[celestialprime] Re: Alliance Agreement between CPA & FKA
- From: "Colin Merritt" <diplomatic.incident@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: celestialprimealliance@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:53:12 -0400
Well, we know how my XO feels. :)
Shawna is correct in pointing out the MUSE has always been a CPA thing.
Sims in other groups have certainly had logs of the month, but the CPA may
be the only one to consistently set these logs side by side and vote on
which is best. It's tradition.
Traditions only work when they serve the society. Traditions are good for
marking seasons, for religious and social rites, for teaching someone the
morals of their society, what they would like to stand for, and give them a
sense of belonging. Other than perhaps the very last (We're the CPA, look
what WE have!) the MUSE doesn't really fill the other roles except arguably
hinting at how to write a good log. Traditions that don't serve the society
make one of two things happen: Either they fade away into history, or they
make the society stagnate.
I think there's a deeper issue, and a more powerful argument Shawna could
make, and it is this: Why the bloody hell are we sharing anything with a
rival organization? Admiral Gem, who I think most of us know and respect,
would recoil from this idea.
If you've been simming for any length of time, you KNOW the intergroup
rivalry is fierce, and you KNOW most other groups wouldn't offer to share
with us. Annex? Maybe. Share? Ha. The battle that brought what was then
my only sim from SFOL to CPA was epic, and loyalty did most certainly come
up. CPA itself was founded as a protest against COL, which was founded as a
protest against SFOL. Some of these enmities are ancient.
They're tradition.
This agreement offers us a different paradigm. It implies that we're
stronger together than apart. It reflects the current reality that finding
new recruits for sims is hard, without conceding weakness on either our part
or theirs. It simply suggests that if we find ways to work together, our
players may get to know each other. If our players get to know each other,
by definition that's a bigger player base for all of us. They're more
likely to look at both of our schedules to fill their needs, and might
convince others sick of more formalized organizations to see what the TWO of
us are up to.
Put another way, we have nothing to lose except arguably the prestige of
having a unique award. I don't see them draining us of players nor vice
versa - our respective sizes are too close.
I think it's worth the risk.
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