Zack gave the
green light on this. No one had a gun to their head when they were posting on Pt.2. In fact, there were more people involved than I was even expecting. Saying it wasn’t a plot is kind of a stretch IMO. I know Zack’s reputation isn’t worth much anymore, but he
was the FM at the time and that title is universally respected. We should remember that his decision then was in his authority to make at the time and was a decision he made prior to his final ban.
Furthermore, the people posting had the right to opt out and did not, saying they didn’t make a willful choice couldn’t be correct. They all made the choice to show how their characters reacted to the event, and even if we argue that it was not a plot, it was still a major event approved by the FM of the time.
And finally, I would like to touch on this bias. Alex, for over a year you have had the wrong impression of what really took place. Now I get it, there were a lot of hurt feelings during the period of time that this took place, and I cannot think of anyone who would deny it. My argument, with all due respect, is that you are the biased party.
You obviously don’t like me, and you are more than welcome to have a negative opinion of me, that’s your right! Don’t get me wrong at all, I am not saying that you have to like me or have to be in agreement with the morality of the decisions made, by all accounts this was not a good period of time IC or OOC. You have been
very outspoken of how evil I am. You have called me a liar and a cheater both behind my back and to my face and yet you’ve never had an iota proof to back this up. Even when your claim of cheating was found to be completely untrue by a member of the staff you STILL TO THIS DAY claim that I’d cheated. That’s not fair. Will you ever stop attacking my reputation over things that don’t even matter anymore?
Regardless,
this is the story. This happened. My summarization of what happened was done as I was reading each thread. The only additional information I added was merely the filler bridging one thread to the next. You argue that I was not a GM yet despite that argument I was still the FM authorized party to facilitate this event. Is it not within my rights to explain the context of that which I wrote? I am only one person and I didn’t exactly have an overwhelming degree of support to write in every though and feeling of every single character and bios and everything else. It was a lot of work, hours of research for a plot/event half a year in the planning and a month in the making!
If I am biased at least it’s because I was the creator of this content with the support of the FM of the faction it involved. You, on the other hand, weren’t even narrating your own Sky Guard at the time. No references were ever even made to them. And what negative did I say of OHI? I only linked the message you wrote and narrated FSCs response to the action of leaving
with IC text to back it up. Was that painting your creation in a negative light? It’s actually quite sad to see as Candon originally only wanted to talk to Leo and yet you used OOC means to shield your company from all IC consequences of their actions. Now
that is certainly questionable usage of player rights, and yet I do not bring that up the moment someone mentions the old toxicity of the USO. Why is it okay for you to claim that I was ‘eliminating competition’, ‘abusing player rights’, ‘cheating in PvP’, and more? You have assigned bad motives to me for the actions of my character to the point of lying about both of us! Even if you truly believe your claims they are untrue and yet you continue to spread this erroneous message.
I’m tired of arguing this, it keeps coming up and spoiling sunny days. All it does is spread the toxicity of a sad collapse. Look, even now you and Jack are working together and Jack has even reached out to me. You’ve even joined my current plot! It’s like getting the band back together. My biggest reservation to jumping into the NDC is the possibility of having you skewer my reputation
again. That’s not fair.
Jack and I moved on, and he’s the one that blew up the economy in the first place! It’s water under the bridge to us. We can even talk about it without hard feelings and anger and these days we rarely bring it up at all because it’s just a story! The story of the USO was a crazy, wild ride with twists and turns at every bend with many things happening all the time and now it’s just a story behind us. I only wish that we could do the same.