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I wanted to launch this thread because I felt it time to respond to some things.... The great team of Atlas has been through a lot. After taking in Commo's team, and paying all their debts off, they ripped our alliance in half twice. Camelot dropped us two short weeks later claiming the world was ending and nanos and micros didnt matter anymore. We have spent the last two weeks with great people from WAP trying to piece together the dedicated group, a daunting task by both sides to undergo. WAP said they wanted to try and improve us, we tried very hard but when we struggled with issues or weren't online fast enough they would get angry with us, we started to feel after a few days that they were being really harsh. Our gov was worried that we wouldn’t be welcome and we decided to try and find a new protectorate, one who would be patient and help us with hard tech things that we don’t understand. WAP has dropped us today with no 72 hour notice claiming that we did not try at all to comply with anything they said, while also claiming looking for others protectorates is against the treaty. WAP deleted our embassy so we have no record of any of the conversations, but we have been working extremely hard. We have raised our revenue by tons, increased our members recruitment and found two government officials we can count on to help fix builds and help our guys get the help they need to learn the game. I honestly thought maybe they were just trying to motivate us but after they cut us we felt like everything was a joke to them and they never wanted to help us learn. It bothers me as a player, because I wonder why the norms seems to apply to everyone but us, when clearly the people inside my alliance want to be here with us and make things work, and be part of a community. It feels like because I don’t do well with a single issues and its hyper-focused on that this means I am a waste of their time, and that we shouldn’t have any expectations be given 3 days to leave. I remember last year other alliances who didn't give notice were frowned on. We had a rough time in recent weeks, and are sorry that we let our friends at WAP down and always want to make our allies proud to be a part of our team.

Separate from my usual feelings about your somewhat baseless ramblings, it is really ripe to see you post this here of all places. You (Camelot, of which you are sole decision-making head) dropped the people of Atlas without giving them a long enough opportunity to adjust to your requests. Nobody is claiming they are perfect - see further post below - but you lost all credible argument space on this. We all know you like to puppet anyone who is silly enough to ask for your help ("we will send someone over" isn't how the rest of the civilized world treats prots,), but its rich to see you basically arguing merge or die. Maybe you were drawn here because for once someone was posting a complaint about a different alliance than Camelot. @Mac a couple of tips, both OOC and IC: -Bold is a really great tool to use for headers breaking up a long post like this or to create emphasis on a short point. Using it through your entire post makes it difficult to read, let alone understand. But I will say from our limited interaction, this does match your communication style - long, rambling, limited punctuation, and no editing. If you want other people to respect you and bother responding, spending a minute cleaning up your thoughts goes a long way. -This makes a third separate protectorate that has dropped you in six weeks. It is probably time to look in the mirror and figure out why that is. Sounds like you do not even need to request feedback, as plenty has been provided and ignored already. -Finding potential partners and allies does mean having to compromise and adjust your preferences. If you fail to do so, often that pushes people away, like Camelot, WAP, and the nice people from Western Republic who de-merged from you. An important point here though: publicly going scorched earth on everyone when a relationship fails accomplishes nothing. You alienate others in a very small community of Orbis. To this point: please stop harassing the members of Western Republic. They have moved on after finding reasonable terms to separate, yet you continue to DM them privately and ping them publicly. Poaching attempts will no longer be ignored. Manage your own alliance with your members and leave those that chose to disassociate from you alone. (I would also suggest applying this advice to Camelot and WAP, because as you can see above, when you overstate your self-importance and publicly attempt to mislead, the other party can come along and correct the record.) -Good luck in the future, sincerely. Most people would see this as a learning opportunity and try to do better next time. But I remain skeptical this will be the case for you. Leading is hard: Your members are counting on you to make good decisions and put them in the best possible situation. They trust you. I always try not to take such responsibility lightly. You might want to do the same.

Did your treaty include a clause for a 72 hour notice? If one was not included then WAP is not obligated to give one.

Thank the lord we have a Syndi authority on the case. PHD's in 72hrs lmfao

BigG, the FA head from WAP here. We gave you a 72 hour notice, and said we would continue to help you until you found another protector, but then were continually disrespected and then you flat out told us that you had been dealing in bad faith. We have your embassy archived if you’d like to have a look. Happy to show all the times that you shot yourself in the foot, most recently when your whole server got deleted because you refused to move over to one where you had admin because it was “too much effort”. Trust me mate, you don’t want this more public then it already is, best to let this lie, we’re sick of dealing with you.

