Originally Posted by
Rincewind
AoD is not an alliance that has any intent to cause harm, but instead better the game.
As mentioned, many Kingdoms are invited and many join and that means a lot of players and Kingdoms. With that, yes some of those may be bad players or do stupid things, but that should not reflect upon the whole Alliance. If it was a warring Alliance and the objective was to get war wins and shady things went on, then yes, you could probably tar the alliance with the same brush.
But as an Alliance that looks to promote game knowledge, and fair play, even if (and some of the things i have read here have no proof at all despite your accusations) some Kingdoms in AoD perform badly, the result is not for AoD to be disgraced as a whole, but instead to have the appropriate punishment dealt and then further promote the best things about the game and fair play within it.
All i can see from a lot of people bashing AoD is "Yeah things happened 10 years ago, or one province did so and so. So the whole Alliance must be sh*t and destroyed". If you ask me, it's stupid and childish. Mistakes can be made, but lessons can be learnt. If you don't accept that then so be it. But stop whinging bout stuff you make up.