Announcement: Global Role-Play Team & Role-Play Accord

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Announcement: Global Role-Play Team & Role-Play Accord

Postby Aquinas » Fri Jan 15, 2016 2:13 pm

For some time players have voiced their hopes for some form of role-play team to encourage role-play, and also for further development on the economic and military aspects of the game. A short while ago a draft proposal was put up for discussion.

Beginning today, we are going to pull up our sleeves, get down to work and try to make this happen.

Four of the game's most experienced players have agreed to serve on our new Global Role-Play Team. Please give a warm welcome to Kubrick, Liu Che, Polites and Zanz. Let me take this opportunity to thank them for all they've done for the game already, and for all they're going to do in the period ahead. They deserve all of our support.

The Team is going to help liven up our role-play, and will also supervise the Role-Play Accord concerning economic and military matters, which individual nations will be able to opt-in and opt-out of. The Role-Play Accord is a potentially massive project and probably a never-ending one. It will take time for a fuller picture to emerge of how it will shape up, but as of today, you can ratify it, get involved and put your ideas to the Team. Long-term, we are hoping to provide Terra with satisfying economic and military models - which would be a huge achievement, as I'm sure many of you would agree.

A word of reassurance: the players in a nation will continue to be essentially "sovereign" in terms of role-play decisions. The Team will not force role-play upon nations and players. Polites expressed it well recently when he suggested the Team should "play a similar role to the game-generated news in the World News section of the game, meaning generating RP that players in the affected nations are free to take into account, but which could also be ignored without much risk."

Similarly, whilst the Role-Play Accord does permit nations to delegate some authority over economic and military matters to the Team, nations are also free to withdraw from the Accord. Actually, if you examine the details, it is much easier to withdraw from the Accord than it is to join it.

The full details of the rules concerning the Team and the Role-Play Accord can be seen below.

19. Global Role-Play Team.

Moderation may appoint a small number of Global Role-Players, who will collectively comprise the Global Role-Play Team and whose identities will be listed on the Register of Global Role-Players & Nationmasters. Global Role-Players may not generally compel players or nations to role-play, to acknowledge a role-play or to role-play in a particular way, but they do enjoy a special licence to initiate role-play across the game world. They are to put the general interests of the game first and must not pursue any narrow, personal in-game agenda.

The Team takes collective responsibility for its decisions and operates under Moderation's overview. It automatically comes to the end of its term of office at the close of each Cultural Era, when appointments and/or reappointments will be made.

Where appropriate, the Team may delegate role-play and other tasks to players outside of the Team, but it retains overall responsibility.

The objectives of the Global Role-Play Team are:

- to be an active presence in the game community.

- to promote awareness of and adherence to the Game Rules.

- to liaise with Nationmasters, who they should generally defer to on issues directly affecting a nation the Nationmaster is attached to.

- to supervise the Role-Play Accord (see section 20).

- to lead the role-play of the former colonial territories.

- to lead the role-play of a United Nation-style in-game organisation.

- to initiate and encourage role-play, most especially international role-play and role-play on the forum.

- to encourage discussion on the General Discussion sub-forum about role-play.

- to reach out to players who are new to the game or who have not been extensively involved in role-play before.

- to coach players on the intricacies of the game and on how to improve their role-play.

- to advise Moderation of situations that need attention.

- to advise Moderation of how the rules are working and how they could be improved.

- to recommend new candidates for the Team.


20. Role-Play Accord.

Nations which ratify the Role-Play Accord place themselves under the authority of the Global Role-Play Team in terms of economic and military matters. The Team may not impose political decisions upon players, such as to declare war or raise taxes, but they may define the nation's military and economic character.

If the guidance laid down by the Team in this regard is not followed, a report may be submitted on the Role-Play Accord thread. If the report is either instigated by the Team or supported by the Team, then Moderation will make a ruling on the issue.

A nation can ratify the Role-Play Accord by passing a bill supported by a 2/3rds majority of all players with seats (not just those with seats who vote) and over 50% of the seats in the legislature. Also, at least one of the players sponsoring the ratification must have been currently continuously active in the nation (ie. no inactivations) for at least 1 month. A notification should then be made on the Role-Play Accord thread, so Moderation can update the Role-Play Accord Index.

A nation can withdraw from the Role-Play Accord by passing an appropriate motion with a simple majority of players with seats (ie. more players with seats vote for it than against it). A notification should then be made on the Role-Play Accord thread, so Moderation can update the Role-Play Accord Index.

Moderation reserves the discretion to dissolve a nation's membership of the Role-Play Accord in exceptional cases where co-operation between the Team and the nation's players has irretrievably broken down.


26. Former colonial territories.

The former colonial territories fall under the role-play control of the Global Role-Play Team. Other players can only interact with them in a manner that would not be considered godmodding if applied to interaction with a player-controlled nation.


On a final note, the requirement for nominating Nationmasters has been made a little easier, being changed from this:

...the nominee must be nominated in a bill passed unanimously by all players with seats in the nation.


To this:

...the nominee must be nominated in a bill passed by a 2/3rds majority of all players with seats (not just those with seats who vote), and no players with seats must vote against the nomination.
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Re: Announcement: Global Role-Play Team & Role-Play Accord

Postby Farsun » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:54 pm

Congratulations to the new team! I wish you guys the best of luck!
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Re: Announcement: Global Role-Play Team & Role-Play Accord

Postby matt_Sekowo » Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:59 am

I am unsure how to ratify this. Is there a treaty (I don't see one - why not actually have an in-game treaty for this - use the game mechanics!)?

Or should I just need to copy and paste the 20. Role-Play Accord bit into a bill and pass it normally?
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Re: Announcement: Global Role-Play Team & Role-Play Accord

Postby matt_Sekowo » Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:03 am

OK, I see there is a regular bill in Dorvik, so I copy/pasted that to Sekowo.

http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill. ... 4&vote=yes
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Re: Announcement: Global Role-Play Team & Role-Play Accord

Postby Aquinas » Sat Jan 16, 2016 1:27 pm

That will be fine, Matt. All the motion needs to do is make clear the intention to ratify the Role-Play Accord.
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Re: Announcement: Global Role-Play Team & Role-Play Accord

Postby Zanz » Thu May 05, 2016 5:17 pm

As of today, Colonelvesica is joining the Global RP Team. Please give him a warm welcome.

In recent months, my ability to commit time to Particracy and to the RP Team has been less and less. As such, I am announcing that as of today I am no longer an active member of the RP Team. Colonelvesica will bring energy and a new voice to the team, which I think is a very healthy thing to occur. I look forward to seeing what he does.

Thanks to everyone who was patient with me and the rest of the RP Team in my tenure - I think we did quite a bit in creating the first economic and military rankings, and in publishing a guide to Particracy RP. I'm looking forward to seeing those efforts continue, and to seeing what is next in developing this game.
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Re: Announcement: Global Role-Play Team & Role-Play Accord

Postby Aquinas » Thu May 05, 2016 8:11 pm

Thanks, Zanz, for everything you've done.

And welcome, vesica!
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