Caledonia: Difference between revisions

Time spent together on the council brought Wingzero and Meat closer together, even though they clashed on many ideas. Meat312's dis-illusionment came from frustrations of being Yoahtl's general. There were constant squabbles about how much access Meat should have to government resources and funds, and a constant tug-of-war granting and taking away citadel group permissions. Yoahtl invading [[Laconia]] was the final straw for Meat312. He saw the conflict through to the end, but by then was fully resolved to abandon Yoahtl for a new nation with Wingzero54.

 

 

The two players wanted to leave for greener pastures, aka less active region. They naturally gravitated to the +,+ quadrant which was quiet and until the fall of 2018, pretty empty. Wingzero54 had a requirement in mind - a convenient spread of biomes which could sustain large scale XP farming within the boundaries of the nation. They found that in their eventual claims, a large island with several biomes, all large enough to hold XP farms.

After a couple months in Caledonia, and the founding of the capital, Aberdeen, Meat312 began advertising his wares again for players all across the server to come buy prot and tools in Caledonia. A couple alt raiders hit Aberdeen, craft_2_kids (to this day an unknown alt that has never logged in again) got away with multiple sets of prot and weapons and assumedly dropchested them outside of Caledonia where another account picked them up, or they are waiting to be grabbed perhaps still to this day. After this raid we overhauled the prot and tool sales, but several restricted inventory and access which hurt sales. Erutara attempted to raid, but was caught in the act by Wingzero54 who, expecting a naked random, instead found a fully geared and potted account which proceeded to wipe the floor with Wingzero54. N3ptune would later admit to being Erutara some months later.

 

 

In response to the alt raids to Aberdeen, and with Mir expanding their own claims, Caledonia decided to expand its' claims to meet the borders of Mir and enable them to expand their snitch grids. [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/a17ypd/caledonia_expanded_claims/ It was announced November 2018 on the subreddit].

==== An Era of Growth (Summer & Fall 2019) ====

A renaissance would come to Caledonia, however, with the concurrence of several events. A secure shopping mall was designed and constructed, the current home of the prot, tool and weapon sales of Meat312. It is whitelisted to control access to the shopchests. New players arrived in the form of HenryDraton, of MtA, who decided to leave MtA after the fall of Godomasta and failure of that administration. Fredhun14, longtime friend of Wingzero54 from a previous server, became active in minecraft again and joined CivClassic. After constructing many XP farms, Fred would go on to construct his castle, ''Castle Vroengard'', one of the largest ongoing projects in Caledonia to this day. Fred was also made a government official this time, being given the title "Praetor", a title which had previously belonged to Scouter9001.

 

Caledonia annexed the [[Brotherhood of Steel]], [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/bzd7u9/the_brotherhood_has_joined_caledonia/ announced June 2019 on the subreddit]. The two nations had been working together since the Brotherhood of Steel moved into old Freedonia, and the consolidation of small +,+ nations is seen as being good for the overall health and activity of the quadrant. Hockey328, one of these integrated citizens from the BoS, would go on to become a government official after a single month, being given the title "Legate".

 

==== A New Year and New Opportunities (2020) ====

As the Holidays ended, major conflict broke out in [[Laconia]] as a combination of [[Mir]] and [[Entente]] forces (at this point in time commonly referred to a "Mirtente" due to frequent war collaborations) began a final assault on Laconia's vault, Mt. Doom. The Consuls saw this as a fine opportunity to claim the lands of New Sovia up North in order to eliminate the security risk it posed, as well as give some room for expansion, as Fred had been wanting to expand his castle to the islands Northeast of the mainland due to their proximity to his megabuild. It seems like many of the Sovian-Laconians and their compatriots were unhappy with this event, but it was otherwise uncontested. This also eliminated Caledonia's only land border.

 

 

Caledonia once again cemented themselves as a prominent player in the Coalition with the Pinkerton Offensive at the beginning of February, in which several of the most prominent Caledonians aided in constructing the attack bridge and breaking bastions. The Consuls were especially important in motivating and preparing Coalition forces for the attack. Caledonia would be largely absent from the later assault on [[Corvus]] due to the spontaneity of the attack.

 

Around this time, an important policy would be solidified after much discussion among the Caledonian govenment around the concept of ''"Proper Claims Usage"'', with SwordMaster [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/es3pcj/a_problem_of_inactivity_how_inactive_claims_hurt/ publishing a rough essay] detailing some of the concepts discussed. After this, it was decided that the Northern-most New Sovian islands would be released as it was determined they would not see much use, and it might be better to allow a new nation an opportunity to build there. However, Appomattox would later take control of these islands, citing the same security reasons as Caledonia had before. Anticipating [[Brennau]] being effectively declaimed in the January 2020 Claims Map, Caledonia would claim a single island that de jure belonged to Brennau, a snow biome that had been used as farm land by Caledonia for many months. Because of the land usage, this action was seen as justified. SwordMaster's post would later encourage the [[Communist Cities Caretaker-Protectorate|CCCP]] to take responsibility over the claims of [[Provincia]] and free a few of Provincia's islands, effectively freeing more land for future possible nations. Many old inactive nations within the Southeast were cleared at this time, allowing more possibility for advancement of the Quadrant. Due to this policy of Practical Claims, it was expected that Caledonia would not expand, at least not for a long time, with enough land to house all the farms it could need and plenty of space to start a few cities.