Issue: Who do we want in HoL?

If we're going to create a HoL alliance, who do we want in it? Is it just going to be a select club for the people who are already members of this forum or do we want to expand it to include anyone who wants to join? If so, what's our application process?

Part of this are how strong our desires for a Senate Seat are. I agree with Vorak that obtaining a Senate Seat is an impossible task. We'd need several hundred people in the alliance to accomplish that and even then, they'd all have to be the same colour. But then again, there's no harm in having long term goals...

My personal opinion is that, as we're going to establish our own stand-alone forums, we should attempt to be as big as we can. Otherwise we may as well stay here.

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Expanding, I've just been through 6 months of small exclusive alliances and I'm sick of it, theres never enough people to help out when you need it.

That being said, I believe all of us founders should recieve certain benefits since we are the true HoL faithful.

 

If and its a big if we could get JC I'd be happy, since we'd have a guy who makes damned good laws and enjoys doing it.

But its more likely that he'll just try and start the GC again.

 

I'm trying to convice him that the idea of a grey alliance is a lost cause, but he won't accept it.

 

With regards to disbanding the GC, how do you plan to approach that publicly? If I'm going to make an out of the blue post establishing the House of Lords on the CN forums, will you follow that up with one announcing the demise of the GC and that it has split into the USS and HoL?

 

I think that would make it just a tad bit limited.

 

All Members are welcome to join the House of Lords.

 

I'm on the staff as well you know (Well I'm just barely holding onto a bottom rung anyway).

If we keep this little subforum after the official alliance forums are established we should make it a closed group with the only new members being people who already had a HoL account before December 2006 or some early date like that (So hopefully Blinky , Rosie and a few others will join).

We should also reename it the 'HoL Honoured Members Lounge' or something like that so if someone shows up here it doesn't look like we have a secret section.

 

Well that could work in the beginning, but if we want to grow it becomes a problem, the biggest the GC ever got was about 50 members and that took a long time to achieve.

Whereas simply requiring members to swear an oath to submit to our authority and then bomb them into the ground if they don't is pretty easy.

Screening will probably be required for nations that are stronger than us, since they could cause problems.