My Flight's Leaving
NoTie112
Dear citizens of the eNetherlands,
It surely hasn't been gone unnoticed to many of you. The country is currently in a state of shut-down due to a disagreement between ''me'' and the forum-Congress. The disagreement entails the fact I happened to be both Dictator and President at the same time (being elected President kinda by 'accident') which is not allowed by the laws on our forum. The toxic environment of the forum has made any solution to this impossible, procedures and votes being censored and moderated by certain people who in-game wouldn't even win an election due to their tarnished reputation and improper methods. After the 2nd in the last Presidential Elections and many with him suggested an exception this month (a motion I proposed to allow an exception to be made only this month was censored and never allowed to be voted on again) I decided to stand my ground against this ill institute that dictates the game instead of being a mere and helpful addition to it.
But alas, the holy meta-gaming has claimed yet another 'victory' this month. No government keys were handed out to the appropriate persons, voting rights were taken away on the forum, the administration took heavy use of censoring to direct debates in their direction. To conclude, the country has been hijacked - and it's not by me. Meanwhile, all those 'debaters' rather let the country go to hell than to dedicate themselves to the actual country in-game (hello forum-Congress, there is an event going on).
Over the last couple of days I have been thinking of what I can actually still achieve for the eNetherlands. Sure, I have been given carte blanches and praises and every mandate when my material help were put to good use, back when we could defeat superpower Croatia off just last year. But every other dedicated free hour to the eCountry is being blockaded, bickered over and only results in frustration instead of progress. I can do nothing else than conclude that this country is terminally ill due to meta-gaming, and that I alone am not strong enough to ever change that.
Therefore I have decided to give it all up. I'm not being appreciated (but I'm used to that), but I'm also not able to steer the eNetherlands into progress anymore. Considering that I've gotten some other RL activities these days as well, my interest was already lower than once before. I was still willing to put up with the eNetherlands, but after the last month even that is gone. One side of me wants to see the fancy people with 'principles' or the corrupted forum benchers talking about 'law' rule and ruin the country, one the other hand I would pity those that are not supportive of the current system as well.
Anyways, I'll resign all my current posts and will stay out of them for the foreseeable future. I sincerely hope the remainder of the eNetherlands can pull itself together with such a controversial figure as me out of the spotlight. I have essentially governed the country all on my own the last 2 years, starting with the last German invasion (in which some already accepted the fate of being wiped for years again) until now. I have been working together with several figures over these months, people like Jordic and Shawtyl0w, one of the few people who were concerned with the country and also showed an extreme dedication in time and effort in it as well. Those people have become sparse recently, nevertheless I hope such bright lights are given the go to keep steering our country in the right way without being as obstructed as I am.
It was a good ride.
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It wasn't a fling good ride ffs!!! It was abuse by a retard called odan (btw he was the worst CP ever) It's incredible all this community is ruled by pathetic people, what a shame!!!
Meanwhile be happy shooting stupid things like "Fight here and there" at the end is the only thing your minds can process.
You Dutch have showed me a lot of times that all of you are incoherent, waste, unimaginative and retrograde people.
King regards,
Kim
Fucking awesome politician who was honest all the time, go read my articles. IM A SEER!!!! A seer and a playboy
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Damn gift you are so melodramatic Tonie
A sad day in eNL history. Very understandable though, I hope you stay around although you might not want to join any politics for a while..
I heard stories about you being ill, now that i'm reading this article i hope it isn't a serious illness and wisj you well 🙂
o7 mate
It was a relieve working with you the last months, just when it looked we had lost almost all active citizens. It gives hope for the eFuture 😉
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Sad but very understandable. I already feared the story you'd be sick was actually being sick of eNL and just hope this will serve our country by letting people wake up and see what is really happening and how sick our county is for years already. Sadly a lot of players that actually cared about the game itself are effectively "killed" over the years so I highly doubt anything will change. Especially as due to giving up those killing our country will remain in power and likely get even more power. In game that is as forum (and congress with it) is already completely in their hands and not serving our nation for years already. The movement to get control of our country ingame has started half a year back or so and one can only hope the position of dictator won't be the next to be taken over. To be clear; I'm not blaming you for giving it up! I fully understand. But I think you know that.
