Elections
There are four political offices in Ascent:TSG which are determined in an election by colonists. Each colonist at a colony and OSB counts as a vote in the election and players that control a colony can 'convince' their colonists to choose a candidate.
Waervyn's Politics and Election Video
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Player Political Roles
Any player in Ascent:TSG can become a political representative and achieve a relevant position of power, if they receive the majority of the colonists votes in an election.
Role
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Territory Control
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Counted Votes
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Responsibilities / Powers
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Mayor
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Individual Colony
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Individual Colony
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Change colony name
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Governor
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Planet
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All colonies and linked OSB's at a planet
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Change planet name
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Senator
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Star System
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All colonies and OSB's in a star system
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Change star system name Propose/Accept/Deny construction of new warp gates to the star system |
President
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Inner Systems
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All colonists in the universe
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Allow/Deny construction of new warp gates to inner systems (with Jam as his overlord representing UNCA)
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The Political Arena
Any open politically-related information involving players and the election process is discussed in the Politics forum in a role-play (RP) format:
http://forum.thespacegame.com/viewforum.php?f=11
Role-Playing
Role-playing refers to the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role. While the Oxford English Dictionary offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role", in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses:
- To refer to the playing of roles generally such as in a theatre, or educational setting;
- To refer to taking a role of an existing character or person and acting it out with a partner taking someone else's role, often involving different genres of practice;
- To refer to a wide range of games including role-playing video game, play-by-mail games and more;
- To refer specifically to role-playing games.
Anything further then that is created mainly by us the community. Examples of community added politics are discussions on gate projects, proposals to Jam for elections and/or procedural changes, and many other forms of role-played (RP) politics. The basic premise is that all discussion be 'in character' of the political representative your in-game character reflects. When posting you do not post as a person playing a game or talk about game mechanics. If there is a bug, issue, or feature that affects your role play, try to explain the situation as an in-character politician.
In practice:
"I want to gate System X to Vulcan"
becomes:
"I, Senator Hubes of System X would like to propose a gate to link the good people of System X to Vulcan...etc, etc, other political motivation, blah blah"
The Election Process
The UNCA (Jam the game developer) decides when it is time to have an election. After extensive discussions with the community, an election cycle of at least three months was chosen to allow newly-elected officials to plan and achieve long-term projects such as gate construction.
UNCA will announce elections in the Politics thread on the forums. An in-game mail will also be sent to all players that have a colony/OSB which qualifies in the election:
Players will have one week to choose their candidates and can change their vote at any time during the voting period. To see your voting options, click Character, then Votes in the Player Info menu:
A menu of colonist totals will appear for each of the specific positions (Mayor, Governor, Senator, President) available to the player. A player selects a menu item and types in the name of the candidate they wish the colonists to vote for in the election. Colonists will oblige 100% with the player's request at this time. Int he future, colonists with AI may awaken and vote individually.
After the election, a in-game mail is sent to all the winning player candidates.
By-Elections
By-elections are monthly elections to elect Governors, Senators, and Mayors in previously uncolonized planets/star systems with no incumbent. The by-election will allow the acceptance of new political representatives for the new unrepresented colonies and star systems to become part of the UNCA government and participate in debates in the Politics forum. A by-election has no effect on the currently elected Mayors, Governors, Senators, or President in other incumbent star systems.
As of April 2015, monthly by-elections are now automatically scheduled for the third of every month in systems/planets with no incumbent. The by-election lasts for two days.
Previous Elections
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President Elect
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July 23, 2014
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Johneaux
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January 15, 2015
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Johneaux
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Date
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Senator Elect - Prime
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July 23, 2014
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Prolapser
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January 15, 2015
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Prolapser
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