Ashiakin
08-26-06, 07:26 PM
The League of Salvic States is the term for Salvar’s alliance of landholders loyal to the King. Thanks to recently passed reforms, anyone who is capable of paying for land may purchase it and enter this elite class. Keep in mind that while you may achieve prosperity through whatever means you wish, upon entering this faction you must swear an oath to Salvar’s king—that you will keep the peace, pay taxes, raise and command an army from your lands in times of war, offer your counsel to the king, and do whatever else he asks of you without questioning his wisdom. This faction essentially gives you a small piece of Salvar to call your own and lets you do what you want with it. You can create an agricultural estate, a mercenary encampment, a mining operation, a trading center, a business enterprise, or anything else you can think of. My goal is to limit your imagination as little as possible, while keeping the system fair and believable.
In order to join the League of Salvic States, you need only have 500 GP to pay for a land deed to one of the starter estates I have listed below. If you do not have 500 GP, you are allowed to go in debt to the crown. You will have three months to either pay the 500 GP or complete a 15+ post thread scoring a 60 or higher. This cannot be a thread you use as to level up (explained shortly.) You should clearly indicated in your post whether you are going to pay the 500 GP or take the three months. If you take the three months, you may post that you wish to pay or a link to your 15+ post, 60+ score thread anytime during that period. If you fail to complete either option in the three months given to you, the military will take over your lands until you are capable of paying or have completed a thread. You cannot upgrade, receive salary, or wage war while your lands are occupied by the government.
After that, you will be allowed to upgrade your estate at certain intervals by achieving one of two things: hitting ten reputation in Salvar (so at 10, 20, 30, etc.) or by submitting a thread with 20+ posts involving your lands that scores a 65 or higher. This can be a thread you use to advance in another faction. Upgrades will generally run you 1000 GP and will work a lot like the RoG. I’ll go more in-depth on this point shortly.
Joining: The following are the starter estates for joining. Remember, you may join no matter what your reputation in Salvar is, as long as you can pay the 500 GP. Just pick one of the starter estates I have listed below. Feel free to customize it a little to suite your individual tastes, but don’t deviate too far or you won’t be approved. I’m talking about basic architecture of your buildings and the like. Not, “Hey, I want a mech factory!”
Type #1 – An estate on the southern or coastal plains of Salvar.
Type #2 – An estate on the coast or along a river of Salvar.
Type #3 – An estate in the mountains or hills of Salvar.
Type #4 – An estate on the border of civilized Salvar near the tribes.
Type #5 – An estate in the fertile valley surrounding Knife’s Edge.
Now, select one of the estates above, make sure you have 500 GP in your account if you plan to go that route, fill out the following form and post it in this thread. I’ll take a look at what you’ve given me and ask you to make the appropriate edits if needed. Once you receive my approval, you’ll be added to the census and will have access to the LSS missions board.
Land Deed Application
Character Name:
Salvar Reputation:
Estate Type:
Estate Name:
Your Title:
Estate Description:
Also mention if you want to pay the 500 GP now or take the 3 months discussed in paragraph 2.
You may name your land anything you want and you may give yourself any title you want. It’s understood in Salvar that the name of your estate and your title have no real bearing on your power in the region. Your description should just talk a little bit about how you plan on making money with your estate. You really don’t have to freak out about telling me what all of your buildings are like or anything. It’s not important. Just make sure you follow the constants I list below. Don’t worry about military troops or anything like that for joining. I’ll discuss that in a section a little ways down.
Constants: Your land will always have a few aeromancers around to help you curb the effects of Salvar’s climate. Remember, these mages are not going to be able to transform your estate into a tropical paradise. They’re just there to curb the harsher elements of Salvar’s environment so that you can farm, mine, trade, and such. They’ll likely live in a secluded building or tower. Your land will also always have a church for Salvar’s state religion, the Church of the Ethereal Sway. The priests here will provide religious services, report on your actions to the King, and act as judges in crimes against the state. You may dispense with justice for other crimes as you see fit. It’s a good idea to consider the priests’ advice, unless you want to anger the Church. Also, it should be understand that all starter estates have only wooden buildings. Their defenses—towers and walls—must also be wooden. So you can basically have mounds of earth and wooden palisade walls and wooden towers and the like for your defenses.
Upgrades: These work a lot like the Realm of Greeting. Once you meet one of the requirements I listed in the second paragraph of this post, you just have to fill out this form and post it here. I’ll look it over, either get you to edit something or approve you, and subtract the appropriate amount of GP from your account. When upgrading, I’d prefer you keep it to a few minor changes or one major change. But still, you really have a lot of free reign here. I’m just going to make sure that you’re not power-gaming or making something that doesn’t quite mesh with the rest of Salvar. You’re only allowed to upgrade your estate ten times total, so I’ll be keeping track of this.
