Aragan-Carthaginian War

Araga
Mich
Skali

The Aragan-Carthaginian War was the last war on Doom's World and the last major act of Doom before their ban. It lasted two days and was responsible for the creation of new rules due to Doom exploiting a loophole in the rules at the time.

## Timeline

### Prelude

In late December of 2018, Doom's World regained activity for the first time in months. This led Doom to purchase Tunisia from France for 8 diamonds and found the nation of Carthage. Soon after, on December 26th, Dan would be demoted for spawning in items; while he claimed that staff had destroyed all of the spawned-in items, Flaming found a stash of items that he had kept secret. Following this, Doom and Flaming banned Dan; this move was incredibly controversial, with many in the community believing that Dan's punishment was too harsh or that the fact that the ban length had not yet been decided (it would eventually become 3 weeks) made it unfair to Dan. The members of Dan's nation, the Holy American Empire, reorganized it into the Aragan Empire that day. As well, Doom continued with their trend of being generally annoying; they continually posted about a skyscraper that they had built in Carthage (along with their normal behavior). These actions led Araga and their ally of France to declare war later that day.

### War

#### December 27th

Aragan and French forces quickly took the city of Carthage, griefing it into oblivion. Doom, however, refused to surrender; as the rules at the time did not include a system of enforced peace treaties, the war would theoretically continue until the 48 hour limit that existed at the time if Doom refused to accept a peace offer. Doom realized this and fled first to Venice and then the Americas, planning to make an Aragan victory "as painful as possible." Doom began to grief Aragan cities, with the capital of Lancaster being lightly griefed. Realizing what Doom was doing, the Aragan players all logged off, intending to wait out the 48 hours.

#### December 28th

While the Aragan plan would have prevented griefing entirely, Mich believed that the war was over and logged on AFK. Doom took advantage of this and began to severely grief Araga for several hours (including the cities of Lancaster and New Orleans) until Mich realized what was happening and logged off. Doom remained online for a while longer, intending to wait out the Aragans and continue griefing as soon as one of them logged online. However, France was also in the war; their leader Pibb logged on and repeatedly killed Doom before breaking the bed that they were using, forcing them back to spawn. At this point, some players believed it safe to log on once more and survey the damage; it was at this point that they discovered that one of the buildings that Doom had destroyed was the Japanese embassy in New Orleans. Doom remained online at this point in spawn, but Flaming logged on and threatened to have Japan join the war unless Doom surrendered. At this point, Doom admitted defeat and signed a peace treaty with Skali at about 5 PM EST.

## Results and Aftermath

Considering the unprecedented nature of their actions and the severe abuses of the rules, Skali forced Doom into a relatively harsh peace treaty. Carthage was reannexed into France and Doom's griefs of Araga were rolled back. As well, Doom was banned from making a nation in the Americas and was forced to form an Aragan puppet nation on Socotra. Doom was also banned from setting foot in the Americas and was forced to live on Socotra until Dan was unbanned (though this was later changed when Doom pointed out that gameplay and administrative actions should be kept separate). The final term was what pushed Doom over the edge, however: it demanded that Doom would be forced to help France with resource gathering whenever France wished it. Doom left the server for several weeks over this attempting to wait it out; however, it haunted them for the rest of their career on the server. This war, along with other actions by the playerbase, eventually pushed Doom over the edge and caused them to quit hosting and later leak player IP addresses. Doom was banned for over 2 years due to the IP leak. As well, this prompted the creation of new rules allowing for enforced peace treaties.