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The Scourge of Evony...
I want to hear some Evony tales! Who was the biggest [insert censored word here] (you can insert your own word there) to you in Evony, in terms of plundering you to death, spamming your mailbox with hatemail, quitting your alliance only to betray you, or anything that makes you resent them not as a person but as a player.
You can leave out the names to protect the innocent (or guilty or w/e). I just want to hear the tales. I want like stories on the scale of Henry the VIII, Ivan the terrible, or the spanish inquisition. Also, definitely include those that played very well who outsmarted you and your friends in every way possible. Or if it was you and you want to toot your own horn, go ahead :D
edited: *'s
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A long story shall follow...
I think she still reads what I write, but that's cool anyway.
For me the biggest scourge was also the one that made the game the most amusing, her name was Stitches, and she was craaaazy.
My little tale goes like this, on Server 2 I joined a small but funny Alliance, they weren't the best players, but they were some of the most innately aggressive I've ever seen. One day Stitches decides she will attack our Alliance hosts main city (not knowing he was our host as it was his 2nd account) and capture it.
Well, needless to say he was NOT happy; he immediately declared war on her Alliance (despite the fact that we were #47 and they were #10 at the time) and launched retaliation attacks against multiple members of Stitches alliance, thus ensuring real war.
At the time I was between 4 and 10 miles of not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, but 5 members of said alliance, 3 of which had 100,000 prestige or more, and 2 of which (the closest one included!) had equal prestige to me (I believe we were at 200k at the time). I was not terribly happy with the situation as I was one of the stronger members of the alliance, and so I couldn't help and also was constantly anxious about incoming fire.
I continued to grow my forces and stalemate the enemy members surrounding my towns, checking in neurotically throughout the day to make sure I wasnt being marauded, reinforcing troops to alliance mates under attack when I could and watching the war unfold.
Then things, as they always do, changed. One of my nearby alliance mates got attacked 20 times in one night, so I sent a message to the attacker via a show of arms, knocking out all their troops in the nearby town to give my alliance mate a chance to rebuild. Apparently stitches thought that was the worst thing ever...
I wake up the next day to find my little bird frantically blinking red, and my Enemy tab filled with incoming attacks. About 9 different people from various distances had launched attacks against me, including the people right next door to my towns. Right before the attacks had been launched I received a mail from some random lowbie asking if she could join our alliance. Suspicious I ignored it (not wanting to reveal I was online) and asked no one to invite her, but a little later an officer invited her not having seen my warning.
Immediately this new comer begins asking me tons of questions in alliance chat about the attack on me, how I feel about it, will I win? Who is attacking? How long til they get there? It is clearly a spy (I later discover it was at Stitches behest, the member I attackeds second account) so I feed them a lot of misinformation for them to relay to their Alliance mates. Stitches also launched an attack on me in the middle of the other attacks, not wanting to instigate war against me and not look like she is participating. I warn my neighbors that should I survive I will put all my efforts into smashing them if they continue to attack. They say they can't help it, their alliance pressured them into attacking so they must.
Predictably they attack me, and I manage to defend through clever gate tactics and reinforcements, after seeing that the close by attacks fail Stitches recalls her attacks before they are put into danger. She then bombards me and a fellow Alliance member with whispers, threats, curses, etc.
I retaliate against the people who attacked me, as I said I would only to receive mails about how mean and unfair I am from Stitches, what a jerk I am and how much she hates me. She then organizes a joint attack on my other alliance mate, who I reinforce to defend, luckily just in time. This results in more whisper spamming from Stitches about how we are mean jerks. We then get new messages from other members of her alliance who are "going to destroy us" at Stitches behest.
She continues to try to goad us now with pretty soothing words like "oh dont take it out on our other members, just take it out on me, attack me only!" in an attempt to get us to launch large scale attacks against her towns when she is online (hoping to inflict reinforcement damage on us I imagine). She continues to call us names and launch quick strikes on other smaller defenseless alliance members to goad us more. We exchange a few town hit & runs during the NPC nerfs.
Eventually she combine attacks and destroy my other alliance mate, and we combine and destroy most of her towns. She begins abandoning her towns and consolidating in one town, claiming she is going to quit and telling us we should just take her stuff. So you'd think the story ends there right?
