[Discuss] Re: Referendums

[Aaron Champion]

On 1/5/07, Robert Croson, Jr <robert at arcm.com> wrote:

> Right. And the Referendum would easily allow him to put it forth as a
> vote, with
> an automatic tally, rather than having to manually track it yourself.




No such thing any more. You have "All nobles of XXX duchy", but that's not a
> duchy army any more.


You're right.  I had forgotten that part.  I wager that most Dukes are still
the ones sponsoring effective armies, though (Generals, too, of course).

I'm not saying any person should be able to *call* a referendum. I'm saying
> that a person who *already* has the ability to call a referendum (only
> those
> with a Command button) should be able to send it out to any logical
> grouping
> of people that already exist in the messaging system. i.e. Message group,
> Army,
> Duchy, Whole Realm, etc. Heck, why not even Guild or Religion?


That would be the definition of an InstaPoll, except inclusive to Lords and
Councilmen.  I know a lot of stupid region commanders--don't you?  Guilds
and religions open the problem of creating an entirely new hierarchy within
the organization (you'd need to mechanisms for polling guilds and religions
lest only lords and councilmen be able to vote).

Why not? A Republic of 10 nobles should be able to handle a vote much easier
> than a Senate group could call a vote of 22 members.


Not particularly, unless you arbitrarily assign a one-vote-one-man rule.  I
would like to think that players understand the power Dukes wield in a
Republic and adjust accordingly.

I view this as not being limited in usefulness to a government type. Rather,
> it is
> an RP and governing aide that could make things easier to *any* government
> style. The more places it can be provided, the more useful it can be to
> *everybody*.


I tend to agree with you after a little more thought.  Objection (partially)
withdrawn.
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