>>33576
Since those discussions always happen at times I'm asleep, I guess I'll throw my input into this thread instead.
I would advocate for the first option, I know this is against "chan spirit", but really, when we look at the facts, recruiting non-pol boards has pretty much failed all the time we tried.
Viridian - dead, Intis - dead, Versailles - dead, Akihabara - dead, Tygrus - dead, and now Spainland and Kuntry top it all off nicely by not dying peacefully of inactivity like their predecessors and instead decided to backstab us before fucking off.
As I see it, the only people left of us on the entire server, not just chanada, are we (pol), Neustria (correct me if I'm wrong but I think you guys are also mainly pol) and CHQ, which is a mixed crew of FAGT oldfriends and Versilly veterans.
And lets face it, getting quality people to play here is hard as fuck. Not only is Minecraft a pretty shitty game to base anything on, civcraft specifically is a huge timesink with very little action taking place. The amount of shit you need to do to get some good enchanted stuff is ridiculous, so only really determined people stay, which I can understand.
Aside of that, Polynesia got great and still persists because we follow our Führer, we actually take this whole political experiment shit atleast semi-seriously, trying to do whats good and beneficial to our state.
Meanwhile, many people joining from other boards, or sometimes even from pol (looking at you logi) are only in it for delusions of grandeur and personal profit. As soon as their own interests and those of the state clash, they throw a fit, and better yet, more and more actually run to reddit the second they don't get what they want to whine there and act like fucking Brianna Wu.
Its been a long time since people followed the old "in-house" approach to problem solution, and even longer since something like chan spirit was an actual thing. We need to look elsewhere for steadfast allies, so much is now clear, atleast for me. I think both the HKE and Thule seem like good people, and maybe we could work some more traditional cooperations out with them.
One last thing, I really want Neustria to be on board with us, those guys have been chill, drama-free people as long as I know them, and losing them would be really sad tbh.