Most notable among them is the inclusion of Guilds -- a range of building types used to train units in sciences such as War (accumulate experience points for battle), the Church (construct priests and monks with special powers), the Merchant's Guild (needed for trading with others) and Magetowers, (used to create wizards and learn new spells).
Some of the guilds were distributed across the various cities, but some of the guilds were location-based.
The major guilds in entertainment -- writers, producers, directors, actors -- all have committed to telling more stories of military families in TV shows and movies.
While the conglomerates are unlikely to cede further ground on larger issues--DVD and new-media residuals--already hammered out in previous dealings with the other guilds, the actors could win on a range of smaller issues, including retroactive compensation, notification about how products will be used in shows and other lesser items.
During that time, there have been 35 million user-created characters, 240, 000 guilds created, 6.3 million pets obtained and in 2010 alone there were 27, 000 in-game marriages (no stats are available for how many real marriages sprung from those virtual unions).
The latest problem: actor guilds are threatening to boycott the non-union production in New Zealand.
Both the guilds and the Royal Society were business-related social media platforms long before there was social media.
The decree said the government should pull out from matters that can be self-regulated by trade guilds and market mechanism, said the editorials.
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In his recent Keir Hardie lecture (named after Labour's first leader) David Miliband evoked his party's pre-war tradition of mutual guilds and moral seriousness, rather than the mix of Fabian statism and cultural relativism that has prevailed since.
The guilds used their growing power to limit access to London's markets to the well-connected and well-trained.
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But if accountancy acts purely in its own self-interest then it is not a profession at all but is more like the Guilds of old, and like them if it acts as they did in monopolistic fashion to exploit others for their own gain then that is an invitation for their abolition as regulators.
So it should have been obvious from the beginning that "Argo" was going to nab that one, even without its pre-Oscar haul of prizes from such trade organizations as the Screen Actors, Producers and Directors guilds.
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