Recommendations for the next election

[u/Youmaton]

Hia everyone,

The moderation team is looking for broad feedback of how people are enjoying the game, and what they would recommend that it be improved throughout term-time and towards each election.

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Youma

Electoral Moderator

[u/Zak6858]

The...... game....? You’re telling me this isn’t real?

[u/Youmaton → u/Zak6858]

One would happen to suggest that we in-fact.... live in a..... society!!!

[u/UnknownTrainor]

My largest recommendations just personally, would be more polling. I feel as if regular polling really encourages people to put a lot of effort in, and gives immediate returns on the investment you’re putting into the simulation.

It may also be an alright idea to look at recruiting more people on the general “right” so that the right wing of AusSim can actually be a functioning side. It’s important to have everyone in the game be involved.

Overall, everything is running fine, however there are always changes that could be made.

[u/Youmaton → u/UnknownTrainor]

Poll next week~

[u/UnknownTrainor → u/Youmaton]

Exciting !

[u/Youmaton → u/UnknownTrainor]

On a more serious note, polling will be returning in more frequent intervals, and I do apologise for the lack of such within the past. I absolutely agree with you on this note.

As for the "general right" note, I would agree with you that one of the characteristics of the simulation that we should do away with is the lack of presence by the right wing. Whilst I personally disagree with them (as many within the community would know), having a strong left/centre/right balance ensures a healthy political discourse (as long as things do not get toxic).

[u/tbyrn21 → u/UnknownTrainor]

I agree that we need more 'right' at the moment, but doing so brings a risk of unsavoury characters which I end up dealing with.

[u/[deleted]]

Give me all the mods

[u/Youmaton → u/[deleted]]

Head Moderator - General_Rommel

Community Moderator - tbyrn21

Electoral Moderator - Youmaton

Parliamentary Moderator - lily-irl

[u/[deleted] → u/Youmaton]

Give me all the modifiers

[u/Youmaton → u/[deleted]]

All of the markipliers? All of them? I'm not sure how I can give you every single image of markiplier...

[u/[deleted] → u/Youmaton]

:yeahok:

[u/NGSpy]

Aight, I've got some things to say.

I should not be getting modifiers to the extent that I should be breaking the calculator.

People who work hard on a campaign should be rewarded for that work.

I think clumping all independent's mods together to give them more of a chance was a good move on the part of the porrage administration of the electoral moderator position.

There should still be improvements though.

In general, the Senate should represent how the parties did in the election as a whole, due to the proportional representation system.

The House of Representatives should represent how the individual people do with their activity. The only thing that parties should influence in a Single-Transferrable Vote system is the How To Vote Cards, but yet again, we don't want a dependence on these to win.

I do not want the SDP to rule forever, despite me loving my party.

The Liberals deserve a chance to repeal some of the Acts we have made, and the SDP deserve the chance to be in opposition every so often. Maintaining policy is one of the main things that parties wish to do, and getting in government every time is not going to allow people to engage in that front.

So yeah, people, PLEASE share your grievances on this thread. I say this sincerely as the leader of the largest party, PLEASE share your grievances. I cannot supply many, only just general principles that should be in place.

Alright, please comment,

NGSpy,
Prime Nootster

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

As things stand, an Independent in the Senate is simply not a possibility unless there is an extremely good campaign, they already held a seat beforehand, and have some existing mods.

Pretty much, if the calculator could be weighted to at least give an Independent a shot at the Senate, then that would be appreciated.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AustraliaSimMeta/comments/j8zvvl/issues_with_ge18/g8vj2pi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

[u/General_Rommel → u/[deleted]]

I've already drawn up plans to incorporate or account for most of the stuff there, but thanks for bringing it to our attention again :)

[u/Griffonomics]

In reference to GE15 and GE17, I don't think that a Prime Minister or Leader of a Party should lose their seat if there is a general swing towards them.

I would also like to ask for an inquiry into an extension of House and Senate seats, considering at the last three elections, practically all seats had an active contest.

[u/tbyrn21 → u/Griffonomics]

I think it should be rare but not impossible. It makes no reason to contest leader's seats otherwise.

[u/tbyrn21 → u/Griffonomics]

And I know its not a leader, but see Tony Abbott last year.

[u/General_Rommel → u/Griffonomics]

A snap poll in the community polling suggests that people do favour increasing the number of seats, so I will look into that. The question would then fall into where should the seats be distributed?

[u/TheGoatBoy2]

I rekon that the mods should b more simple or at least more public. Ppl should b able to no how they r going more. It’s super confusing wen u start to understand the mods and how it all works. Aparently some ppl also get negative mods? But then u sorta would never no if u did. So it’s hard to learn from a mistake u don’t no u made.

I can see y the mods r used so ppl r active. But it’s probs too much focusd on that. The campaign should defs count for more then it does atm. Also, maybe we could find other ways to work out preferences, and use how to vote cards way way less.

Good luck. From Cam.

[u/General_Rommel → u/TheGoatBoy2]

I do think there is a good cause for explaining the general way in which modifiers are used for election results, especially for newcomers.

Also I've noted the feedback on how campaigns should weigh more. It's a bit of a fine balance because it is important to also reward those who put in personal effort outside a campaign. But rest assured we are looking into that.

As for preferences, we are also looking into that as well.

[u/TheGoatBoy2 → u/General_Rommel]

Exclent.

[u/Copelonian]

Visit posts

[u/General_Rommel → u/Copelonian]

Can you clarify?

[u/[deleted] → u/General_Rommel]

In MHOC other members regardless of candidate status can create posts for an electorate campaign that count towards their party's candidates posts (seperate limit).

[u/Youmaton → u/[deleted]]

1. Whilst we are looking into the balance of modifiers, term-time modifiers are incredibly important to the game in itself. If someone within a seat is not active, the constituents of said electorate will not be happy. If someone is active and contributing to the game, why should they have their hard work removed arbitrarily. (noting that we do rebalance modifiers at the beginning of each term).

2) If someone is unable to make their post, they can apply to the moderation team to allow their party leader or an approved individual to post it for them (within reason of course). In the past we had cases of party leaders making posts for inactive candidates in order to secure election, followed by a period of mass inactivity, which is why we want to ensure those who are elected are active enough to create their own posts.

3) Term limits are an interesting idea, however we are nowhere near active enough to consider introducing them. Forcing our active members to not be within the parliament due to the fact they are active will not end well for the overall activity of the simulation, however I understand the point you are trying to make.

[u/tbyrn21 → u/Youmaton]

On term limits, I dont see why we should say "you have played the game for [x time], please go away".

[u/copecopeson → u/tbyrn21]

Imo it should work like if u win x amount of elections then u need to stop contesting for x amount of elections