Not giving a 72 hour notice got people in trouble last year. Whatever issues these guys had they deserved at least the bare minimum notice so they don’t get left high and dry all of a sudden. Hopefully someone picks them up and gets them help. This community needs to do more for smaller alliances to grow the player base.

papita sends you good wishes and hopes that a resolution is found at the earliest

If you capped alliance numbers, alliances would just make multiple alliances. Wouldn't do much. There's not much to be gained by limiting player's freedom of movement. As always, the solution remains to make the game more engaging and less draining for new players.

Update…

Why did you continually disrespect them? Smh

For too long Noctis has posted on these forums, yapping about this thing and that thing. Noctis has claimed ownership of Yellow because of his brainrot, as he gets his low tier noobs to try defending it for them; as they keep gaining as much damage as they can. It's time for the masses to stand up, spin around and fall over to prove Noctis can win. We encourage all on Yellow to Vote The Immortals Yellow Bloc to prove to Noctis that Immortals has more people on Yellow. We probably wont fight for Immortals right to treat Noctis as a second class nation, but we are not above strongly worded letters. We encourage others to stand with us & vote to make Yellow the same as it always was. We are open to both treaties and paperless relations with those who wish to assist in proving change is impossible. The same Noctis complains forever and we can't change that. Yellow is the color of urine, not sure why Noctis settles for pee colors rather than be Red. Either he is colorblind, or maybe he likes to stare at the sun til his brain melts. Raiders are fighting for loot & avoiding the good colors because they are too busy looting people to farm a 75000 dollar per turn bonus, so the evil whales can keep getting richer than them at an even faster pace. Better to sit on your ass, than to whine on your toilet. Oppressive Dinosaur from Singularity, Sketchy.

For to long whales in Immortals have claimed ownership of Yellow because of the name, as they get their mid tier authoritarian "enforcers" to try enforcing it for them; as they keep avoiding as much damage as they can. It's time for the masses to stand up tot he Authoritarians and prove freedom can win. We encourage all on Yellow to Vote Anarchy Yellow to prove to them they don't own the team & freedom prevails. We will fight for our right to not be treated as second class nations; forced on the worst colors. We encourage others to stand with us & vote to make Yellow a free color. We are open to both treaties and paperless relations with those who wish to assist in proving change is possible. The same dinosaurs don't own the same colors forever and we can make a stand to change things. Yellow is where we make our last stand at least, not sure why so many raiding alliances settle for bad colors rather than be bold. Either we succeed, or the whales keep dominating in their leads, as raiders are fighting for scraps & avoiding the good colors just so the whales can keep getting richer than them at an even faster pace. Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees. High King of the Vikings of Anarchy

I expected noctis to reply here, but okay.

Well go ahead and share the list with the rest of us

Epi thinks we want to fight Camelot? That's hilarious. I don't know about the rest of EVH gov, but Camelot is very low on my list of alliances I'd like to fight next (if they're even in that list).

You should spend more time doing milcom

I believe that is what happens when people leave an alliance to join a different alliance. Honestly I figure you all of people would know about that.

I see the quality of RON reporting hasn't improved. This seems like the sort of thing you could probably find out yourself, with the bot, that exists on your own server.

Praise Sketchy

Shut up.

uhhhh who are these guys again?

I took this as hostile and decided to declare, not that you have much to lose. Please enjoy your freedom of speech on the forums.

I took this as you inviting us to Orange if we want, so will keep that in mind. (Don't read the forum if you can't handle reading stuff beyond what you write. Are you dense) Still standing ground on yellow, even if see people from 2 Orange alliances encouraging me to try that one instead.

Can we take his posting perms away already

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Idk 10b isn’t free

$500 million on Arrgh itself please

Does anyone have a serious counter-argument? I haven't heard any in the weeks since I posted it. If anything I understated how bad it is for new players even with the project discounts. You need to merge with your allies or your peers in the lower-tier. As it stands, you would need a 3+ year protectorate to catch-up even if you were very skilled.