Unlike some of the other interviews I've posted this one took place in a VC in Yoahtl discord with WackyAki and others and has been transcribed below, you can also listen to it on soundcloud.

[Lodish]: This is the 16th of February, I’m interviewing WackyAki. What username were you most known by on CivClassics?

[WackyAki]: Before I answer that question, feel free not to put this part in the interview or do whichever’s funnier but it is currently November 15th in the time zones that feature civilization, sorry to say.

So what username was I most known by on CivClassics? Is WackyAki, it was a username I picked out in CivTemp and er yeah that’s just been my username.

Did you have other alts that were public?

Yeah so I had an account that I bought for a friend that never used it, that is Hacksontheepic that’s the username that I use for... Like that’s my catch all one if I don’t want it to be an exclusively civ like account, like my elite dangerous name is that and stuff like that. It was also known as ReiAyanam. Which is like the Evangelion character except without the i at the end of it.

What was your first Civ server?

Civ 1.0

Which 1.0, Civcraft 1.0?

Yes Civcraft 1.0

What other civ iterations have you played?

I’ve played Civcraft 1.0, Civcraft 2.0, Civcraft 3.0, CivTemp, I’ve played Devoted, 2 and 3 although I don’t remember pretty much any of that because starting… I had my first job at the same time and I just didn’t really put much time into Devoted or Minecraft in general. And then I logged into CivClassics 1.0 and played CivClassics 2.0 pretty extensively, and I’ve played CivEx first light, CivRevolutions, I’ve logged into CivRealms I haven’t really played it and… that’s about it.

What got you into Civ?

So I logged into 1.0, it was my first Minecraft server multiplayer Minecraft server I’d ever played so I didn’t really have any expectations going into it.

[MechanicalRift]: Hey guys

Hey mechanical I’m being interviewed right now, feel free to listen in

But you don’t have to mute yourself if you don’t want to

But er… I’ve ran around in like this forest I chopped down a bunch of trees I did like the standard starting off on Minecraft and then I ran into this city and I was like Oh Wow THIS IS LIKE a really cool looking city and people were like Hey come check out my house come, check this out come check that out and I was like oh this is all really cool. And then they’re like yeah I couldn’t build over here because I didn’t own that lot and it would have gone into that guy’s property. And I was like wait you have like laws and shit? And They’re like yeah we have laws we have this we have that and I was like Oh this is like a really really cool and that just like super appealed the idea there’s this whole society in a game like Minecraft was like super impressive. So that’s I think that’s when I took the Civ pill and then it just kind of like sunk in.

Hello Yergo I’m being interviewed right now feel free to listen in

[Yergo]:Yo

What was your first nation that you joined?

The very first one was Columbia in 1.0) Civcraft 1.0,

[Yergo]: What!?

It's a very different Columbia than what exists now, and I remember kind of like grinding for like basic materials to help with the HCF War, yeh that was the very first one that I joined.

What citizenships have you had, which do you currently have?

It’s been so long I genuinely couldn’t tell you if I was like fully a citizen of Columbia but we’ll just say it was a yes in 1.0. In 2.0 I had a Gensokyoian and Goodsprings citizenship both of those, Goodsprings G O O D S P R I N G. and then Gensokyo is spelt the same way it was on CivClassics and then about halfway through that I moved over to Yoahtl and I’ve been a Yoahtlan citizen since, in CivClassics towards the end I managed to have a Yoahtlan citizenship obviously, a Imperial Truidencian citizenship, an Icenian citizenship and… the

[Yergo?]: You had voting rights in September

Yeah I was going to say a Septembrian citizenship too, that would consist of my citizenships.

What would you consider your greatest achievement on a Civ server?

The sappy answer would be finding a really really great group of friends and like people that I can talk to and relate to and stuff like that on civ servers especially seeing how much conflict the server has created inbetween people, but i think following the spirit of the question the answer is the Olympics in CivClassics.

[MechanicalRift?]: Not causing the war?

No

[laughter]

The Olympics was like one of the very first times I was able to see the entirety of the server gathered together for like a very peaceful thing you know? And it was like so wholesome that even people who just generally hated on everything was like joining in and was like having fun and stuff like that and it was really cool to like join into a vc to talk to people and see hundreds of names or probably a couple dozen names and being able to like hold this event, talk to people that I otherwise would have never had met. And honestly put my small little thumbprint on Civ’s whole legacy that was really really cool and would consider that a really great achievement.

What do you think most people know you for?

Well I would say the Olympics is probably number 2 now it used to be number 1, now I think a lot of people know me as the leader of Yoahtl or at the very least the guy who keeps yelling at people about what Yoahtl thinks in global chat.

Were you politically active on Civ? If so, what positions of power have you held?

I’m not politically active in civ at all, I don’t see the political side of civ at all… just joking

No, I’m the leader of Yoahtl I would say I'm pretty politically involved in Yoahtl I'm politically aware of what happens in a lot of other nations, to say that I’ve like become a power broker in other nations probably isn’t true, but yeah I’m the Alcuahtl of Yoahtl the head the big cheese.

