Nation names are completely up the people who so make that nation…

the british empire is/was a collection of colonies and within those colonies you have settlements and towns.

an empire is a collection of towns, villages settlements and farms etc. If you want a realistic point of view, a small settlement with a very few people can be called a town/village.

I like your opinion, but you probably won’t stop people from naming their towns “nations” as most of these people probably don’t look at the forum or don’t have an account. Or they just don’t care. The only thing I don’t fully agree with is how you define a nation. A nation hasn’t to be a group of towns. It has to be a group of people which are connected in some ways. Also, a single city can be a separate nation(history confirms that). But it would have to have a lot of citizens(of course scaling down to the population of PirateCraft) and enough power to keep the nation independent, so the city would have to be  relatively big or/and well fortified and, like you said, not to be a tiny town with 2-3 members.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t really work in minecraft as very few elements of this game are meant to be realistic. I think most people on the server play in small groups or want to grow powerful alone, because in this game you don’t really need other people to survive. And nobody stops the constant increase of the amount of small towns called “nations” by their owners, I see a few options why:

1. There isn’t any dominating power among the non-claimed lands
2. Local people are afraid to fight the new people as they can just respawn and fight back like without an end
3. Local people don’t feel powerful enough to fight the new people

Although I support your ideas(along with the naming suggestion 🙂 ), I think the mentioned process isn’t going to stop, unless groups of people from nearby lands will start to unite on a bigger scale(like the British, but in a more unitary way to have more control over the territory) but I have no idea if it works in this game.

Well, that was pretty long, sometimes I just like to tell everything I have to tell 😛

I can see your point sting. I too think it’s odd when i see a person who built a couple of buildings, a farm and such, then inviting on of two people in and then creating the great empire of the north or something like that.. here “the great settlement of the north” would be more suiting, but the problem is that new players go play on the server, they see the british empire, which at present hold to be the most prominent group of players banding together, from my point of view at least.

So then the new players think, wow, thats cool, i wanna do that too! and they just claim thier little village to be an empire.

I dont even see the british empire as an empire, merely as a group of people banding together to tackle some of the problems that makes this server less popular for the older players.

To be able to create an actual empire or kingdom or republic i think we need one of the team plugins to aid with all the confusion of who belongs where and such, but i understand that it is not the way staff wants this server to move towards. The economy plugin has been growing in popularity lately as more players start to trade and open up new warps, because it is simpler to just buy and sell than to actually mine.

I also think that this economy developement have something to do with the demand for more structured groups with set rules and guidelines. We’re kind of moving away from the tribal style of living, which has been very dominant troughout the server history, but lately we’ve seen interest in creating more civilised and organised settlements.

The thing about the odd names is not something we can do much about in my opinion, unless there was to be a new control system where staff had to accept all the group names, but here a new problem arrises; who is to judge what groups will be accepted and which should not be?

I generally think this is just something we have to accept and just wait and see if these self claimed empires do grow into something spectacular or just vanish into the group archives and will eventually be forever forgotten.

not much else to do really.

crazy your back 😀