Hello my dear Aytian friends, sorry for being so inactive lately but with this post I will return - the school year is nearly over and I have a lot of time to start nerding again.

I had this concept for a while in my head but I was too lazy to write it. Now I decided to do it. The lefties of you will probably hate it, most will call this way to complicated but I don't care. What makes Civcraft special when every way of thinking is being ignored? So I'll start:

As you may know, we have many players with many different nationalities on this server, starting from the eastern hemisphere to the western hemisphere of our planet. In the game, race or nationality didn't matter because it didn't work, but I thought of an interesting system how it might work. I will try to explain it by using Aytos/Tigerstaden as an example.

• Civcraft "race" and "nationality" is not based on ethnicity, but on group morals

If a group of players plays together for a long time, they start developing group morals meaning ideas/ways of behavior which are typical for that group. Those morals may differ from group to group but share some aspects ( = We have different cultures in reallife but most share some general ways of behavior f.e. killing people is not good). In the case of Aytos/Tigerstaden we can see, that the ideas are often led by a person who helds the most authority within the group. People tend to look up to them and respect them. Those are the so-called people, who introduce a new cultural period. But there are some group morals which were developed right at the beginning of the creation of the "nation" and which stayed the same the whole time. Let's show it at the beginning of the "Tigerstaden race/nationality":

• TIGERSTADEN - THE BEGINNING - KARSTIANISM

This is the beginning of Aytos, it is created upon the ideas of Karst. He allowed the city to grow without interacting too much with it's economy but still giving the people orders. He was well respected. As time grew on, the period of Karstianism came with a development of the Tigerstaden nationality and community, people saw themselves as "Tigers". Some things like "free market but with some public farms" - became a political idea of our "nationality". Nobody wanted it to go away. The HCF War also happened during the Karstianist period and nearly destroyed Tigerstaden but Tigerstaden came back and started growing back. Until Karst stepped became inactive and stepped back:

• TIGERSTADEN - THE LAST MONTHS OF 1.0 - MONKEYISM

A new parliament was elected, this time for 2 months, I think around february or march last year. In the parliament, every person was mostly inactive besides one or two and Monkey. MonkeyWithAnAxe was the leading guy this time. He "took over" and started reforming the town with his parliament. In this time the city started growing massively, we started an expansion towards the south. The town appeared more organized, I think that we also had a police force. The Monkey period was more state capitalist than Ancap but then in April, the last elections of Tigerstaden were announced.

• TRANSITION OF 1.0 to 2.0 - End of Tigerstaden - The fight of Radical Karstianism and Monkeyism

Karst returned to Aytos, now with a very libertarian political opinion and started a huge propaganda wave against the old government. This lead to a cutural crisis between Karst, using his authority as a town founder, and Monkeyism and his followers. Some smallers groups like the leftist revolutionaries tried to take over the town by spreading propaganda and proclaim a republic of Tigerstaden, but this lead to nothing. This did not affect the Tigerstaden history and culture in any way. Instead, the map got reseted. According to the election resulsts, Radical Karstianism would have returned to Tigerstaden but instead, Tigerstaden got deleted.

• 2.0 - The Tigerstaden Nationality splits into 2 cultural periods - Transitional Monkeyism and Postkarstianism

The Karstianists decided to join Aurora and as far as I know, they were succesfull there, though it was not well recieved by some Auroran players. They changed the political landscape of Aurora and "older" aspects of the Tigerstaden nationality and culture were forced unto Aurora.

I am saying older, because most people of Aytos started following the Transitional Monkeyism. When we started rebuilding Aytos again, people were listening to Monkey - He started building the first infrastucture, we took his map as a city plan and he did the stuff with the groups. So basically Aytos is nothing but a result of a transformational period started by an election in 1.0. But because Monkey didn't want to join Parliament, a new cultural period emerged. This also marks the end of the Transitional movement led by Monkey.

• AYTOS - MADEISM

Made0fMeat became the leading figure and the town was mostly created on his ideas. The liberal state capitalist ideas of Monkey were fullfilled by a "social" - addition to them and we started growing and getting bigger. A new cultural period started, completely different from what we had experienced before. Many new people, who we now consider part of our group, came and started mixing the group. Without playing in Tigerstaden, they became part of the race and nationality, they basicly grew into it. ( = when you migrate to an other country IRL your grandchildren will will be native to the new country). But then the PILF came and after it Made0fMeat went AFK for a few months. The city collapsed. This was also a result of the political system the young Mateism idea has provided. It was unexperienced and led to chaos. The Tigerstaden nationality was opressed within this time, forexample by the Carsonites. A symbol for this opression was the tower.

• Transitional period - "Strateism" and "Reformed Madeism"

Stratmatt57 started rebuilding the city and invited us back. The city was rebuild upon the willingness of Strat to invest into the town and his ideas were respected by the political leader ( Made0fMeat). But Made0fMeat's ideas were now reformed, Oracle became a prominent political figure. As we know, Oracle/Pseudowalker was a pretty active participant of the Karstianism movement so we can say, that Reformed Mateism is a bit influced by Karstianism.

• This is basically the story until now. I don't know who the leader of our current cultural period is or how it's called, because I was inactive, but I think, that border disputes could become a huge factor in this cultural period*

• IMPORTANT EVENTS IN OUR HISTORY:

• HCF War

• The time Aytos was created

• The destruction of the PILF Tower - The end of the tyranny