Letter to Mithrantir...

Day 2,076, 07:29 Published in Serbia Serbia by Van Sebe
Dear readers,
A new edition of eUtopia is in front of you...


Just a few hours ago, Mithrantir, very respected Greek player and ranked as No.1 in Greece,
wrote an article about how he sees the current situation and behavior of Serbia as an ally.

I would disagree with some statements that he made and I would like to provide my own view and perhaps few explanations... I would also like to stress out that this has no connection to any political party or government of eSerbia, past or current.

There were lot of talks about behavior of some Serbian players in high positions, treatment of allies and for sure we are not without mistakes and we need to carry our bourdon. But I will not write about this.



In this month eSerbia went through difficult time due to actions of former CP who suffered impeachment. Before he was moved from power, money from the treasury was gone - let's not discuss the reasons. This is our internal problem, but for sure it reflected to our allies as well.
At the very moment when CoT put in motion plan to secure congress for Bulgaria and Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), MPP's between Serbia and Romania and Serbia and Greece expired. The question is why did all three sides let this happen? Some explanation could be found in Serbian empty treasury - maybe. Anyhow, due to this lack of action, Chile AS on Romania was not an MPP battle for Serbia. Therefore Serbian players had to move and to fight which always results in lower damage. Government had problems to organize and pay expenses for the army. But even so, we have helped Romania, regrettably, not sufficiently.

At the same time there was an RW in Povardarie, in which by Mithrantir words, "Serbian players fought massively against Greece". I can't say whether this is true or not, but when I have checked battle statistics there are no Serbian players to be found in top 5 in any battle in any division (ScymeX is not a Serbian player). On the other hand, Greek players like Earentir (National Rank No. 3) and blackpanther76 (National Rank No. 7) were very well noticed in East Republic of Srpska against Serbia... So well noticed that even CoT players had SS circling around laughing about TWO fighting against TWO...

Should we say now, quote "Learn how to play and behave in an alliance and then we may be able to achieve something."?
Or perhaps "Respect your allies or die alone."?

NO WE SHOULDN'T.

Who started first? How far back do we go - do we check war with the USA or other RW's in Serbia a month ago? At the end - does it matter?

Even so, I would not say that Greece is a bad ally... All these actions are personal and speaks only about the person that made these actions - can't be generalized. They had their reasons for such actions whether these reasons are acceptable to us or not... In this game, Greece and Serbia were on opposite sides for very, very long time... Lot of friends are left in countries which are not part of our alliance (i.e. Croatia/Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)). By signing the MPP with Serbia and entering in TWO alliance, Greece showed that is willing to be closer to Serbia, and vice versa. BUT THIS TAKES TIME.... There is no government in the eWorld that can make a decree and that all of the sudden every citizen obeys that order and blindly follows it.

A god step in that direction is if you do not fight for your ally, at least do not fight against him. For a beginning...



Respect of an ally is something one fights for. I respect not only my allies, but my enemies as well, when they deserve it with their actions... A lot of friends in this game are not from Serbia and not even from TWO... This is a game after all and we are here to have fun and meet friends (not to replace RL ones)...
If one wants respect, he must give it first.

My unit, "The Bears" is well known in eSerbia. We have a rule - NEVER fight against eSerbia and our allies. NEVER. And we respect it.

eSerbia is now in difficult position and it is not so much related to this contest. Perhaps we will be deleted - so be it... Even being in this position, our officials redirected some damage to UK since this was in the alliance interest. But we will prevail. We will be on the top again. Numbers are ruthless. And when this happens, we will remember position of eFrance with breaking NAP, of eItaly and everyone else... And we will give respect to the ones that deserved it...

Real ally doesn't wait to be asked for help... For Hungary WAST MAJORITY of Serbs would fight till last energy bar...



Dear Mithrantir, we do not know each other, but I respect a man with a standpoint whether it is similar to mine or opposite one. I ask you to give some time to this fragile new friendship and then decide. And I ask you to be proactive if you really want it to succeed.

I am not a high ranking official in my country, and although we are light years away by ranking, I hope you will read this since it is written from the hart.
Whether we see each other on opposite sides or side by side in battle, all the best to you...



EDIT

I would like to ask everyone to leave RL out of the comments related to this article and to concentrate on what this article is all about – future relations between eGreece and eSerbia. Having in mind delicate situation related to this issue, and in effort not to insult anyone, I have used name “Republic of Macedonia”, treating FYROM as abbreviation as it is done by administrators of this game. I accept that looking at the picture below, full name might be treated as “Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)”, and I have used it so in the article. I will not use any other insulting name that is circling around (in order to “kiss ass” one side or the other) as insults are not a way of communication in life nor in game. They can only show incompetence and lack of argumentation…



From the very beginning, when I have started to write this article, I expected trolling from our enemies and I do not expect them to stop. They don’t want our friendship to evolve but they can’t do anything about it. Just ignore them… It is only up to us…

Thank you all for understanding…
Letter to Mithrantir...
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/letter-to-mithrantir--2297380/1/20