Bill

Our application never has the partisans trafficking anyone after WW2. In the late 1940s and 50s it has them smuggling cigarettes, guns and Western goods, helping villages get through collectivization, and stockpiling weapons for a war that never came. Then the Securitate destroys their camps, and a handful of survivors spend the next 20 years in factories and mines. The organized crime only starts when the survivors rebuild in Bucharest in the 1970s and grow after the 1989 Revolution, and the application never calls them anyone's "biggest crooks." It also never places them in Transylvania. The group was named after Muscel, on the Wallachian side of the Făgăraș Mountains. And the time span matches the real group: late 1940s to late 1950s. You're right that the real fighters were priests, peasants and former officers. Our backstory starts from that real history and adds fiction on top of it, the same way Basarab magically invented an 1850 distillery. I’ll leave you with one last point. You seem to be predisposed with this idea what we are out to “attack” you. Your application was mentioned in ours as to differentiate, not as to say “we’re better than them.” Additionally, you seem to have this obsession about hostility and negative comments coming from us. Not a single one of our active members have left a negative comment on your application. In fact, they’ve been instructed not to and we’ve been checking. I am aware of the discussions you had and we have maintained the mutual courteous but you took it upon yourself to flip the script without even speaking to us. You’ve directed your frustrations toward us irrationally.

Backstory. Yes, both stories have smuggling, a betrayal, a war with rivals, and an escape to New York. So does nearly every mob story ever written, The Godfather included. That's the genre, not copying. What actually happens is different. Yours is an 1850s distillery, a family feud, a war in WWII Berlin, Switzerland, and Vlad arriving in 1985. Ours is the real Haiducii Muscelului partisans in 1940s Făgăraș, the Securitate, the 1989 Revolution, and the 1990 Mineriad. Being Romanian doesn't make it yours either. Staff have accepted two Russian factions more Italian families than anyone can count. The church. Both factions are Orthodox, which comes with being Romanian or Russian, the same way Catholicism comes with every Italian family. Popov's RP is worship: sermons, confessions, Sunday prayers, and prayers after a kill (none of which have occurred as of late). The Clan's is funerals sold as a service to any faction, a truce during the service, and memorials for its own dead. Ranks. Vornic and Ban were real offices in Wallachia and Moldavia, so they belong to Romanian history, not to one faction. Tattoos. They aren't just Discord award roles. They're IC tattoos for specific actions, like doing felony time without cooperating, and the top tier requires earning a full set first. Tattooing ceremonies happen in-game rather than a button being clicked in the roles section of a Discord profile. Recruitment. The cart job leads into deliveries, outdrinking a made man, and boxing matches, and Discord comes after the first initial period. Starting recruits on small jobs is a common idea, but executing it is not always on point. Most factions still end up with stand-at-the-door rp. Side project. The Clan has run on its own since July, with its own LLC, a working cart, and weekend parties, all shown in the application. Basarab's revival doc says it is operating as a crew under Popov. I would say that would qualify more as a side project. The cart, clothing, and security. These are server mechanics every faction can use, and the application never claimed to invent them. What's different is how they're used: the cart is where recruitment starts, and the favors people owe go into the Debt Book. Activity. I'd rather we both get judged on activity than on predictions. We've been running in the city since July, our LLC is approved, and we'll keep showing up. I’m not going to comment on any flaws seen in your application and I’m glad you have delusions of grandeur but I think the community should be focused on building itself rather than degrading others. Two Romanian factions with different focuses yet you’re hung up on submission timing. Good luck with the application.