Yes it was!
My daughter was grossed out by the Cat throwing game.
I enjoyed having you in the cabinet, you served TNP well! Just as I enjoyed working with you in TWP. I am sorry I went inactive on you. Sometimes I couldn't keep up with NS, and I failed you.
You were not fully in the loop on the whole of TCO, but that's probably true for most everyone as I tried to balance the factions and plans, *chuckles*. It was an audacious plan that worked for a time, even when it never should have worked. Our intentions were good, the NS world wanted a conflict, and we tried to give them activity, progress, and conflict. You had a heart for the well being of TNP, and I am thankful for your help.
I haven't tried to open the database of the TNP Crimson forums, maybe I'll take a look someday and have more to share. I think that forum was IPB 3.x. The Crimson Order organization forums were |invisionfree| and compromised by Brom/Khark and were abandoned, and now comes Tapatalk and I haven't found that link anyway.
Miscellaneous......
The warning that was sent to RMB Spammers:
Easter on the TNP WFE:Greetings !
I noticed your recruitment ad posted on The North Pacific RMB, and I wanted to take a moment to advise you of our 15-line AdSpam limit policy, which is noted in our WFE. I would ask if you would please give our regional policies due consideration, and help keep our regional RMB free of excessively long AdSpam.
Thank you for your consideration. Our full AdSpam policy can be found here:
http://z13.|invisionfree|.com/TNP/index.p ... topic=4061
Lewis and Clark
UN Delegate and Head of State of The North Pacific
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[b]The Delegate:[/b] Lewis and Clark
[b]Vice Delegate:[/b] Nastic
[color=purple]Has anyone seen the NationStates Easter Bunny?[/color]
An Address to The North Pacific
Another turning point has come before us. While the new Constitution, flawed as it is, provided us with an opportunity to reignite activity and usher in a New Age in TNP, we have encountered the continued entrenchment of old bureaucrats.
One seat in the judiciary was successfully filled by election, yet the Speaker and the remaining judiciaries from the previous constitution, still recognize the old over the new, refusing to provide elections to fill the full judiciary under the new Constitution. They have presumed upon the region a decision unsupported by any legal authority, that the former judiciary stand as sound for the new constitution. I will make it clear. I do not recognize the authority of these persons that have not been elected under the current Constitution.
As Delegate, I was empowered with all authority over regional security, and yet I was given an empty Intelligence forum. Now I'm told that the NPIA yet exists, but that they are secret. If that were to be true, then they are now renegades serving against the region.
Dalimbar, whom I have charged with responsibility for the Defense and Security of the region, announced the replacement of the NPA and NPIA with the Regional Defense Forces. Once again, the old bureaucrats charged that it couldn't be done, even though all authority is given to the Delegate over such matters.
Rather than taking our opportunity to spur activity, our administrators and our Speaker have dragged their feet in taking action to ensure the speedy adoption of the new Constitution. To the point that the Speaker failed to provide a simple open thread for RA applicants in a timely manner. Something that takes no more than a few minutes, took a week. The Speaker should facilitate the good governance of the RA, and administrators should be responsive to the needs of the region.
These are but a few of the issues that have arisen.
But more importantly than any of this, we are seeing a decline across NationStates that requires proactive action to reverse. It's no longer a bipolar NS world of defenders vs. raiders, or NPO vs. ADN. That is the past. Defenders won their fight against griefers and then the victory was sealed with the Age of Influence. Most of the great defender regions failed to adjust to the new age, and faded away. What is left of defending today is counter-invading. It no longer has the great cause that it once did.
Activity must be brought into the game again if we are to interest players into becoming active. Yes, activity begets activity. In my region Equilism, we have been discussing new policies and means to generate activity in NationStates for months now. And at the recent NS Conference, a wide array of players came together to brainstorm what could be done. All the talking and planning in the world, however, does not bring results without action.
The North Pacific can be a part of the solution. We can be a place of action, and a leverage point to build new opportunities for activity. And so today we begin. With my unique position as Delegate of The North Pacific, and Founder of Equilism, this new opportunity is forged.
From the days when Wilkshire and Equility negotiated and signed the first Equilism-TNP Alliance, our regions have shared a common interest in the well being of NationStates. Together, working closely as allies, bilaterally, through ADN, and through A.L.L., we fought the good fight. Defenders together, to bring an end to the plague of griefers.
In times of need, Equilism has been the staunchest of allies of The North Pacific. Equilism provided the largest army in the only liberation of a feeder region ever successfully performed in NationStates, to remove Great Bight from the TNP Delegacy. And again, when Pixiedance handed her nation over to Gracious Maximus, Equilism worked within the NPD and with the exiled government to seek a resolution to the strife in the North.
It has been a long road that we have traveled, to seek to repair the damage from those days. Those terrible schisms destroyed the vitality of TNP, and resulted in the horrendous bureaucracy of the now former constitution.
Then, in 2007, with good intentions, the region struggled with the entrenched bureaucracy to extract itself from the abyss of inactivity, and with a single changed vote passed the current flawed Constitution. However, the old guard of the bureaucracy would rebuild our tangled past, and continue the stagnation that leads to the ever spiraling decline and decay into inactivity that is being suffered throughout so much of NationStates.
Beyond even this, there are forces outside of the region that would also prefer to see the status quo toward inactivity and decay continue, rather than see a revitalization effort to give hope to the future. They hold on to outdated concepts and dynamics that have been gone from NS for years now.
Therefore on this day, in order to join together in common effort to defeat the great inactivity that has decended upon NationStates, and those that would impose their will upon the nations of TNP, as UN Delegate and Head of State, a state of emergency is declared and the Constitution of The North Pacific is hereby dissolved.
The Regional Assembly is dissolved, the Speaker dismissed, the Judiciary invalid.
The regions of Equilism and The North Pacific shall both be autonomous regions under my authority, as Founder and King of Equilism, and UN Delegate of The North Pacific. Duality is not a concept that I care for, nor shall I recognize it in either region.
In times of crisis such as these, the true metal of individuals shines through, and displays the extent of dedication to the spirit of man. Today we give tribute to that spirit, and together, inspired by hope in the darkness of the End of The World, we ignite the Typhoon Storm, and stir life anew into these fallow lands of NationStates.
The z13 forum is no longer recognized as the forum of The North Pacific. The official forum is now:
http://www.thenorthpacific.info/forum
Thank you for your time and attention,
Westwind, aka Lewis and Clark
The Crimson King, UN Delegate of The North Pacific, King of the Realm of Equilism