Lodish: What username were you most known by on CivClassics?
Mokotowskie: I was originally known as yhlshk back in CivCraft 2.0 and CivTemp; however my friend (whose account I'm using as my main) has since changed it to Mokotowskie around the time I joined Civclassics in 2018.

Did you have other alts that were public?
Yes, I have Mike_and_Yikes, cgcca, and yhlshk (bought an alt and renamed it in reference of my old name)

What was your first civ server?
Technically Civcraft 2.0 but that was only for 1 day when I griefed and burnt down New Detroit (when I was still yhlshk) and promptly permapearled. I would say the first civ server I have played was CivTemp where I spawned in the gimmel plains shard where Yoahtl was located.

What other civ iterations have you played?
I have played Civcraft 2.0, Civtemp, Civclassics, and outside the main civ genre (I think) I was in devoted (don't remember which version but it was in 2016 when civtemp was down) and CivEx in 2019 (when classics went inactive)

What was your first nation that you joined?
Yoahtl

What citizenships have you had, which do you currently have?
I would say only Yoahtl though I did get citizenship in Lambat) too shortly before eotw if that counts.

What would you consider your greatest achievement on a civ server?
Getting into making botting scripts, building farms, and transitioning Yoahtl into an xp producer power.

What do you think most people know you for?
Botting and being part of Yoahtl

Were you politically active on Civ? If so, what positions of power have you held?
Until summer of 2021 I was mostly quiet on the server working on my homestead, and after becoming councilor I mostly kept to domestic affairs while tuning into the foreign affairs relating to our nation.

Who was the most influential person in your nation and what did they do?
Who was most influential to me? I dunno, I would say the people of Yoahtl in general and the newfriends I worked with all influenced me.

Where did you spend most of your time on CivClassics?
Before becoming councilor it was on my homestead, after becoming councilor it was mostly in nyc and the xp farms we worked on.

Where did you live on CivClassics?
I lived on a homestead east of Kobylinski and neighbored next to where Greenwood was (former 5pointO homestead)

What was an event you were involved with that you remember well?
tbh I don't remember too many events pre-2021 but without referencing the recent conflicts that you mentioned, prob me griefing and burning down structures in New Detroit in Civcraft 2.0 (2015) and indirectly getting the Foltercrew people raiding Yoahtl in Civtemp and causing an incident (2016)

Were you ever involved in conflict with other players or nations?
Not really other than okx which the whole nation was against, I didn't really hold any personal grudges against anybody in particular.

What are your contact details (reddit, discord, etc. if public) ?
/u/Copernicus-io (reddit) and Mokotowskie#8503 (discord)

You were pearled during the battle of Eddie Murphy, what were your aims during the fight and what went wrong?
The aim for the battle of Eddie Murphy was to get more experience in bunker/vault raiding (and perhaps have some fun). It was there that I, Mechanicalrift, Icyski, and the__druid agreed to just join the people at EM for the siege even if our presence was not needed. I remember getting pearled after I followed gregy165 into the bunker trap maze design they had outside their obsidian structure. I remember it clearly being just a wall and surrounding walls of oak doors for the defenders to easily bypass and trap us attackers. I got stuck in the oak door maze wall and wasn't able to pearl out. I tried potting but instead of getting my health back up I kept accidentally clicking on the oak doors and I was subsequently pearled. What I should have done was to play it safe and go to cover where all the other pvpers were instead of getting myself seperated [sic]

Was this your first time being pearled during a conflict?
No, I was pearled in the Dummonia/okx incident beforehand

What was your involvement with the Okx and Dumnonia drama?
My involvement in the okx/dummonia incident was to just place snitches, break enemy bastions/snitches, and place our own bastions basically to secure the East Wayrest area under Yoahtl control

What other Yoahtl conflicts have you been a part of?
I don't recall being in other Yoahtl incidents recently

What is the Council of Yoahtl like? What are your responsibilities and what important decisions of Yoahtl have you made?
The council of Yoahtl is very engaging and involves a lot of coordination with the councilor members mostly in our own special channel. All the councilors have the responsibility to strengthen Yoahtl and help it grow. Some of the tasks main administrative tasks were delegated to each councilors according to his specialization. For example, Yergo did accounting/minor diplo work, GDAN ran the xp industries, I did the botting and building, etc.. It was a lot of work being the councilor and I was responsible for coding almost all the bot scripts for Yoahtl and accumulate resources for this nation.

What did you get up to in Holy Tree)? Why did the nation on civclassics fail?
I got from Holy Tree that handling a nation is very difficult and requires a lot of grind. It was just the two of us: 5pointO and I. It became a one man nation soon after because I became inactive due to schoolwork. It died because the now forsaken nation of the Chanseatic State (Channer nation) came in and demanded 5pointO to leave, so he had to leave or get pearled and Holy Tree got griefed. Also, I learned that crayon claims are a no no.

What kind of leadership or government system did Holy Tree have?
There was no formal government system for holy tree, it was just me and 5pointO at the time. Whatever government was an agreement between us.

Why did you join and leave Holy Tree?
I joined Holy Tree because I sympathized with 5pointO when he initially got kicked out of Yoahtl. What happened was that 5pointO angered the important Yoahtlans such as bgbba and bg was decided to "flush" him out by removing him from all the groups and proceeding to derelict his giant house that took a large portion of nyc. All his items were confiscated by that point. Afterwards, 5pointO was in a frenzy trying to gather all his stuff at his homestead in Greenwood and afraid that they'll come after his homestead too. He even tore down structure there to gather valuable materials and we decided to move out somewhere far and safe where no one would bother us. This was my low point in relation to Yoahtl because I was very disconnected from the main nyc artery as I was mainly interreacting with my homestead for almost the entire time (I think this was in 2018 something) so I didn't really know the other Yoahtlans other than my neighbors 5pointO and sgt Soda in Kobylinski. I still disagree that Five should have been exiled.

--This interview was conducted over discord on the 28th of January, 2022.--