Aquinas wrote:Those answers were generally much better than what came before, Luis, so thank you for that. Still some points remaining though, which I would like to follow-up on.Luis1p wrote:3. I don't really see anything wrong with this. The player did not portray his thoughts in regards to the RP Accord while formulating the rankings the player was assigned to complete. Opting out of the RP Accord did not have an overall impact on how this player ranked nations. However, influencing rankings based on personal thoughts of the Accord will not be allowed in the rankings process.
My concern is that it will affect the credibility of the rankings/RP Accord if a key GRC member involved with drawing up the rankings is personally opposed to the RP Accord and is choosing to opt-out of it. There is also the obvious risk that a player who wants to opt-out of the RP Accord but is unable to do so (due to the views of the other players in the nation) may resent it that they are obliged to respect the RP Accord, whilst the aforesaid GRC member is not.Luis1p wrote:6. An explanation on Istalia's down ranking can be found in previous pages of the consultation thread.
There has been sufficient explanation of the economic downgrading, but not really of the military downgrading.Luis1p wrote:7. Fairly due to RP, both economically and militarily, by Vesica. Compared to other TW nations, New Alduria stood out stronger in terms of military and economics. Vesica can give you more details if you are not so convinced.
Vesica offered to provide an explanation last week, but did not respond to my request to actually do so.
Respectfully, I'm a little alarmed that, as the Third World Co-Ordinator and GRC Chair, you are not able to explain New Alduria's upranking, and when pressed to do so, you are asking Vesica to provide the explanation instead. Vesica is the player who actually controls New Alduria, which obviously means he may be perceived to have a potential conflict of interest when it comes to assessing New Alduria's rankings. This raises the question: did anybody other than Vesica assess New Alduria's positions in the rankings?
Istalia's downrank was because of its weakening economics and simply the lack of any good military RP. Military RP would be difficult with a weakening economy.
In terms of New Alduria, I had originally kept it at its previous rank and Vesica rebutted that it should be raised becuase of the role-play he initiated. After a good scan through the RP, I thought it was good enough for an uprank.