While I think 'Endorsees' are an interesting idea, I think it's rather hasty on both a personal and regional level to propose it currently.
I believe we have quite a high cap compared to the other sinkers as it is already and it does take time and effort to reach it. At the time of writing this post your personal endorsement count, Milo, is 66, the cap is 120 for nations endorsing the delegate.
I'm all for regional security, spreading the influence around to prevent any future mass purges and boost our regional power but I don't see a need to be passing or raising the cap at the moment. It's pretty standard for all regions to have an endorsement cap and only the security body to be above it and I see no reason to change that for us either. It works. What would an Endorsee provide that our Mandate provided Council on Lazarene Security wouldn't? All I see is confusion for the more general or newer players by having another set of conditions they have to keep in mind and abide by when endorsing others and I'd like to encourage WA activity so I want to keep it as simple and appealing as possible.
Nations still have something to work towards, they can still endorse freely and if they prove their dedication they too could join the Council. I don't think it makes Lazarus any less of a friendly social place to keep regional security in mind though. It's realistic. To see the game with rose tinted glasses is unfortunately leaving us open to problems and I don't mean that against anyone personally but I'm sure most of us are aware of the consequences of letting your guard down too much in this game.
I'm glad people want to help support the security of Lazarus, I want us to be a strong, stable and secure region too, but I think the best way to do that is continue with our current CoLS setup and work towards that rather than add another tier to the endorsement hierarchy.
If you want to bypass the cap you have to prove your commitment to Lazarus and her people. You can't just decide you want to do it. I have yet to appoint anyone to the CoLS because I believe it is a very important role that needs the right people, proved by recent events here, so have been considering the options extremely carefully based on their actions in 'new' Lazarus since I took over, trying to give everyone a clean slate. It's not something that can just be rushed without risking a possible descent back to the chaos that came before and I don't think anybody wants that. We've worked too damn long and hard to risk it.
In the future the cap can be raised as seems suitable and fair if we can get better endorsement numbers and so on, if we can really get that area thriving then maybe the Endorsee idea could be floated again but I really just don't see a need for it now.
As always though I'm interested in reading the thoughts and responses from the region being brought up here. It's an interesting discussion.
I believe we have quite a high cap compared to the other sinkers as it is already and it does take time and effort to reach it. At the time of writing this post your personal endorsement count, Milo, is 66, the cap is 120 for nations endorsing the delegate.
I'm all for regional security, spreading the influence around to prevent any future mass purges and boost our regional power but I don't see a need to be passing or raising the cap at the moment. It's pretty standard for all regions to have an endorsement cap and only the security body to be above it and I see no reason to change that for us either. It works. What would an Endorsee provide that our Mandate provided Council on Lazarene Security wouldn't? All I see is confusion for the more general or newer players by having another set of conditions they have to keep in mind and abide by when endorsing others and I'd like to encourage WA activity so I want to keep it as simple and appealing as possible.
Nations still have something to work towards, they can still endorse freely and if they prove their dedication they too could join the Council. I don't think it makes Lazarus any less of a friendly social place to keep regional security in mind though. It's realistic. To see the game with rose tinted glasses is unfortunately leaving us open to problems and I don't mean that against anyone personally but I'm sure most of us are aware of the consequences of letting your guard down too much in this game.
I'm glad people want to help support the security of Lazarus, I want us to be a strong, stable and secure region too, but I think the best way to do that is continue with our current CoLS setup and work towards that rather than add another tier to the endorsement hierarchy.
If you want to bypass the cap you have to prove your commitment to Lazarus and her people. You can't just decide you want to do it. I have yet to appoint anyone to the CoLS because I believe it is a very important role that needs the right people, proved by recent events here, so have been considering the options extremely carefully based on their actions in 'new' Lazarus since I took over, trying to give everyone a clean slate. It's not something that can just be rushed without risking a possible descent back to the chaos that came before and I don't think anybody wants that. We've worked too damn long and hard to risk it.
In the future the cap can be raised as seems suitable and fair if we can get better endorsement numbers and so on, if we can really get that area thriving then maybe the Endorsee idea could be floated again but I really just don't see a need for it now.
As always though I'm interested in reading the thoughts and responses from the region being brought up here. It's an interesting discussion.