BlueGold10 wrote:Also there's the fact that Barmenia is supposed to be a medium power and they have a Navy that could probably beat the USN...but I don't think Barmenia signed the RP Accords, so that might not be binding.
Numbers alone are not what I'm really concerned with, but you're correct that for nations which have not ratified the RP Accord the rankings are not binding - merely suggestions.
The RP Accord BlueGold is referring to is actually something different - see here and the link to the rules therein. The RP Accord is not tied directly to this conflict, but Barmenia hasn't yet ratified it. I suggest you consider doing so The bill you've linked was necessary for involvement in this RP specifically - and I've now linked it on the OP of this thread. Thanks!
Oakwood wrote:And Iran is a medium power in comparison to the U.S.; nonetheless in terms of quantity it has far more than I've even listed. All I've done IG is modernize them. They're building more as we speak, actually. However it is a moot point as I have edited the post to refocus the nations efforts back on Pontesi.
A couple of things - there is no "in comparison to the US" in Particracy. Medium powers in PT terms are described here. You're right, however, that it's entirely possible that a medium power in PT might have a larger navy, for instance, in sheer numeric terms, than a regional power might. It's the RP Team's opinion that numbers alone don't make RP. Good RP occurs when a nation and its players recognize the limitations of their own nation. Deltaria, for instance, has a ton of tanks - more than Vanuku in sheer number, but of poorer quality, and Vanuku recently ran the Jelbanians and Deltarians into the ground by feigning weakness and by technological prowess. ANYWAY, I appreciate you editing the post. I don't have much comment on the new post, and really didn't have much to say on the old one other than that "Pontesi has lost" doesn't leave much room for SelCru et. al. in Pontesi to have much fun! This is probably better.
ANYWAY, re: the World Congress...
Some of the issues I think that previous incarnations of things like this have been plagued by are 1) an inability to handle PT's fast moving timeline - organizations would set up elections of leadership every IG 5 years and crumble because who cares that much?! 2) a lack of understanding on the part of everyone of what such an organization could do.
I think to handle the first issue we should abandon the game's timeframe entirely. We can fluid time RP this stuff. I think elections of leadership either shouldn't happen at all (e.g. just use rotating leadership) or should happen maybe once monthly IRL. Since the RP Team was given sort of free reign to handle this organization by the rules, I think the most realistic setup would be to have the IC leadership rotate once every so often and, OOC, have members of the RP Team RP on behalf of whoever's the leadership when it's necessary. So say it's 4040 and Hutori is set to lead the WC... Kubrick (or any of us) could RP the Hutorian WC Director when the need arose. That way we're sure we'll have the active leadership that might be necessary, and we aren't preoccupied with elections and inactivity.
The second issue is a bit more nebulous. It's difficult to get even national legislation passed in PT, and supranational will surely be the source of some contention, particularly for players who for OOC reasons oppose supranationalism and who might not understand OOCly that we're trying to do this for fun. An interesting (but undeveloped) thought I had would be for the WC's resolutions to be handled similar to how NationState's World Assembly does this - someone could write up a treaty, we could debate it, vote on it as the WC, and then bring it to our nations to get it ratified there. If nations don't ratify, the rest of the WC would put pressure on them (by sanctions or whatever outlined in the bill) and the RP Team could take these sanctions, etc., into account when we do our rankings (e.g. if someone has been embargoed by WC nations for years because of failure to comply with resolutions, we would likely see that economy suffer)...
Just some preliminary thoughts. Any suggestions?