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Committee: Foreign Affairs
Topic Started: Oct 16 2016, 06:41:48 PM (698 Views)
Todd McCloud
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Committee for Foreign Affairs


Purpose:
To update the Foreign Affairs department of The East Pacific. In order for regions to better communicate, the game recognizes embassies and many regions offer active offsite embassies to inform embassy regions of their goings-on. Our foreign affairs are currently in a state of inadequacy and our embassies may require an update or even some pruning. This committee will therefore be charged with updating our foreign affair section, sending out a foreign update to all regions we have an embassy with, and better connecting our embassies abroad.


Potential points of discussion:
  • An embassy update for our embassies in other regions - what should we put in it, how often should it be updated, etc?
  • Is there anything we can do to keep in closer contact with our embassy regions?
  • Current embassies - do we need to do any embassy pruning?
  • Any other ideas to make us a better steward for our information abroad


Participants:
Anyone with an interest to see improvement in The East Pacific. The delegate will be closely involved with this process, as Foreign Affairs falls under our Executive branch.


Leaders:
(To be selected over the coming 1-2 days.)


Timeframe:
From now until November 20, 2016, or sooner if the committee comes to a resolution sooner


End Goal:
The committee will produce one good embassy update to be distributed to all regions after the committee adjourns. This committee will establish precedent for embassy updates and will contact our offsite embassies abroad in order to better connect with our known embassies. Our foreign embassies may be pruned upon recommendation from the committee. At the end, the delegate will recommend members to serve on the Foreign Affairs department as official officers to the region of The East Pacific, a time-honored position that has been held by many prominent figures from the past.
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Would love to participate here as well!
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Aelitia
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An embassy update for our embassies in other regions - what should we put in it, how often should it be updated, etc?

I mentioned this in the RP committee, but I think we should create the RegTopo magazine again and distribute those instead of the rote updates that we see over and over from every region. This could set up apart, as well as show off our creativity and roleplay.

As for political updates, I don't think this is necessary other than for major things- such as an election or selection of a Vizier.

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Is there anything we can do to keep in closer contact with our embassy regions?


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Current embassies - do we need to do any embassy pruning?

I am of the opinion that we should remove all embassies except for those of major cultural importance, such as other Feeders and Sinkers. We should also establish a policy which would create criteria to be approved for an embassy- such as a permanent population over x number or a negotiated agreement on exchange of embassies. This could help us kickstart a more well-rounded diplomatic corps by requiring common agreements for such things.

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Any other ideas to make us a better steward for our information abroad

I think rather than focus on out information, we should focus on our image. TEP generally lacks a formalized regional image like others do. I think we should emphasize the Masonic traditions of TEP in more ways, and heavily lean into the appeal of "secrecy" without actually being secretive.


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An embassy update for our embassies in other regions - what should we put in it, how often should it be updated, etc?

I agree with Aelitia on content and believe that we should aim to push the updates out every month if possible with notable political changes having an exclusive mini-update to highlight the importance of it.

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Is there anything we can do to keep in closer contact with our embassy regions?

Potentially assignment of ambassadors to core regions such as other GCRs to start. We need to wipe the slate clean and rebuild from the FA department from the ground up. As Aelitia pointed out, we want relations with all of the GCRs and that would be a great place to start with this. It would also give people something to do and allow them to get involved within the government of TEP - something that has been sorely lacking outside the Magisterium. If we have enough interested people we can assign multiple ambassadors to each GCR for better coverage and communication. Have them interact with the regional communities and get to know them, as well as represent TEP and it's values abroad so that we are not seen as isolationist in some respects.

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Current embassies - do we need to do any embassy pruning?

Again, Aelitia is right on the money. We need to clear everything out basically and rebuild from the ground up. Everything irrelevant to current day stuff needs to be archived somewhere and we need to send out ambassadors to all of the other GCRs as well as UCRs that we want relations with as soon as possible to get the ball rolling. As for embassy requirements - I think how strict they should be would be a decent topic of debate but I would urge not making them too hard to maintain if possible.

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Any other ideas to make us a better steward for our information abroad

Do we have a dedicated NS forums thread of any sort for Q&A, update display, regional information, etc? Making one of these in addition to having embassies might be a good way to show that TEP is coming back into the swing of things and is more open to people who want to know more.





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Broadly agreed with Aelitia and Aeneas here.
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Do we have a dedicated NS forums thread of any sort for Q&A, update display, regional information, etc? Making one of these in addition to having embassies might be a good way to show that TEP is coming back into the swing of things and is more open to people who want to know more.

