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The main reasons to despise Evil Gaming requires too many gifs and too many words to go over in an opening paragraph so lets start with some of the trivial crap, like your names. Sitting here thinking about the best way to post about us wardeccing your dumb faces while you've got the monopoly on names relating to evil and being criminals has made this challenging. How is OTTER to turn up with more dudes in suits, cleverer wits, better hats and proper swag to look like the good guys? For a "brotherhood" of bad guys, you've certainly nailed being annoying and working with the Cartels, but you're letting the rest of the 1920s down.

Rolling in his grave.

Thinking back to the Purple Dawn war, I'm starting to wonder if Alphyn Luci got it all wrong and that Lion wasn't the bad guy. Since splitting from the Burning Legion the lads in Havezer0k have been busy, building it all newerer and betterer. Thugz isn't a great substitute for HAVOK main, but from what I'm seeing VILIN is still playing second fiddle in the show and thus the show must go on. Thugz and SirVex is the main part of how we've reached this point. Between the onslaught of Evil Gaming into CR/D and comments slewn across the battlefield in game I know well that Evil Gaming thinks themselves on par with OTTER; We've reached the point where we're happy to display that you're not.

(for the pubbies/members of evil gaming, what I'm about to talk about is this)

Spoiler Meta means self reference, which via more explaining ends up at "stuff outside the game that still influences the game". CW Meta is things like chip movement strategies (such as offsets, or forcing doubles/triples) can have an impact on the game, but aren't thought up or implemented within in. Alliances, Sub-Clans and all the benefits and drawbacks of diplomacy all tie into a clans actual strength and performance. HAVOK/SIMP for example are much more scarier for an opponent to contemplate attacking than either of them alone. These alliances and relationships are all forged outside of the WoT client (usually on TeamSpeak) where there are few rules in how everything is conducted - the Meta is always changing and developing given that very little constrains it. CR/D Meta is a subset of the cw meta where CR/D Meta doesn't impact the game outside of influencing the CW Meta. CR/D meta are things like public opinion of the clan, public opinion of the clan's leadership/players, opinions on strength/conduct etc all slightly modify how clans interact with each other. While this may not seem like a big deal it does a lot for setting the personality of the clan. To the top level talent that plays this game and reads CR/D this matters quite a bit. How CR/D perceives you will be very related to how most of the top clans and players will see you and this will influence their decisions. Reputation and PR makes and breaks clans within the top 10. Topics in CR/D that aren't related to CR/D Meta are shunned harshly, and how clans conduct themselves while fighting the pubbies out of our temple contributes a lot to these perceptions. (mods reading this, this is why CR/D goes crazy when you interrupt it over something minor)

Within the mecca of CR/D, thou shalt not post like a pubbie. I'm not gonna put anyone through the agony of reading any examples from the abundant possibilities, but the posting coming from the pubbies in Evil Gaming surprisingly ends up appearing like a pubbie invasion from GD that gets in the way of any actual CR/D Meta from occurring. At the start of this year Evil Gaming was cool and hip and other positive words, however in the 4 months that followed through devastatingly bad CR/D Meta and some slip ups in Diplo department my personal opinion of Evil Gaming really started to sour. I pleaded with Crusader to start poasting gud while VILIN was fighting HAVOK and instead he poo'd a little then went silent and let THUGZ talk up a storm for them. Despite the grueling numbers advantage and quantity of fecal matter spilling onto the forums HAVOK was clearly winning the fights and CR/D sympathized for the HAVOK citizens having to shovel rotting chip stacks off their driveways each morning. Defecating upon CR/D while chip spamming and bragging over the occasional win goes against the religious beliefs of OTTER and from that point conflict became inevitable.

Pictured Left: Thugz foreign policy methodology: Noise -> Intimidation -> Failure; Pictured Right: SODOS's wife/daughter looking at his rep since posting in a Thugz thread.

So began the cold war, where top level players looking for a clan would often talk to both OTTER, VILIN, BADGR and THUGZ. Many stories have floated to and from potential recruits have that upset my fragile ego. In March it was that VILIN was the 2nd best clan on the server; In April it was that OTTER was on it's way out with the loss of Huck; and so far in May that THUGZ could walk all over OTTER like they did to BADGR (when they didn't) and to PBKAC (in WoF or something where they didn't). VILIN has won over some recruits, OTTER has won some over too. Because this method of information goes both ways EG will undoubtedly have heard multiple stories that Allurai thinks they're garbage (terrible is a word reserved for PBKAC). This war will be OTTER starting the investigation to find out which clan's leadership has a better grasp on reality and thus the larger epeen; obviously my money is on us.

What Huck has been doing with his now spare time.

Before WoF started, OTTER's soldiers were informed we should start a war when Sandbox started up again, almost immediately we reached a consensus that Evil Gaming would be best and I didn't even have to sell it. Assuming discussing this openly with the soldiers would result in Evil Gaming hearing about it, we came up with a few scenarios of what to do if war was decced on us first, and we farmed. A few days later having heard nothing on the grapevine, I started telling other clans of our intentions hoping someone would pass the message along, we farmed some more. I wanted THUGZ to start posting about it or Diplos to approach me about it, and a few days later I had still heard nothing (still farming). During the WoF event, things got desperate, I had to tell every diplo and potential recruit I ran into that OTTER was preparing for war and that we really didn't like Evil Gaming; it still wasn't until after the event that I got a bite.

