Tony Greyfox

The GGA was my first home on Planet Bob; I picked it out of the many other recruitment messages I received because it seemed to be a good fit for me. I met some good people, introduced some of my friends to it, fought alongside my alliance mates (getting creamed more often than not), rebuilt, and all the while appreciated the people and the background of the Grand Global Alliance. While I may have stepped aside when the recent changes took hold, I still hate to see this announcement; we all hate to see our first home torn down. Good luck to all the remaining members, and farewell to a part of CN history.

Good luck, Tendo - I hope this works out for you!

[quote name='Byron Orpheus' date='01 March 2010 - 04:45 PM' timestamp='1267462131' post='2209983'] Voting against it does not mean that the measure was without its supporters. Additionally, the desires of pre-war GGA membership are much different than the desires of the GGA following this last war; this move allowed us to survive and cut away a cancer that would one day kill us, and had maimed us some time ago. Calling this a coup, while convenient for the sake of terminology, is incorrect. It should be referred to as a rescuing, a renaissance, a revival, as anything other than a coup and all the negativity that accompanies such action. There is no negativity within the new GGA, and we are all working hard to develop an improved GGA that will return the alliance and its members to its former glory. [/quote] That's an interesting way to describe the situation. What I saw was several members that came in during the dark of night, had our previous forums entirely deleted (taking with it the discussion regarding the proposal that had been made and rejected, allowing it to be redefined however they want now; and I'm still unsure of exactly why the forums were deleted - the reply I got to that question really baffles me), declared themselves government, and are now rebuilding a charter to replace the one that they essentially tore up and trampled by their actions. That defines as a coup to me. It kind of brings its own tone to things - a tone that leaves those opposed to the situation with no real way of expressing themselves. I did at one point ask why Shane didn't come to the membership with his concerns instead of immediately jumping aboard with Dementual, RM, and JB, but that question was never answered. So, I guess I'm a cancer, and part of the problem. I only fought in three major wars for the GGA, worked to recruit new members, helped guide new arrivals, stuff like that. Big problem, there. Frankly, I'm not sure why I stuck around as long as I did afterwards, considering the coup shoved aside someone I've been friends with for a decade or so before I even introduced them to CyberNations. Lingering hope, I suppose. But as it is, after 750 days with the GGA, it was time to move on. I hope the folks who are still there that I interacted with have some luck in reshaping things, though. I'll be watching with interest.

[quote name='natas31' date='22 February 2010 - 03:59 PM' timestamp='1266850756' post='2197265'] The GGA general membership doesn't really visit the OWF, it's just full of trolls. Anyway i doubt the rest of us peons here will have any idea a coup has even happened, unless they were messaged in game and even then it'll take a week for anyone to notice... Best of luck GGA !! [/quote] I found out about this when I tried to log in to our forums this morning and found them nonexistent. So that was nice of whoever to wipe out those forums. I'm waiting for a direct explanation of why this was necessary, myself, but I'm not holding my breath.