Apologies for not managing to create this forum account sooner. Long story, not interesting. Solved now.
A brief introduction and history... I started playing on the 20th of June 2010, soon joined a small (and ultimately mostly hopeless) alliance, left it after 4 months of getting nowhere (or rather, backwards), created my own minuscule alliance (which nobody joined in nearly 3 months because I didn't bother even trying to get recruits, but I was sort of ok with that), then back in early February this year (2011), I was invited into a modestly-sized (not to say tiny) strictly DEFENSIVE alliance... yes, when I joined Valar, they were not even on the top 20 page (actually, quite far from it). But enough about ancient history.
Suffice to say, I've been around for a while and at least some of the Valar appreciate my presence, but I have never wanted nor sought an active leadership position.
As far as I am aware, the official internal position of Valar is that we are supposed to be a defensive alliance that does not harass newbies and tries to solve conflicts in a diplomatic manner. That's how it was advertised to me initially, that's how it still is. Now, COMPLIANCE with those internal rules and PUNISHMENT for breaking them, that's where it gets tricky. As in, I have no idea what's going on. Like, literally, none.
I am quite certain (or rather, hopeful) that some if not a lot of the blame can be tracked back to only some very specific members of Valar (regardless of whether it was about actual faults or simply just misunderstandings), and that the coalition does not wish for the indiscriminate destruction of the entire alliance.
Sure, we theoretically could have even 90% of Valar leave, and 80% join up in a fresh alliance under new leadership, but would THAT stop the war, or would we just end up with a new war declaration set ? WHO does the coalition have a problem with and why ? Can any of those problems be solved peacefully, or is the only option bloodshed ? Why ?
Is that too much to ask, an explanation of why this is happening, what is expected of us ?
A handful of people decry that my request is not official-looking enough - well, OF COURSE it's not. It's not official because our "official" leadership team is mostly away without forewarning (not totally away, but at least no peep comes out of them, you get the idea), and anyway, if it is true one of the goals of this massive war declaration spree is to change leadership, what good would a message from one present leader DO anyway ?
Maybe the leadership's silence is warranted, maybe those offline long have genuine internet connections, and maybe Elvis lives, who knows. I certainly don't know.
And it's an intentionally OPEN request anyway.
You know, when people declare war in the real world, it's usually customary to tell the other party WHY you declared war (even if it's just a cover) and what you expect to get out of it in the end... and usually, it's done loud enough so that the general population of your opponent can hear it too.
Well, we HAVEN'T heard it yet, us, the general population.
Yes, maybe those statements of intentions and factual, punctual requests are buried on page #42 of thread #13 discussing the war, but that's as good as them being on display in the cellar of the Alpha Centauri Direction of Transportation as far as the "Valar grunt" is concerned.
So, please, be so kind as to rehash them for us grunts that don't know better. And I do not mean that sarcastically. Please, really do tell us WHAT DO YOU WANT.
I can't promise we'll like what you want, nor can I promise we'll give you what you want, but at least we'll KNOW what you want, so we can start working on a solution. Right now, we have no idea what you want, and the default generalized fear is something like (paraphrasing) "waarrgh, all Valar must die".
Edited by CristinaZah - 01 Oct 2011 at 07:53
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