Have you been looking for a Guild? An association? A Profitable Society of Right People for the Liberation of Otherwise Unused Wealth? A Trader's Amalgamation? An chance to live in the legendary city of Camorr?
Your chance is here, right now! Simply join The Duchy of Camorr, and get rich. Our Guild is small, true, but the more people who join, the more powerful it becomes. Focused on trade, conquest, and General Awesomeness, the purpose of this guild is to establish an in-game Dutchy of Camorr, the richest Realm in all of Life is Feudal.
To join, just post in this thread (all other advertisement threads will have links to this thread) and/or join our Steam group (AND JOIN THE NEW ENJIN SITE). Since its alpha, we're not exactly specific with recruits, and those who join now will receive free Camorri land grants when the city is founded. We're very active in LiF:YO and have our own server (called, obviously enough "duchy of camorr"). to get the password, JOIN!
Looking for more info? Just see below for a general (severely variable) structure of offices and all that.
Guild Offices: (all office-holders without LiF forum accounts will have their Steam name listed)
Duke: Strategos
The Duke is the Supreme Despot, aided by an advisory Council of his choosing. His word is law, so live with it.
Duke's Champion (Represents Camorr single combat and protects the Duke, also commands the elite Blackjackets): Kona9
Magistarios (Minister of Foreign Affairs): Judge Panther
Magister Milatum (General-in-Chief): Azkaz (Codec)
Sakkelerios (Chief Architect, Administrative Officer, and Chancellor of the Realm): WhiteTree
Master of Coin (the Accountant Of Camorr, makes sure resources are collected, the treasury is in order, and we don't overspend): Nubez Unite
Duke's Spider (Master of Spies): Kona9
Strategos: The Strategoi (or military governor) commands a military district with in the city of Camorr. All citizens are required to serve in the military when called, so all residents of the Districts will serve in a regiment commanded by their Strategos. The Magister Milatum is authorized to appoint Strategoi so long as the choice is approved by the Duke.
Advisory Council:
This council is the legislative body of Camorr. Each district will have an elected representative to this council. The council passes laws by simple majority, and all laws must be approved by the Duke. NOTE: The Duke can also make decrees on his own.
ALSO: Until there are enough districts to seat a suitable number of representatives, the Advisory Council will not exist. All laws until that time will be decrees. I'm looking for about ten districts but fewer would be perfectly fine. That issue will be decided on later once we actually get to the process of city-building.
The Military:
The Military is comprised of two units, the District Troops, and the Blackjackets. Each district (there are planned to be twelve), will be led by a Strategos, and will live in a certain section of the city, meaning you'll literally be fighting alongside thy neighbors. Because LiF has separate skill-caps for combat and domestic stuff, this is the best of both worlds, military manpower and industrial skill.
The majority of the districts will work on the "militia service" tree. There will be two ranged districts and two two-handed districts. The Blackjackets are the cavalry. Each district will defend it's section of the wall during a siege.
AS for the Blackjackets, these guys are the ELITE of Camorr. One unit to begin with, these chums are commanded by the Duke's Champion (the indestructible Kona9), and form a mounted reserve during a siege. These chums will also be the professional branch of the military, serving in joint operations, raids and low-intensity warfare where the districts are not needed. They will live in the Large Keep in central district. This highly trained regiment is CURRENTLY RECRUITING: to become a candidate, you must defeat a current Blackjacket in the duel (in LiF or, at this point because the combat is so clunky Mount and Blade: Warband) TWO OUT OF THREE TIMES.
City Planning:
In LiF:YO RIGHT NOW we're working on the prototype of our city.
The city is divided into twelve military districts, each commanded by a Strategos. Each district will have all the skill-sets, so they will be basically self sufficient. A farm and a large warehouse, as well as space for the ten members of the regiment is mandatory: the rest of the allotted area is for whatever the players want to build. When a Strategos is appointed by His Majesty, said Strategos recruits new guild members into his/her district until it is full.
(A somewhat to scale version of the plan)
In the center of the city there is a trade plaza, where a trading post and space for artisans shops will be. This will also serve as the Execution/Dueling Square.
Directly behind that is the Central District where the Duke, His officials, and the Blackjackets will live. Aside from the Large Keep (the largest building in the game) and the enclosing wall (our second line of defense), this place will operate like any other district.
You can see the finalized plan for LiF:YO at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... ingle=true
Guild Constitution:
The full form will be posted later, assuredly, upon beta or release, but a few short blurbs of ideas are shown here (so you can get an idea of what you'll be obeying).
1. No killing Guild Members.
2. No stealing from Guild Members.
3. No trolling, chat-spamming, cyber-misconduct etc.
4. No arson of Guild-owned or Guild-member owned property.
5. Obey the Duke
6. NEVER betray the Guild (and you'll assuredly never do it twice
). 7. All Camorri are required to serve in the Military when called by their Supreme Duke or one of His officers acting on His authority.
And Remember:
a. The Guild is Richer and Cleverer than everyone else(and modest too!)
b. Uncle Olaf Needs You
c. We NEVER surrender.
d. We NEVER retreat (just tactically withdraw)
e. Never Eat a Wet Piano (it's quite disgusting, actually).
Join Today:
We have a NEW OFFICIAL WEBSITE!!!!! Visit this at:
http://duchyofcamorr.enjin.com
Our LiF:YO Server is called Duchy of Camorr (rather obviously), visit the website or the steam group (and join) to get the password. Currently, we are very active in LiF:YO (though the guild was mainly founded for the MMO), and are training, solidifying the government, getting to know each-other, and building a (really freaking epic) prototype of Camorr. It's a peaceful server, but we do stage duels (particularly for Blackjacket recruits) for the PVP-ers among ye. You can see the rules at:
http://duchyofcamorr.enjin.com/forum/m/ ... rver-rules
My character name on said server is Severian Komnenos, just so ye don't confuse my name with the General title.
The Link to our Steam community group is below (if you intend on joining and you have Steam, it would help if you joined this group to better keep track of Guild Members pre-launch):
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/theduchyofcamorr
If you feel the need for a Gentleman Bastard's (since Scott Lynch's novels are kind of a massive inspiration to this Nation) forum signature, the file is attached.
I now have access and we have a server. Come and join us!
. As for the server problems, I haven't been on since Tuesday but I'll definitely get on Friday, but if you have any questions, contact WhiteTree, the Sakkelerios, who's hosting (or just look at the server change-log if that answer's your question). The server is indeed back up an running the new patch after a temporary bit of flukage. 