I may just join the Australian reserve or go to the frontlines

Well you might go to the Pioneers, they are one of the few units that are really usefull in peacetimes (especially in cases of disasters).
Or as an Australian you could of course join the State Emergency Service (I  had to look the name up, Germany has a similar organisation with another name).

into pretty butterflyswarms


Nice enough?

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I think you might have forgotten:
"Write long topics on the forum."

Make love not war! :clown:
Soldiers are best if they are allowed to parade instead of being forced to kill.

The tax prevents the city from being deleted like it hapens all the time to other smaller cities, because it can actually financially break even by itself. Other cities migh have some of the longest-playing and richest players on the server to finance themselfes with a few peoples donations, but DragonFire is meant to carry itself, with donations being used to set up new players with new plots and other things they might need. There are also certain safetymechanisms that prevent you from losing your stuff when you run out of money (unless you don`t show up for several weeks, which is a common rule among many towns on the server).

And yes, there are regulations (without we could as well all build in the wilderness). If I`m not mistaken your city has some regulations as well and there are/were always regulations in KochiraKoso and other cities, too.
Most of the regulations simply have the use to prevent the surroundings of the city from looking like the moon after 2 weeks of strip mining and also to prevent the classic floating tree`s around.
There are of course also certain liberties and services. The townfarms are built to hold enough of every available cattle (including wolfes and cats) and the towns wheat-, melon-, pumpkin- and Cactifarms are big enouh that no resident has to "use" own plotspace for building an own farm. And speaking of plotspace, you`re allowed to own up to 4 plots from the beginning (the server doesn`t allow more than four per person).


I might also add that we actually postponed this "advertisment" after the fall of Oakhaven because we didn`t want to take any "survivors" away from Danniel and BlackThorn (we also offered supplies for the immediate rebuilding to be delievered on request, but these apparently weren`t needed). We even sent some "survivors" your way, but by now most of the returning former Oakhaven residents should have settled in and we are now again trying to recruit new residents among the servers newcommers.
We have no interest in any animosities or enticements and want to actually cooperate with the other towns so that all towns can prosper equally instead of joining some silly "we must be bigger then the others" competition.

Ah yes and one final piece of information, the Mayor and his two lovely TA-Ladys are all 18+ and have known each other for years, so the "towns goverment" actually has a deep level of mutual trust and stability.

Well, I know it`s cynical to say, but seeing what`s left of it, at night with tons of skeletons crawling around the still intact netherportal, the "Ruins of Oakhaven" would get the "scariest ruins" trophy.

There is a category spawneggs n the shop on the homepage.
You can also buy them ingame from other players and sometimes they are given out at some event like the recent easterparty.

We don`t longer need sheepeggs. I allready changed the sheepfarm.

I actually like the way you can sell and buy things in Myrf`s shop now. I like that way (of player controlled shops you can sell stuff to more than this old shopsystem. I also think that it will boost the business for (good) player controlled shops.

It don`t think he meant it should actually be the english flag. I think he just was using them as an example for a town flag and a nation flag.

I don`t think wars would fit to the server, that sounds more like faction-pvp-servers and many people here don`t want that. You can built a garrison, ships and things like that for decoration, but I think a peacefull cooperation would fit the server was better.

Spawn eggs will soon be on-sale from the site Points shop, ...

Do you know which kind of soon it will be?
For example the "We are just trying to figure out how to add them, so it`ll come this week"-soon or the "We got more important serberissues on our agenda so we`re sorry it might take a few weeks"-soon. 

Well, politics (and probably diplomacy) are nice ideas, but I think every nation (not town, a nation with different political systems would be "strange") should have the right to actually choose it`s own system of goverment.
Thie also gives the opportunity to play out the nations a little more (with assemblys, rituals, parades, ... whatever fits to the nation).

Let`s look at three examples (therefore the names of nations that do not exist on the server):
- The big empire Yggdrassil with 7 citys might choose to allow senat votings for each citycouncil. These  councils might discuss issues or ideas (and in conjunction with the mayor make according decisions) and ask the mayor to take care of these. But these councils only make decisions on the "town-level". The decisions on "nation-level" in this particular nation are made by an emperess or emperor and her/his orders are to be followed (unless you want to "leave" the nation). Of course at each emperors birthday there is a big parade to be held in his/her honour to which every town send a number of parade troops, lots of visitors. While other friendly or neutral nations send dignitaries (mayors and TAs as guest of honour for the empress) and instead of paradetroops tourists.
- The Republic of the North with lets say 3 citys allows a thing (nordic assembly, Wikilink) for each of it`s cities. Each city is led by some sort of nordic chieftain (the mayor). These mayor either choose one of their as the leader of a nation who has to consult the other leaders on nationwide decisions or they choose to pass the rule of a leader each month to the next in order,  so each of the 3 leaders will lead every 3 month, the change of rule indicated by some sort of monthly ritual (for example: the town of the current leader can place the "stone of ruling" on a pedestal at it`s spawn and the leader will pass it on to the next one each month).
- The monarchal citystate of Munako is ruled by it`s beloved King (mayor and cityleader). The Kings wish is also his loyal citizens wish and command, for he is wise and tends to his peoples needs. This citystate is a monarchy with one ruler and his loyal lords (TA`s) and citizens (knights, scholars, merchant, ...). As long as the King and Lords care about the peoples needs it`s actually as most servertowns today). This citystate can play out as a proud little monarchal citystate. There were succesfull citystates all over history, like medieval Venice, classical Athens and Sparta, mesoamerican Chichen Itza or the modern Singapore (which has a military and economic strength than can compete with nations like Sweden, ireland or New Zealand), therefore there is nothning to be ashamed of by "only" being a citystate (instead most citystates were always very orud about their independence and always very active in trading and interacting with other nations. And most of them even had a very well trained and equipped army (like modern Singapore that has a more modernized army than some european countries; or of course "Spaaarta!"  .

So yes, politics could a very nice additon on town and nationlevel and not only boost the meaning of the nation but also the interaction between cities (for example by "rituals" and event like menitoned above). it also could boost the communal spirit of some cities.

And hey, it`s a good excuse for parades and festivities.