Shireroth

Andreas the Wise wrote:I'm starting this topic for those of you who missed the initial sounding out of the idea, or can't be bothered to read the five pages of posts on it that appeared in the last week. I will stress that nothing has been confirmed yet beyond that a bunch of us are keen to do it; we are not yet committed to moving, and even if we were, we will not move until we've agreed to it. Since that thread got out of hand and jumbled up, though, it seems best to start a new one here for Gralan Citizens Only so we can confirm people are not strongly opposed to it, and work out the practical forum stuff Gralan side.

So the idea is this. It has been proposed and discussed for two months that we should share a forum with other nations. We'll have combined chat, economy and EGaD forums. Some of them will help me visit other nations as diplomats, and vice versa. Then there will be a section for each nation, and our section will be the same as it has always been except with the above mentioned forums elsewhere. We have the option to leave at any time, but we don't plan to. Our hope in doing this is that we will get more people involved in our roleplays, have more interaction with other cool micronationalists, and get a better go at the economy (with more people around).

The forum will probably look something like this: http://bastionunion.org/forum/index.php
That is the base set up for the new forum, though of course we can change it as we will.
Our area will probably look extremely similar to how it currently looks. The exact details of that are to be worked out in this thread. You can see I've put in the top level forums already.

Trying to keep this post brief. I'll just close with this:
What will not change
- We will not stop being Gralus, a separate and sovereign nation
- We will not stop making our own laws (occasionally)
- We will not stop using EGaD
- We will not stop having subforums for each province
- We will not stop having a magic forum as part of our boards
- We will not stop the Destruction Zone
- We will not stop using our current, Gralus-only wiki
- We will not stop paying people for posts
- We will not stop being the most awesome nation on Micras.

What will change
- We won't be using this particular forum once we've fully transitioned. It will of course remain fully viewable as an archive, like the present Novatainia, Toketi, Relaram and Jokerdom forums (which will also stay up).
- Triumvirs and Provincial Leaders won't have admin powers. We'll have four dedicated admin instead of just me, and they'll do it all for you.
- We may not have a separate NNN announcement box (we might do all the nations announcements in the one box - we need to talk about this a little more. I'd personally like to still have separate boxes).
- We probably won't be able to have pretty colours on all our names. In exchange, though, we might be able to talk Ari into displaying multiple titles so you can actually tell all the positions people hold, not just the one Andreas thinks has the prettiest colour.
- I think it would be worth not having forums for cities, and just for regions. This only really effects Novatainia.

What we will gain
- More people participating in EGaD with us
- More cool people around the board in general
- Other nations doing fun stuff that we can easily visit if we want to
- Joint projects with other nations all hosted on our forums
- A working economy (hopefully)

Erik Mortis wrote:So this would abolish the MiniInt. (as you are removing the admin powers of the MiniInt. I might be MiniInt (Am I?) right now, but I'm not always gonna wanna be.

Erik Mortis wrote:It's a change to Shireroth's internal structure that seems to be have overlooked.

Erik Mortis wrote:It just forces me to do all the work when it might not be my job in the future and effects the internal operation of the nation, something I've been assured will not happen.

Erik Mortis wrote:The fact that the main board is the theme of member nation is bothering me... greatly.

And the loss of Malarbor.

Erik Mortis wrote:I'm starting to feel like we are just starting the slow destruction of Shireroth's culture and heritage...