Galactic Republic / Hutt Empire Political Debates

[Raif]

I was just thinking it would be fun to RP a Defense Allocations Committee, or an Intelligence Committee, and thereby feel like you were having an affect on the war effort

 

[Zach]

I was just thinking it would be fun to RP a Defense Allocations Committee, or an Intelligence Committee, and thereby feel like you were having an affect on the war effort

Good idea. We'll suggest it when Senate is called.

 

[Denzein]

When are we going to call senate? Can we do it now, or do we have to wait for something to happen? (as you can tell, I have not read this thread but am excited for senators getting used.)


:CRawr

 

[Horizon]

Personally this should wait. I think everyone needs to come up with all that they will be asking of the Senate. And something as serious the Senate is just not something we can charge into over any matter.

 

[Denzein]

Personally this should wait. I think everyone needs to come up with all that they will be asking of the Senate. And something as serious the Senate is just not something we can charge into over any matter.

True, but if you come up with too many ideas the session will just turn into a stupidly efficient production line of law passing and committee making. While this would be good for the war effort, it isn't how politics actually works. I think we should take a few ideas at a time into a session, and have proper debates over them.

Just my opinion, feel free to bulldozer it.

 

[Zach]

Personally this should wait. I think everyone needs to come up with all that they will be asking of the Senate. And something as serious the Senate is just not something we can charge into over any matter.

Jiang and I have discussed this point. When Senate is called, there will be a thread beginning the discussion and will shortly be moved to a Group MSN Conversation. The thread will begin with the introduction to the calling of Senate and have a date and time at the bottom saying when we will meet together and chat all at once in MSN. The MSN conversation will be copied and pasted into the thread afterwords.

NOTE: The MSN conversation IS part of calling senate together, and we will be typing as though we were IC.

At least, this is the basic idea. Nothing is finalized, but this is the primary idea that we've come up with so far. If it's an issue for anyone, send either myself or Jiang a PM with your concerns (whether it has to do with an issue of timing with a restricted schedule or the reluctance to use MSN) and we will work around the problem.

NOTE: This is NOT finalized, it is only an idea. You may quote me that it's been speculated to meet in MSN, but if it does not happen, this was not a promised event.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

I'd really prefer it if you guys didn't RP on MSN, at least not for the purposes of the SWRP Story. RPing for this site should be done on this site.

 

[Mr. Crunchy]

I think the MSN is meant to make the atmosphere more fast-paced and Senate like... Anyway; won't it be posted here after anyway? :CHappy

 

[Brandon Rhea]

I think the MSN is meant to make the atmosphere more fast-paced and Senate like... Anyway; won't it be posted here after anyway? :CHappy

Even if it is posted here afterward, I'd really rather not encourage off-site SWRP Story RPing. The site is here for a reason. If you're going to RP the SWRP Story, it needs to be here.

If the goal is to make it more fast-paced, write shorter posts and establish a posting order.

 

[Mr. Crunchy]

I see where you're coming from. :CHappy

 

[Horizon]

I'd really prefer it if you guys didn't RP on MSN, at least not for the purposes of the SWRP Story. RPing for this site should be done on this site.

This.

 

[Lucid]

RPing by MSN is tacky and only leads to bad writing.

 

[Zach]

RPing by MSN is tacky and only leads to bad writing.

It's a fair point, but I assume that everyone involved will try to hold a certain kind of class in their grammar and staying IC with their style of writing. If it's allowed and doesn't work out very well, we can always scrap it and restart in the actually thread and post it out. However, I would appreciate if the idea would be considered as it would provide a fast-paced environment that allows everyone to be able to give their input at any given time (in an appropriate manner)

 

[Horizon]

It's a fair point, but I assume that everyone involved will try to hold a certain kind of class in their grammar and staying IC with their style of writing. If it's allowed and doesn't work out very well, we can always scrap it and restart in the actually thread and post it out. However, I would appreciate if the idea would be considered as it would provide a fast-paced environment that allows everyone to be able to give their input at any given time (in an appropriate manner)

How about this. We all go in something of an order. Make schedules for that Senate to deal with a problem ONE at a time. Obviously people do not bombard themselves inside and begin shouting "I DEMAND THIS AND THAT!" They would have to schedule these things in IC terms anyways.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

How about this. We all go in something of an order. Make schedules for that Senate to deal with a problem ONE at a time. Obviously people do not bombard themselves inside and begin shouting "I DEMAND THIS AND THAT!" They would have to schedule these things in IC terms anyways.

That's actually something I brought up in the admin board when discussing this:

I see where Fauz is coming from by saying that the topic might move on and someone might miss out. What that ultimately comes down to is the person who chairs Senate meetings - aka. the Supreme Chancellor. If they're going to RP like a Senate, using parliamentary procedure, then the topic moves on when the chair says that the topic moves on. Hakim could give a reasonable amount of time for everyone to post, and if you don't post in that reasonable amount of time then, well, tough.

That's how the real world works: there's a motion to approve something, someone seconds it, the chair allows for the discussion, and then the chair closes the discussion for a vote. If you missed the discussion, that's your problem. You're either there or you're not, and you're either speaking or your not.

On that note, Senate meetings should be announced in advance.

A little blunt but that's just me. :p

 

[Zach]

[stuff]

I like that idea. If MSN group chat won't be permitted, I think that an allocated amount of time to post before a topic is deemed closed sounds very fair. I'm glad that the idea was considered and brought up within the administration, and I'm glad a compromise could be made by allowing enough time for everyone to post on what they have to say. Thanks guys =)

 

[Brandon Rhea]

I like that idea. If MSN group chat won't be permitted, I think that an allocated amount of time to post before a topic is deemed closed sounds very fair. I'm glad that the idea was considered and brought up within the administration, and I'm glad a compromise could be made by allowing enough time for everyone to post on what they have to say. Thanks guys =)

That was just my post in our discussion, not the final word. Only a few admins have chimed in so a decision hasn't been made.

 

[Zach]

That was just my post in our discussion, not the final word. Only a few admins have chimed in so a decision hasn't been made.

Oh... Well, regardless, I'm glad that it was brought up in the admin/staff threads.

 

[Santoro]

Hopefully the Hutts can scrap up a few delegates to give you guys some opposition.

 

[Denzein]

So can we get this rollin'? I want some Senatorial debates, dammit.