What about other nations, on other servers?

Yes so I would say like in a majority of my civ career I was just kind of like a nice little farmer who just like, kind of got politically involved every so often. I would always vote when it was time to vote stuff like that. In 2.0 I did pretend to be a Gensokyian ambassador to Mount Augusta so that MTA would think Gensokyo was trying to sell Goten for a whole lot more that it was actually worth and then I also pretended to be a Mount Augustan ambassador to Goten to try to tell Goten that they should charge more for their land which ended up causing the Goten Crisis or at least or helped cause the Goten Crisis which in turn helped snowball the Titan war much larger into what it became. That would probably be the biggest example of like one of the first examples I had of political involvement in Civ. In 3.0 I was in the devoted, CivTemp and stuff I was a member of the Yoahtlan senate which was a really interesting but honestly not super successful idea of giving each town in Yoahtl, even across servers a representative that was elected amongst the people that would basically have served as the lower house of the Yoahtlan legislature. And I served it for our town in 3.0 which has an incomprehensible name and I did it Devoted in then it kind of died in Devoted thankfully. And in CivClassics I have ran and was successful a member of the Yoahtlan Council on and off and I was actually the very early part of the server just as an aside I do really apologise for rambling I know you have to transcribe all of this I do not envy your job. But at the beginning of CivClassics I was the Exhuahtl that was essentially the foreign representative for your yoahtl … other nations and I killed that position forever, Much much to yoahtl’s benefit.

Who was the most influential person in your nation and what did they do?

I think the answer to that one is probably bg, bg is just joined us in civclassics helped us escape with like the early wars with laconia and the basically revitalised Yoahtl into what it became. He was also the target of a lot of harassment from a lot of people and he has been the cause of a fair bit of harassment for people. I would honestly say that like he was honestly incredibly pivotal to creating Yoahtl into what it is today, and in honestly keeping us alive just because he had the political foresight and knowledge to do so but more personally I would consider him a really good friend of mine, he has saved my life in more ways than even he understands so…

Where did you spend most of your time on CivClassics?

Yoahtl.

Where did you live on CivClassics?

Yoahtl [laughter] in the Yoahtl city more accurately.

I would go ahead and say the end of the Infinity War which would be the attack on the last 3 HJE vaults. I remember it quite well because it was the.. One of the last times I had a role in a vault break, I remember running up to the skybridge, I don’t remember where it is exactly. Getting up to the skybridge and being told that essentially your job is to run materials up and down this skybridge and I did that for like 10 hours, then I went to sleep, I woke up and then I was told to start placing wooden and wool blocks along a fence for like 8 hours and then once we got close to the end of that I remember helping to bow attackers or defenders of the vault and help advance attackers to the vault and there was a bunch of fighting and then I remember being incredibly tired but sitting there with my laptop open the fan running like a fucking F-35 engine.

As I put my wallet against the left mouse button on my mouse, so holding it in such a way so that it would basically just automatically break obby for me as we dug into the spike.

And I remember once we broke all 3 of those vaults in 1 day which was vault 76[Destroyed]), best western[Destroyed]) and I don’t remember the last one’s name. I remember leaving and getting a discord message from bg where he essentially said, hey thank you very much you helped to break those vaults you helped to free our people and end the war and that’s not going to be forgotten.

Where you ever involved in conflict with other players or nations?

No, Yoahtl’s never been in any conflict with other players or nations. Um obviously the first example would be Laconia, we started our CivClassics career with conflict with Laconia and that continued quite long into the server. We went to war with Lexington as a member of the Western Alliance although we didn’t start off as members of the Western Alliance or starting off declaring war against Lexington. We fought against Ransakistanis and the obby bombers and that eventually snowballed into our involvement in the Infinity War and fighting against NATO although we weren’t, obviously we weren’t the first people to declare war or anything like that and just in conflict with other people I would say Yoahtl obviously butted heads nearly everyone on the map. I mostly regrettably I think the a lot of it was unnecessary and myself I butted heads with a lot of people, just got into really dumb arguments with people like Okx, I think that was entirely unnecessary I’ve butted heads with like Columbia) and Kallos which I mean half the time was kind of unnecessary. I would say those were probably the major conflicts that myself as a person and that Yoahtl in general were involved with.

What are your contact details your reddit discord etc. if public?

Er yes my phone number is… My reddit is just WackyAki same thing as my username on CivClassics. My discord name Aki#3250. I think that’s probably about it. I mean message me on Discord if you need to contact me, that’s about it.

Cool, this would be the point I’d have custom questions but I haven’t written them out yet, so pause this for a second.

Cool, if you have [end of part 1 recording]

The actual recording can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/user-568622367/wackyaki-interview-pt1 Although I messed up my mic recording so I'm incredibly quiet compared to everyone else in the VC.

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Part 2 will come out eventually, the audio is already up on my soundcloud.