United Domination (2018)

(Written on May 16, 2020, based on what I remember, as well as some stored info.) UD motto: "Peace is not absence of conflict; It is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." - Ronald Reagan United Domination, also known in MD historiography as UD(2018) to avoid confusion with the 2017 United Domination(or UD(2017)), an attempt of Total Annexation and Total Domination to merge, was a short-lived confederation of two(initially three) Domination games: Total Expansion(left before the formation of UD), Modern Domination and Total Restoration, formed on September 30, 2018. It ceased to exist on November 2 or November 3, 2018, when MarcusConstantine declared the DOM community "dead for good."

(Image: TheDanbox's UD(2018) logo, September 28, 2018.)

 History 

Background

On September 3, 2018, the Dark Nine Months, or the period for which it was impossible to update MD, ended, and I sought to revive Modern Domination and make it great once again. While the first week seemed to be a success, despite the TE-MD war raging on during that time, the server attendance dropped after around a week since the re-opening of MD, and as a result of that, we had no more startups.

As the problems persisted, we realized these attendance problems were community-wide, and so we came up with a last resort idea - to unite with TR and TE in order to make all three groups stronger and better suited to survive amid the general decline of the domination community.

The formation of United Domination

On September 28, 2018, the United Domination server was created, and all three communities had to vote on whether they wanted to join UD or not. While MD and TR was mostly in favor of joining, the opinions were quite balanced on TE, even slightly not in favor of joining. Hence, I decided to make a move which I regret nowadays. Believing that the formation of UD was "our only hope", I decided to manipulate TE's accession poll(link: https://strawpoll.com/a1szper4/r)- I told my friends outside of the DOM community to vote "Yes". Even more, I joined random free chat services in order to spam the poll there in an attempt to make TE join UD. These actions proved to be a success, and I managed to have TE voted in.

(Image: Proof of me rigging the TE accession poll, September 28, 2018.)

United Domination is formed

After the unification vote, the opposition to unification was quite high among TE members, and as a result of

that, bashpole134 made another strawpoll vote a day later. Despite my attempts to manipulate this poll as well, TE voted to leave, albeit narrowly, and that left us with TR only. However, before TE's departure, we held a vote on who the owner and co-owner should be.

On September 30, 2018, UD was formed as an union of MD and TR, with me elected as the president of UD and SirConnorJSmith being elected as the vice-president of UD. MarcusConstantine complained about the vote having been "rigged", as the vote "was ended after I started to rise in votes and bashpole134 started to lose", but his complaints were invalid, as I closed the poll on its pre-scheduled deadline, and I did not want to lose any future supporters by rigging the vote into office.

Work begins on UD, problems arise After the vote, we started to work on United Domination. The UD place was meant to be my place no. 93(link:

https://www.roblox.com/games/2410678387/Bowser1986s-Place-Number-93), and initially, the development seemed to be doing fine. However, after around three days, the development came to a sudden halt, never to be resumed again. Furthermore, chaos arose in the UD discord, such as arguments over the notion of free speech, what it is and what it is not, as well as other disagreement.

(Image: The unfinished country of Kyrgyzstan on the UD map as of September 30, 2018. Screenshot taken on May 16, 2020.)

As a result of this disagreement, the United Dominaiton discord died, however, it still remained in formal existence. Meanwhile, during my term as president of UD, I had been getting bored of Roblox again, and I even left the discord for two or three days, before being brought back in by MarcusConstantine. On October 31, 2018, my term expired, and Vorii was sworn in as the new owner the next day.

The end of United Domination

One or two days after Vorii's inauguration, United Domination was dissolved, following MarcusConstantine's speech, in which he declared the DOM community "officially dead".

 Organization 

The administration was supposed to be like this: Each domination would have two representatives, that being the domination owner and the co-owner. Of these, one president, an owner, would be elected for all of UD, and it was meant to be similar with the vice-president of UD, that being a co-owner. REPRESENTATIVES OF MD, TR AND TE IN UD:

OWNERS: Bowser1986(MD), Vorii(TR), bashpole134(TE)

CO-OWNERS: SatyaramGSai(MD), SirConnorJSmith(TR), LithiumMonoxide(TE) Server rules were agreed upon on September 30, 2018, they were the following: RULES OF UNITED DOMINATION:

1. All opinions are allowed, even those that may be viewed as offending to a particular group of people.

2. Confine all politics and debates to #politics-and-debates. This is to prevent #general from being clogged up with arguments.

3. Please try your best not to be a dick.

4. Respect your fellow members, those below and above you.

5. Don't post any NSFW content in the server. This extends to any kind of porn and videos or pictures containing death or extreme harm of either people or animals.

6. Keep bot commands in #bot-commands. This is to avoid the server being clogged up. Besides these common rules, an United Domination place was meant to be created, with the startups being held by a different DOM every time. Each of the startups was meant to have different rules, for example a MD-led startup was meant to be held in accordance with the MD rules, a TR startup had to be led in accordance with the TR rules, etc. Even getting an admin abuser removed was dependent on whether it was a TR or MD abuser - MD abusers could be fired by MD staff only and TR abusers could be fired by TR staff only.

 Criticism of United Domination 

Not all owners of allied dominations were eager to join UD. TheBeckoningChip1, the owner of Fantasy Domination, refused to join UD, claiming that it would die a few days later. While I didn't believe him at the time, it turned out he was right..."'FD is not joining UD, as it will die after a few days.'""-Approximate quote by TheBeckoningChip1 regarding the admission of FD into UD, September 28, 2018. The original quote was lost as a result of the deletion of my main account."Conclusion and aftermath

The death of United Domination marked the end of my attempts to revive MD for a few months, even though occassional startups were still organized on MD. A new attempt wouldn't materialize until early May 2019, when Danbox and I would start to work on Ro-Domination and Modern Domination 2.