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Tambien
Theseus, Duke of Athens
The updated list
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Commerce Guild for American Supremacy (CGAS)
A party with regards to the total American supremacy over the world through accumulation of luxury and strategic resources in order to incapacitate enemy's economies and support huge armies. Based in Boston.
Leader: JoanK
Members: None Yet
Eminently Logical Party of America (ELPA)
The Eminently Logical Party of America is a party based on making logical decisions. It believes that logic is the ultimate triumpth of Man, and that it must be used to make major decisions. The ELPA is dedicated to making logical decisions not influenced by emotion, and trying to move America on the most logical course. Based in Philidelphia. Offices in Atlanta.
Administrator: Tambien
Alterns: CivOasis
Communist Party of 'Merica (CPM)
NO DETAILS YET Based in WHERE????.
Leader: Princeof_Persia
Members: None Yet
American Liberty Party (ALP)
The American Liberty Party believes that our form of government is the greatest in the world. We can and will be the best in science, wealth, and with the military. People's individual freedoms matter and we believe in a government that does not unnecessarily tax. We are strongly nationalistic and will never back down to anyone. Based in New York.
Leader: swimandciv
Members: None Yet
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Commerce Guild for American Supremacy (CGAS)
A party with regards to the total American supremacy over the world through accumulation of luxury and strategic resources in order to incapacitate enemy's economies and support huge armies. Based in Boston.
Leader: JoanK
Members: None Yet
Eminently Logical Party of America (ELPA)
The Eminently Logical Party of America is a party based on making logical decisions. It believes that logic is the ultimate triumpth of Man, and that it must be used to make major decisions. The ELPA is dedicated to making logical decisions not influenced by emotion, and trying to move America on the most logical course. Based in Philidelphia. Offices in Atlanta.
Administrator: Tambien
Alterns: CivOasis
Communist Party of 'Merica (CPM)
NO DETAILS YET Based in WHERE????.
Leader: Princeof_Persia
Members: None Yet
American Liberty Party (ALP)
The American Liberty Party believes that our form of government is the greatest in the world. We can and will be the best in science, wealth, and with the military. People's individual freedoms matter and we believe in a government that does not unnecessarily tax. We are strongly nationalistic and will never back down to anyone. Based in New York.
Leader: swimandciv
Members: None Yet
Tambien
Theseus, Duke of Athens
MANIFESTO OF LOGIC
Introduction
Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos, using reason as our guide. Logic should be the guide for all decisions in life, big or small. This is because logic and reason ultimately triumph over emotion and illogical behavior. Logic is the foundation of order, and only through logic can civilization be attained and kept. Logic can make a civilization great, just as illogic can destroy it. Let this work be a guide to the Way of Logic, and a guide to the upkeep of civilization.
Cast Out Emotion
Cast out fear. There is no room for anything else until you cast out fear. Fear is the basis of illogic, and as such must be eliminated before logical decisions can be made. The same is true for all emotion. When making decisions emotion must be kept out of the equation. When you cast out emotion in your decision-making, then you will be able to take full advantage of logic, and make the correct decision.
There is no offense where none is taken. Do not take offense at the petty insults of a person influenced by emotion. Doing so will only increase your illogic. Ignore the insult, and do not hold a grudge. This will not only help you stay on the path of logic but help you forgive the insult, and form a new connection. For when you do not give in to the illogic of offense, you show the person who is insulting you the helpfulness of logic.
Relations With Others
We have differences. May we, together, become greater than the sum of both of us. When you put aside differences you become better off for it. Without the artificial limitations and divisions that illogic produces between people with differences civilization can reach new heights. The end result of coming together to resolve differences is that civilization becomes stronger.
Nobility lies in action not in name. Position and wealth do not denote a noble soul, the actions said soul undertakes denote its nobility. When a person helps another, and leads them towards logic, that is real nobility.
