Interview with eevil king

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Published in Slovenia - Political debates and analysis - 10 - 07 May 22 12:52

greetings dear readers

today I m gonna spam you with a special interview

as a Persian idiom says ;be afraid of the guy who is silent not the one that is noisy.

tbh I didnt expect him to answer the questions with this patience and precision. I was amazed, how he wrote for hours and explained everything in details, which is most appreciated.
ok, lets go straight to the interview.

who is eevil king in edom and real life? does he display the same character?

I am 23 years old guy from Slovenia, one of the last players from the old squad that shaped and contributed to the developmentÂ of the eSlovenia both in politics and military affairs.

I would like to say that I am quite different in real life from what I portray in this game (I like role playing genre for that reason) in some aspects.Â the common thing that I try to execute both in Real Life and and game is organisation, although I must add that that the latter is more or less non-existent.nowadays in the game, because I just spend more of my time for RL activities. The interest from the rest of the game is also quite low, so I find it not worth it to spend my time here as I used to in the past.

Currently, I am helping in the family company so my time is extremely limited. I am looking for a better times in the game to be honest with you haha.Â

why eevilking? why this nick name?

Its the first nickname that I picked when I registered in some MMO browser game many,many years ago (probably like 10+ years ago). Why eevil king and not evil king you ask yourself?

The first one was already taken :D, and I just added one more e to get over with the registration. The name kind of stayed with me and I continued to use it in some other places/games too.

describe your country for us? what do you like about your country Slovenia in real life?
Hmm a hard question for me, if I am honest with you. Most of the people would say they are proud simply on this or that, that they love the hymn, the flag, the people the food etc...

I might have a bit weird view on this matter. I see the country as a place that I was born in, and I had no impact on that. I far more value the things we do in this world, only after we step into it, things that we have direct influence over.

Of course, I am glad that I am from Slovenia, as it is a great country with relatively a lot of freedom, great food, interesting customs, great sights to see, great nature (fascinating at all times of the year) , and on the other hand a lot of potential for future entrepreneurs (not too high taxes, if you know how to use the help from the state), free education and many other things (a bit of everything). If you ever have a chance I would highly recommend visiting Slovenia because it has a lot to offer and if you pass the right paths you will find a lot of hospitality :).

Â I would be more than glad to help you out if you would like to visit Slovenia... although if you have no problems with English you will get by just fine.

you were one of the greatest supporters of Greek community at game start and you had their cs for months.what do you think and feel about Greece its past, present and future?

I used to be part of eGreece many years ago, by taking their CS in order to help them a bit more since some of their main players left for China back then and I had good relationship with some of the Greeks. We had some fun together although we were battling with little community and also quite poor activity. I enjoyed my time there with Polilogas, Safer, Raskolnikov, Terminon, count zero, crazygeogre, XIONIS, fag, I mean vagg, Manolis Papas... and I tried my best to help them keep a community alive with the help of my referral gold (I wasnt visa) as much as I could.they have my greatest admiration because they really were great guys to play with.Â

When I returned back to the game after about a year past the mass quit of eSlo community I witnessed the rise of GAMAÂ (a couple of months after I returned) and I must say that they didnt have much in common with the old Greeks. Different players, different play style, different values etc, but I must say that I liked to play with some of them and that Slovenia personally had no big troubles dealing with them in politics, big thanks to La0ch.
If I had to point out one thing that bothered me was their reaction when the admin stopped them from cheating which later led to their departure. In my opinion, they lost their face with their actions back then, which were completely unnecessary.

Their future? It is completely up to them what they make of it,... the return of GAMA is still an option if there is an interest from the players that still play there. I also think that the admin would need to have a big role in all of it, especially with publishing the v2 which could convince some of those that left, to return in case the new version comes out as a success.

you have been here since start and a part of many alliances in game like GUN Agies Virtus Phalanx and many more what do you think in general about alliances in this game and why did you choose to join PH? a small powerless alliance back then compared to others? what do you like and dislikeÂ about PH?

Well, alliances at the beginning of the game had so much more sense than they have now. Everyone was eager to take the responsibilities, there were plenty of people to do the work and even though at times it felt we should have more people to handle stuff we managed to execute most of the activities and tasks at hand.
Alliances truly served their purpose, that is protecting the interests of a side, and trying to get agreements inside the allianceÂ (even if the countries themselves had coalition and opposition parties, which back then was quite common) in order to head in the same direction.

I must say that regarding the names that youve thrown at me, the GUN alliance was one of the first that I actively participated in, and it was mainly marked by many heated exchanges of words (Croatia, had its bonuses cut, Serbia under-performed on all fronts, North Macedonia was wiped, spies in the alliance etc). Nothing new for the alliance that consisted mainly of Balkan countries. The alliance performed poorly, although we had some great times together.Â

Later on, when we joined AEGIS I had a chance to work with different people and it was a completely different experience (not necessarily better). Cooperation was better, compared to GUN but looking back, I think that when we joined the alliance its downfall was already in motion (the great leaders that led the campaigns against us, back then when we were still enemies were extremely tired) and the addition of Spain, Slovenia and Portugal was more or less adding firepower. That period was remembered for the Ultimatum that basically cemented the fall of the alliance and reshaped the world later on.Â

After departure of Slovenia, Portugal and Spain from AEGISÂ I had the honor of participating in a new alliance, called Phalanx which was, in my opinion, one of the most interesting experiences that will not be topped any time soon by the looks of it. We truly were running war efforts with a centralizedÂ system of command, we had strong public relations, good diplomats working all the time and decent cooperation with countries that were not part of our alliance officially, but joined later after really good results of joint military actions (I am talking about Bulgaria, which was led by Danider and Deflection back then).Â We had a really good geopolitical position, which ensured rather prosperous development of our countries.

