During the recent events, administration conducted talks with several members of the community, not only about the merger between GE and DE but about the game in general. We have been asked several times for better player representation in the game.

Following interesting talks with Correll Aintab from Galactic Empire, we came up with an interesting senate reform idea that have been approved unanimously by administration.

Senate reform

Composition:

• The senate will be 100% handled by players. The details on how it works, how many representant in total, the repartition of the CMGs in this council, the way representants are elected, ... are up to the players.
• There will be one Head Senator that will serve as intermediary between this body and the administration team.

Role and power

• The senate is an advisory body. Its duties in that role are to gather the opinion of people, debate them and propose constructive advices to the administration team. The administration team will be informed of these advices through the head senator, will review the advice and take a decision regarding it.
• The senate acts as the highest scale of player representation. the duties of the senators are to represent their fellow other players. In this role, the senate will receive from administration team their concerns and advices, will debate them and transmit the concerns (in addition to the results of the debates) to their fellow players.
• If everything goes well, the senate will receive decisional power on small questions such as banning/unbanning members. This will only happen once the new senate formula is well launched and the system is working right.

A couple of notes

• The administration team keeps decisional power in all case. The senate mecanism will however allow the players to voice their opinion in a nice disciplined way that will believe will be treated the best we can.
• The senate will not be listened to on the following topics : General management of the combine (naming of new assistants, finances of the game,..)and decisions regarding the development. These topics remains in the exclusive hands of dedicated teams named by administration.

In order to help the initial talks on a senate structure, the administration exhorts the players to start threads on our message centers about how they want the senate to be organised. The ball is in your camp, the senate is yours.

In behalf on administration,