Thx for all you have done. Which is much more than most, if not all, players realise!
o7
Weekstrom
I'm not giving up. Just leaving behind the system that has hijacked the eNetherlands sadly 😉
Its sad that that the people in congress, enjoy playing a game where they fail to see reason or thier own toxic behaviour.
Thanks for all your help Tonie, and it was nice seeing you again. Its sad to so the van Spijk mentality that has spread over the forum community, unwilling to talk, unwilling to work together and unwilling to realize that their toxic behaviour has caused the fall of our community.
Today is the day I see that it is game over for the eNetherlands.
Tonie you put up a good fight, and did some good things, but these guys are content on destroying it all themselves.
The most saddest part of it all is that all those people seem to be exclusively concerned with re-playing House of Cards on an internet forum, instead of being enjoyed, dedicated or engaged with anything at all in the actual game.
It's never over. Our recent meeting after years has been too short anyway 😉
Hold your horses, this plane looks a lot like Odan's and co's plane. I see two circles of corruption at the bottom. Don't pack your bags yet.
What plane? They already drowned in this fail they call ecountry hahaha
That I resign does not mean that I leave my country behind in bad hands.
Thank you for all your work you did for eNL.
I think you bringing us in this situation will cause some positive developments, which will be even more influenced by your departure. As for one, it caused me switching parties 😛 I hope we can all learn from this and steer the country in the right direction.
What development? Can't you see the whole picture? It's just a small group of people deciding everything with 0 discussions and democracy, I'm sorry but nothing will happen until the day that forum change of direction aka a new impartial administration.
Yeah it's a small group deciding everything. That's our system. And the more people involved, the better it is. That was the problem with Tonie who wanted to do everything alone. Which is understandable of course.
How if the admin and mods abuse of their positions?!
Then you get rid of them. Which noone is doing, even if they have the power to do that and have a lot of criticism. Which is very weird imo.
I hold you in high esteem Spir Tus and did help you out in times of need when you were CP, but please stop being so naive. How can you still pretend the forum is a thing where ''more people can be involved'' when the majority of the people knowingly and willingly doesn't respect its authority yet we all sign hallelujah and let it dictate them? Not to speak of how naive the suggestion is that we can get ''rid'' of admins and mods - which is just plain impossible.
The forum is place for the people who want to help improving the country, let's say, rule the country. Everyone who isn't on there, isn't that much interested in it to change stuff. It will always be a small group who will make the decisions, but it's open for everyone to join. I really would like to see a better alternative for a forum, but I don't think there is.
We can get rid of the admins, but you have to play the game the same as they do. Which is something I don't like, so I didn't do it and based all my opinions on general conclusions made in congress before. The only time my personal preferences was the base of my opinion was the blacklisting of kimi, which I regret.
But maybe I'm very biased. Everything I think is right, or wanted to do, I can do or is done. If I wanted a new law in place, it was always possible to get it through congress. I don't have any personal bad experience with the moderation of the forum. But I can obviously see that a lot of others do have a problem with it.
Dear Tonie,
During my whole eLife you made a drastic change in reputation. When you became active again, people accused you of some theft from years ago. As a new player I tended to believe those rumours. But you did prove yourself as a loyal and dedicated servant of the country. You took place in the list of legends who kept the country running. It is sad that it has to end this way...
I wish you all the best!
Oh, don't worry. It shows that I have seen darker times than these 🙂
Unfortunate to see you leave 🙁 I liked the governments I was in with you and all the IRC talking stuff that's now history 😃
I wish you all the best in the future, m8!
Willempie
Oh well, seems we'll be sharing the same level of activity then hehe.
For too long the forum has been a place were a small group of "forum only" players have bullied our nation. We need to find a better way for our people and Congress to get to getter and discuss the ungoing affairs of our state.
Good fighting..and well ended. Let's see what happens next..