You do keep clogging the votebox, usually with irrelevant (or in this case) impossible stuff. I believe you admitted that in the post you put these in.
I called it an illegal instruction. The point of that was to highlight that it was outside of the normal parameters of the game. That said, this is ultimately a wargame, and we are not without influence in our nation. An advisory holds no authority, but our forces might choose to obey it on their own volition, and it offers an outlet for influencing our war effort that doesn't really go beyond "this is what we designed this to do, make of that what you will"... We either introduced vodka to stand toe-to-toe with the enemy fleets and such will be served only by confrontation, as a distraction/delay which would be failed if it forces our carriers and archers into confrontations that they are not suited to, or just a "need more ships so have more ships" which is what is advocated by not doing so. The admiralty is free to just ignore us, obviously, but it seems within the scope of our role to tell people our intentions(or lack thereof) in designing a thing. "Impossible" seems a bit too extreme a statement to drop with no context.
As it stands, I expect the vodka to tie us up in pitched battles. Vodka cannot escape, especially not when firing broadsides, and our fleets will not sit idly by and watch them all get sunk, so it turns into a mess of both sides throwing everything that they have into a melee. I would like to suggest that they be designated not as battleships, but instead as bait...
I do not see the current votebox as clogged. I just honestly don't see it. If you could perhaps state what it is specifically inhibiting I could know what to avoid. I am not aware of my being frequently active in adding things to the votebox that are not designs in design votes or revisions in revision votes or attacks into attack votes or counterpoints/neutral-options to multiple-choice votes. I do not see any of those as being irrelevant and rather feel that it is important to feature all proposals in the votebox so that people know all the available options when voting. It is often possible to miss a proposal somewhere along the line, and I suspect that some people only read the most recent couple of pages and may never see a proposal at all. So I feel that it is rather important that all proposals get an even share of the vote-box advertising as otherwise some would be overlooked just on the basis of having never been seen when they would otherwise be viable. If one is going to cite impossibility on the basis of not having been voted, well, that is rather a messy kettle of worms that ends up denying the possibility of free will in and being in any version of existence. For the sake of brevity, let's just say that we can't ever be certain that something can't be voted in regardless of how much it fails to impress us personally or has failed to gain votes or was overlooked early in the voting process. Other than that, I really haven't been keeping track of what addition I have been making, os it could be that I have been adding a lot of clutter without being aware of it?
That's simple; we don't decide doctrine. We just built the stuff. Besides no-one's going to really vote for that stuff anyway so no point in keeping it in the vote box clogging things up.
Ah, thankyou. I was concerned that it might have been personal, as my personal identity was the only given reason that it could be excised. A more specifically general ""a voter did it" or "Sensei never said that we could do that" would have offered more clarity on the matter, but I admit that I may take unintended offence from implications that my opinion should be dismissed on principal.
I repeat that I do not perceive the current votebox as being clogged. Some illumination of how its current level of clutter is proving a hindrance would be helpful in avoiding it in the future. Also, I a gain reiterate, this time that I would hope that none of us are in a position to discern what everyone else is willing to vote for, so a thing being discarded due to a perceived lack of interest is inappropriate.
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