NationStates Jolt Archive

Neither urgent nor likely to come about immediately, but I wanted to kick this idea around.

Currently, when a UN proposal reaches the required number of delegate approvals, it goes into the queue. However, this occasionally leaves the UN without anything to vote on. So, when there are no proposals in the queue, why not just bump whichever proposal has the most approvals up to be voted on?

Praise? Problems?

Neither urgent nor likely to come about immediately, but I wanted to kick this idea around.

Currently, when a UN proposal reaches the required number of delegate approvals, it goes into the queue. However, this occasionally leaves the UN without anything to vote on. So, when there are no proposals in the queue, why not just bump whichever proposal has the most approvals up to be voted on?

Praise? Problems?

Hmmm....

The only problem is that proposals that wouldn't normally reach the floor (and probably shouldn't reach the floor) might then go to the floor. This is, of course, mitigated by the fact that the proposal with the most approvals is less likely to be a bad proposal than proposals with fewer approvals (assuming, for the moment, that Delegates did their duty by checking the entire proposal list).

I don't know....

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I agree. That would be defeating the purpose of the UN. I mean, it does not always have to have a vote going. Besides, lately all the resolutions is liberal stuff, we wouldn't want that up there anyway... :twisted:

That would actually open up a new strategy for getting proposals to reach the floor: lobbying other delegates to drop their endorsement of a 'competing' proposal, so ones own proposal moves in instead.

Right now proposals do not really compete with one another: if two proposals make the queue one of them will just sit there waiting for its turn.

I'm not sure if this would be an improvement or not. On the one hand one would idealistically think that proposals should be judged on their own merrit, while on the other hand it would provide an additional form of player interaction which is a strong basic element in the game.

Ballotonia

Interesting point about the competing proposal, hadn't thought of that.

The only problem is that proposals that wouldn't normally reach the floor (and probably shouldn't reach the floor) might then go to the floor. This is, of course, mitigated by the fact that the proposal with the most approvals is less likely to be a bad proposal than proposals with fewer approvals (assuming, for the moment, that Delegates did their duty by checking the entire proposal list).
What do you mean "proposals that shouldn't reach the floor"? I mean, any proposal would still likely need 90+ approvals, and innapropriate proposals would still be deleted as per usual, but I don't see what the danger is of letting a proposal be voted on by the whole UN is.


Also, a far too vast level of resolutions pass at the moment anyway. I think maybe having some more variety in the political spectrum wouldn't be a bad thing.