lol thanks vioxx, i know about the whole thing with the brotherhood, and thanks for the cords will make sure everyone in Ax gets this.
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lol thanks vioxx, i know about the whole thing with the brotherhood, and thanks for the cords will make sure everyone in Ax gets this.
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I leave the rest of details to your imagination
When you see tiBattle by your city, you know you're dead
When you see Tiknight by your city, you know you refuse to live
When you see the two of them coming at you at once...
http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/p.../TUSCANY-1.jpg
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Dear SAINTS alliances, WRATH, Diamonds and the 10 other alliances that have invaded Tuscany to take out Banshees:
For months, we looked forward to this server merge. It promised open spaces, a new beginning and new foes to fight. We'd hoped it would rejuvenate a game that was getting old for some. We'd eliminated all of our enemies and had been at the point of deciding which friend to turn red when, to our joy, the merger was finally announced.
Immediately, we worried. Rather than matching us with server 90 or 92, we were matched with a server that was more mature, players who had many weeks on us in terms of training heros, gaining prestige and evolving their playing styles.
Still, we had been successful before and we all know that prestige doesn't necessarily equate to knowledge of the game. We pressed on.
Tuscany had been the original home of the Banshees. Over time, we took over North March completely and eliminated the red from the bordering states. We knew from the forums that theBORG and another couple of 86 alliances were going to be in Tuscany. We decided that rather than look for a state we might easily take over, we'd go right into a place with instant red.
It was exciting. Our spirits were high on the first day of battles - it was a bit frustrating as some of us had made some poor choices, but overall, this was what we'd been waiting for!! We wanted a fight and we had it. Worthy opponents stretched all over the state.
And then it began... suddenly we faced not just the alliances already claiming Tuscany, but more. Some came in because we had some cities just inside or just over the border. Understandable. We tried to comply - we already had our hands full for some fair fighting.
Then it progressed. I made the mistake of talking about it here on this forum. Never once did I put down the level of play these alliances were capable of. Never was I disrespectful. Yet rather than encouraging these alliances to leave and search for other enemy and let us fight our turf war, it fueled the fire under even more 86 alliances to port in.
When we ask for a break - such as yesterday when I had three of my own cities under attack by multiple players from two unrelated alliances - I was told that this is a war game, not SIMS or Farmville. That was insulting. Say that to the farmers, not to those fighting every minute of every day.
And so it goes. Banshees are under attack every minute of every day by more than a dozen alliances. They laugh at our lack of troops or wall defenses in some cities, but do not realize that it takes a little while to rebuild when you are attacked every day. Those with large armies are reinforcing those who are rebuilding.
I was told by tiBattle that I'd better have an exit plan. I do. It is to stand and fight until Banshees no longer exists. Will that day come? It might. Already we have people leaving - a few joined other alliances but every one of them was one who joined us after the merge was announced when their own alliance was breaking up - they had no loyalty to Banshees, didn't know us. Most of those who have left are leaving the game.
Why? Because it isn't fun any more. We have lost before, but that did not kill the joy of the game - it's part of it. But to know that when you wake up in the morning you will have been attacked at least once, to go to work with your mind half on your job and half wondering what is happening in Tuscay, anticipating that phone call or e-mail warning that your cities are under attack - that is when the game goes from being fun, from relieving stress, to being a source of extreme frustration.
And so, 86 alliances in Tuscany, if Banshees does fall, it will be because you all found the need to gang up on us. Banshees alone (not counting Banshees2 and 4) have 400 pages of defense from invading alliances a day on a good day, and that does not count battles with theBORG or DeathInc, who were already in Tuscany. And it doesn't include the pages of attacks by us. You have all made Evony a chore. You've taken the fun out of it. You say that Evony will love us because of the truces - mostly we are trucing because we need to go to work or actually sleep more than 2 hours a night - but they will hate you because the sense of unfairness is turning people away, making them wonder why they are even here, leaving the game and thus, leaving Evony out of cents.
Let's also be clear - Banshees has never been a port and kill all over the server alliance. We are state-based. We don't have credit card players or botters. We have gained what we have gained through hard work.
Most of us here are very loyal. Most of us are resolved that Banshees will be our final alliance.
And so, while our 91 brethren are, with a few exceptions, enjoying their farming and building and taking out inferior alliances in other states, we stand and fight the best of 86. It is an honor, but I don't think anyone on 86 can truly see it as a fair fight.
You are all making so much easier to rejoin real life.
Sicilia
Speaking for herself
Oh, and one more thing... we are not the only ones who sometimes truce...
First night of CENTAURS invasion - note he started as CENTAURS and change to SPARTA. After a few hours of attacks...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sKAdDQODnY.../Picture+1.jpg
Not that there is anything wrong with it, but be fair.
Oh Sicilia - you tug at even the coldest of heartstrings (my own). :(
s86 please do not suck the joy for the game from everyone. I miss the game greatly & I understand now that the real fight was not over states, or territories, or heros; it is in fact the fight between RL and evony. It is so sad that many many skilled fighters (and the rest of us) have left a game we enjoyed so much. Think back to the non-b0tting greats that forced us to learn the mechanics. Think of the b0tters who taught us to defend and attack those without limits.
I must say, if it was not for my own personal weaknesses, and the need to work everyday, and raise 3 children I too would escape to my evony land because it was fun... but,
... ask the greats why they did quit
... ask the people who are even thinking it now
Why quit?
because it was fun no more
If everyone quits, and everyone leaves - then you have in fact created nothing but a glorified version of Farmville for yourselves...
Have you not?
LOL you are so full of it!
Anyone from server 86 will tell you about DEATHInc a no friendly alliance hell i believe at one point we were at war with 200 alliances..... did we EVER complain? NO
The fun is being attacked and retaliating you cant defend your cities thats YOUR fault noone elses' i used to be the Host of DeathInc i had cities in 4 hostile states yet they were not taken even though yes most of the time they were under attack.
You claim you know game mechs etc yet when the game heats up for you you back down and ask for time to rebuild! well no i say you want to rebuild do it whilst under attack like the rest of us have to!
clearly you talk to much as when you say "we cleared our states then NM etc" you would have had to face many alliances to do that when the alliances in NM asked you to leave them did you? NO ...... neither will we.
Stop showing that you have a coward alliance and fight if you have a city taken TAKE 2 BACK!
i speak for many of us when i say we want a challenge ..... if you posed one you may have been given a rest period but why let a weak alliance build to be weak again? may as well wipe you out.
You asked for the wars.... so now face them
Let me say 1st I believe she is she and not a he... could be wrong. and I agree... I think the chief complaint was the everyone coming in to hit them. Don't let them sound as if they were not hitting back... My final nights were also long...
But there is no doubt that the most of s91 is greatly outskilled.
do the merge super servers? :dizzy: