In the aftermath of last night, I feel the need to post this. If people think that I'm going to blow all of /k/ out, or that I'm speaking for all of /Pol/ynesia, please don't. What I say here, I say for myself and myself alone.
When I first joined the server, I saw a group of people with great promise. I came from a server where hating Civcraft was par for the course, and I came here under the assumption that I would either hate the place or be hated. Instead, I found a welcoming community of some of the best people I've ever encountered over the internet.
Seeing this community, I wanted to add something to it and instead of bringing in more people to /Pol/ynesia, what I realized that Chanada needed was balance. We needed a dynamic power structure and as I sat in Volkstadt and watched /V/iridian, /A/kihabara, FAGT, and other towns slowly wither away, I understood that we needed a self-sustaining way to bring people together, through expanding Chanada's network of countries. And so, only a month into my stint here, I advertised on /k/ and helped to set up the /K/ountry.
Where I once saw a potential source of friends, I now see nothing but strife, conflict, and a vast gulf between our nations. I have advocated time and time and time again to offer you guys assistance, to help you stay alive, to give you concessions on the bargaining table, and to help you expand your economy and production capacity. When others wanted you all pearled, I said no. I put on my prot and went to defend you and stabilize the situation, with Tigen, when nobody else would. When you needed help with griefers, Volkstadt sent its people.
But, in recent weeks, I find I can no longer justify defending the actions of /K/ountry and where I once saw a source of vibrant discussion, with Wulfkhaine, Spainland, Tygrus, and /K/ all happily talking together, I now see nothing but Syncrates, sitting behind his great wall, occasionally telling me to 'fuck off' and that 'you're all useless' when I calmly ask for proof of his increasingly delusional and dire predictions. And I am sick and tired of it. Out of respect for www66 and Spongy, as well as the rest of /K/, who have asked us in the past to put problems out in the open rather than spam channels, I am bringing this problem out where everybody can see it:
I'm calling you out, Syncrates. For the past few weeks, your citizens have been willing and able to PvP and to practice with us. While you sit behind your wall, you demand that we come to you, that we make the first move, that we hand you equality on a silver platter. Well guess what, that's not how life, or this server, works. If you want to be treated equally, start acting equal. You are the junior partner because you do not earn respect from anybody on the world stage, nevermind even within your own alliance group. Instead of coming to us and offering trade deals, you sit and wait for us to do so. And even worse, like last night, when immer offered an XP for Ingredient deal, you spit in his face and said that you were 'fine' with XP, despite not having the ability to make so much as a diamond work pick.