[AreaOfEffect]

Thank you chrispedersen, I was starting to become quite jaded by the discussion up until this point. Clearly what I thought was a dialog was instead a conversation with a wall.

As for what I think, I think that I've tried my best to listen to everyone's opinion and revise accordingly. I think the actual discussion is being overshadowed by 'pre-game alliance'. A set of words that haven't been defined, is disliked without reasons provided, and doesn't distinguish itself from any other alliance aside from it's timing.

Is an alliance that develops prior to the start of the game an unfair advantage. Yes. However, so is every other alliance ever concocted. It is in the nature of an alliance to be unfair, not it's timing. Any two nations teaming up to fight individual nations is of course an advantage to the allied nations. That's why people form alliances in the first place, to gain an advantage. Besides, chrispedersen brings up an interesting point, the game has in actuality started. I would even go so far as to say that this is the weakest alliance I could create, as I'm not even sure members could help me if I needed them to. Alliances or more effective with more knowledge, not the other way around.

That said, I don't think that the nature of both me and another player being executives is indeed a pre-game alliance. I simply don't think I could administer what I propose all on my own. Unoptimized is an executive because I think I can trust him to do the job and because he has more frequent access to the internet then me. I'm sure he won't mind if anyone of you want to take his place. I created the email address so that I could move the responsibility to other players. Had I wanted to job exclusively, I would have just used personal messages as the means of communication.

In closing, I honestly don't think most of you even know why your clamoring about. I've already stated my purpose from the onset. I understand the possibility of abuse, but as far as I can see, it is simply whether a person keeps their money or instead gets to give it away for the promise of interest. Or that I might deny curtain players from obtaining a loan, but that just means that they deal with what they have, just like a player normally would. There is a lot more to be gained in my opinion. The fact that I'm willing to renominate executives should settle the last of your worries, and yes I would gladly give up my position as well if it meant that we could have some level of insurance.

Thank you and good luck to us all.