[PG] A sinking ship

Day 2,470, 18:44 Published in Netherlands Netherlands by Trannsvaal

Here is my story of my time in Praetorian Guard NL where it went from great private MU it was to what it is today. I will be telling about the events as I remember them. I won’t be posting screenshot from older events as the ones I have either contain private conversations of I got them from someone else and the source might be too obvious. That means it is up to you whether you believe the things I say or not.

The start
When I first joined PG it was awesome. Lots of activity and a proper commune system, on top of that was the free food that players were willing to share. It worked like that because PG is a private MU, it was ours. Players are likely to work harder for it if they own a piece of the puzzle. That works the same irl except for the fact that we are not chasing high numbers after the equal sign.

Opposition back in the days
Lots of criticism on PG contained the fact that it was politically connected to the party GPN. I however was never actively being recruited to GPN in those days. Dutch politics were taboo and were directly flagged when someone talked about it. The only truth behind it was that it seemed logical. When you look for a decent MU, the strongest seems like the best choice at that point. The choosing of a party takes more care but seeing the same face on the top of the pyramid draws a lot of attention of course.

The feed and the emerging propaganda
Our commander has a habit of posting links to informative articles around the globe. A great thing, but ever since he decided to align with Asteria side of the geopolitical spectrum, the opposite of the direction our country is going, the information in those articles isn’t always as ‘2-sides’ as one should want. I could read a lot about scandals in Sirius and Aurora but Asteria was just fine. And let’s not forget the fact that a CO to fight for Australia was brought to our attention while MoD orders were to fight for Macedonia in that very campaign. Funny thing is that at the moment of writing this line I can click a link on top of the feed to read an article in Norway that is making fun of the UK.

We are Norway?
So, several players followed our commander to Norway. Result is that I have seen someone asking for a DO on Norway against the UK and that I have the pleasure to read rants about eDutch government/Congress without a direct lead. And then we have this:

So Dutch politics are taboo, but we have the pleasure of being informed that our commander is now leader of a party in Norway? Well relax, you can perfectly post in the wrong feed by accident.

Lets just vote on this PG recruitment article and forget abou… WAIT WHAT?!? We are now supposed to aid in the propaganda for your political party in Norway? What’s next, shouts that there are still cs passes left in Norway this month?

CO’s to ‘help our country’
Our CO fund was very substantial at some point for our countries standards. Lots were donated by the members and a large sum was won in the Brothers in Arms tournament. One would think that the spending of those funds would happen after a little communication with the members that provided all that money. I haven’t seen any though. Shall we have a look where all of it went?

The first 20K was pumped into the Belgian side in their war with eUK so we would have a shot at conquering a region over there. You can read all about it in the archives, it was a very popular move.

Right after Germany set us as NE to aid Poland in reclaiming bonuses quickly. As the support on our treaty we had by Poland’s new government was unclear, we judged their invasion as hostile and geared up for a war. Although a good look on power/MPP balance would reveal that we didn’t really stand a chance, some decided to sponsor with a CO. The problem was however that our commander only gave up hope after about 100K cc was burned up.

That left us with 60(ish)K cc if I recall correctly. When I checked our MU page earlier today all of it was depleted so I decided to ask for an explanation on where it went. The answer was that it was used on our campaigns long ago but without a clue which ones. As I was pretty sure there was no campaign it could have been used for I kept looking for the truth. He then admitted that it had been used for CO for his countries interest as he was the only commander online in those times of need and I was promised that it would more than come back once the Dutch politics recovered.
That’s nice and all, but the problem with that is that it shows the Dutch flag on a (probably) Norwegian battle. And most of all, I don’t like it to be F*CKING LIED TOO!!!

So that was the last straw.

Bye Bye

A shout out to MdR
Please show your true colors to PG. Either let it be a loyal Dutch MU and resign as commander for the time being, or be honest about the Norwegian influences and fully go into that direction. The number of members is declining over this course and PG will slowly die. That is something you and I don’t want.

Was signed,

Trannsvaal