06-01-2022, 10:38 AM
I really enjoyed my term as Minister of Culture, though it was only one and a half month long since I got the position after the resignation of Eshialand. I have worked on all my campaign plans, though I simply have not had enough time to complete them all. That is why I would like to continue into a new term. Take a look at the needed information below.
About Myself
Conflict of Interest
I have joined NationStates in 12th of April 2021 with my first nation, Murelia, which was founded in the South Pacific. After that, I have never on purpose left the region. Currently, I have three spare puppets: Mechelen, Cambaluc and Drenthe. I also have five defender puppets, SPSF Murelia 1-5.
Current positions in the government:
Minister of Culture
Legislator
MoC Senior Staff
SPSF Tsunami Force
MoE Staff
MoFA Ambassador
MoM Staff
OWL Staff
Past positions in the government:
Local Councillor
W&R Bureau Administrator
Accomplishments in MoC
I have been in MoC for 10 months, in that time helping in two interregional events. I started running Theme Thursday shortly before I became Minister of Culture in a special election. In that term, I have done quite a lot. Unfortunately not everyone sees the things that I do since most things are shared in cabinet updates, but I have done my best to accomplish more than previous ministers in my short term. Take a look at the things that I have done.
State of Previous Campaign Plans
Springfest: Ongoing
Community Chosen Event: Ongoing
Time Zone Variation: Finished
TSPRP Announcements: Ongoing
Games and Events Channel: Cancelled
Sharing the Culture Calendar: Ongoing
Double Notifications: Finished
Other Achievements in Previous Term
More Senior Staff: Finished
Balder-TSP Event: Finished
'Event' Function: Finished
Monthly Prize: Finished
Roleplay Region Project: Ongoing
TNP-TSP Event: Ongoing
Pride Month Festival: Ongoing
Plans
TSP Summerfest
Interregional events are my favorite part of MoC, so I will be introducing a new interregional event: the TSP Summerfest. Some of you might remember this event, as well as Autumnfest and Winterfest. The creator of this event series, , proposed to do these events again when returning to NationStates. I asked if I could work these events out further in my campaign, and I received agreement. Although hosting a major event like this might seem ambitious, I believe that with the help of my experienced Senior Staff and the Minister of Foreign Affairs it is possible to set up a fun interregional event with summer-themed games for people from all allied regions.
Community Chosen Event
I think a lot of staff members want to help in setting up an event but don't know how, so that is why I came up with the Community Chosen Event. MoC staff may suggest event themes in a period of three days. After that, I will make a poll which will be shared to both gameside and forumside so all people can vote. The theme with the most votes will become an actual regional event, with games relating to the theme.
Other Games and Events
Since the current games are not that popular, I have decided to replace Cards Against NationStates Friday and Gartic Phone Friday with two new games which will be voted on by citizens. The other activities, Skribbl.io Tuesday, Tetr.io Wednesday, Theme Thursday and Trivia Sunday will stay if I get re-elected. I will do my best to make sure that they will all continue. Suggestions for other games are always welcome.
Roleplay Community Contribution
Roleplayers will engage more with MoC by helping with events and participating in them. I believe we need more of them in MoC, since roleplayers often have ideas for events that people who do not roleplay do not have. Many roleplayers are not in the regular TSP Discord server but are in the TSPRP Discord server. They are still a part of TSP though, so it would make sense to announce regional and interregional events in their server. We already used to this, but for some reason we stopped doing that since a year.
Forum Games and Supervisors
New forum games run by MoC will be supervised by Forum Activity Supervisors. suggested to make more forum games after the previous election, but my main campaign plans got priority so I have not been able to do this. We do not utilize the forums enough, especially since there will be new forums soon with many new functions. I would also like to make some interested people Forum Activity Supervisors. Each Forum Activity Supervisor will be responisble for resolving issues in a couple of long term games and can help in forum activities for events.
Closing remarks
Thank you for reading my campaign. Please ask questions if you have them. I hope to see you vote, whether it would be for me or for another candidate.
About Myself
Conflict of Interest
I have joined NationStates in 12th of April 2021 with my first nation, Murelia, which was founded in the South Pacific. After that, I have never on purpose left the region. Currently, I have three spare puppets: Mechelen, Cambaluc and Drenthe. I also have five defender puppets, SPSF Murelia 1-5.
