We want to consult the community on a number of proposed changes.
World Congress & Security Council
The World Congress & Security Council have been a success but it would be fair to say that the elections are becoming less than competitive. We suspect that this might be because they are held too frequently and thus losing their lustre somewhat and making it more difficult for challengers to organise campaigns.
Moderation proposes lengthening the term of each Security Council to three months (or more). Elections would be held quarterly or even less frequently.
Deletion of Treaties
This has always been a controversial topic as some players whether rightly or wrongly, use treaties as a method of storing information and valuable game lore. Moderation sympathises with them and we realise that treaties are not always treaties as they are meant to be in the legal sense. We propose to amend the relevant rules and end deletion of treaties merely because they have not been ratified. Deletion would now only be possible at the request of the creator of the treaty. Currently treaties which are over 50 IG (in-game) years old and have no ratifications or are over 200 IG years old and have fewer than 2 ratifications can be deleted without input from the creator.
Deletion of Party Organisations
We want to reform this for the same reasons as stated for treaties. Party organisations would only be deleted at the request of the player who created the organisation. Currently they can be deleted when they have no active members and are also more than 30 IG years old.
Everyone's welcome to express their views and help Moderation reach the best decision possible on each of the issues.
Edit: Just to be clear, the proposals do not extend to organisations and treaties created by inactive parties. Those ones will still be deleted. As for the party organisation proposal, we propose to reduce the current standard of "minimum of 1 active member" to just one member of any kind. We also propose scrapping the 20 org limit which currently operates in a manner where an organisation created by someone who has full membership in at least 20 orgs can be deleted.