Let us intensify cooperation!

We (the Old Republic) are thinking in general how to intensify cooperation between The Old Republic and other alliances (and among those) to increase cooperation, friendship and empower small and middle sized alliances.

To clarify some basics first: Any below proposed form of cooperation is purely voluntary and a participation in the Illyriad Trade Union does not require any intensification later (or the other way around)! It is also possible to leave any such organisation again. In general we are willing to negotiate about any kind of closer cooperation and detailed conditions of possible integration. To create trust we started to create the Illyriad Trade Union. All other concepts are relatively unstructured for now as they will be parts of possible negotiations. You are welcome to post any ideas on further cooperation here or get in touch with the Old Republic. Everybody is invited to join this debate and participate in these projects!

While I will explain the different concepts a little more detailed below, options would be to have a:

• Trade Union: The loosest form of cooperation. Its aim is to create an external trade platform and a forum for diplomatic exchange of different players and alliances. The Illyriad Trade Union already has been founded (see here). The only obligation arising from the Illyriad Trade Union is to enforce treaties negotiated on the provided platform or compensate players, if that is not possible. Each alliance send one representative to the Trade Union.
  
• A Mutual Defence Agreement: It would be a closer form of diplomatic integration. While independent wars or in-game confederations would still be a possibility for participating alliances, leaders of different alliances would pledge to defend each other, if the state of mutual defence will be declared. Eventually other harmonised diplomatic actions are also a possibility. Clearly more serious obligations would arise from a mutual defence agreement compared to the Illyriad Trade Union. However, alliances would remain largely independent and just a small amount of sovereignty would be surrendered to the defence union. The defence union may also be ruled only by the alliance leaders or their representatives.
  
• A Political Union: The closest form of cooperation. The idea is to found a closely associated political union, maybe a republic itself. This includes an executive (government), legislative (parliament) and judicative (court) and certain rights of individual alliances and players (i.e. being treated “fair”). It could possibl work like that: All members of the participating alliances should participate in the “general assembly” and could go to the "high court", if treated “unfair” by its respective alliance leaders. Participating alliances would NOT necessarily need to be “democratically” organised and could have certain privileges in the high “council”. But the political union shall have a representative and participative system! This form of inter-alliance integration would require the surrender of more sovereignty compared to the trade and defence union but each alliance would be a sovereign and free entity (even different in-game relations are possible to a certain degree).

We also have been thinking to include entire Alliances into our Republic (keeping different in-game alliances (!)) or even to merge alliances. While this still is a possibility (see also the concept called “guilds” below), I will drop this Idea for now. But if any alliance is interested, please get in contact with us or leave a post here.

Other ideas we would like to cooperate with other alliances is to create:

• A Game Alliance: Originally it was called a “fighting” alliance. But such a concept might appear a little aggressive (though I have to admit I was also thinking about it but am not sure, if it is the right concept for Illy). Players from different alliances could temporary join the game alliance to participate in games.Therefore it would be organised fighting.
  
• A Training Alliance: When everything will grow, the game alliance could be extended to a more ordinary training alliance.

However, all this steps are work-intensive and I would need active players from other alliances to support them.

I hope you are interested. Contact us in-game or register in this forum and start posting!

(P.S. I want to add, that we are trustworthy and honest players (and humans) and I am open to any concern you might have. I can assure you that I am looking for fair friends and partners for the Old Republic in the dangerous world of Illyriad. I will try to communicate as true and transparent as possible during any such negotiations.)

Reserved. The Mutual Defence Agreement and the Political Union will be further elaborated here.

We developed a concept called “guilds”. Now the concept works like this:

Guilds are organisations that are part of the Republic. At this point we only have three Guilds: The “Republic Trade Company” that organises some admin stuff for the Illyriad Trade Union, a newspaper called the “Voice of the Republic” and the “Republic Auction House” that organises some internal matters. Guilds could be some kinds of political parties or other forms of player coalitions. They must not be organised “democratically” (in fact so far none is). They could also be entire alliances that are part of the Republic. E.g. if I would found a training alliance, I would organise it in a guild and it would likely not be “democratically” organised (but eventually part of the Republic). In general only phantasy sets the borders of such a “guild”.

We are thinking to extend the concept:

If any alliance (that could also be an autocracy or monarchy) would like to join the political union (which shall be a democracy/republic) or even the Old Republic, this alliance could form their own “guild”. In other words, we would accept already existing alliances and offer them space in this forum to organise their political business (how forum admin works can be read [http://republic.monsterforum.net/t52-how-forum-admin-moderation-work]here[/url]. Parts of this forum (e.g. of your high council) could be invisible to other players and the outer world (have a look here to know how our forum looks for me). That would depend on the negotiations and whether our Executive Council will be visible to you. This would properly be helpful to organise upcoming politics.

Personally I liked the idea of a possible banking system. Even though we would need military players to possibly enforce the payback of loans, but in an overall view I like the idea.

I understand how it may be difficult to actually maintain and function but to establish an actually "bank" in Illyriad will be good PR for the Union and help get our name out there.

Naxos FTG wrote:Personally I liked the idea of a possible banking system. Even though we would need military players to possibly enforce the payback of loans, but in an overall view I like the idea.

I understand how it may be difficult to actually maintain and function but to establish an actually "bank" in Illyriad will be good PR for the Union and help get our name out there.

I agree. Enforcement is part of the Illyriad Trade Union. Therefore it should be discussed in the Trade Union forum. And we need to find more institutional members to help us to enforce. We could form a "guild" to organise it.