I cannot stress this enough ^ Aeneas went to look for a TEP thread on the NS side and he couldn't find any; Puzzled, I looked too and couldn't find anything, either. If two players who frequently navigate the NS forum cannot find a TEP thread, newcomers definitely won't. This might make a difference in activity and general knowledge of this region.
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Oct 18 2016, 12:51:33 PM
Aeneas
 
Do we have a dedicated NS forums thread of any sort for Q&A, update display, regional information, etc? Making one of these in addition to having embassies might be a good way to show that TEP is coming back into the swing of things and is more open to people who want to know more.

I cannot stress this enough ^ Aeneas went to look for a TEP thread on the NS side and he couldn't find any; Puzzled, I looked too and couldn't find anything, either. If two players who frequently navigate the NS forum cannot find a TEP thread, newcomers definitely won't. This might make a difference in activity and general knowledge of this region.
Do you mean like a TEP thread in the gameplay section of the NS forums? That's a quick fix that can definitely be accomplished. Personally, I'd like to have several people have the ability to represent TEP in that thread, but we can discuss that in this thread as well.
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The new Citizenship *Act actually requires the Delegate, along with the powers which oversee citizenship, to maintain at least one such thread.

This does not belong in this thread, but I believe the Delegate should move forward with creating this thread- as well as other more visible threads.
Edited by Aelitia, Oct 19 2016, 07:08:20 PM.


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Arbiter of Conclave 05-06-14 to 09-08-16
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My thoughts:
Broadly, cut down and burn all embassies, and only give out embassies (requiring you to send a diplomat to their region) to GCRs and major allies/close friends. Review embassies fully whenever FA guy changes, if it isn't working out, cut it. Treat giving embassies to other regions as you bestowing a great gift on them. If they take a while to accept, are rude, or anything else, withdraw it, not worth having a player as an ambassador somewhere when you don't need it.

Otherwise allowing other regions consulates (so we don't need to send an ambassador, but they send an ambassador to post their updates here) as appropriate. No posts within the embassy in a certain time period, cut it. If a region doesn't give you (a Feeder) the bare minimum of an active diplomat, they aren't worth keeping ties with. Feeders are the top dogs of NS, so FA wise let other regions do the running for opening embassies.

Also public diplomatic chat with all ambassadors etc. or whoever so you can quickly ping them if their embassy hasn't been active enough and you're closing it.

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Oct 24 2016, 04:00:57 AM
My thoughts:
Broadly, cut down and burn all embassies, and only give out embassies (requiring you to send a diplomat to their region) to GCRs and major allies/close friends. Review embassies fully whenever FA guy changes, if it isn't working out, cut it. Treat giving embassies to other regions as you bestowing a great gift on them. If they take a while to accept, are rude, or anything else, withdraw it, not worth having a player as an ambassador somewhere when you don't need it.

Otherwise allowing other regions consulates (so we don't need to send an ambassador, but they send an ambassador to post their updates here) as appropriate. No posts within the embassy in a certain time period, cut it. If a region doesn't give you (a Feeder) the bare minimum of an active diplomat, they aren't worth keeping ties with. Feeders are the top dogs of NS, so FA wise let other regions do the running for opening embassies.

Also public diplomatic chat with all ambassadors etc. or whoever so you can quickly ping them if their embassy hasn't been active enough and you're closing it.

If every region followed your logic, The East Pacific would have no embassies with anyone. As a diplomat to this region here, I'd advise the following, as it has worked for the NPO.

Create a separate region named {insert government of TEP here}
Password it.
Use separate region as storehouse of important information.
Create forum embassy linking to separate region, as basic information place.
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Halfway Report (~15 Days)

What we have done so far:
  • Established a Foreign Affairs thread in gameplay

What we will do
  • Begin a Suggest a World Factbook Entry thread. We had this back when DFD / Lady Edea was delegate, and it had fairly good success. I would like to follow that model and will research it, as well as add any kind of flair.
  • Make a "general TEP" thread where we have helpful links and anyone may comment on said links.
  • Removing / pruning our forum embassies elsewhere. We need to get thing more simple as the tasks become less daunting that way.
  • Begin one embassy update and ensure one is produced on a semi-regular basis (at least)

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In lieu of the delegate elections and impending holidays in the US, I think it would be wise to extend this committee to Sunday the 27th, especially considering this deals with foreign policy as it relates to the delegate and The East Pacific. I do hope these discussions may continue / begin, but that is ultimately the jurisdiction of the new delegate, whoever he or she may be.

If I do win these elections, it is my fullest intention to carry on these policies and not jeopardize what we have worked hard for during these programs.

If I do not win, I will need time to get the new delegate informed on these committees and their results.

Either way, a short report will be generated full of suggestions taken from those who brought forth ideas. Continue with ideas and suggestions. We will begin to finalize things by the Thanksgiving holiday!
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