[CP] Farewell CODE

Day 4,525, 13:19 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Aras an Uachtarain

Yesterday, eIreland has decided to leave CODE alliance. It was a decision made by a big majority of Congressmen which is a clear sign that we all felt that the changes are needed. My original plan was to wait with any kind of articles in order to avoid the opportunity for any kind of a bad blood, but since several articles have already been written it's been decided to publish the official and true version of what happenned. I'm not going to talk about all the issues and problems. Each alliance has that.

The situation eIreland find itself in is a quite awful. We're losing our players, we're losing active packers. We've been left with only a few people still clicking. Our motivation for the game has been decreasing for a while. We couldn't find ourselves some goal which would make the players stay. I believe its similar in the other countries as well, but I'm not a leader of the others. We all need something to fight for, something to believe in. Ireland is a special country. From the outside it may seem like there are just two or three players, but if you'd give it a detailed look you'll see a lot of people engaging in media, economy, politics. We still care about getting everyone something to play for. What's common for all those different people is loyalty. There's been times when we voted things we knew its gonna lead us to the wipe. There's been decisions we've made which would put others before ourselves. By 'we' I mean the Irish Congress and its citizens. We still make decisions together, we still value democracy. I'm saying this because I wanted to send a clear picture about how the decision was made.



eIreland was one of the founders of CODE Alliance. It's been something we always wanted to see happen after spending years fighting against Asteria. We've been wiped, our friends were wiped. We've been through good and bad things together, but what we always had was a respect for each others. We've been on the same side with Croatia and Albania since the game started for our country.

When CODE was founded it started as a non-formal alliance which we didn't really like, but it seemed better than nothing. Over the time, when problems would happen alliance has adopted new organizational strategy. It was formed ingame, it was given a name, eventually HQ was added as well. There were a few people that would spend days & nights taking care of everything that goes on in the Alliance. That spoiled the alliance and once those people got tired and took the rest it all started to fall apart.

HQ's were added, but not much has changed. CODE as an alliance wasn't the only one with that kind of a problems. Ireland had them too. We couldn't find active people to run the country. Many other countries has faced the same problems. When activity is the problem stupid mistakes happen. However, when the same mistakes happens for number of times, it's not easy to ignore them.



When Ireland entered CODE we've asked everyone to treat Northern Ireland as the Irish region, or Irish sphere of influence. Now, I know that might sounds stupid, or nationalistic, or whatever, but that's something that provides a motive for many of our citizens to keep playing this game. Everyone plays for something that keeps them here. For us, that's among other things Northern Ireland.

Our wishes to have the control over the region were always realistic. We'd always accept to give it away in order to help our former alliance in strategic plans. We'd offer it for TW's, we'd accept we can't have it all of the time. But what we can't accept is the constant ignorance of our wishes. We were almost never consulted about it and that's the real issue. I don't think that was on purpose, it's just that no one has really remembered to drop us a message. I'm not sure which one of those two would be worse to be honest.

Last time NI was given for a TW CODE signed a deal with UK that didn't include eIreland at all. Lack of the communication and activity by both sides has caused eIreland being out of the deal with its closest neighbour. That's when we were discussing our exit from CODE for the first time. That was before Rusty was a President and our reaction was attack on the UK, which was what we wanted. You can't expect a country not to have a single proper war and just do the airstrike when its needed. We needed something to keep us playing. We needed something to fight for. As a small country, we didn't have much choices. Attack happenned and it caused some TW plan of CODE members to change which caused many people within the alliance to start attacks and not so pleasant comments. It was when things really started to go down. Over the next few months we haven't really been very active in the alliance business. Some of the relations were really bad between the officials and it didn't seem like a home anymore. At least for us.

We had a vote about leaving, but it was stopped due to CODE's agreement to create a HQ. We've expected a lot from it, but it didn't really deliver much of an improvements in the communication or coordination. We've still been doing Airstrikes and coordinated strikes for our allies. Some of them turned out to be badly planned, but we still played along. However, when the same situation happenned again a new vote has been started. That was day before yesterday, you know how it ended.

As stated in the official CODE article alliance has a lot of problems. They've decided to work on the activity and especially on the communication. On the behalf of eIreland, we wish them good luck with that. Its very much needed and the game would be much better for everyone involved there. Sadly, as much as I'd like that to happen I don't see it coming. Hopefully, they'll prove me wrong.



It's not easy to leave the alliance that contains all of your friends in a game, but it's much harder to see your community being left without any motive to fight. Especially when nothing is appreciated. I saw some comments saying Ireland didn't contribute to CODE and that really made me sad. Ireland has been doing airstrikes whenever we were asked. We have never rejected a single request coming from the CODE officials. We offered our help numerous times and while we had a good & active air project we've been doing coordinated strikes to help our allies's efforts.

Things has changed, people has changed, but we never did. We've been seeing new countries coming to the alliance, new people getting on the decision making places, but things were always pretty much the same. We weren't allowed to fight as it would be unnecessary drain. The way we were told down wasn't really in a friendly way, just like many things weren't done in a friendly way. That it went on for over a year. We need a change to bring the activity back to our lines and that's what we'll be working on in the coming weeks.

I've also seen some comments and opinions coming from our community. Our plan was to leave silently and cause no problems, however, in situations like this one it seems a bit too much to expect. I'd like to deny some claims that we left due to Slovenia or China being here. Since they arrived nothing much changed when it comes to the problems we already had. They're the last ones to blame for taking Northern Ireland too. As stated above, it's the lack of communication. Also, newly elected SG of the Alliance was pointed us as someone to be blamed, but that's not true either. Furious Lady was just elected and I'm sure that regardless of our personal disagreements she will give her best for the Alliance. She had no role in our exit.

We've left due to inactivity, ignorance and mostly lack of the communication. Those three factors has caused more problems than anything else. I'd also like to point out that we didn't talk to anyone from the 'other side', it wouldn't be our style to change the side just like that. We can't ignore the fact that we have friends in CODE and if our decision will be respected we'll just improve those relations.



We are about to stabilize the country, organize our lines and try to give some new life to our community. We'd be happy if our friends would respect that. If that happenns, the respect will be equally given back, as always. Also, we'd like to wish all CODE members best of luck in the coming challenges. We've chosen different paths, but the friendship will surely prevail. We've been friends before CODE, we've been friends during CODE and if our decision will be respected we'll be friends after the CODE too. I'm calling on our citizens to refrain from bringing the 'dirty sheets' from the alliance as well. Respect needs to be given by the both sides.

For us, a new dawn is coming soon. Or a long & lonely night. Whatever happens we'll accept the consequences of our decisions and keep on fighting. As we always did.




Yours,
MUFC