

About the only thing the do nothing left has done in 15 months was expel 3 conservative senators in bad faith at the same time for blatantly partisan reasons and immediately pass (with less than a majority) a pro abortion law that deviates from a decade and a half of Atlasian precedent. Oh wait, they also passed a law reducing the punishment for literal rape and allowing BDSM weirdos to claim their degenerate fetish allows them to commit crimes.

Not surprising most people have packed up and left.