Suggestion for a Political system for the Liberated Humanity Faction.

We should be a liberated faction but we are not really. Most of our power is concentrated in the Pirate clan who discusses most decisions for themselves, without much transparency. And even if I am one of them, I am not comfortable with that. Its feels more like we are betraying our own faction principles. Sure we don't have an Emperor or a Dictator, but we aren't really like a democracy or something. So I like to make a suggestion to the developers. Why not let us have some kind of systems in which a minister can poll votes over diplomatic or Industrial decisions, to compensate for the fact that we don't have a dictator. For example the Foreign Secretary designs a Diplomatic proposal to a Faction but before he delivers it he can poll a vote over it if the liberated faction members agree with the design. And some kind of private faction forum thread just like the clan forum thread would be nice too, to discuss and explain some decisions the ministers make.

And yes I know Liberated Humanity is considered some kind of a troll faction, and it isn't quite sure, if we will still exist in the next planet wars sessions, and I can fully understand that the developers aren't really interesting in creating things which in the end won't be used. But a more open political system may attracted some more players to join the Liberated Humanity Faction.

Here in Empire we have some anonymous douchebag (or possibly evil scheming ex-emperor cough *cough*) who started an impeachment vote on an Emperor who's been in office for all of a day because "He failed us, just look at map and see how weak Empire is in this round." (actual poll caption)

Then of course you have the dumbasses who build random buildings in silly places.

I'm not sure what can be done about PW noobs who apparently press random buttons. Ideas?

quote: I'm not sure what can be done about PW noobs who apparently press random buttons. Ideas?

Abolish the personal quotas, period.

MoriturusMortus
Chat is not the only communication channel there is. You can use the clan's secret topic, and possibly troll devs for a faction secret topic, too.

In case of using clans, you suddenly have a federated government where clan leaders get to inform each other of their clan's standing.

@[I]Emperor_Conrad_I , better than running the risk of having a mad and insane Emperor.

@[GBC]spreng We Pirates discusses already most PW related actions in the clan's secret topic or over teamspeak before we actually do them. But this is not enough.
Yes a faction secret topic would be a beginning.
But PW should be some kind of long term motivation for every player to play 0K more often and regularly. So even players who are clueless should have the opportunity to do things, so they can learn. Now the noobs just play a game maybe they are get excited because they get metal for PW, but then they realize that it is only a small amount and when they finally can build something with it, a Industrial Manger have already used it for something else on a complete different planet.
At the moment PW is played by some chosen players, at least the other players have to have the opportunity to express their point of view of thinks.
But maybe I am wrong and they don't even care, but I really hope not.

And @[I]Emperor_Conrad_I why do you think that we even seek a real democracy? We have 10 members in our clan and 5 outer associates in our faction, and in our Faction only round about 20 people votes most of the time. So with a system like this we could still get through every decision we make, by letting them have the illusion that they can decided by their own. But in fact our faction is lead by our Clan Leader Magman THE ONLY AND MIGHTY EMPEROR OF (liberated) HUMANITY! HAIL TO THE PIRATES! HAIL TO MAGMAN!

Pirate runs LH because they're the only clan in LH playing PlanetWars. None of the others care. Even they are grossly incompetant, waste the factions resources and have not gained a single planet since the initial land rush. The only reason they haven't been wiped out yet is because nobody can be bothered with them since the Cyber/Machines/Dynasty war has been raging since the start of PW.

You have open elections just like every other faction, yet the only faction that has seen political power struggles is ironically Empire, because they had no decent leaders at the start of PW.

LH are actually Libertarian if anything, and a libertarian faction being taken over by a closed band of pirates sounds just about correct to me.

I have a suggestion: accept all member of LH in your clan and it's done!