Land Upgrade Application
Character Name:
Salvar Reputation:
Estate Type:
Estate Name:
Your Title:
Estate Description:
Upgrade #:
Upgrade Description:
Income: Every three months, you may submit one thread to me that will allow you to receive a lump sum income from your land. Just a post to the link here and tell me that it’s the thread you want to use for your salary. This has to be a judged thread that involves your lands or you conducting official state business somehow. So feel free to visit someone else's estate and do a thread with them! Using threads like that is totally okay. You want it to be your highest scoring thread, because the higher you score, the more you get paid. The equation for your salary works like this: (thread score + estate level) * (100.) Your estate level is how many times you’ve upgraded. So an estate with one upgrade is level one, while an estate with five upgrades is level five. The pay periods will run from January 1 to March 31, April 1 to June 30, July 1 to September 30, and October 1 to December 31. The thread you submit for this may be a thread that you have also used to upgrade your estate or advance in another faction.
Alliances: Feel free to create and join alliances as you would like, as long as you remember that you’re above all legally obligated to remain loyal to the king. If you want have some sort of officially recognized, just PM me about it (who your members are, whether there is a leader or not, etc.) and I’ll add it to your census entries. When we get enough alliances, I’ll make a thread where you can advertise for them like PGs.
Wars of Honor: If you feel that another noble has somehow impugned your honor or committed and illegal act and you want to attack them, you may ask the king if you can purchase a war contract at the price of 1000 GP. If the king allows you to purchase the contract (which is required to conduct war legally) you may attack the estate or estates specified in the contract. You purchase these contracts by PMing me about who you want to attack, why you want to attack them, and who is going to help you. I’ll post the thread for the battle, list any allies that may be participating, and post the troop counts on all sides. My system for figuring troop counts is this: (1) You have 200 level one troops when you start and get 200 more every time you upgrade. (2) Ten percent of these level one troops may be level one mages with a total of two appropriate spells. (3) The number of “special” level five troops you have is equal to the number of times you upgraded—these should be giant trolls, siege engines, dragons, and stuff like that. (4) You may have enough horses for 20% of your level one troops. (5) I’ll get everyone to PM me descriptions of their mages and special units beforehand.
You win a war not by the IC outcome, but if the average score of all the people on your side is higher than the people on the other side. If you defeat someone, you will receive 20% of their salary from that point on, unless they counter-attack you and defeat you. Keep in mind that these contracts are not going to be handed out lightly! Your reputation in Salvar and the reputation of the person you're attacking are going to figure a great deal into your ability to get a war contract.
In order to join the League of Salvic States, you need only have 500 GP to pay for a land deed to one of the starter estates I have listed below. If you do not have 500 GP, you are allowed to go in debt to the crown. You will have three months to either pay the 500 GP or complete a 15+ post thread scoring a 60 or higher. This cannot be a thread you use as to level up (explained shortly.) You should clearly indicated in your post whether you are going to pay the 500 GP or take the three months. If you take the three months, you may post that you wish to pay or a link to your 15+ post, 60+ score thread anytime during that period. If you fail to complete either option in the three months given to you, the military will take over your lands until you are capable of paying or have completed a thread. You cannot upgrade, receive salary, or wage war while your lands are occupied by the government.
After that, you will be allowed to upgrade your estate at certain intervals by achieving one of two things: hitting ten reputation in Salvar (so at 10, 20, 30, etc.) or by submitting a thread with 20+ posts involving your lands that scores a 65 or higher. This can be a thread you use to advance in another faction. Upgrades will generally run you 1000 GP and will work a lot like the RoG. I’ll go more in-depth on this point shortly.
Joining: The following are the starter estates for joining. Remember, you may join no matter what your reputation in Salvar is, as long as you can pay the 500 GP. Just pick one of the starter estates I have listed below. Feel free to customize it a little to suite your individual tastes, but don’t deviate too far or you won’t be approved. I’m talking about basic architecture of your buildings and the like. Not, “Hey, I want a mech factory!”
Type #1 – An estate on the southern or coastal plains of Salvar.
Type #2 – An estate on the coast or along a river of Salvar.
Type #3 – An estate in the mountains or hills of Salvar.
Type #4 – An estate on the border of civilized Salvar near the tribes.
Type #5 – An estate in the fertile valley surrounding Knife’s Edge.
Now, select one of the estates above, make sure you have 500 GP in your account if you plan to go that route, fill out the following form and post it in this thread. I’ll take a look at what you’ve given me and ask you to make the appropriate edits if needed. Once you receive my approval, you’ll be added to the census and will have access to the LSS missions board.
