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So you claim to have learned: 1. Never Help People Yet in my journeys through Orbis I have encountered incredibly generous people and people who pay things forward in a way that gives me faith in humanity. 2. Accept Your Faults, Even When You Have None I have a temper. I can be harsh to people who don't take the game seriously enough to even try. No one is perfect. That you think you may not believe you have faults is a fault. In the course of this game are there times you are forced to eat a sh*t sandwich and accept defeat? Absolutely. You dust yourself off, get up, and press on, learning the lessons you need to learn. 3. There is No Difference Between "IC" and "OOC" Perhaps try not oversharing in the first place? No one can talk behind your back about what they don't know. If you made the mistake of trusting the wrong people, then they're jerks for breaking your trust. Make sure that other people know they are gossips and not to be trusted. 4. Friends Are Just Future Enemies And enemies are future friends. This is a game. Alliances and loyalties change over time. I'm now part of the leadership team of an alliance that surrendered to a coalition three years ago that included an alliance where I was part of the leadership team. 5. You're On Your Own. Help is Future Debt. My previous advice on these forums still applies when it comes to the exchange of money, resources, or favors. Get clarity on the terms before agreeing to a deal. Also, get documentation. You can't buy 10 Coal in this game without there being a receipt. You made a business deal and didn't get precise terms on a billion dollar loan (and made sure it was a loan and not a grant)? You're not very bright. Also, don't expect others to help you as though they have an absolute obligation. They should *want* to help you, but if they have solid reasons for not doing so, accept that and move on. Seems like you learned nothing from the game except how to become bitter. Go outside. Get some fresh air and some perspective.

It's a surreal pleasure to announce the 41st government of UPN, seventeen years after the 1st one. Yet here we are. With new faces and old wise heads alike UPN's high government from now until six months hence will be: Leadership Prime Minister - Naaro Chair (Foreign Affairs) - Cora Chair (Internal Affairs) - Matt Ministers Minister of Foreign Affairs - Malichy Minister of Internal Affairs - Matt Minister of Finance - Noreen Minister of Defense - JayJay Minister of Communications - Altheus Departments Minister of Development - Hyacinth Bucket Minister of Entertainment - Sir Bananas Defense (North America Specialist) - Sealteam The Sovereign Senate of UPN Cora, Malichy, Matt, Naaro, Noreen, Sealteam & Sir Bananas

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Cora has led UPN a long time and always been great to work with over the years. It’s good to see UPN still moving ever forward. Good luck to the new leadership of UPN. Rome salutes you.

41 governments!?, I already hate one, how am I supposed to deal with 40 more

you saw that right. May the purple ever be with us!

Some new faces, some old...may the purple ever be with us! 💜

From what I've seen, there were mistakes made in Black Skies and mistakes you made that may have contributed to everything happening now, though I can't say much on the specific details of your situation since I haven't been paying much attention to this game in the past few months during my break and the times that led up to it. But as a more general statement, it is true that the community can be toxic at times, and I understand how difficult it can be to try and handle that toxicity from my own experiences, so I hope everything's alright with you. Again, I can't say too much about you as a player and a community member since I haven't really been involved enough in this part of the community to say anything on this, especially recently, but farewell and best of luck in everything you do outside of this game.

I usually wish someone well when they leave no matter who it is, but I swear to god you left trying to shit on everyone, so if anyone has anything bad to say about you in responces to this post its on you again, like all the other troubles you have brought to BS, sure some arent your fault and some people took revenge too far but you arent helping with the problem.

Our bloc chat goes something like this.

"everyone is bad but me"

Don't let the door hit you on the way out Alan.

I don’t like how you characterized this community. The community is not toxic. You went out of your way to create issues for youself, majority of them being OOC issues, not IC issues. I will say that people definitely didn’t give you any benefit of the doubt when things truly weren’t your fault but your post makes it seem like you feel you were innocent in all these things, you weren’t. Unlike others, I do think you were a a blessing to have and play this game with. I do hope you re-roll, and come back a more steady, stable, and level-headed version of yourself. I nominated you for player of the year one year, because I thought you did good/have that potential.

I’ve noticed you forgot to mention about your threats to dox players yourself.