Current positions in the government:
Minister of Culture
Legislator
MoC Senior Staff
SPSF Tsunami Force
MoE Staff
MoFA Ambassador
MoM Staff
OWL Staff
Past positions in the government:
Local Councillor
W&R Bureau Administrator
Accomplishments in MoC
I have been in MoC for 10 months, in that time helping in two interregional events. I started running Theme Thursday shortly before I became Minister of Culture in a special election. In that term, I have done quite a lot. Unfortunately not everyone sees the things that I do since most things are shared in cabinet updates, but I have done my best to accomplish more than previous ministers in my short term. Take a look at the things that I have done.
State of Previous Campaign Plans
Springfest: Ongoing
Unfortunately, when I became minister I found out that there were two events already in planning. These events got priority, so I have not been able to do Springfest. I would like to do Springfest this term instead. Since spring is ending soon, I have given it a new name and theme: Summerfest. You can see this plan in the 'plans' section.
For the same reason as Springfest, this event had to be cancelled. I would still like to do it if elected: see my 'plans' section for more information.
I have changed hosting times a bit, though unfortunately most times could not be changed. I hope to find a host for a vacant game with a better host time if re-elected.
There have not been any changes yet for me to share event announcements, but I will make sure to do this with the next planned events when re-elected.
Making a Games and Events channel turned out to be complicated and unnecessary, so it is cancelled.
Due to some internal discussions, this has not been done yet. If re-elected, I will solve these discussions.
Although this rule is being forgotten now and then, usually notifications are being given beforehand and I believe that this helps to increase awareness of activity times.
Other Achievements in Previous Term
More Senior Staff: Finished
I have added previous Minister of Culture , RP Specialist and hard-working staffer as Senior Staff. They are useful in helping me with my plans and it shows that not only game hosts have to be Senior Staff.
We have done a quite succesful event with Balder, which included a meme contest and a game of UNO and Cityguesser.
Discord has a function where you can create events. The makers of these events can show information about for example the host times and others can click a button to show that they are interested. This is very useful, so I have asked hosts to make these.
To make things more interesting, I have decided that the winner of the most games in a month will receive a trading card prize. I am working together with MoE to make sure there is one available every month.
Recently I have started to work with the LC and to make a new RP region with a canon similar to Pacifica. We have done a contest to decide the name and are now going to work on dispatches and maps.
Besides the Balder-TSP event, this event was planned before my term. We are making a lot of progress on it. We have some fun activities planned, though I will not reveal anything yet.
Some planning has started on making a festival to celebrate Pride Month. This is important, since many people in this region are LGBTQ+. I hope to finish this festival during the election period or shortly after.
TSP Summerfest
Interregional events are my favorite part of MoC, so I will be introducing a new interregional event: the TSP Summerfest. Some of you might remember this event, as well as Autumnfest and Winterfest. The creator of this event series,
Community Chosen Event
I think a lot of staff members want to help in setting up an event but don't know how, so that is why I came up with the Community Chosen Event. MoC staff may suggest event themes in a period of three days. After that, I will make a poll which will be shared to both gameside and forumside so all people can vote. The theme with the most votes will become an actual regional event, with games relating to the theme.
Other Games and Events
Since the current games are not that popular, I have decided to replace Cards Against NationStates Friday and Gartic Phone Friday with two new games which will be voted on by citizens. The other activities, Skribbl.io Tuesday, Tetr.io Wednesday, Theme Thursday and Trivia Sunday will stay if I get re-elected. I will do my best to make sure that they will all continue. Suggestions for other games are always welcome.
Roleplay Community Contribution
Roleplayers will engage more with MoC by helping with events and participating in them. I believe we need more of them in MoC, since roleplayers often have ideas for events that people who do not roleplay do not have. Many roleplayers are not in the regular TSP Discord server but are in the TSPRP Discord server. They are still a part of TSP though, so it would make sense to announce regional and interregional events in their server. We already used to this, but for some reason we stopped doing that since a year.
Forum Games and Supervisors
New forum games run by MoC will be supervised by Forum Activity Supervisors.
Closing remarks
Thank you for reading my campaign. Please ask questions if you have them. I hope to see you vote, whether it would be for me or for another candidate.