Subject: LESSONS FROM A HARD WEEK My Fellow Citizens, PLSH had a hard week. You have heard about it. I am not going to retell it. I am going to tell you what it taught me, because I believe every alliance on 395 can use these lessons before it learns them the hard way. Power is not strength. PLSH lost about 1 billion power in one day, and the power was not the real loss. We lost fighters, organizers and friends. An alliance is not its power ranking. It is the people who show up for each other. Being the strongest means nothing if we are not coordinated. Protect the people who do the quiet work. Every alliance has a few people doing the work nobody sees: ranks, schedules, city paths, Glory War picks, answering everyone's DMs. They do it for free. When they burn out, the alliance feels it overnight. Thank them. Share their load. Do not make them carry your complaints. Leaders must be present. Problems do not go away when a leader ignores them. They grow, and someone else steps into the empty space. I learned this one personally. I avoided conflicts I should have handled early, I left chats instead of calming them, and I made a big decision in a hurry, under pressure. That is on me. Decisions go through process, not pressure. This server built a voting process because decisions made in private and handed down by a few people divide us. Alliances work the same way. Rank changes, removals and invites belong to the leadership team, decided together. Not by whoever is loudest, strongest or fastest. Disagree in private. Unite in public. Every fight we had in alliance chat this week made things worse. Disagreement is healthy. Public attacks, side chats and drama in world chat are not. If you have a problem, bring it to leadership directly. Respect the people who built your home. Chaptu built PLSH. Whatever happens next, we should never forget that the people who built our alliances earned our respect. Honor them, even when they are not here to see it. A loss is not a verdict. A loss is a lesson. PLSH is wounded, not finished. We are rebuilding on the things that made us strong in the first place: coordination, respect, and having fun together. To everyone who left PLSH this week, the door is open. To every alliance on 395: learn from our week so you never have to live through one like it. I was never a perfect leader. At times I am wrong. This week I was wrong more than once, and I intend to do better. Thank you for your attention to this matter. -Imwrong President of the United States