Reach out to others courteously. Accept their reaching in the same way, with careful hands. Rash action and speech can lead to misunderstandings and misunderstandings cloud logical thought. Do not, however, assume that all actions have benign intent. People that do not follow the way of logic are prone to emotional subterfuge. Be careful in your acceptance.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one. The needs of the many are the needs of a civilization. The needs of the few or the one are small issues that can be dealt with later. When you deal with the needs of the many first, you deal with a problem plaguing a civilization. If you deal with the needs of the few first, you just aggravate the symptoms of the many.
Wide experience increases wisdom, provided the experience is not sought purely for the stimulation of sensation. When you experience a wide range of things, you are given perspective on a large fraction of civilization. But you must be seeking wisdom for the experience to mean anything. When you seek it for sensation you seek it illogically.
As far as possible, do not kill. Can you return life to what you kill? Then be slow to take life. When you kill a person they become a dead husk. You cannot recover their essence, and that is a detriment to civilization. However, do not mistake this as forbidding you to defend yourself. If someone is intent on killing you, you may defend yourself. Nonlethal tactics are recommended, but sometimes you must kill to protect yourself.
The spear in the other's heart is the spear in your own. When you kill another, you remove a valuable asset to civilization. Therefore, you must preserve others as much as is possible.
He talks peace if it is the only way to live. Peace is the way. Whenever you can, make peace with old enemies and nemeses.
Do no harm to those that harm you. Offer them peace, then you will have peace. When you harm one that has not harmed you, you create another enemy that you will have to deal with at a later date.
Miscellaneous
There is no other wisdom and no other hope for us but that we grow wise. When you grow wise your ability to make logical and reasonable decisions increases. This is good for you, as well as civilization.
Time is a path from the past to the future and back again. The present is the crossroads of both. There are many different possible futures. When you get to the crossroads choose the most logical path.
Change is the essential process of all existence. Change is the engine that drives invention, innovation, and creativity in civilization.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Commerce Guild for American Supremacy
Manifesto
Introduction: Mankind
For centuries, men have walked upon the Earth, but it hasn't been until these days we're living in that it has come with its full power, might and strength. This fact makes obvious to us that a certain evolution has happened to us, but not as species, as biological beings. This evolution has been through our own refinement, and this refinement has one basic root: NEED.
Need has posed challenges to men, and men have responded to them through Technology: the art of creating tools, engines and crafts in general through the manipulation of natural matters, also known as natural resources. The advances in technology come thanks to two facts basically: Scientific Research, which provides the theory of which technology takes out the practice, and the Resources. The control, income and outcome of these now more advanced and thus rare resources has become crucial to our world, so out of bargaining with them has become a discipline on itself: Economy, which is now the pillar of our system.
Economy
Economy is nowadays vital for a country’s survival. Commerce strictly is the easiest way to keep a dynamic economy which allows long roads, huge armies, wide range of diplomatic options and important research agreements.
Through commerce with its luxuries and assets, a country can keep a high and even increasing flow of net income through the years, allowing great gold reserves which are vital and key to boost a recently created city through purchasing. That allows new cities to become profitable incredibly fast, thus giving extra income that is to weight the balance with buildings upkeep.
Gold reserves are also vital in order to face any kind of unforeseen events that may occur such as war with a bigger or well prepared army. A greater pool means you can front more common trades at the same time that you can be ready for unexpected conflicts.
Great pools then, are vital to conquer the world through diplomatic means thanks to city-state bribing, but are also really important in order to have a developed technology through Research agreements. Finally, pools help a country keep their military the most advanced possible.
The high income can also be used for supporting the latter, large quantities of buildings, so that through the search for economic profit a nation is able to sustain buildings that at the same time boost either science, culture, or happiness.
The last use of this high income is the upkeep of large armies, able to defend their country, by the end of the game possibly to wide to be controlled with few units.
Finally, economy in general can be used as a diplomatic mean to support a countries very own conflicts with others through the bribing of third countries in order to consider their war more legitimate.
Strategy
But for those applications to be possible, it is first necessary to have assets. This assets are mostly luxury resources and strategic resources, but cities and diplomatic agreements of various kinds also can be included into a deal.
