So I would like to offer some history and some clarifications here.
To be honest, I did quit the post of the President of the UTW because of RL pressures.
I still played the world as a builder, when I saw what MadAlice did with our long standing ally Perditions Wake, I immidiately told kroesus to handle the situation and remove her black hat.
These were MadAlice's words on the forum, as copy pasted to me by multiple counselors from San Jose,
I don't see why we need them anymore. Alliances are meant to use the allies to do your dirty work, and then drop them when they are no longer needed (paraphrasing)
This goes against the very fibre on which I founded UTW. UTW 'always' honors all commitments, which is why so many towns have allowed us to take complete control of them. Till now, not a single ex-mayor of UTW has had a complaint with us, especially none regarding our not upholding our agreements or being dishonorable in any way.
MadAlice, well, is a very smart guy (oh yeah, she's a guy, who plays a girl to get more cooperation from players. I have a telegram saved away in which he himself told me this). I early on, did realize that this guy was very childish, power hungry and egoistical. Hence, I 'never' gave him much power. I put kroesus, who I respect a lot, in charge of San Jose when I left to build in Dark Valley. Because of his continued contributions, I decided to reward him with the black hat. Of course, with his tantrum, I had to remove him from that position of power. He made that decision without any consultation, reason or recognition of honor or integrity.
When MadAlice's hat was removed, he asked for it back, defending his actions. I did see that the actions were probably not something that would maybe warrant such a harsh step. I made the one single mistake of trusting this dude.
And well, this happened.
So now, I and kroesus are working on cleaning up this mess. San Diego will be our new flag town and the top duelers from San Jose will move there. Luckily, a lot of them are loyal to me and hopefully others will choose not to support a dishonorable and despotic regime. Either way, San Jose is no longer part of the UTW union, the UTW union though, continues on.
MadAlice is now in control of San Jose and probably always will be. But then, all the builders are loyal to the UTW, the 'real' UTW, and we will have other maxed out towns. MadAlice can do whatever he wants with that maxed out town.
UTW is not about towns, it never has been. It has always been about people, and it will continue to be. I have faith in the honor of our citizens. Hence, despite all this drama, things will continue on track.
I am now back as the President as the UTW and kroesus will be holding the post of Vice President. Soon, MadAlice and all of this crap will be forgotten and put in the past.
Thanks everyone for putting up with this overly long and long-winded post. There was a lot to put across