What username were you most known by on CivClassics?

ChrisChrispie

Did you have other alts that were public?

ClintHorris666

What was your first Civ server?

Civcraft 2.0

What other civ iterations have you played?

I played on 3.0, Classics, and Realms but I only did a little trolling on Realms.

What got you into Civ?

I think GTA V had just been released and so I was on /v/ a lot, though my home board is /mu/. Someone posted a thread about a political Minecraft server and a town named Viridian and I was a politics kid so I thought that sounded like the coolest thing and I joined.

What was your first nation that you joined?

Chanada, by more specifically, Viridian. I was told to go to Intis though pretty early on, which was the /int/ town in Chanada. I was told it was the “Australia of Chanada”.

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

Former: Chanada/Intis, Chanos, Kaisereich, Volterra

Current: Only Icenia.

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

Icenia in Civclassics. It went from a backwater poop stain to a world power with an A tier vault. That was awesome.

What do you think most people know you for?

Spamming sneed in general chat, being diet Bgbba, and Icenia. Any of those three.

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

I was president for life in Icenia and very politically active. I also have played the roll of state sanctioned lawyer on classics and OSHA supervisor.

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

Enforcer15 no doubt. Enforcer was essentially my spokesperson, or more accurately, my interpreter…more to come

Enforcers real roll was minister of economy, but he was also UDF head and maintained very strong synergistic relationships with other WP nations.

Where did you spend most of your time on CivClassics?

The Cringe Pit Home for Troubled Youth’s skybunker and Icenia city.

Where did you live on CivClassics?

I had a house that Amel built for me in downtown Icenia complete with a working toilet, but I called home Cringe Pit in Icenia.

What was an event you were involved with that you remember well?

Too many, perhaps the most memorable one was the Infinity War, but the Chic Fil A crisis or Amel Pearling Crisis is much funnier. Amel got pearled by Imperial Truidence for stealing crafting tables in Icenia and the government of Icenia got together and decided to essentially do desert storm on Imperial Truidence if they didn’t get freed. It was funny. Ultimately it didn’t come to that.

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

I’ve had beef with just about everyone on the server at one point from Callum to Hantzu. Icenia was involved in a few wars. We were involved in the Ransakistan conflict after we got obby bombed, we were involved in Corvus after Ransakistan, we got involved in the Columbian Brush War in support of Shadedoom, then we got involved in the Infinity War to destroy NATO. We also had the Clown Wars against New Sovia over their antics, we went to war against Laconia briefly for their support of West Isle succession, and we sent special forces in to put down unrest in Cortesa Del Mar.

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

Reddit: ChrisChrispie

How would you describe your transition over time from being anti-world police to being heavily involved in the alliances of CivClassics?

I wasn’t always Anti-World Police. In 2.0 I heavily supported via Chanos and Intis a more robust foreign policy separate from what Titan and later Chanada was doing. I even defended Playpen when it came under attack. I had a phenomenal working relationship with Varkonia and the GNA for a long time too, until they sent alts in to destroy Icenia. That’s when I became anti-WP. It’s annoying that the people who supposedly supported us didn’t. So when I started in classics, I was hell bent more or less on revenge. I even offered passage to NATO fighters at one point through Icenia to attack Varkonia. I held talks with Citylion to attempt a break on Mir. We thought Mir was just going to steamroll the server after NATO fell. Ultimately, after Icenia was obby bombed by high IQ individual Parker and New Sovia/Laconia kept trying to mess with us in West Isle or the streets of Icenia, and fig and Croc did the chic fil a thing, was when we started warming up to WP. By the time Ransakistan was over and the fighters who weren’t pearled were accepted into NATO, Icenia was out for blood and we wanted every shitter flushed save for Soundtech and a few others. Through that my respect for WP fighters from 2.0 who had wrecked Icenia greatly improved and now I consider myself fully WP and Icenia fully aligned behind WP.

What were the most challenging times as the leader of Icenia?

From a personal standpoint it was the Tritan days. I had no been alone in my decision making for months leading up to it, and Icenia felt stable, but I received word from Mickale that Truckman and a few other Icenians were planning on forming a nation directly north of Icenia purely bent on invading all over the place and producing massive amounts of armor. This was clearly a very stupid idea, and eventually their discussion moved to invading Varkonian land to the north. I had to make the decision to blow the whistle on it in a UDF meeting and essentially told the Icenians involved that I appreciated their involvement in Icenia heavily, but this thing had to stop or else they’d be pearled more or less. I could be getting that wrong, but that would have been the end result had they gone through with it via a joint Entente-remaining icenian raid.

It was annoying to me and I felt like I had been stabbed in the back by a lot of people I had a lot of faith in.

Thankfully, I think the Icenians involved in it saw how utterly stupid the idea was. Truckman was forced to abandon the project and it sorta became Titan, which was another pain in my ass but a much more manageable one.

What are your plans for CivMC? Will Icenia be continuing there or on any other civ servers?

Icenia is coming to CivMC, my involvement at the start will be heavy but my intent is to become the Queen Elizabeth II of Icenia. I’m 24 now and a busy boy, but I love the town and the legacy it’s created for itself. There are no plans for other civ servers since they all suck ass.

What was your involvement in the Titan War?

The long story: In Intis I was elected to Minister of Economy under the IDF, or Intis Defense Front. The IDF was a separatist group of players who wanted Intis to be separate from Chanada given our dislike of Kovio, the leader of Viridian, and Hantzu. When Titan started taking off, Hantzu dissolved the Chanada national elections. So we no longer had any representation and any goals of a city centric playstyle were essentially dashed in favor of going to war with a bunch of people. So, when the war broke out, I started offering Intis as a staging ground for WP fighters heading up to Titan. Giving them pots, ect. It was essentially a drink station for them. Hantzu obviously did not like this and ordered some nazis from /pol/enesia to come over and pearl me. The deed was done and I was stored in Titan for a bit. Eventually, I somehow got out because I think they forgot to fuel me. Anyways, I got banned from Chanada and founding Chanos which supported WP against Titan because most of our guys had also been kicked out of Chanada. We went to Plsypen and defended and that was about it because the war shortly wrapped up after that.

In CivCraft 2.0 you lead a rebellion in Kaiserin, How did that come about? What were the consequences?

It wasn’t a rebellion insomuch as it was just the existing government and citizens telling Novaceasar that we wanted to join the GNA, her making a stink about it, and then the GNA rejecting the application because Nova was still leader of Kaiserich. It was at that point that Icenia declared independence

I was chancellor during those times and some of my reforms went through, but the vast majority of Icenians by that GNA rejection letter had had enough and I followed suit very much willingly.

The consequences were that people now have to deal with Icenians on other civ servers unfortunately.

And Kaiserich lost a bit of land

And rails.

No war broke out because the GNA would have slapped the shit out of Nova.

what was the Chanos civil war?

Chanos was super prosperous for the longest time due to us having a great location near world border. When the announcement for nether travel came out, Prioma and I as well as the others got near all the goods required to make that area’s portal. It would have been absolutely massive for us. Unfortunately, there was a late night raid and we lost all those materials and most of the wealth that Chanos had. I was VP at the time and Prioma resigned. I had this policy of basically taking in states, some of which were former channers who did not wish to see me as president. They decided they wanted me to resign, I refused, and they waltzed into Chanos city center and burned the place down. I hired mercenaries to go attack em since by that point most people had quit Chanos. They did to limited success and I saw the writing on the wall and left. Chanos died after that. I think it was Thule that did the raiding.

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--This interview was conducted over discord on the 17th of March, 2022--