The Royal court of the Kingdom of Merlot

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Welcome to the Royal court!

This will be the place for Royal announcements and for all the nobles to be heard during my reign.

Let me start this new Merlot era by thanking all nobles who participated in the election and by assuring all of you that the future of Merlot will indeed be glorious!

You all should have an idea of how I would like things to be organized in Merlot and soon I will open all the Imperial offices needed.
Anyone interested in running any of the imperial offices should contact me by PM, those of you who already have your requests are taken into consideration.

Merlot needs all of its nobles and your help in growing this kingdom to an empire will be crusial.

Note clearly that this Royal court is open to ideas, suggestions and good will! None should be afraid to speak, unless his words are poisoned.

For now I will post in the main discussions all the settings you already know I have chosen. Then depending on the final settings decided I will consider our leader and our civ.

For the glory of Merlot!
 
Sometimes it feels like you are working in a vacuum. I wanted to say that I have followed the different "Official" threads for some time, and it has been with great satisfaction that I see our King come so forcefully with our will into the "voting process" with which the game settings are being decided.

Over the past 24 hours many of the fundamental issues that shape the game have been weighed in on (and some decided) by Team Merlot's vote. You can read all about them in the "Official" threads in the main BTS Multi-Team Demogame II forum.

Cheers.
 
Long live the King! :king:

I do pledge myself, my honor, and the entire House of W into the unwavering service of the King.

All Hail Indiansmoke! All Hail the King!

 
My leige, may I draw your attention to my forum organization proposal, posted for review and comment in The Royal House of W - post #13.

I am soliciting the opinion of every Nobel in Merlot, but we all know that there's really only one opinion that truly matters!

I offer my humble services in refining this proposal to suit your tastes and for the glory of team Merlot. :salute:
 
My leige, may I draw your attention to my forum organization proposal, posted for review and comment in The Royal House of W - post #13.

I am soliciting the opinion of every Nobel in Merlot, but we all know that there's really only one opinion that truly matters!

This is a welcome, well though suggestion W! However I think you misunderstood my intensions on creating the positions of the various imperial specialists. The purpose of creating the imperial specialist positions is not to create a closed circle of nobles who will run the Merlot empire, but rather to split the necessary work into several nobles instead of concentrating it to 1-2 persons.

The specialists will not report to a closed circle only visible to the King but in open threads for all the people of Merlot.

For example the Imperial spy will need to take screens of demographics every turn and analyze what he sees in demographics. All these screens will be posted in a separate thread visible to all.

So each Imperial specialist will be in charge of one thread, your suggestions for names seem generally good, I made some slight modifications.


"The Gateway" is indeed a proper place to welcome our people and guests and to keep sticky info. The Merlot lounge can be renamed for that use.

"The Great Hall" is indeed a proper place for our Imperial general who will be our turn player and it can be used as a sticky thread to post all the screens and info from played turns.

For the purposes of the King communicating with the nobles we will use this thread "The Royal court".

The East tower will be renamed to the "All seeing tower" and will be the home of the Imperial spy. We will use this thread to post demographic screens and in game intelligence from every turn.

"The west tower" is indeed a proper place for planning the empire and thus a home of the Imperial strategist and the Imperial mathematician. It is there where all the strategic planning of the empire will be done.

The ante room will be renamed to the "global foyer" and will be the home of our Imperial diplomat, our voice to the outside world. We will use this thread for all diplomatic planning and activity.

Finally the "King's chambers" will be used by the domestic advisor. this will be the only private room of the King and one that only the Imperial domestic advisor will be allowed to enter. The role of the Imperial domestic advisor will be to inform the King of the will of the people of Merlot.
 
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Excellent news your majesty. I will work to remake the Merlot Lounge into a more informative and welcoming thread.
You wrote "the gateway" instead of my proposed "Gatehouse" - was this intentional?
I humbly suggest to His majesty that gateway sounds less... castle-y... than gatehouse.
But I will, of course, bow to your preference.

