I second this - that rationale should be quite obvious and zeo's rules quite explicitly stated that all votes need to be sent to mirror the RL simultaneous vote.

heh

I think I covered it when I replied to cristi and... dedo was it?

Let me put it this way. It's always interesting to see who asks.
It's also interesting to see who changes approach after answers are given.

In other words, I'm a bit of a cocktease... :P

So, not sure if the approach is defined, but votecount please?

I assume Cristi is pending, but curious if anyone else.
To whoever it was earlier that asked - in my experience Cristi does tend to be quiet early on. She ramps up participation usually. Other regulars can confirm (I mean RW, Dedo, Lift - ZFR maybe)

Taking the opportunity as on reread I noticed this and find it bordering on straw manning and throwing shade at me...

1 - different meta approaches can be disagreed on but I find it hard to believe you really can't understand the information gathering / analysis rationale.
It's similar to calling for participation and the presumption that votes should be Yes is to me akin to being lurker friendly. Because with these rules unlike regular Mafia we don't get flips every Day. The votes on governments are the pseudo flips, and the more we get the better. I don't see that as being that strange of a logic to grok, and find it hard to attribute resistance (pun intended) to anything other than ingrained groupthink or intentional FUD.

2 - no one has said they are fine going the 3 failures road. What I said (and despite your not mentioning me, I was the only one anywhere near a position like that - which is why this is pinging me), what I said was 2 failures and then carte blanche. And even that will quickly become conditional on the seating order.

So far I see no issue, it is anyway going faster than I expected.

I think rather unusually the percentage of Americans playing is also low with only you, ZFR and RW. That might be contributing to your feeling a bit off. But try to hang on I say. :)

Yes, so far I don't see any reason for you to sub out, cristi. Just vote whenever you're here when a government has been proposed, then things should work out.

By the way, did you vote?

If so, @mods: who is missing?

That sounds a reasonable strategy but an individual Hitler player may perhaps think differently

Sorry to make you feel rushed, once a day should be perfectly fine as long as you make sure you check whether there's a vote when you are online

I'm sorry if that came as a swing at you, it wasn't meant to be one. I was saying that I don't agree with this approach in general and won't be going for it myself, not that it is in any way condemning when others do it. I didn't mention your name exactly for that reason but now I'm getting a sense of "a guilty conscious needs no accuser" (this is mostly a joke, but the idiom did pop out in my mind :))

Looking at post #2, it indicates Kusu, Dedo, me and Cristi, but given that I sent in my vote last night when I got home from work, maybe the person really missing is our fearless leader as that was edited 18 hours ago.

As an aside, even as an "American" my schedule is a little out of whack from normal as I work evenings.

Yep, I checked my chat and my vote has been cast some 20 hours ago.

I sent my vote 18 hours ago.

Sorry, real life is busier than usual. While I have time to read (and boy, some of you like to write wall of text), I really lack time to write long thoughtful reply.

I vote yes for this government because I think we need a better "data", if you can call it that. The last failed voting didn't really tell us anything, some suspicion here and there, nothing conclusive. I got a feeling this game is never meant for liberal player to have a strong fact, only bias / most likely ones. And if we must rely on unreliable data, then I would prefer have more data than less.

The votes are in! The results are as follows.

1. The Greek (greeklover) - YES
2. Boss Kusu (kusumahendra) - YES
3. Mr. Scene (supplementscene) - YES
4. Basil the Lifter (lifthrasil) - YES
5. Bishop Bling (ZFR) - YES
6. Captain Dedo (dedoporno) - YES
7. General Warehall (RWarehall) - YES
8. The Count of Monte Cristigale (cristigale) - YES
9. Big Brass (Brasas) - NO
10. Chief Blotunga (blotunga) - YES

The government is approved!

https://i.imgur.com/usF8Tgz.jpg

The president and chancellor (supplementscene and RWarehall) are now bound to silence until a policy is passed.

1) Please do not PM other players during the game. At least, not about the game; if there is some outside issue, then I suppose we'll allow you to PM them.

Feel free to PM a mod to ask about status of voting or to ask a mod to poke people for voting. You can also poke people in the game thread to request they go ahead and vote, and you can ask a mod in the game thread about current status of voting.

2) All votes need to be submitted before everyone's vote is revealed (and the government passed or rejected).

Nice. Now let's see what policy Scene and RW enact.

Heh

I see you're still fishing. Not sure if you would fake something like that as Fascist... is that your style? ;)