Midnight

Midnight (also known as Midnight Strategy Gaming or 11:59) is one of the historical and the largest servers of the AoC2 community. Several PTR users from have been former or are current users of this server.
Midnight it's known for several reasons: from the 11:59 AoC 2 mod to Triumph & Tragedy, has several services unique to the server. But Midnight it's also commonly joked as "the pedophile server" because of the Fooods incident. They also own their own mostly incomplete wiki, called Midnight Wiki. 
The server is owend by Vis, which is the person most associated with the server.
== History ==
=== First months of 11:59 ===
Also view: AGE Civil War
Midnight started as the server for the mod 11:59, that wanted to simulate the Cold War in Age of Civilization 2. Since Vis was the mod creator, he was also the owner of the server. 
After the AGE Civil War the server became home to the Reformist Movement and, after Strategy Hub AGE deletion, the only server based principally on AoC2. 
During Lonathan's leadership, the server took its first steps by taking the shape that would later become the democratic system of the server. 
=== CRR-CP Cold War ===
Also view: CRR-CP Cold War
With the formation of parties, the server's members quickly developed differing visions of on which direction should the server take. The main parties were:
* Committee of Revolution and Reform(CRR):
* Coalitionist Party (CP or ADP): Formed by Vis, was used to oppose Doodlate's plans
Elections quickly become hot and contentious events. To prevent that the situation did become too hot to control, both parties decided to descalate and firmed the Treaty of Cairo. 
=== The start of the Midnight Civil War ===
Also view: Midnight Civil War 
While Vis was the rightful owner of the server, its Prime Guarantourship wasn't without controversy. His tendency to "roleplay" instead to answer to actual problems of the server, or the repetatdly bullying behaviour aganist some users was a point of contention. Several users were unhappy of this situation. 
This were the principal causes of the development of an active opposition to Vis, first informal and limited to episodes to then become a stark and permanent conflict. 
The first episode of open opposition was Omino denoucing Vis of bullying several members and how Vis should just accept his warnings for his behaviour. 
=== The Fooosd Incident ===
Also view: The Fooosd Incident
With the active part of the conflict behind, opposition figures gained relative sympathy on 11:59 leadership, considering for example Omino just a disgruntled with the general asset of the server and the conflict started as a misunderstanding.
== Structure ==
=== Democratic period ===
The server functioned as a limited democracy, where the Owner/Prime Guarantor was unelected but lower position were. This system was called "Westminister System" by Vis several times. 
The biggest elected leaders were: 
* Lonathan: As a popular member since the server times, he was a very good chocie as the first leader. 
* Vlad: Due to his strong charisma, he was able to obtain several times the position. Is widely considered as the most influential member on the server history. 
* Omino: Lacking the image and the charisma of the the others, he built his position as the leader of the Coalitionist Party. During his period, most of the changes to the server happend, and has been one of the leading causes of the Midnight Civil War. 
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=== Post-Civil War ===
After the start of the Midnight Civil War, 11:59 had to deal with a political crisis due to the sudden boycott of central figures of the server like Omino, Vlad, Arianas and later Sleier.
The one who answered to this sudden power vaacum was Trisk. While being an habitué of the server, he lacked on votes during elections so he didn't have prior experience on moderating the server. But without the presence of more popular choices, he had the ability of finally take control. However it's very clear how Vis's guarantorship and Trisk's premiership were supportive to each other, so making both's grip on power stronger.
Trisk moderation has been critizised as weak and just as a figurehead for Vis, but his supporters said several times that he was integral to the survival of the server during the starting phase of the Midnight Civil War.
On the istitutional side, Trisk premiership agreed with Vis reforms, unlike Omino and CP's party stance. This meant that the Ministry of Activity and Foreign Relations gained more power.
The democratic principle of the server started decaying, with the outlawing of parties and the suspension of them several times. While some may consider the last as a necessity of the time, this was a serious point of conflict between the server and Democratic Allegiance , with the latter declaring several times how the end of democracy on 11:59 was Vis's end objective. Due to Democratic Allegiance meddeling and general instability, democracy on 11:59 was deemedn as too dangerous and slowly lost support on the server, making the conflict between Midnight and Democratic Allegiance permanent, even without considering how the latter already became part of PTR.