But the only assets a country really can decide on are the resources, of all kinds. Treaties, once discovered, are always there, and cities must only be sold in terrible military situations.
So, Resources are the strategic assets that really can change hands during a conflict, etc. Luxury resources are very important. They are considerably more valuable than strategic resources, and give happiness bonifications. Thus, Luxuries are the most important assets of a country, and in any case it is their number one priority to purchase them.
That’s the way of the Guild. The commercial focus is on the conquest of resources of all kinds and by any means. It is important to have the most types of resources available, and the greatest possible of them, in order to achieve an oligopoly situation in which a country is the main holder of most resources, and so it is in a position of economic predominance over the others.
But the way of the Guild is also logical and, furthermore, peaceful. The two goals of the Guild are: Resource and economic independency of America, basically through colonization, but also through arms if it’s necessary; and Economic predominance over the globe. The second is undoubtedly a condition of the first, for only a great nation growing beyond its borders can ever achieve our goal, and the first one is absolutely necessary to complete the second.
The logic in the Guild comes from not seeking war, but assets and security for them. For that, if a war is declared, America shall not stop until reaching a source for its profit, but never seeking it too far away to be well defended. The war, from the view of the Guild, is an enemy, and the Guild will prioritize over war an embargo.
The embargo is a maneuver long ago planned and practiced in the Guild against enemies. It consists of the appropriation of enemy assets such as resources, gold income and gold reserves, through diplomatic means thanks to commerce. It is carried out against too powerful neighbors or declared enemies, and it allows the country carrying it out great benefits. It consists on the buying of every single enemy asset, trading them for resources which may grant them happiness, but don’t allow them to grow at the cost of bankruptcy.
The Guild
The Guild, in the end, is a political party which seeks the best for America through economic, peaceful means, that won’t go to war if not strictly necessary and will make America ready for any unexpected event or recurrent actions affecting any side of the game, be it science, diplomacy, production or military.
Manifesto
Introduction: Mankind
For centuries, men have walked upon the Earth, but it hasn't been until these days we're living in that it has come with its full power, might and strength. This fact makes obvious to us that a certain evolution has happened to us, but not as species, as biological beings. This evolution has been through our own refinement, and this refinement has one basic root: NEED.
Need has posed challenges to men, and men have responded to them through Technology: the art of creating tools, engines and crafts in general through the manipulation of natural matters, also known as natural resources. The advances in technology come thanks to two facts basically: Scientific Research, which provides the theory of which technology takes out the practice, and the Resources. The control, income and outcome of these now more advanced and thus rare resources has become crucial to our world, so out of bargaining with them has become a discipline on itself: Economy, which is now the pillar of our system.
Economy
Economy is nowadays vital for a country’s survival. Commerce strictly is the easiest way to keep a dynamic economy which allows long roads, huge armies, wide range of diplomatic options and important research agreements.
Through commerce with its luxuries and assets, a country can keep a high and even increasing flow of net income through the years, allowing great gold reserves which are vital and key to boost a recently created city through purchasing. That allows new cities to become profitable incredibly fast, thus giving extra income that is to weight the balance with buildings upkeep.
Gold reserves are also vital in order to face any kind of unforeseen events that may occur such as war with a bigger or well prepared army. A greater pool means you can front more common trades at the same time that you can be ready for unexpected conflicts.
Great pools then, are vital to conquer the world through diplomatic means thanks to city-state bribing, but are also really important in order to have a developed technology through Research agreements. Finally, pools help a country keep their military the most advanced possible.
The high income can also be used for supporting the latter, large quantities of buildings, so that through the search for economic profit a nation is able to sustain buildings that at the same time boost either science, culture, or happiness.
The last use of this high income is the upkeep of large armies, able to defend their country, by the end of the game possibly to wide to be controlled with few units.
Finally, economy in general can be used as a diplomatic mean to support a countries very own conflicts with others through the bribing of third countries in order to consider their war more legitimate.
