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As the vast sea of grass that covers the plains turned from green to yellow, before finally turning brown, ahead of the rapidly approaching winter season. Another change swept across the plains. The forces of light, long oppressed by their hellish and dark occupiers, were at last able to reclaim control of their homeland, pushing those who occupied them back into the dark depths of the underworld from which they had come.



Sinker regions are game-created regions, commonly known as GCRs, where nations go after being ejected from other regions. Before the additions of The Plains of Perdition (PoP), along with its sister region, the Outback on November 26th, The Rejected Realms was the game’s only sinker region.



The addition of new GCRs is a rare and historic event, PoP and the Outback are the first GCRs to be added to the game since 2011, when the regions that are now known as Restorer regions were added to the game. Furthermore, gaining and maintaining control of these regions is a very important accomplishment.



The LDF was alerted of this development and sprung into action, ultimately deploying 24 enlisted members of the LDF and 4 civilians to ensure the stability and security of the Plains of Perdition’s new provisional government.



We thank everyone for their efforts; the following ribbon is awarded to everyone who participated in this deployment. We ask that those who participated in this operation remain piling in the Plains of Perdition until they receive orders to do otherwise. Additional pilers are not needed, so those who did not participate in the operation should remain in their respective regions.

• Citizenship and WA membership in The League & Concord
  
• Pass periodic activity checks 
  
• Discord account in our server
  

Quote:What is your nation name?

What is your Discord username?

What is your WA nation (if you are in the LDF, cite the nation you have in the WA when not on operations)?

How do you plan to contribute to the Council?

I, as a Delegate to the Council of The League and Concord, pledge to use my authority to represent the common good in government and advance the legislative and administrative standing of the regions, and to contribute to a balance for both the veterans and the advancing youthful members of the regions.

It was suggested on Discord that we have a list of who in the region supports what NFL teams since we do football Sunday pings and it's a frequent conversation topic!

Baltimore Ravens: @Gjorka

Buffalo Bills: @Flying Eagles

Carolina Panthers: @im_a_waffle1

Cincinnati Bengals: @AurAKlimaX

Dallas Cowboys: @KQJ2011

Denver Broncos: @Kivu

Green Bay Packers: @Rakhman

Los Angeles Rams: @Banexet

New England Patriots: @New Illyricum, @Quebecshire

Philadelphia Eagles: @gagium

Pittsburgh Steelers: @OnTheHorizon143

San Francisco 49ers: @Creeperopolis

Seattle Seahawks: @Baltanla, @Chipoli

It’s been awhile since the Consulate has done a consulate meeting, and so we held one in a rather impromptu fashion. As it was an impromptu meeting, you’re getting a late and impromptu report of it. It's going here rather than the executive channel because I have no idea who has the roles to see it.

Big takeaways?

The League and Concord now have a variety of domestic projects that are still in the works, with a variety of public interest and relative priority. There's constitutional reform for making the legislative branch exist again, there’s the impending launch of the regional economy, and there’s recruitment– And all of these projects have interlinking concerns and issues.

During discussion on the logistics of how the regional economy would work, we all agreed that there’ll be some upkeep while the economy functions, and that there’ll need to be someone performing administrative tasks of distributing leaguecredits (I’m using the last currency as a stand-in for whatever the community decides as the currency name this time around) based on reports provided by relevant government bodies.

Quote:“Hey, that position sounds like something that should be outlined in a legislative package!"

If you clicked on this, be mindful of what you click on! Scams are a big thing on Discord, and we've even gotten a few spammers on the forums before. Be safe!
Red flags include: Promises of access to NSFW content, "too good to be true" offers (a million bucks, free discord nitro, etc.), or weird intimidation tactics -- i.e. "I accidentally reported your account so now you need to do exactly as I say [gives you instructions that if followed will compromise your account]".

If you run into fishy, or scaly content, reach out to a server mod or admin and poke em about it

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Madden NFL 25 is bringing back "team builder" mode, where you can create a new team from scratch including uploading your own logo, designing your own uniforms, and even custom creating a roster. For awhile this has been gone and you could only rebrand teams to pre-select options.

The game comes out the 16th, and I'll probably do some streaming in the server for it.

What mascot should the team have? I'll take the best suggestions and do a regional poll.

Who wants to be on the roster? Reply with a desired position + number and I'll put you in!

Let's take a small break from Constitutional debates (more on this coming very soon) to discuss an idea that came up yesterday: reintroducing a regional economy.

For the unaware, the region used a Discord bot to have an economy of sorts (based on a fictional currency) in 2020. I'll break down the simple pros and cons of the system *as it existed then*. 

• Pros: It generated a lot of activity for the server, people seemed to generally find it fun, arguably added some degree of culture/flavor to the region
  
• Cons: People were generally corrupt, it caused a few fights here and there, and the system it ran off of wasn't well defined so it went off the rails (see Kanjuura's comments about loan sharking, etc).
  

• A base salary of this fictional currency for people in roles to benefit the region (recruiter, LDF member, etc).
  
• Payouts for participation (recruitment telegrams sent, LDF ops attended, roleplay contests won).
  
• Minigames playable with this current (blackjack, etc).
  
• Purchaseable items (a Discord role color or icon, things of that sort?).
  
• A degree of regulation to prevent abuse of the system/people being taken advantage of in it.
  

1. Are you interested in seeing this implemented?
   
2. Do you like the way its outlined above? What would you change or add?
   
3. Do you think this would help incentivize/drive regional activity and participation, or not really?