Fwurg

[Stuiter]

I have been thinking about posting on the politics forum.
I looked up old posts for something, but however I do not know how the union works so did not continue.

For more interesting political debates (see latest news on budget and policies on tv) I think it is necessary to give the players access to more information on who is minister of which department, budgets, funding, rules, regulation etc.

Maybe a Union politics wiki page could be made with the current information, but also small historical background on decisions (make summary of forum post and for details player can look it up).

Let me know what you think about this.

[Mercury]

I believe this is an excellent idea! I will start with a basic setup this weekend and we can flesh it out at the write-a-thon!

[Brend]

Sounds good!

[Mercury]

I made a simple first version:

http://fwurg.xs4all.nl/dokuwiki/guides:politics

[Brend]

Why is it a guide?

I got the impression that Stuiter was looking for In-Character information on previous decisions, the scope of influence of the senates/ministries and some history on the current administration. I think such information is better placed in the ic: namespace.

Though I agree that we do need a 'Politics for Dummies' guide, I don't think that Stuiter was looking for this =)

[Mercury]

As I saw it it was OOC information but not rules so a guide made sense. Currently there is only the basic information which ought to be expanded on later.

[Stuiter]

Brend got it right.

I wanted IC information so players could get politically involved.
As senator you have access to various offices at the union to get information.
So there should be a page/place to that information.

An OCC guide is also good.