NE0 Collapse

The NE0 collapse happened on July 17th and 18th, 2023. Due to conflicts between multiple new and old members of the server, Fly decided to shut the server down. He returned the server back however, at the advice of several members.

## Xavier

Xavier expressed a dislike for the server staff and management for a long time, especially Poke, for a variety of reasons, including a false claim against Sanctuary made by Poke involving unclaimed chunks, (2 of which turned out to instead be German chunks,) and a history of Poke allegedly cyberbullying Xavier.

> "the majority of Gold Coast is notorious for admin abuse and being out of touch with the playerbase."
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In response, Fly created a poll to recreate the NE2 co-owner system, and let players choose the server management. This poll initially failed with 13 votes against and 7 for (though later the poll would become 12 for, 13 against). Xavier said that ae could tell many server members did not share aer view of the server, and ae would not continue on the topic. Due to a clashing of visions, Xavier then told Fly that ae would continue to play NE0, but not join the next NE iteration.

From then on, the server was relatively calm until Roman's incident.

## Tea

Tea was a member of NE4 and NE5 who did not initially join NE0. He joined after an argument, and was warned and muted for allegedly playing a soundboard of someone saying the n-word in a voice chat, and various ableist remarks. He then left the discord, and did not join the server at this point.

On July 17th, Tea rejoined the discord and joined the server as well. Poke did not remember who Tea was, and asked Atti if he was a pedophile in staff chat. Atti told him he was not, and Poke was satisfied with the answer. Atti told Tea what Poke said in staff chat, and he got mad in server chat. Roman and Toasted attempted to aggravate Tea further, saying 'teas a pedo' and 'prove ur not a pedo'. Tea was muted for an hour because he was spamming. This began Tea's dislike of Roman and increased his dislike for the server staff.

Many of Tea's friends joined the server, including Rhyvixx, Chromarow and Vyndigo\_. They created a new faction. The German member Moni also joined their faction.

## Icarus

Icarus, a member of the faction Germany, was repeatedly doxxed on the night of the collapse by the German member Muzikki, at the influence of Tea's faction. This resulted in Muz being banned from the server.

## Roman & Poke

Afterwards, July 18th, 2023, around 12:30 AM EST, Roman began making a joke about someone called 'fu manpew', which involved using a stereotypical racist Asian accent. Tea and Xavier asked for him to be punished. Poke gave Roman a warning, because of the server punishment system. Multiple server members expressed their disagreement with this decision, calling for a more substantial punishment than a warning. Xavier and Tea, as well as some of Tea's faction members began harassing Poke, causing him to close the server chat. This was not received well by Tea's friends and Xavier.

Around 15 minutes later, Poke would reopen the chat, which would cause more players to harass him. This escalated as Roman would start to defend Poke's actions, causing more server members (Most of which had joined within 2 hours of the conflict) to form an angry mob and call Poke "useless" among other things.

It should be noted that while while this article groups Xavier and Tea's faction together, they do not typically have good relations. Previously tea called Xavier 'special' for criticisms Xavier had gave against Tea. Tea said 'you know its fucked when xavier is the most sane person here i cant'. Rhyvixx said 'how is xavier understanding this situation better than you'.

## Other Staff

Multiple players, including Xavier, asked Fly to apply a more severe punishment. When Fly saw the messages, Roman had long left the discord. Because of this, he banned Roman for 3 days, instead of a mute.

Fly reviewed the server, and removed all staff from their roles to ensure they did not receive more harassment. He put the server down to make a backup. Poke told Fly he would not play NewEarth anymore, and Tawny left the server due to harassment they faced earlier, and because of staff's lenient punishment for Roman. Fly decided to stop NE0 completely, due to the loss of many members of smaller factions, and the general toxic atmosphere.

## Recreation

Later during the day, at the insistence of Tony, and other players, Fly put the server back up, and began advertising to ensure a stream of future players.

1. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/1023391010111361086/1069426145231114280/1130264554509701200
2. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/1023391010111361086/1023412900360106118/1130689606447267930
3. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/1023391010111361086/1023411482253340732/1130691114349887609
4. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/1023391010111361086/1023412900360106118/1130675266637791335
5. ↑ "HE GOT OFF WITH NOTHING BRO ARE YOU DISEASED", warmteaa.

https://discord.com/channels/1023391010111361086/1023412900360106118/1130724982192865481
6. ↑ Tea repeatedly spam pinging Poke.

https://discord.com/channels/1023391010111361086/1023412900360106118/1130725085716688897
7. ↑ 'we were talking shit on poke' Rhyvixx. https://discord.com/channels/1023391010111361086/1023412900360106118/1130730619094179920
8. ↑ Multiple messages by Xavier, such as 'DO YOUR FUCKING JOB'https://discord.com/channels/1023391010111361086/1023412900360106118/1130725558397980682
9. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/1023391010111361086/1023412900360106118/1127786873981521970
10. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/1023391010111361086/1023412900360106118/1130725655030542406
11. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/1023391010111361086/1023412900360106118/1130727776324964433