xenon009
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| 13 Sep 2015 09:30 AM |
Hello ladies, gents, boys and girls (And those not sure) My name, is Xenon, I used to be a pirate (I know, not the best part to the speech) But anyways, Should you vote me to be the leader of this fair nation, Here are MY plans for the nation.
A) Mercantilism, I plan on raising the taxes on anything being sold in verdantium, While making the goods we sell cheaper, Hopefully Limiting what we spend on buying new goods While Selling as much as possible, In Theory, This will make our merchants (that learn to work with this) Much richer, out of the whitecrest economy, not our one
And now, seens my mercantilist policy would make whitecrest loose cash, and seeing that money is power in the trade islands, we could potentially bully them into giving us yet more cash, or, going to war, meaning sacking their trade ships/ports for all their gold and loot
Now, enough about taxes, let's move onto military and war, One of my first orders of business would for whitecrest to back down with their "White tide" and if not, then HEY! we have another war, speaking of which, I would raise the DB per kill To 120, potentially more if our treasury could support it.
Moving on, I would like to make a few changes to our port on perth, Make it into more of a major port, For example, add a cargo factory (Jewelry perhaps?)
Oh, and a few extra idea's to make us richer
1) The richer of the players in tradelands can pay a large sum of Db's (Around 200k) To get a seat in the verdantine government, i may raise or lower this number depending on the situation
2) Going back to the war with WC, We could (And would) Sack the Port of Whitecrest, and fenwick, Bringing in a large income to the state (And in turn, you)
Also, Every DB we earn, goes into one of 2 things,
1) Military, This means that we can better protect our merchants
2) Development, This means that we can make more valuable goods, and again, with our mercantilist policies, sell them to you for cheaper
So Guys (And girls), If you want a verdantium that is rich, and powerful, vote for me, Xenon |
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| 13 Sep 2015 09:36 AM |
| Why do you want to go to war with WC? |
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xenon009
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| 13 Sep 2015 09:46 AM |
Well surf, I want to fight whitecrest as
A) Well, When was the last tradelands war between player factions?
B) Whitecrest has harassed us, and threatened us since time immemorial, in whitecrest its commonly believed that they would "Rekd" Us, I plan on using our current strength and skill to win a war of honour, thanks for the question tho, if anyone else would like to know the method behind the clearly madness, feel free to post |
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| 13 Sep 2015 10:04 AM |
| But do we actually need to go to war for reasons OTHER than bragging rights? It would potentially cripple our economy and Whitecrest's, and the World Court wouldn't think very highly of us. As we're currently in an alliance with Burkeland, that would mean that either they would join us in the war, or stop being our ally, which means that, regardless of what happens, it would be bad if we went to war. |
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| 13 Sep 2015 10:05 AM |
YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT WAR IN ANY SPEECH YOU GIVE LOL
TM + RAA + HIVE |
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xenon009
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| 14 Sep 2015 10:29 AM |
| Well surf, you mention our alliance with burkeland, not once have i seen a burkeland ship, and as for the World court, Well, Realistically, what can they ACTUALLY do? If they sanction us, it sanctions them just as badly, if they go to war with us, inyola and burkeland are too far away to really matter, It would be whitecrest alone against us, and if we beat them in the first war, we could easily win in the second |
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| 14 Sep 2015 10:30 AM |
| But there's still not any actual point to going to war other than bragging rights. |
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xenon009
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| 14 Sep 2015 10:32 AM |
| Oh And also, My other reasons for war, well... we may be able to force them to give us part of their income etc, Honour and response to insults are my only real reasons to attack them, but, I can see a lot we would gain out of this war |
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xenon009
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| 14 Sep 2015 10:51 AM |
| Money, renown, fear of verdantium |
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| 14 Sep 2015 10:51 AM |
| Why is it good to be feared? |
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xenon009
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| 14 Sep 2015 11:59 AM |
Sorry about the late reply, I got caught up playing with my younger sister (Who, as far as i'm concerned is the cutest little thing on earth).
Ahem, Should one fear our glorious nation, then they will be pressured into giving us as we wish Be it demanding tribute, land, or trade, we will profit, hence i belive, that fear of a nation is good |
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| 14 Sep 2015 12:05 PM |
| Wouldn't it be better to be respected by the Tradelands nations, instead of feared? |
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HeIbrecht
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xenon009
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| 14 Sep 2015 01:16 PM |
| Surf, Respect, leaves room for betrayal, and you can't force things with respect anyways, FEAR however, fear leaves no room for betrayal, and makes it easy to enforce demands |
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| 14 Sep 2015 01:50 PM |
| But if we're respected, we can use influence to get what we want fro our friends. Fear may be able to accomplish the same things, but we'll be seen as a better nation. |
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xenon009
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| 14 Sep 2015 01:56 PM |
| As you said, respect, lets you get things from your friends, FEAR lets you get things from everyone |
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| 14 Sep 2015 01:57 PM |
| But we if you can get everyone to respect you, then you'll still be able to get what you want. |
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xenon009
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| 14 Sep 2015 03:21 PM |
| Yes, but that takes more effort, MUCH more effort, and its less fun |
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| 14 Sep 2015 04:13 PM |
| There we go then - you are a candidate that isn't willing to put in any effort. Why should people vote for you if you're not willing to put in the effort? |
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