I didn't get a chance to do this the first time so I'm going to take my time with it now. Anything in BOLD is the appreciation of either myself, the government of Black Skies or the membership. TLDR; 4 Years of History into a single post. It's for those that care. Black Skies has been the butt end of the joke for years. Starting from the acronym that people termed us as the "Bullshit Alliance" it quickly spiraled into faked screenshots, IRL harassment, death threats based on sexual orientation, doxxing and the leaking of IRL addresses to news sites. As soon as a player applied to or joined Black Skies a mark was placed on them to be the center of harassment and ridicule. Black Skies was built for the purpose of providing a safe haven from the taxes, strict rules and needless regulation of the top alliances. It started as one person alliance, myself, and grew into a Top 30 alliance while all the while people complained about my "inability to lead" and thought I was a "poison in the community". The Lost Empire, under Atlan, didn't think that. Atlan knew that I'd hit bumps as it was the first alliance I'd lead and still took a chance on me. I looked up to Atlan with an immense desire to have both the affection of my members and the patience to deal with any issues like he had. I saw him as my P&W dad. Black Skies and the belief we held would not have survived without Atlan's tireless willingness to aid us. We probably would of rode through the entire game with TLE had Atlan not left the game for his brief stint. As soon as Atlan left and TLE was given the opportunity to move to a new Bloc they decided to cut us, while still keeping United Ummah. Shoutout to United Ummah, an alliance that told Black Skies members that "The attacks on 9/11 was punishment from God on the sins of America". While allied to them under TLE, UU's low FA told our government member how to slit their wrists to bleed out faster and demanded I remove them from the alliance because of their sexual orientation. This was the alliance that TLE preferred to keep. We had to bounce around from alliance to alliance, war after war, until somebody was willing to give us a chance. We made 2 Blocs, Liberty and Holy Sea, in which Black Skies was mocked and ridiculed for. Both Blocs while we entered with the hopes of prospering, fell apart due to a different alliance destroying us. Epi couped Pantheon and broke Liberty Bloc and Beans demanded we fight a war for Sanctuary and then less than 24 hours later peace out of a war, ending Holy Sea. When Orbis Crowned News staff like Jova and Merky Mo decided to fake screenshots of myself either leaking OPSEC or using racial slurs (after members from HORDE had already faked images of me claiming I was a pedophile) it wasn't anything new. The same people attacking my character with fakes because they couldn't find any legitimate fault escalated as Krampus began spreading it over Royal Orbis News. The real life consequences that occurred from that put myself, my then girlfriend and my sister into a deep mental health spiral. Tugger and Rainbow had the courage to assist me with screenshots and photos to track down Merky Mo as the egregious culprit. My rage at Tugger for sharing the image blurred my thinking but he did everything in his power to fix the situation. Black Skies was beside itself as we began being mass messaged by a few burner discord accounts. At one point my old Discord account had over 15,000 DMs from these accounts. I deleted. I couldn't continue moving through the day like nothing was wrong and my members being besieged by hate for actions that didn't concern them. But people knew I still had value and was able to help the community. People like Chad and Lysander still asked me for help with checking out multi rings that I could easily do with a program that was made for Lord of the Rings Online. When Uriah the Fox and Killzbob decided to gut Black Skies (then Thunderstruck) and merge them into The Elites a plea was made to return to the game. So The Coven was born. United Purple Nations took The Coven in and once again, I as a single person, brought The Coven into a Top 30 position. Using our alliance to punish smaller alliances that held anti-Semitic beliefs, abused members or sexually harassed them, The Coven with Lysander and Vexynn grew into the "Micro-Manager" that we wanted to be. Cordonia, Titan and Laser Kiwi took the reins and helped the alliance to dominate in the lower tiers. Our success as an alliance would of continued no doubt had my identity not been outed. DeeC went to OCN and once again OCN brought my identity into play, a recurring theme that would continue over the next 2 years. Since then it's been a roller coaster of people joining Black Skies, loving it but then as soon as they leave, bash the alliance for either my leadership or the way we operated. The Fighting Pacifists and House Stark would be our only two allies that appreciated what we offered without being hung up over the name of it's leader. Under Damien I was praised by the game, the name "Alan" though brought out the worst in the game. So what was it all for? We learned a lot. Black Skies and myself would like to leave with what we learned from the game so that others that come after us don't make the same mistakes we've made: Never Help People When women would call for hours on end complaining about their boyfriend not caring, hang up. If you don't you'll lose allies. Your sympathy and empathy earn you nothing. I'm still sorry Sval and Order of the White Rose. When new alliances ask you for a protectorate, decline them. Those prots will backstab you first chance they get and move to a larger alliance. Always help your alliance first. All other alliances not treatied with you are the enemy. Thank you Nokia and The Coal Mines for taking out the trash. When people beg you to save an alliance from merging, kill it. The corpse of that alliance will poison the community. Don't give assistance to an alliance that can't assist itself. Thank you Yarr for stepping up against Tiberius and Bank of Orbis. This game does not care about rule breaking, social abuse or hate speech. Alex wants children to play this game when in reality P&W is rated 18+. If you attempt to help someone you will be crucified for it. Accept Your Faults, Even When You Have None When you're losing a war, take the blame for everything for peace. Nobody cares about the truth. You taking the "High Road" will lead to your members hurting. When you're being accused of something false, protect your members first and your image second. People will slander you out of jealousy or pure spite. Your members will know the truth and they're the only community you need. When people fake documents, screenshots or other things about you, give up. Fighting it makes people hate you more and "evidence" is a word this community doesn't use. Never, ever join a news network. Most of them spread lies to bolster their numbers and popularity. 85% of "news networks" are tabloids. There is No Difference Between "IC" and "OOC" Those that pretend there is are lying to themselves. People will attack your character and will demand to dig into your personal life for their own gain. Sometimes Macros even do it in order to blackmail you for your members. You are putting your life in the hands of the game. Never give the community any information. Age: Old Enough. Country: One with Land. Friends Are Just Future Enemies Friends of today are enemies of tomorrow. People will attempt to get close to you just to backstab you. Don't bring people into Economic Affairs, don't bring on a 2ic (Second in Command) and don't merge with an alliance. The people you bring into those circles will write their "tell alls" which blow the same smoke with no proof. However the community feeds on it because it's "drama". You're On Your Own. Help is Future Debt. If you ever build your alliance stay detached from the game. Don't involve yourself in politics and don't lean into the drama of the game. Stay strong in your beliefs and don't break your word in any situation. Alliances that have kept to themselves like Antarctic Alliance have beaten top alliances. Their community makes them strong. Don't join the P&W community. Be your own community.

The quality of the folks spending their time here to argue Alan, and the fact that some of them can't manage it without leaning on casual misogyny as a crutch, in public on the forums (not that a discord shitpost of it would be classier), is all the testimony anyone anywhere needs to know that, regardless of Alan's own vast and varied faults... He didn't miss with a single one of those points.

wdgaf 🤓

The skill issue is in bad taste tbh.

I mean he makes valid points. This community can be quite toxic. If you can’t realize that, you are apart of the problem.