Your other name changes I will implement on my diagram (for new member nobles to see) without question. :salute:

Also - I wish to present the plans for several castles to the King to hear your preference. The Royal House of W and it's affiliated Nobles wish to build a glorious castle for our Monarch. Or at least one you can use as a summer home or simply as a place to stash peasants who offend you. It is my personal belief that having an official castle for the Empire of Merlot will give our nation a rallying point, a source of pride, and some extra flavor! (And flavor, as you are aware, is a primary mission of House W).

Without further ado, I present to your glorious majesty, the top 3 finalists in design for a castle for the King and Merlot.

Castle A) Fits the thread organization diagram best





Castle B) Highly impressive, but perhaps to associated with England?




Castle C) Another good possibility




Which do you prefer? If none of the above, let me know and I'll keep hunting.
Once you've settled on a design, I'll put my finest craftsmen to work on it!

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter. Long live the King! :salute:
 
Oh yes - very nice.

Is that Bodiam Castle with the moat? Fits the floorplan nicely. And a castle without a moat isn't really a castle. Is it?

Then again, Windsor Castle is massive, epic, and there are so many phenomenal pictures of it in so many different time periods. Just looking on the Windsor Castle page on Wikipedia near the bottom are a few more great shots.

The other thing is royalty tends to move around and bores easily with their surrondings. Perhaps the King could collect many impressive castles, and name them all according to his desire.
 
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Excellent news your majesty. I will work to remake the Merlot Lounge into a more informative and welcoming thread.
You wrote "the gateway" instead of my proposed "Gatehouse" - was this intentional?
I humbly suggest to His majesty that gateway sounds less... castle-y... than gatehouse.
I meant to say the Gatehouse of course, well spotted!

Windsor castle seems appropriate, we will add to our collection as we expand.
 
Very well my Lord, a fine choice!
I hope to have time to get the thread updated soon. (soon = next 24 hours or so)
 
May I suggest a separate place to discuss intelligence data? Sir Tegvtec has made it clear he wants no interruptions in the AS tower, and I don't think adding more noise to the West Tower is appropriate.
A Dark Passageway or even a Secluded Cellar would do nicely.
 
Thank you Fktor for suggesting such a thread. The all-seeing tower is best if it's just the offical reports of matters, makes it easier to track. Looking forward to discussing matters best left unsaid.
 
:agree:
The West tower already has a lot of cross-talk going on. I don't think we want to cloud it up any more than necessary... Perhaps we should just decree that intelligence data should be discussed in the The Global Foyer? It fits with diplomacy, I suppose.

If we want to "add a room" to the Castle, I can do that also, no problem.

Your Majesty?
 
:agree:
The West tower already has a lot of cross-talk going on. I don't think we want to cloud it up any more than necessary... Perhaps we should just decree that intelligence data should be discussed in the The Global Foyer? It fits with diplomacy, I suppose.

If we want to "add a room" to the Castle, I can do that also, no problem.

Your Majesty?

It is already done W. The cellar was named espionaze cellar, as it is always nice to have a drink while discussing our enemies.
 
These days this forum is very quiet.. I hope this is because people are waiting to see what the game turns out to, and not because people are losing interest.. I guess there's not much to discuss, tacticswise, at the moment - since we've more or less come up with a strategy for our island settling. But I hope everyone is still alive and kicking, and that we're not losing people already due to the long turns..
 
I am still here. I check in on Team Merlot most days. It is just the long turns I think.

Now about that space race victory, I think...................:):lol:
 
I'm still checking also....
 
I check the forums entirely too much :)

There isn't much to discuss in terms of the day-to-day. We were all very meticulous at the begining in forumlating different plans for the Kings consideration. The King has asked for some detailed analysis in the West Wing since then - and I have enjoyed reading through that.

I could chime in every few posts with "I agree." ... in fact, maybe that is important to do. It's too easy to forget that we are all here :)

The response I get every 15 turns during the succession ballot will be a good indication as to the activity level of people who are quietly reading.

LLTK
 
Now about that space race victory, I think...................:):lol:

I'm in the mood to build up an overwhelming attack force that leaves our enemies complete stupified by the sheer power at our King's command.

Building a space ship, by comparison, seems a little anti-climactic....

Of course, "winning" trumps everything - so if that means building a space ship I will be front of the line with the Warp Nacelles.

LLTK.
 
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