After our cooperation with the alliance that was on the same side ended, Phalanx also met its end after we were attacked by two greater alliances. Partly to the fatigue, some poor diplomatic decisions and some disagreements inside the alliance itself. We parted ways and some relationships that broke back then are broken to this day.

There were a few other alliances that we had the chance to participate in, like Allies (which I wasnt really part of), Fortis Europa which was a great alliance, sadly with not enough active people and not enough worldwide presence, etc..

The most recent BIGGER alliances that had an impact on the worldÂ were ATLAS and VIRTUS.that period was impacted (Slovenian perspective) by the campaign of Netherlands and Slovenia against Spain, which resulted in their wipe. One month prior to that ATLAS was disbanded officially, but continued to fight together as if nothing changed. 2 months prior to that the boycott by some of the VIRTUS members took place. The world was in a fragile position on both sides, ... I believe that at that time, energy packs were also limited and some other changes significantly shook the game community and with it the balance that was in place at the time.
Fast forward a bit (the fall of VIRTUS, followed by the rise of GAMA) we finally come to the most recent alliance that I was part of, Praxis Horizon.Â

We joined the alliance (we were not the founding member if memory serves me right) because we knew the people that were in it and we had a good relationship with all of them.At the beginning the alliance had no geopolitical significance but over time we proved to be a very valuable asset in the campaigns.

The goal of the alliance was to unite few countries together in order to bring some fun to the game even if it takes to go against the ruling side in the game (some left ATLAS, some VIRTUS - after its fall)., breaking the status quo.
In the beginning the alliance served its purpose, things that were meant to be broken were broken and some things changed in the game. Cooperation with LEGION was extremely fruitful, although we did not share the same views on every matter in the game... which is completely fine.

Politics is the art of making compromises for achieving common goals. We fought BETA alliance (ex ATLAS tbh) valiantly and threw them in a crisis (internal affairs, performance on the battlefield etc), chaos if you will... and after GAMA fell (they decided to leave after admin stopped their cheating) the crisis shook the side enough that its safe to say that our side emerged as a victorious at the end of 2021.

I believe that if their side would not have relied so much solely on the firepower of GAMA, they would have prevailed. The sides were not that much different (according to all the newspaper articles at the time, that supports my claim in terms of damage and population).

There are many things to love about the PH (many great guys, a great company to be around and a lot of laughs and internal jokes), but I believe that, just like everyone else, we are in a bad shape the last two reshuffles which is saddening.

I think that the admin is partly to be blamed for that because for two times in a row, he gave lots of bonuses to all the countries so it makes very little sense to launch campaigns for that reason. There are very few challenges in the game at the moment and the overall activity keeps dropping, which makes the game less interesting. I feel that we were given too many promises, that were not kept, or at least the public opinion on some actions is negative, which contagiously spreads the bad will and discomfort across the community even more...Â

since the beginning of the game you have been almost here all the time except the times that games was dead and most of us left it.
well how do you see performance of the old admin team and new admin team? is there times that you think admin could do this better but he didnt?
Hmm to put it simply, if I compare the old administration with the new one, the difference was huge.Â
Players that did not actively play in both eras actively spoke to the administration on the weekly basis and did other activities that in a way connect the community to the administration probably have no clue how big the difference is.

Sometimes we are caught in the heat of the moment and crucify the current admin that he does not do enough and that he never did a thing to improve the game, which is simply not true.Â

After he (at least the person behind the programming part) took over many things changed. UI was changed, new events were introduced, communication with the community was improved and overall, everyone had high hopes for the future.

There were of course many problems along the way, regarding community management/treatment, some programming errors (visual n logical) that were addressed many times (some still unresolved), some subjective injustice to certain groups in the game and on and on... i could go for an hour with concrete examples of what needs to be fixed.

After the intervention in the game, things went from the dead stage to the stage of optimism. I still remember the period in which many people returned (including many Slovenians - they sadly again left, over the course of the last year) with the help of admin too (for which I am extremely grateful).

The administration was keen on helping to grow communities, but those things go hand in hand and I think what we are witnessing the last year is blaming admin for everything, ...players not taking any responsibility for the state of the game that we have now :). At least the way I see it, our actions, or actions of some people also pushed the game into the current state.

There were mistakes, on both ends of the river bank. Lack of patience, understanding... this game is run by the indie developer and I am sure that everything can be resolved but it will take time. Sometimes I sadly have the impression that some of the players try extra hard to make his job even harder for no reason ?? and I dont mind you calling petty o7

what do you think of Shiroe?

If you didnt play with him at least once, you didnt experience the extent and power of roleplaying games (Mafia project with Danider, Valuk, el Tarlo and others o7)

what do you think about Kaveh?

Crazy ping bird that loves drama too much xD, but for real, great player that also shaped the game throughout his time here and I think it is safe to say that we lack players like Kaveh, and Shiroe from the above.

any last words or message for other players?

MONKE IS COMMING FORÂ ALL OF YOU
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