colonelvesica wrote:while the Month Long RP will have a big impact on my finalization of the rankings it is NOT the only thing I will be basing my final decision on. While forum RP will be King, espceially over the course of the next month, I will be taking other things into account. RP executed over the last five months for example will help influence how strong nations are going into this recession.
Thanks for your helpful response before Vesica, and apologies for not acknowledging it earlier, and apologies also for again being the guy-asking-the-awkward-questions, but...
Well, so yesterday I
did a RP post about a Trigunian economist urging the "Big Five" economic powers (Hutori, Indrala, Kalistan, Trigunia and Vanuku) to bail out the world's economy.
But thinking about this again now...do I actually know that
right now the RP Team considers those to be the big economic powers? I ask this because the previous rankings update was done about 5 months ago, and you've indicated you will make an assessment of nation's pre-recession RP positions and post-recession RP positions.
Given the huge global recession RP that is going on now, I do think it is important we should all be clear who the big economic powers are, because these nations are crucial in terms of the world economy. To quote from the description for the "Very Strong" category in the
current rankings guide, "changes within the economies of these nations can end up having a marked impact on Terra as a whole".
In retrospect, given how significant the current economic RP is, and given you told us there will be a "huge shake up" in the rankings, I wonder whether it might have been better to have done one rankings update immediately before the RP began, and then another one afterwards. ie. For example, if the RP Team considers the assumptions I made in my news post about the "Big Five" to be mistaken, then obviously it would be better I know that now rather than next month.
Naturally, I appreciate it may be impractical/unreasonable to expect the RP Team to immediately produce a full rankings update, but given the RP we are embarking on, I do think it would be helpful if we could at least be given some pointers. In particular, I hope you would consider whether you could give us the following:
- At the
present time, does the RP Team still consider the strongest economic powerhouses to be Hutori, Indrala, Kalistan, Trigunia and Vanuku, as per the current rankings guide?
- At the
present time, does the RP Team consider that any of the nations have radically changed in ranking since the last rankings update? By this, I mean changed by more than 1 rank. If so, I think it would be helpful to know this now rather than next month.