Hey guys. I understand a lot of people have been discussing things that they are going to do on the server, I am thinking of pushing Legal Roleplay to the limit. I don't think everyone here is a fan of Legal Roleplay, some find it interesting, some find it boring. Fair enough. But what do you guys think? Should I create my own Political Party? I have a lot of preceding practice in regards to Legal type Roleplay because I've done it on other servers successfully. Do you think it would be a good idea to spend time and create/build political party and why?
Legal Roleplay [Discussion]
Started by Drakey,
It's always nice to have more candidates. If you can portray everything perfectly, why not?
Generally speaking, the point of having a political party is to get elected. If you want to get elected, then you want to make change. If you want to make change, then you're unhappy with how things are right now. Here's the thing though, we haven't seen how @Joe 's administration is going to be like In Character yet, so it doesn't make sense for you or anyone else to be unhappy with it already. Perhaps it would be better to delay your plans, you know, to see if there's actually going to be a need to make a political party - after all, if you pull off such a project at the wrong time and with the wrong intentions then you're likely to not get enough votes, who knows. Legal roleplay isn't just about the government though, you could do your own thing, like work in a business or something, you know?
7 hours ago, Conspiracy said:Generally speaking, the point of having a political party is to get elected. If you want to get elected, then you want to make change. If you want to make change, then you're unhappy with how things are right now. Here's the thing though, we haven't seen how @Joe 's administration is going to be like In Character yet, so it doesn't make sense for you or anyone else to be unhappy with it already. Perhaps it would be better to delay your plans, you know, to see if there's actually going to be a need to make a political party - after all, if you pull off such a project at the wrong time and with the wrong intentions then you're likely to not get enough votes, who knows. Legal roleplay isn't just about the government though, you could do your own thing, like work in a business or something, you know?
Yep, probably going to delay it until I see any issues with the current Government.
So far I have met people who are either doing illegal roleplay or doing a legal one but by joining a legal faction. So far I didn't meet anyone else who would roleplay legal person without faction. My character is underage legal citizen and it's really fun to RP, at least to me. About political party.. I wish you luck with that.
Just now, Nemo said:So far I have met people who are either doing illegal roleplay or doing a legal one but by joining a legal faction. So far I didn't meet anyone else who would roleplay legal person without faction.
That's actually what I'ma do! Well, not exactly 100% legal per se, but my Ashley would be faction-less and a civilian. Planning on just roleplaying a normal 9-5 job, maybe something illegal on the side if it ever gets to that, but yeah. Hopefully there are more civilians out there like us.
1 hour ago, Conspiracy said:
That's actually what I'ma do! Well, not exactly 100% legal per se, but my Ashley would be faction-less and a civilian. Planning on just roleplaying a normal 9-5 job, maybe something illegal on the side if it ever gets to that, but yeah. Hopefully there are more civilians out there like us.
Same. I call my character legal because its not going to have any affiliations with illegal groups, he might do illegal activities if it's necessary like a regular person. I am glad somebody else is rping like that too
On 12/13/2017 at 2:46 PM, Drakey said:I am thinking of pushing Legal Roleplay to the limit. I don't think everyone here is a fan of Legal Roleplay, some find it interesting, some find it boring
Legal RP is always need, I don't like it however it depends on what the legal RP is. I usually do illegal RP, but a while back some friends and I did a towing faction, had lots of fun.
Create something. If you're into the labor / minimum-wage field, start a mechanic business or open up a fast-food restaurant. If you're into the more-advanced jobs, become a real estate agent or start up a school; if you're character is a racist and a real estate agent, but doesn't want to show, maybe him or her would try forcing gentrification on the poor minority neighborhoods. I've never seen anyone start up a church, or someone start up a humanitarian group? Maybe a non-profit organization dedicated to stopping teens from getting into gangs or drugs.
As for politics, while being unhappy with a status quo is a classic motivation (and you'd have to wait for the status quo to be established to do that), there's a different approach as well, which I can highly recommend:
I call it the "represenative" approach, in opposite to the "revolutionary" one described above.
Basic idea is simple, rather than to create and accumulate characters and votes from people who want change for whatever reasons, pick out something in the status quo that your character and his clients think is well and good, and eventually profit from.
Then paint the image of this being threatened, and yourself as it's sole defender, who has to be voted in to keep what's good and well ("They're saving our Police to death! Only Swanson promises 35 new police officers for Vinewood!"- you get the idea).
The huge advantage of this strategy is that you don't necessarily have to throw everything over if by accident you happen to end up in power.
This in return allows both stable government factions (where no whole offices and divisions have to resign or get kicked out just because of a democratically legitimated mayor change), and allows candidate characters to build up long term credibility ("You was promised no change! Swanson got you no change! Swanson keeps his promises! Vote Swanson again!" et cetera).