Strategy
But for those applications to be possible, it is first necessary to have assets. This assets are mostly luxury resources and strategic resources, but cities and diplomatic agreements of various kinds also can be included into a deal.
But the only assets a country really can decide on are the resources, of all kinds. Treaties, once discovered, are always there, and cities must only be sold in terrible military situations.
So, Resources are the strategic assets that really can change hands during a conflict, etc. Luxury resources are very important. They are considerably more valuable than strategic resources, and give happiness bonifications. Thus, Luxuries are the most important assets of a country, and in any case it is their number one priority to purchase them.
That’s the way of the Guild. The commercial focus is on the conquest of resources of all kinds and by any means. It is important to have the most types of resources available, and the greatest possible of them, in order to achieve an oligopoly situation in which a country is the main holder of most resources, and so it is in a position of economic predominance over the others.
But the way of the Guild is also logical and, furthermore, peaceful. The two goals of the Guild are: Resource and economic independency of America, basically through colonization, but also through arms if it’s necessary; and Economic predominance over the globe. The second is undoubtedly a condition of the first, for only a great nation growing beyond its borders can ever achieve our goal, and the first one is absolutely necessary to complete the second.
The logic in the Guild comes from not seeking war, but assets and security for them. For that, if a war is declared, America shall not stop until reaching a source for its profit, but never seeking it too far away to be well defended. The war, from the view of the Guild, is an enemy, and the Guild will prioritize over war an embargo.
The embargo is a maneuver long ago planned and practiced in the Guild against enemies. It consists of the appropriation of enemy assets such as resources, gold income and gold reserves, through diplomatic means thanks to commerce. It is carried out against too powerful neighbors or declared enemies, and it allows the country carrying it out great benefits. It consists on the buying of every single enemy asset, trading them for resources which may grant them happiness, but don’t allow them to grow at the cost of bankruptcy.
The Guild
The Guild, in the end, is a political party which seeks the best for America through economic, peaceful means, that won’t go to war if not strictly necessary and will make America ready for any unexpected event or recurrent actions affecting any side of the game, be it science, diplomacy, production or military.
Tambien
Theseus, Duke of Athens
Commerce Guild for American Supremacy (CGAS)
A party with regards to the total American supremacy over the world through accumulation of luxury and strategic resources in order to incapacitate enemy's economies and support huge armies. Based in Boston. Manifesto
Leader: JoanK
Members: None Yet
Eminently Logical Party of America (ELPA)
The Eminently Logical Party of America is a party based on making logical decisions. It believes that logic is the ultimate triumpth of Man, and that it must be used to make major decisions. The ELPA is dedicated to making logical decisions not influenced by emotion, and trying to move America on the most logical course. Based in Philidelphia. Offices in Atlanta and Boston. Manifesto
Administrator: Tambien
Alterns: CivOasis, Jwitti, christos200
Communist Party of 'Merica (CPM)
NO DETAILS YET No Base.
Leader: Princeof_Persia
Members: None Yet
American Liberty Party (ALP)
The American Liberty Party believes that our form of government is the greatest in the world. We can and will be the best in science, wealth, and with the military. People's individual freedoms matter and we believe in a government that does not unnecessarily tax. We are strongly nationalistic and will never back down to anyone. Based in New York.
Leader: swimandciv
Members: None Yet
A party with regards to the total American supremacy over the world through accumulation of luxury and strategic resources in order to incapacitate enemy's economies and support huge armies. Based in Boston. Manifesto
Leader: JoanK
Members: None Yet
Eminently Logical Party of America (ELPA)
The Eminently Logical Party of America is a party based on making logical decisions. It believes that logic is the ultimate triumpth of Man, and that it must be used to make major decisions. The ELPA is dedicated to making logical decisions not influenced by emotion, and trying to move America on the most logical course. Based in Philidelphia. Offices in Atlanta and Boston. Manifesto
Administrator: Tambien
Alterns: CivOasis, Jwitti, christos200
Communist Party of 'Merica (CPM)
NO DETAILS YET No Base.