This left me a bit puzzled with a couple of different things to think about: Do I suck at leaking secrets? Has no one told me Evil Gaming knows I'm coming? Is Admiral Ackbar going to feature in the near future? Maybe Huck Commander Best Commander afterall.

Unlikely Scenario (The Server War):

Evil Gaming has known about this for a while and sent VILIN to lose to TYR for quite a while as a ruse trick everyone. Evil Gaming has recruited several other clans willing to fight against OTTER without me hearing a peep about it. Other top 10 clans support their actions, lines are drawn in the sand, I'm blind sided and we start a server war.

Plausible Scenario (The "EG loses quickly" war):

Evil Gaming heard about it a recently/a while ago and have been doing their damndest not to provoke OTTER any further. EG has reached out to a few clans it trusts but has had very limited supportive responses. Evil Gaming leaves the map because OTTER chases them around and plays the CR/D Meta. OTTER gets bored, Huck quits, OTTER wardecs PBKAC, Huck comes back.

Plausible Scenario (The East Coast War):

Evil Gaming heard about it a few days ago and has reached out to a handful of clans that would like better access to the East Coast gold pots. Evil Gaming rallies the Chinese and Latino clans, QC, maybe FORGE/ANVIL and several clans I haven't heard of, and has these clans attack into the East Coast gold and start a PETCO+G vs Evil Gaming + those clans I just mentioned war. TYR will jump in because of QC and Ryan (their CO) wanted me to pass along the message "[edited] QC, [edited] VILIN, [edited]ing [edited]". The East Coast erupts in a pretty one sided war and ends after two weeks because clans were disbanded.

Certain Scenario (CR/D Fallout):

There is much hurt buttery from EG on the forums in general and much hurt buttery from OTTER on the forums about Leaving the Map not actually meaning you win.

All the powder keg needed was a spark...

[20/05/2014 11:07:42 a.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: 2nd thing is I have it on better info that Otter/ petco is waiting for us to land this comes from a good relible person that Gab told, Confirm please?

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[20/05/2014 12:06:35 p.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: OK cool Im just trying to get to the vilility of these claimes



[20/05/2014 12:27:23 p.m.] Allurai: I told the OTTER soldiers about a week ago that after the mini campaign we would wait and see if/where Evil Gaming landing and then would prolly war dec you

[20/05/2014 12:27:56 p.m.] Allurai: the reason i haven't gotten around to that yet is because you dont seem to want to get on the map, and RELIC has since rumored to be pulling off so we're gonna go get in the thick of whatever happens there first

[20/05/2014 12:28:13 p.m.] Allurai: so sure there was validity to that claim days ago, but we got bored in the interim

[20/05/2014 12:30:41 p.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: Well ATM I have 2 FCs to train and Im away untill I get my headset back, If you want a fight we will fight as soon as I have my players online this early in the day



[20/05/2014 12:31:02 p.m.] Allurai: righto, in the mean time i'll find ways to keep us entertained

[20/05/2014 12:31:08 p.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: ok

[20/05/2014 12:31:30 p.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: like I said there is no point fighting unless I have the players to fight with

[20/05/2014 12:39:27 p.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: Also if you want fight with us you need to be on somthing worth us fighting over

[20/05/2014 12:40:49 p.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: any pre forum posting or pre war dec could result in no fights FYI

[20/05/2014 12:46:46 p.m.] Allurai: if you wanna look like a [edited], thats no skin off my back

[20/05/2014 12:46:57 p.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: wow

[20/05/2014 12:48:43 p.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: Im offering you what you want, what your players want and Im laying down is what I want is all



[20/05/2014 12:52:58 p.m.] Allurai: no seriously, saying "if you post we're gonna deny you fights" is rediculous

[20/05/2014 12:53:06 p.m.] Allurai: im calling that bluff almost immediately

[20/05/2014 12:53:32 p.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: not a bluff bra

[20/05/2014 12:53:40 p.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: Im just laying down what I want

[20/05/2014 12:53:50 p.m.] Armorghost[VILIN]: the fight will happen



[20/05/2014 12:53:58 p.m.] Allurai: no kidding

The few people I've shared this with have analysed it similarly to how I did, where VILIN doesn't appear to really want to fight us at all and that laying down conditions upon an antagonist is a one way street directly to conflict. During the whole EG vs HAVOK conflict, I have to commend HAVOK's famous code for their soldiers not coming to CR/D to inform everyone how terrible EG really was; rest assured, OTTER will conduct its self very differently. Armor telling me to get some land worth fighting over is the juiciest part though, If we looked at gold earnt from the map over the last 30, 60 or 100 days I'm pretty sure VILIN will have made a single figure percentage of OTTERs. If EG had land worth defending at any time in the last month we would have already attacked.

Anyone quick off the mark will have realized that Skype conversation was a couple of days ago now, since that conversation VILIN has talked QC into attacking RDDT, and THUGZ has started attacking PBKAC/FOXEY and FORGE/ANVIL have shown up on the landings. Whatever happens next is bound to be interesting.

OTTER will accept surrender from Evil Gaming with the following conditions:

THUGZ agrees to never post in CR/D ever again Evil Gaming renames to Schoolyard Bullies. VILIN publishes their top 10 best clans list which cannot include VILIN. Evil Gaming disbands as many sublcans as is needed to get back down to two (no doubt CLAWS will pick up whoever gets cut). DogBeast changes his signature to be SirVex's stats. VILIN has to recruit and accept AutismSpeaks; THUGZ has to recruit and accept Cobra39_MENSA.

Oh wait, isn't this the bad/evil guy? [edited] damnit.