by Norsu » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:11 pm
If a world lasts long enough this kind of thing will evolve naturally. Simply a matter of being willing to defend your trading partners. Of course that requires either stepping beyond loyalty to the immediate group, or realising that such an action benefits you anyway. You don't need to set it up artificially, organisations like this emerge through everyday diplomacy. The strength of the alliance corresponds to the benefit people see in it. If you're trading regularly with someone for some high q product that you can't create yourself, it's in your own interest to extend the arrangement to military support as well. The village mechanic is simply a matter of convenience, villages would grow anyway. Likewise with an organisation such as this.