Hey all. I've been around this game a long time.
Alliances and coalitions come and go. They consolidate to get stronger. They disintegrate over politics. There are going to be periods of heavy war activity and periods of farming/leveling/medal hunting boredom. But I have never heard so much drivel about wanting to be considerate for the enemy. An enemy is an enemy and if you do not kill it, it can rise up again and kill you. So, forget about hosts trying to dictate rules of engagement - it won't happen and will not be complied with by the warmongers anyway.
The hosts of UBA do not need to interject themselves into the future of the other alliances - let them sort that out themselves. If they are smart enough, they will join forces - all the good alliances on here are a combination of strong forces from other alliances. So, let them figure out their future - if they do the right thing, they will survive to fight us again. UBA does not belong in that discussion and should remove themselves.
And, as far as rules of engagement - Zakkath is correct - there is nothing wrong with attacking from 1 mile with a load of mechanics - that is how the game progresses as strength, knowledge and troop mix progress.
I have quit this game, many times (due to politics when I was a host), and due to the expense - but did not quit when I lost my top hero. Because I was smart enough to have a #2 hero not far behind at the time. So, I do not see hero loss as an excuse to quit.
Why are people getting bored? 1 - perhaps it is because they are now realizing how much time this game has sucked from their lives???? 2 - because they do not feel engaged - provide them a goal, create and foster a team atmosphere in your alliance - The strong alliances are strong because they work as a team within their alliance. 3 - mostly because, once you have mastered evony, each day on evony is pretty much the same as the prior day - and tomorrow is going to be more of the same. 4- they got zeroed out?? c'mon - you mean to tell me your alliance does not have a spare account around to give that player to keep them busy???
In support of chilisteve (thought you quit, chili) - I never heard him say "Join or Die".
I also agree with S@ssy - (did I just write that?) - this server is NOT sick and dying - it is going through a phase - it is us, the players, who have to each individually decide how we are going to play this game and whether/how long we stay. We will all quit or quit again someday.
As far as targets truceing, porting and holidaying - these are 3 defense tools the game has provided - they are not going away - so it means if you are going to continue to be an attacker, you will need to be more patient and harder working - it is going to take more time to annihilate a target.
Do you see yourself doing this still 5 years from now?????
blastor (you can call me "ZedZee")

