A More Perfect Union

[yahzuk]

Current Party List.

Party : Members - Status , Control of Government
America First Party : 1 - Fledgling Party ,
Communist Party : 1 - Fledgling Party ,
Fighting Researcher Party : 1 - Fledgling Party ,
MOR Party : 1 - Fledgling Party ,
no party : 4 - -
Rattlesnake Party : 1 - Fledgling Party ,




*5 or more members needed to achieve national recognition status

 

[chgrogers]

I am putting myself up to be the representative candidate for the No Party Ticket.

For my platform. Social Policy I feel that america should be expansive and tall. So I support opening with Tradition and then Liberty to Expand America to 5-6 cities core Cities.

I believe myself a peaceful man and will support war of defense and necessity. (i.e. Strategic Resource or location)

To further my goal. I support getting pottery and and Luxury technology tech depending on starting location.

 

[DefoesRightBoot]

I'd like to join, yahzuk, but with no party as yet (I might set one up when I've got more time to think about it, or join an existing one later.)

 

[dot80]

Chgrogers you might want to atleast give a platform.

 

[Ceskari]

The Ceskari Manifesto

Workers of America!

It is time for us to secede from the oppression of the imperialist rule of the Redcoats. Long enough have we toiled under the iron fist. Turning over the regime is more than dumping loads of teabags into the sea, we need to throw over the puppet rulers to be fed to the sharks.

For the prosperity of America as an independent nation, we need to accumulate culture to attain Liberty, relying on a Tradition or Honor. Finally, we will learn from our experience and become a nation embracing Rationalism. We also need to be able to benefit from neighboring City States, using Patronage to sway them over to our side. This way, we will find our Freedom as the greatest nation on earth. Our settlers will then have reached all corners of the map and the rulers of old have succumbed to our vast and technologically modern armies.

I, as your ruler, will bring to the Nation happiness and prosperity, under common goals, as agreed upon by the Party Council.

The slogan for our banners will be “In None we Trust”. All hail the Party and its leader Ceskari.

 

[Ceskari]

Of course, the Communist Party has a flag.

 

[Gigagar]

The Fighting Researcher Party will henceforth be known as the Horned Owl Party, due to the owl being symbolized as a creature of wisdom, as well as being a bird of prey.

 

[Omega124]

Running for Senate underr the Rattlesnake Party

 

[yahzuk]

Posting test: player list with party symbols - looks like I haven't gotten the sizing quite right yet

Spoiler Player List :

Player : Party , City , Score

Ceskari : Communist Party , Washington , pts , Candidate: President
chgrogers : no party - , Washington , pts , Candidate: Representative Washington-1
DeforesRightBoot : no party - , Washington , pts ,
dot80 : no party - , Washington , pts ,
Gigagar : Horned Owl Party - , Washington , pts ,
Omega124 : Rattlesnake Party , Washington , pts , Candidate: Senate Washington
Rudragun : America First Party , Washington , pts ,
ShadowNX : no party - , Washington , pts , Candidate: President
Tambien : MOR Party , Washington , pts ,
Triskelli : no party - , Washington , pts ,

 

[yahzuk]

Two Rule Tweaks:
Game Speed changed to Epic. After some additional testing I decided marathon is a little too slow.
All parties now receive score points for control of government. Still only nationally recognized parties (min 5 members) are guaranteed a ballot sp

 

[yahzuk]

Posting Test: City Info - Shows Starting Position

Spoiler Cities :

Washington
Citizens: 2
Players: 10
Output: 4 4 8 5 3 16 Affluence: 7680
Per Capita Affluence Bonus: 2.0%
Buildings: Palace, Granary, Monument
Wonders: None
Senator: 0 #N/A #N/A
Representatives:
Washington-1 0 #N/A #N/A

Spoiler Washington :

 

[chgrogers]

Not a bad spot lots of forest for production and Grasslands for Production. So I am assuming that we will start with 1 Senator and 2 Representatives?

What are the 2 water tiles (lake or coastal) just south of the city?

 

[yahzuk]

Not a bad spot lots of forest for production and Grasslands for Production. So I am assuming that we will start with 1 Senator and 2 Representatives?

What are the 2 water tiles (lake or coastal) just south of the city?

Start with 1 Senator, 1 Representative
1 Representative per 4 citizens (thats citizens not players!), rounded up - will get 2nd rep at 5 citizens

water tiles are coast

the horse tile has 2 horses

 

[Civleader]

Wish I could play the game, but I barely have time to just casually read thanks to administering my game

Will be watching this closely, though

 

[ShadowNX]

“Workers of the World, Unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains!”

Comrades!!!

I have also had enough of the Imperialistic dogs, with their boot behind our necks. I will hereby be joining the Communist Party, we will rise up and dispose of them and free the workers and citizens of oppression.

Only through the rule of the Communist Party will all men be equal in this great nation.

Rise up Comrades, join us in our fight for freedom from the oppressors.

Comrade ShadowNX of the Communist Party of America.

 

[Jehoshua]

PUBLIC STATEMENT

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I shall join as a member of the America First Party

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What is the role of a leader my friends? Well I will tell you what it is not.

