(01-15-2016, 11:36 PM)Tsunamy Wrote: But we still need to give people starting positions. Where not going to randomly pull someone from a pool of 5000 nations and be like "Here! Be the minister of Minister of Whatever!" So, I think to say that we'll be better positioned to bring players in is a bit misleading. The delegate will be better positioned to put them where s/he wants them (and dismiss them if s/he wants).

This is just taking the game too seriously. Yes, experience has its value. But it's not like anything any of us do here is all that difficult. So yeah, we can pick complete newcomers and give them head roles in government. Plenty of regions do that!

What I'm seeing in our election for MoFA right now is what we've seen for years here. We're probably going to elect a long-time player from Europeia, who's been gone from TSP for the last 6 months and was never all that active before then, because he has "experience." Instead, what we could be doing is approaching one our new citizens and giving them the job. It's not that radical of an idea, really.

But the way this region elects people is exactly what's wrong with us. We cry all the time about how we need to get new players involved. But then we lock away the actually consequential positions from them. We force them through loops in deputy positions, and the Fellowship Program, where they have to wait months and months and months until we decide they have enough "experience." Feirmont on Discord last night was saying how the stress of the MoFA job would burn players out, and we would be doing a disservice to letting a new player have the position. I think our current system of gaining enough "experience" to be elected is a far bigger disincentive.

Allowing the Delegate to appoint Cabinet members means we break that cycle by force. I have zero faith that the majority of players here are going to change the way they vote in elections. But when the Delegate wants to appoint a new player, that's a big endorsement and I don't foresee the Assembly worried so much about their "experience" relative to other players. So for me, this amendment would be a way to sidestep the long and probably doomed process of changing our regional culture in a way that allows more new people into the top roles of government.