Leader: Princeof_Persia
Members: None Yet
American Liberty Party (ALP)
The American Liberty Party believes that our form of government is the greatest in the world. We can and will be the best in science, wealth, and with the military. People's individual freedoms matter and we believe in a government that does not unnecessarily tax. We are strongly nationalistic and will never back down to anyone. Based in New York.
Leader: swimandciv
Members: None Yet
christos200
Never tell me the odds
I will join ELPA
Tambien
Theseus, Duke of Athens
What city?
christos200
Never tell me the odds
New York.
Sparthage
Fighting Tyranny
Thanks Tambien for the party list. It's good to see people taking an interest already.
Anyways, the screenshots and info should be posted by tonight. In addition, there will be a rules change in giving NPCs the ability to form/join parties and do other game actions since it seems like there will be quite a few at this point. More later.
Anyways, the screenshots and info should be posted by tonight. In addition, there will be a rules change in giving NPCs the ability to form/join parties and do other game actions since it seems like there will be quite a few at this point. More later.
Tambien
Theseus, Duke of Athens
Commerce Guild for American Supremacy (GUILD)
A party with regards to the total American supremacy over the world through accumulation of luxury and strategic resources in order to incapacitate enemy's economies and support huge armies. Based in Boston.Manifesto
Leader: JoanK
Members: None Yet
Eminently Logical Party of America (ELPA)
The Eminently Logical Party of America is a party based on making logical decisions. It believes that logic is the ultimate triumpth of Man, and that it must be used to make major decisions. The ELPA is dedicated to making logical decisions not influenced by emotion, and trying to move America on the most logical course. Based in Philidelphia. Offices in Atlanta, Boston, and New York. Manifesto
Administrator: Tambien
Alterns: CivOasis, Jwitti, christos200
Communist Party of 'Merica (CPM)
NO DETAILS YET No Base.
Leader: Princeof_Persia
Members: None Yet
American Liberty Party (ALP)
The American Liberty Party believes that our form of government is the greatest in the world. We can and will be the best in science, wealth, and with the military. People's individual freedoms matter and we believe in a government that does not unnecessarily tax. We are strongly nationalistic and will never back down to anyone. Based in New York.
Leader: swimandciv
Members: None Yet
A party with regards to the total American supremacy over the world through accumulation of luxury and strategic resources in order to incapacitate enemy's economies and support huge armies. Based in Boston.Manifesto
Leader: JoanK
Members: None Yet
Eminently Logical Party of America (ELPA)
The Eminently Logical Party of America is a party based on making logical decisions. It believes that logic is the ultimate triumpth of Man, and that it must be used to make major decisions. The ELPA is dedicated to making logical decisions not influenced by emotion, and trying to move America on the most logical course. Based in Philidelphia. Offices in Atlanta, Boston, and New York. Manifesto
Administrator: Tambien
Alterns: CivOasis, Jwitti, christos200
Communist Party of 'Merica (CPM)
NO DETAILS YET No Base.
Leader: Princeof_Persia
Members: None Yet
American Liberty Party (ALP)
The American Liberty Party believes that our form of government is the greatest in the world. We can and will be the best in science, wealth, and with the military. People's individual freedoms matter and we believe in a government that does not unnecessarily tax. We are strongly nationalistic and will never back down to anyone. Based in New York.
Leader: swimandciv
Members: None Yet
christos200
Never tell me the odds
I think that this will become one party gonverment with so many people joining ELPA.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Indeed so, why the people who aren't in a party yet list up in some of the already existance?
Guild's Manifesto currently available.
(Tambien, can you write "Guild" instead of the initials? Thanks)
Guild's Manifesto currently available.
(Tambien, can you write "Guild" instead of the initials? Thanks)
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Tambien
Theseus, Duke of Athens
It's up to Sparthage, but initials are usually used as party abbreviations.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Well, I know that, but just calling it the Guild sounds much better than C-G-A-S 
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Oh, please, that wasn't even understandable!
