William of Cobden

I've already mentioned my belief that getting people to join and remain in active standing with an alliance by offering them exclusive content doesn't clearly break the trading of in-game resources for out of game resources. And if it does the rule should be be re-written to clearly include that scenario. Keeping quiet about or hiding/destroying evidence doesn't prove anything either as it's clear that any such information could be twisted and used by enemies (and apparently even possibly admin) to create a narrative against you. Also ... I've never even heard of any of you until a couple days ago. I wouldn't have known a NPO member (or whatever that Guinea Pig alliance is) from a any other of your alliances. I had no idea who was on ColA or ColB, still don't really. I guess my alliance was on NPO's side? I log on every day and do my own thing. I've been playing this game for years, and very rarely get involved in any of this crap. I can see now that is for good reason. I'm so glad I benefited from months and months of this endless war and the constant re-building after attacks from nations twice my size.

The problem is his integrity has seriously been called into question. And the more I hear about it, and the attitude of most of you here, I'm starting to believe the narrative where he chose a side and created a narrative that would reach the endgame that was desired.

The old "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" argument ... I would argue that they had seemingly cause to believe that they were being targeted by their enemies, which they would say now included the admin of the game. As such they were protecting themselves from that attack in the only way they knew how.

I charge every alliance in the game of taking money from inactive nations (who have no intention of ever playing the game again) into their bank, and "funneling" it into their active nations. Alex please investigate.

I completely understand that your biases make you blind. I'm starting to believe everything I'm hearing from the other side. That "whataboutism" clearly highlights a "catch-all rule" that can be conveniently pulled out as ammunition to punish anyone you want at any time if you want. That's my point.

It's still not a direct trade of in-game materials for out of game materials. It's incentive to join the game and remain in active standing. Those are two different things. I find it hard to believe every top alliance isn't doing something like this on a fairly regular basis.

I agree that the rules where not clear. Giving members access to a restricted area of your discord server or website where content is available in exchange, and as incentive to, join/stay in your community and remain in active standing isn't clearly an exchanges of real-life money or goods for in-game materials, including but not limited to: in-game money, and in-game resources. I'm also kind of shocked by this response: Not quite sure what to make of it ...

This is the most interesting comment in this thread ...

Did all members of GPWC receive access to this translated comic, and as long as you kept an active status you kept this benefit? Are their any other benefits they or other alliances use on their websites and discord that are similar to this, encourage members to stay and maintain an active?

I just googled "Emperor Jonas". That's funny. I mean just for a short while. Let both sides cool off, and it would help negate, even if partially, any perceived advantage either side has gained from either cheating or the punishment administered by admin. Once the cool off period has ended then the sides can decide whether they want to renew hostilities or go a different route maybe ...

I think the ability to declare new wars should be disabled for the time being.

I actually hope they will take the opporunity to make a more robost war mechanic. Where you formally declare war against other alliances and you have a progress meter that swings back and forth until one side crosses the line on their side to win the war. Or something along those lines. Have strict game rules about what alliance you can declare war on based on size and frequency. Alliances could even enter into challanges from other alliances, or the admin could post challenges with prizes/rewards for the winners. etc. etc. So many possibilities.

Also, is there a post somehwere in the forum where a narrative of all of this is posted by someone representing the admin? If so can you link it here. If that doesn't exist then I think it'd be helpful if it did.

So there are alliances offering people a Raffle where they win prizes if they sign up to play P/W? Is this a one-time Raffle, or are there multiple raffles if people stay active? They have to join a specific alliance I'd assume? They play the game like normal? Or do they also sit in a tax farm alliance? Then you have other alliances offering basically a monthly subscription to a translated Manga comic in exchange for them signing up to sit in alliance and be taxed 100%? All these people aren't actually playing the game? How many people we talking about here? Can someone with the ability to answer these questions without bias or insults would be welcome.

Can somebody tell me more about this "Raffle" I hear about some other alliance doing? I hear it being compared to this translated Manga thing a lot ...