It is not to serve their own personal interests in lust for power
It is not to serve an ideology that proposes itself as right and just at the expense of others.
It is not to serve the whims of peasant, or the capitalist, nor the cleric or the aristocrat either.

The role of a leader is this. It is to rule. Nothing more and nothing less.

However the question is, what is it to rule rightly?

My brethren, to rule rightly one with power must place everything before the greater good of the nation. He must sacrifice himself and his ideals to the pragmatic goal of advancing the interests of the nation-state and ensuring the fruition of the greater good of the state. In serving the collective, the rational best interests of the whole nation in pure pragmatism for the moment without regard to imposing ones own ideology or teleological vision on the people, the greatest good for the most people can be achieved. In the advancement of the state, the people as a consequence advance in prosperity and happiness. If the state suffers, so do the people as they become afflicted with the poverty and insecurity that is a manifestation of the states weakness.

Thus it is the solemn duty of all leaders in america to put America, our great nation first. To sacrifice all ideologies based in the imaginations and insubstantial ideas of men to the hard truths of reality. To sacrifice their own personal advancement on the altar of the greater good of the collective.
To sacrifice if need be even their reputations and popularity to further the best interests of the nation above all else. Insodoing the leader shall serve the nation and in clarity and with a single purpose in mind, ensure the greater good is alway advanced

This is the duty of a ruler, and this is the path of the America First Party, to do what must be done for the greater good of all americans.

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PROPOSITIONS

America requires a law to allocate jurisdiction over various agencies to proper authority.

Thus to this end I propose to the government and the people of America, that the power to order settlers and determine settling locations be invested to the President as part of his magisterium. I also propose that the governors of each city be given, in law, the power to order worker groups to engage in various projects within their jurisdictions for the benefit of their constituents. Such laws put the greater good of all americans first, by removing red tape that would otherwise cause unnecessary and harmful delay to our great nations development.

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COMMENTS

I would say that the settler should go south with a spear escort to determine a good location. I would hazard a guess that a good spot would be at the mouth of the potomac river, where the benefits of a riverside city meet coastal access for all America's maritime and naval means. Although naturally of course this determination would be dependant on resources nearby as well.

 

[ShadowNX]

By brethren to rule rightly one with power must place everything before the greater good of the nation. He must sacrifice himself and his ideals to the pragmatic goal of advancing the interests of the state and ensuring the fruition of the greater good of the state. In serving the collective, the rational best interests of the whole nation in pure pragmatism for the moment without regard to imposing ones own ideology or teleological vision on the people the greatest good for the most people can thus be achieved. In the advancement of the state, the people as a consequence advance. If the state suffers, so does the people.

Thus it is the solemn duty of all leaders in america to put America, our great nation first. To sacrifice all ideologies based in the imaginations and ideas of men to the hard truths of reality. To sacrifice their own personal advancement on the altar of the greater good of the collective.
To sacrifice if need be even their reputations and popularity to further the best interests of the nation.

This is the duty of a ruler and this is the path of the America First Party, to do what must be done for the greater good of all.

Comrades!!!

This will only lead to the rich Capitalist getting richer while the poor working man who are perpetually exploited and marginalised by the capitalist class sacrifices his well being and that of his family for those with nefarious plans.

We of the Communist Part will strive for a Socialist State were all men are equal. Our aim is for the working class to replace the exploiter class as the ruling class to establish a society without class divisions.

What the America First Party proposes is nothing more that total dictatorship of its citizens, an no better than slavery.

Workers of the world, unite!

~Comrade ShadowNX of the Communist Party of America.

 

[Jehoshua]

Tell me comrade ShadowNX

How precisely has your rhetoric addressed what I have actually said. All you have done is bluster forth with empty words and typical communist slogans without implanting any substance into your speech. You have commented on nothing that I have said and failed to explain precisely how a pragmatic rule in favour of advancing the greater good of the collective nation-state disenfranchises the masses. It is absolutely clear that you are simply attempting to cover your own ignorance and lack of real understanding by avoiding the fundamental theorems that are expressed in my speech regarding the role of a ruler and circumventing any address to what I have proposed.

I must say it is quite dissapointing that the communist party of America cannot engage in an honest debate on a real theoretical or even practical level.

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- Jehoshua (AFP)

 

[ShadowNX]

Comrades!!!

Be warned, during our struggle to build our socialist society, the class struggle for equality will sharpen as class enemies grow more desperate, and their attacks on our organization will grow.

I say to you, free people, stand firm in our believes and support of the Party and do not listen to these Class traitors and agents of the oppressors and foreign imperialist powers.

Have Faith that the Communist Party of America are the one and true party of the People, for the people by the people.

Workers of the world, unite!

~Comrade ShadowNX of the Communist Party of America.

 

[DefoesRightBoot]

I too will join the America First party. The existing membership displays an engaging mix of ambition, intelligence and an unrivalled desire to create the greatest civilisation known to man. I whole-heartedly agree with the ambition, and I offer my own intelligence to aid completion of the desired great civilisation.

The alternative parties thus far seem wishy-washy and unclear in their intentions; whilst they may be very friendly, their ideology is likely to be destroyed by the first enemies we meet.

America First! Now, and forever!