05-01-2013, 10:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-05-2013, 09:51 AM by Brutland and Norden.)
Hello! I am Brutland and Norden and I would like to explain about the concept of the endorsement cap.
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The endorsement cap is there to help protect the delegacy from unscrupulous people who might want to take it. The mechanics of NationStates delegacy in a founder-less region such as the South Pacific means that the delegate wields a lot of power. As we have seen, that power was used by Milograd to nearly destroy the region. If the delegacy falls in the hands of a person with bad intentions, we'll experience once again what we had just went through.The endorsement cap is there so that nobody will take the delegacy by surprise and without informing the region first. It helps force nations who want the delegacy to introduce themselves to TSPers and give TSPers the opportunity to decide whether s/he is fit to be the delegate. Because the nations of the South Pacific have to know the person who will take over such a sensitive and powerful position in the region. That is why we have Delegate elections, and not simple jockeying for the delegacy via endorsements only.
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On a personal note, I also had been under the endorsement cap for the greater part of my seven years in NS. In fact, I had been under it for six years, and I didn't deem it oppressive. I think I had broken it once or twice, but the people here in TSP had been lenient about people with what I call "excess tarting syndrome" - in which you gave out a lot of endorsements and the people that had been returning it are pushing you above the cap. As long as you don't give out more endos when you are above cap, you'll be fine.
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In addition, TSP has one of the highest endorsement caps around NS. The Pacific for instance, has an endorsement cap of 20. TSP's original endorsement cap of 100 is actually enough to get you a badge of top 1% in the World for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
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Our endo cap is currently set at 150, to accommodate those who have tarted in order to secure their position within TSP (ie so that they won't be ejected). We will be giving them time to reduce their endorsements by lowering the cap by 10 every week, until it goes back to 100.
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If our population grows big enough and the delegate's endorsements reach 400, we might be open to increasing the cap for everyone to enjoy.
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The endorsement cap is there to help protect the delegacy from unscrupulous people who might want to take it. The mechanics of NationStates delegacy in a founder-less region such as the South Pacific means that the delegate wields a lot of power. As we have seen, that power was used by Milograd to nearly destroy the region. If the delegacy falls in the hands of a person with bad intentions, we'll experience once again what we had just went through.The endorsement cap is there so that nobody will take the delegacy by surprise and without informing the region first. It helps force nations who want the delegacy to introduce themselves to TSPers and give TSPers the opportunity to decide whether s/he is fit to be the delegate. Because the nations of the South Pacific have to know the person who will take over such a sensitive and powerful position in the region. That is why we have Delegate elections, and not simple jockeying for the delegacy via endorsements only.
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On a personal note, I also had been under the endorsement cap for the greater part of my seven years in NS. In fact, I had been under it for six years, and I didn't deem it oppressive. I think I had broken it once or twice, but the people here in TSP had been lenient about people with what I call "excess tarting syndrome" - in which you gave out a lot of endorsements and the people that had been returning it are pushing you above the cap. As long as you don't give out more endos when you are above cap, you'll be fine.
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In addition, TSP has one of the highest endorsement caps around NS. The Pacific for instance, has an endorsement cap of 20. TSP's original endorsement cap of 100 is actually enough to get you a badge of top 1% in the World for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
Â
Our endo cap is currently set at 150, to accommodate those who have tarted in order to secure their position within TSP (ie so that they won't be ejected). We will be giving them time to reduce their endorsements by lowering the cap by 10 every week, until it goes back to 100.
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If our population grows big enough and the delegate's endorsements reach 400, we might be open to increasing the cap for everyone to enjoy.