This interview was conducted from the first of may to the third.
Q1: What's your opinion of the Potato empire?
Rory: I think the Potato Empire, just a few months ago, was the most powerful it had ever been. It had allies, it had the most citizens and territories, and it had just won a war. However, now that said war is over, Potato’s allies are not as friendly, and many of its new territories have left.
Q2: What's your opinion on The Gays?
Rory: Given that Ada and Callum have had openly hostile relations towards not only Potato, but its allies in the URA in the past, and even fought a war over Thailand, needless to say, I do not have a good opinion of their faction.
Q3: What's your opinion on Jonasland?
Rory: Jonasland allied with Ada, Callum, and the rest during the Second Great Realmplex War, and from what I see, Jonasland has formed a very close alliance with them. I recall either Ada or Callum describing Jonasland as a puppet state of The Gays. Therefore, I regard Jonasland, at least with its current government, similarly to The Gays.
Q4: What's your opinion on the minor factions of the server?
Rory: Since most are in the URA, or even just Potato itself, there is little to say. Westforge isn’t really a minor faction anymore, but I have good relations with its citizens. (Sorry to the nations that I haven’t mentioned.)
Q5: What's your opinion on the Potato empire power structure?
Rory: I think the Potato Empire’s power structure is far too confusing. The way I see it, the whole idea of the Potato Royals-Kings whatever, only exists to make people who want to join Potato feel more powerful, by having “equal power” with the other Royals. And having governors and prime ministers doesn’t help either. However, I do think that how the elections are handled, with the voting and registration, is quite good.
Q6: What's your opinion on the BLN?
Rory: Bird Land Navy is yet another subsidiary of the Royal Potato Navy, although it is currently its largest and most powerful incarnation yet. The ships are much larger than anything else Potato has. However, they are still dwarfed by even my smallest ships. If they want to rival the CRN, then they will need to step up their game, and quickly.
Q7: What's your opinion on the ITN (potato industries ITN)?
Rory: The Independent Thailand Navy was the first subsidiary of the RPN. However, despite initial promise, it seems to have fallen by the wayside, in favor of the BLN and other projects. The navy consists of little more than a few wooden boats and seldom few patrol ships. I think more effort should be refocused onto the main Potato Navy.
Q8: What's your opinion on the covenant made ships?
Rory: As I’m not sure which ships are made by Covenant Engineering, I cannot properly answer this question, but I have stated my thoughts on the BLN and ITN’s ships previously.
Q9: What's your opinion on RNN? (feel free to be honest)
Rory: I am glad that there is another news source on the server. However, I do think that RNN does need to come up with some more original articles. Some are copied almost word-for-word from the PMI articles on the same thing. And the interview questions are just as simple as what's your opinion on X and what's your opinion on Y.
Q10:Whats your opinon on PMI?
Rory:The first news source on the server, and some may say the best. I think PMI is lagging behind RNN in terms of up-to-date news, as well as frequency of articles, however the articles themselves feel much more polished than RNN’s.
Q11:What are your plans for potato if you win the elections?
Rory: If I win I intend to start, and hopefully finish construction on the PNV Jackson F. Jaxolord, along with other Potato Navy ships, as I intend to concentrate more effort onto the main potato navy, not it’s subsidiaries. I also intend to start work on farms, for example, a wool farm, iron farm, cactus farm, etc. In addition I would attempt to set up trade with UCCR, for items such as totems, and other valuables.
Q12:Jonasland's navy has been at a standstill for a while now do you have any comment on that?
Rory:The Jonasland Navy has had some recent developments, I just finished a design for a destroyer for them, however, the JLS Allium, in it’s current form at least, has been cancelled, to hopefully be replaced with a new design.
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