Talk:Faction Voting Procedures/@comment-84.75.146.97-20180418134036

I feel these procedures are too elaborate both for IC and OOC considerations. Therefore I propose:

Alternative Faction Voting Procedures (work in progress)

Voting rules are an integral part of the “UPC faction game”. Mechanically, the UPC faction game decides which faction action the UPC faction takes during a faction turn and if necessary what new faction goal is to be adopted.

There are severe timing restrictions to the decision making process, both IC (inter-system message delays, in-system timezones) and OOC (how much time a player is willing to dedicate to the game, different timezones). IC, the UPC is a very heterogeneous entity, which means the individual members would have a hard time electing representatives who wield actual power.

Every UPC member has the right to propose an action or a goal whenever they want. In order to do that, they add the action or goal on the respective wiki page. If the action or goal already exists, they read the listed arguments in favour or against and add their arguments if they are not already present.

Voting closes X days before the faction turn. Voting for the next faction turn immediately opens at that point. The Speaker conveys the faction actions and faction goals to spacemaster adam. TODO ELECTION PROCEDURES.

TODO OPTIONAL: the UPC could also elect an emergency council with N members that would decide on the faction action and faction goal if for one reason or another the UPC entire could not make that decision (communications blackout, major chaos or whatever).

Kajal, UPC Theorist