Hello people of Identity. My name is Gene Smith and I'm running for Governor of The Island. I know that the game currently isn't out and nothing is set in stone but I wanted to set out my campaign. I've taken my time to carefully think about different answers for popular questions. What will you do about Property Taxes? What will you do about Gun Control? What will you do about regulating taxes? What are your thoughts about Health Care? What you can do for the working man, and what will you do about the crime? ------------ Property Taxes are Taxes you pay to keep your business running or your home from being taken away. Property taxes are unnecessary and unneeded. Property Taxes need to be removed completely and focusing on taxing other things. You should not have to pay for something you helped build just to live in fear of it being taken away. ----- Gun Control is something that everybody talks about when somebody gets shot. Well the hard truth is, guns don't kill people. People kill people. A person has to load the gun, aim the gun and pull the trigger. We don't need control on guns. We need control on the people who have the guns. If you have a criminal record and you have been known to kill you will have to run a background check before you're able to get your guns. ------ Regulating Taxes on working people will not only bring more jobs but also putting more people in those jobs. A person who makes 8$ an hour gets taxed 5%,10% and even 15% and sometimes even up to but not limited to 35%. You take a middle class man who works 10 hours a day and makes 10 dollars an hour. He gets taxed 15% for his week of pay. He takes home 425$ or somewhere around there. That money could be going towards his house payments. His food. His utilities or even buying clothes for his children. Regulating taxes is the number one thing we need to work on. I want to lower the tax rate to at least 3% to give the lower/middle class man or woman that extra incentive to work harder for those promotions. A happy worker is a hard worker. ------- Health Care is the most important thing. Canada-while their government isn't the best- they do have free health care. Free health care is the most important thing that we need to work on. While Canadians have to pay higher taxes for free health care we will not. Regulating taxes is what needs to happens. --------- The working man is the best type of man. A man who isn't afraid of trying to support his family and trying to make his household happy. The working man is the backbone of our community. I've seen plenty working men and woman that have started their own companies based on the fact to grow more and create more jobs. They make more money for our homes and government. I want to work on. Not taxing the working person not because they're special but because they deserve what they worked for. Why take that away? And crime is something that I will talk about later if necessary. Thank you for your time.

In the past the devs have not given something on time and so that's why Kickapoo has his doubts but I am certain they want to make it right and so you are both right on this as people can improve and meet deadlines they set as everyone improves on mistakes.

@Kickapoo Paratus has mentioned on the Discord that a devblog will be coming out in the next week or two. Whether or not its true, its a sliver of hope

And guess what mate, your moaning isn't helping anybody either! James has helped many people out in the past by answering hundreds of questions about Identity, because like he said he has been here a long time, as have I. We consider ourselves dedicated followers of the game. So for you to say the ones like yourself who come here, wait a month or so and then moan because of the lack of updates are the real identity followers and we are just Identity warriors, makes little sense to me...

I pretty much said I have my worries and doubts and well I don't plaster it everywhere because it won't make me not have them anymore and so I think its pointless (my opinion) to post when nothing happens. If the devs gave us an answer for all what we doubt about the project then I would express it here, but They don't look at the worries and doubts and reply to them as they are bad with PR but really need to hire more staff. The project is very big and well my doubt is that it won't be released in a year but more or less 2 years. So I may have a paragraph to say when someone posts, well thats because I have a opinion and well I just thought that if people realised that there has been many posts on this topic before and they went how far? Nowhere! So take in other opinions and not just your own.

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The thing is tho is that this game started off a concept. When i pledged on Kickstarter it was but an idea on a scrap of paper. There was nothing to show because nothing was made. As soon as it was funded is when the game really started to take shape and its a long time from now until they release something. The video that we all know from the website, that will most likely not be what the game will look like. Its very easy to place a couple of assets and scripts into a game engine and fly a camera around. What people need to understand is that this isnt a game that is ever so close to finishing, this is a CONCEPT that has just started. If you want to show your support then follow these guys, yeh they dont post updates everyday but its up to them whether or not they see fit to update you on every single thing they do and i dont know about most of you (i know that most of you will go against me on this) but i dont want updates every single hour when a member of the dev team scratches their arse. I want dev blogs like the one we already had, a single feature, with a lot of detail. Not: placed building. Just keep being patient, some of us have been here longer than others and they seem to cope a lot better than most for some reason. Im just fine. Ive pledged and i dont even care if the game comes out or not. Im a wannabe games developer and im just happy i could have helped out someones aspirations as i hope someone will for me one day. Lets just keep being the great and supportive community weve been so far and keep supporting these guys on their journey. Now i know most of you will start quoting me and chatting shit about my post but i couldnt care less and i wont argue but this is what we have to do if we want this game to become a reality. Games are successful due to their supportive backers so please just understand that we need to support and help these guys out. If youre against that then why do you bother coming here?? Sorry for the rant. Herzog