I agree completely with most of what you said Shrefty. And about the disloyal cowards - that is 100% true. TheGrimRimmer started it by just leaving, followed by more of the cowards who were scared of war. They just didn't want to sit in their alliance and
fight it out, which they completely should have. What all of them have done is terrible. When you are at war with another alliance, and you just quit to join the ENEMY alliance, then are extremely disloyal. What makes it worse it that the war hadn't even started yet! JTT + The Shaft say our NAP is over in 24 hours, and boom. There goes Grim and most of our top members. What are we supposed to do now? We had no chance of winning. When our alliance was ravaged with disloyal cowards like them, we never had a chance. To be honest, I never fully trusted Grim at all. With ties to EN (I only knew about the ones with JTT until now), what would stop him from just relaying all of our info to EN? Nothing. Which is what I assumed he would do if we got into a conflict. Before I knew about his ties with JTT, I fully expected he was just moving on to the next best alliance in our ocean, 45. Now that he thinks we are done (which was 100% wrong, we had a great chance to fight it out and win), he just joins JTT... And I think it was just to spy for them. He acts like an amazing player, with forum activity and points (and gold
) so then alliances are almost forced to put him into leadership because he is just that good (or acts like it). Then, after he left, most of our decent members in points flew off too and jumped ship.
However, even though this is all terrible and stuff, shrefty forgot to mention a couple of things. I hate to go after his like this - because he's a great guy, but some of these things just NEED to be pointed out. From the Friday before our collapse to after it on that Wednesday, Shrefty was on VM. I'm not saying this is 100% why all of our members quit, but you gotta agree it was a factor. A founder just can't go on VM for almost a week so soon after the world is released... However, it wasn't entirely him that was gone, nor was it mostly his fault. Our other two main leaders (ABAIN and Cmoney), just happened to disappear right as JTT makes this announcement... ABAIN's absence I can completely understand... however Cmoney's? After shrefty promoted him to co-leader (because he was going to be gone), Cmoney did absolutely nothing in the forums or in leadership. As soon as JTT announced they were dissolving the NAP, he was nowhere in to be found. He just quietly slipped away. Oh sure, he was active and still in the alliance. But he failed to post in the forums almost at ALL after the JTT NAP dissolving announcement. This left Joseph Nieves and Druvi basically on their own in the council, with no active leader to keep the peace, and try to get people to stay calm so that they would not quit as well. Both of them tried their best, but hey, they didn't have all that much power. I don't blame them at all. What's even more sad is that we didn't even have an active leader to mark JTT as enemies once they started attacking us. How sad is that? All in all, I don't blame shrefty, Joseph, or Druvi for the collapse of Impact. I blame the traitors like Grim and mostly, Cmoney. He didn't help us AT ALL once the war started. He was just no where to be seen. What kinda co-leader is that? I mean...
come on!
Just my two cents.
-Jack9r9
Also, let me know if you are joining make to Grepo again, I will happily join another one of your alliances. For now I'll just sim and try to get to Ocean 00 in Abdera...