Chronicles of Nations - Civ Quest

Decado · Feb 24, 2019

[X] Choose Bronwyn. (Gain a Heroic Diplo/Culture Heir)
[X] [SEC] Sunrise Mountain Passage
[X] [SEC] Study Metal.

Parzival95 · Feb 24, 2019

It's been danced around in the thread, but I wanted to put it in words for clarity.

One o the problems with merit, or comeptiveness really, is that over time people stop trying to be the best and start trying to game the system. For example, baseball players taking steroids, politicial gerrymandering, the American education system of standardized testing.

People want to win, to get the job, and so train themselves to be seen as the best and not actually be the best.

That doesn't mean it's a bad idea, after all. As Churchill said "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

So while meritocracy can be corrupted and fail, that hardly means it's impossible. We have to stay on top of things and prepare for long term issues, or rather, leave space for those issues to be addressed in a flexible manner.

Now I recognize that we're not a democracy, and won't be any time soon, but the spirit of the quote applies but as well to merit, no?

Knight Draco · Feb 24, 2019

Gino said:
It's been danced around in the thread, but I wanted to put it in words for clarity.

One o the problems with merit, or comeptiveness really, is that over time people stop trying to be the best and start trying to game the system. For example, baseball players taking steroids, politicial gerrymandering, the American education system of standardized testing.

People want to win, to get the job, and so train themselves to be seen as the best and not actually be the best.

That doesn't mean it's a bad idea, after all. As Churchill said "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

So while meritocracy can be corrupted and fail, that hardly means it's impossible. We have to stay on top of things and prepare for long term issues, or rather, leave space for those issues to be addressed in a flexible manner.

Now I recognize that we're not a democracy, and won't be any time soon, but the spirit of the quote applies but as well to merit, no?

you can't go wrong if all your actions are for the catgirls goddesses.
Especially when they are real.
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Omegahugger · Feb 24, 2019

Somebodynobody10 said:
Ah. So someone just began to imagine there being something if we over-commit without input from the GM.

What @jjffjhjf said.

That being said, while we may not have any strict confirmation that going over-progress will do anything, we do have cause to believe it is possible. We already know that it's possible to go above and beyond on Legitimacy and Oshha has confirmed that it is possible for us to go overlimit on infrastructure as well, so it stands to reason that we can also pump in more progress than strictly neccesary on mega-projects.

Now, will what happens be anything good? We don't know.
Will it be worth an action and -3 Temp Econ? Almost certainly not.

But we don't know what will happen and the only way we will ever find out is if we. And we're currently in about as safe a position as we'll ever be (stupid nomads), making it a decent time to experiment.

Oshha · Feb 24, 2019

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[X] Choose Bronwyn. (Gain a Heroic Diplo/Culture Heir)
No. of Votes: 28
[X] Choose someone else. (Random Heir)
No. of Votes: 12

Vanguard_D
Arbitbit39
Cariyaga
Donkey Hote
EWilanO
Gino
nkd1325
Random Member
Rockeye
Skjadir
veekie
wingstrike96

[X] Do not pick a successor. (No Heir chosen)
No. of Votes: 1

Cariyaga

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[X][SEC] Sunrise Mountain Passage
No. of Votes: 38
[X][SEC] Study Metal.
No. of Votes: 24
[X][SEC] Create New Trails.
No. of Votes: 16

veekie
Arbitbit39
Donkey Hote
EWilanO
Gino
Kiba
Killer_Whale
nkd1325
Omegahugger
Random Member
Rockeye
Skjadir
Star
StarkDemise
UlseDovThur
wingstrike96

[X][SEC] Explore Lands = (Lowlands)
No. of Votes: 4

Knight Draco
Bookreader
Random Member
sunrise

[X][SEC] Build Palisade = (Greenbay (1/3))
No. of Votes: 1

Marlin

[X][SEC] Explore Lands = (Coastline)
No. of Votes: 1

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