Land Deed Application
Character Name:
Salvar Reputation:
Estate Type:
Estate Name:
Your Title:
Estate Description:
Also mention if you want to pay the 500 GP now or take the 3 months discussed in paragraph 2.
You may name your land anything you want and you may give yourself any title you want. It’s understood in Salvar that the name of your estate and your title have no real bearing on your power in the region. Your description should just talk a little bit about how you plan on making money with your estate. You really don’t have to freak out about telling me what all of your buildings are like or anything. It’s not important. Just make sure you follow the constants I list below. Don’t worry about military troops or anything like that for joining. I’ll discuss that in a section a little ways down.
Constants: Your land will always have a few aeromancers around to help you curb the effects of Salvar’s climate. Remember, these mages are not going to be able to transform your estate into a tropical paradise. They’re just there to curb the harsher elements of Salvar’s environment so that you can farm, mine, trade, and such. They’ll likely live in a secluded building or tower. Your land will also always have a church for Salvar’s state religion, the Church of the Ethereal Sway. The priests here will provide religious services, report on your actions to the King, and act as judges in crimes against the state. You may dispense with justice for other crimes as you see fit. It’s a good idea to consider the priests’ advice, unless you want to anger the Church. Also, it should be understand that all starter estates have only wooden buildings. Their defenses—towers and walls—must also be wooden. So you can basically have mounds of earth and wooden palisade walls and wooden towers and the like for your defenses.
Upgrades: These work a lot like the Realm of Greeting. Once you meet one of the requirements I listed in the second paragraph of this post, you just have to fill out this form and post it here. I’ll look it over, either get you to edit something or approve you, and subtract the appropriate amount of GP from your account. When upgrading, I’d prefer you keep it to a few minor changes or one major change. But still, you really have a lot of free reign here. I’m just going to make sure that you’re not power-gaming or making something that doesn’t quite mesh with the rest of Salvar. You’re only allowed to upgrade your estate ten times total, so I’ll be keeping track of this.
Land Upgrade Application
Character Name:
Salvar Reputation:
Estate Type:
Estate Name:
Your Title:
Estate Description:
Upgrade #:
Upgrade Description:
Income: Every three months, you may submit one thread to me that will allow you to receive a lump sum income from your land. Just a post to the link here and tell me that it’s the thread you want to use for your salary. This has to be a judged thread that involves your lands or you conducting official state business somehow. So feel free to visit someone else's estate and do a thread with them! Using threads like that is totally okay. You want it to be your highest scoring thread, because the higher you score, the more you get paid. The equation for your salary works like this: (thread score + estate level) * (100.) Your estate level is how many times you’ve upgraded. So an estate with one upgrade is level one, while an estate with five upgrades is level five. The pay periods will run from January 1 to March 31, April 1 to June 30, July 1 to September 30, and October 1 to December 31. The thread you submit for this may be a thread that you have also used to upgrade your estate or advance in another faction.
Alliances: Feel free to create and join alliances as you would like, as long as you remember that you’re above all legally obligated to remain loyal to the king. If you want have some sort of officially recognized, just PM me about it (who your members are, whether there is a leader or not, etc.) and I’ll add it to your census entries. When we get enough alliances, I’ll make a thread where you can advertise for them like PGs.
Wars of Honor: If you feel that another noble has somehow impugned your honor or committed and illegal act and you want to attack them, you may ask the king if you can purchase a war contract at the price of 1000 GP. If the king allows you to purchase the contract (which is required to conduct war legally) you may attack the estate or estates specified in the contract. You purchase these contracts by PMing me about who you want to attack, why you want to attack them, and who is going to help you. I’ll post the thread for the battle, list any allies that may be participating, and post the troop counts on all sides. My system for figuring troop counts is this: (1) You have 200 level one troops when you start and get 200 more every time you upgrade. (2) Ten percent of these level one troops may be level one mages with a total of two appropriate spells. (3) The number of “special” level five troops you have is equal to the number of times you upgraded—these should be giant trolls, siege engines, dragons, and stuff like that. (4) You may have enough horses for 20% of your level one troops. (5) I’ll get everyone to PM me descriptions of their mages and special units beforehand.
You win a war not by the IC outcome, but if the average score of all the people on your side is higher than the people on the other side. If you defeat someone, you will receive 20% of their salary from that point on, unless they counter-attack you and defeat you. Keep in mind that these contracts are not going to be handed out lightly! Your reputation in Salvar and the reputation of the person you're attacking are going to figure a great deal into your ability to get a war contract.