Well she CONTINUES to hang on to this one town launching quick archer strikes against small members, and occasionally whispering how much I suck for killing her friend (who attacked me first). She seems to settle down a bit and offers her town up to me to test my scout attack theory on. Thinking since she is quitting anyway she probably is done with the feuding I launch my 100k scouts on her town only to find she is online and closed her gates seconds before my scouts arrived. Even with her alliance broken, her towns gone, her claims of quitting she STILL manages to find a way through diplomacy to inflict some losses.
Kudos to stitches, the most manipulative, craziest player I've ever met. It was a hoot talking and playing with you.
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pokey wins for writing all of that without taking a single breath.
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Although I got A's in English courses, I never have been a fan of writing, though I DO enjoy the written word. Circle of contradictions I am. You're just lucky I added full-stops to my writing.
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I haven't met any real problem players in game. I get the standard hate mail but that's expected.
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WOW Pokey that was a crazy story. That's why I love online games. You meet some of the most whacked out players that translate the same into their toons.
I honestly don't have many stories that could make this thread. That's why I was hoping to hear some.
I know Gazza with his big armies eating out the whole Taco Bell chain has some stories... He's holding out...
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My experience started like this -
Saw the ads for the game and figured I would try it out and got my 9 year old son to play also. Signed up on server 3 which had been out a little while we were a couple of hours away from each other. We had no real idea what we were doing but we formed a little 2 man alliance and both enjoyed the game building our little empires comparing how things were going. I made friends with a couple of the neighbors and we set our alliance relations to friendly but there was one very powerful neighbor who was silent ignoring any whispers or mail saying hello.
Fast forward 7 days and about 10 seconds after I signed up. That powerful neighbor launches an attack at each of my cities while I was offline. I thought (at the time) I had a decent army but they were all wiped along with my wall fortifications. I spent several days hiding behind closed gates getting plundered a couple of times a day, every time while I was offline. This went on for a little while until I finally had a decent army built up. I tried communicating with him through whispers and mail again, not angry but just to say hello and see if we could be friends but these were always ignored. :mad:
He attacked once while I was online and I was able to get all my soldiers in the city he attacked and opened my gates. I took heavy losses but won the fight and he left me alone for awhile. I spent that time building nothing but more units. New servers were launched and I decided I would restart there but wanted to give him a little more payback before quitting. So I launched a late night attack taking all his valleys and attacking 2 of his cities (not his main ones as they were too strong) and took one of them which I NPCed. Then I NPCed all but my best city then teleported it away so he couldn't farm it. I did no long term damage to him as he and his alliance were too powerful but at least I was able to make a nuisance of myself.
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My son's account had similar issues but not as bad. The attacks on him were only every once in a while but one guy started attacking more regularly. One day I was home sick from work, playing his account and my new one on the new server when the guy launched an attack. I talked with the guy and he seemed ok and I explained how the account he was attacking was just a little kid, I told him I wasn't mad just asked if he could lighten up a little. He said he would.
So the next day I get home from work to find the "nice" guy launching attack after attack trying to take all my son's cities. He said his alliance told him he needed to take them because his cities might be a threat. I asked him how a 9 year old with little army because of the attacks on him was a threat and he had no answer other than. "Sorry, but I'm taking them."
I threw up a truce agreement and told him that he was a jerk for changing from farming my son's cities to trying to take them 1 day after he learned it was a little kid. I then NPCed all the cities but one and teleported it away with the only teleporter he had.
Not long after landing somewhere and the truce agreement wore off, the new local tough guy launched attack after attack and I sadly had to tell my son it was time to find a new game to play.:(
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On the new server I took all I had learned and applied it to make sure I was the local powerhouse, only I would treat my neighbors how I wished my son and I had been treated on server 3. I am in the top 200 in prestige and have a massive army that I easily feed off NPCs and inactives while not ruining others fun unless our alliances are at war. :cool:
My son is now happily playing Mariokart on the Wii.:D
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I have not played long enough to have anything like that but ive got a small one, here goes.
I am in an alliance which has very close cities. There was one member in the middle of us with 4 cities and about 150k prestige. He was not attacking us but we wanted a couple of his cities. However, he was in a much stronger alliance and so we held off. One day, he got kicked from his alliance and 3 of us took our chance and sent some waves on his cities. We all had fairly low feasting halls then so it took a while but it got to 2 and the member who wanted the city sent his final wave. 2 mins away from his target and conquering the city, the player joined another good alliance who just happened to be allies with us. And so all our troop losses and time had been effectively wasted.
Not as good as previous poster but thats all ive got.
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My story unfolds like so..... *flashback!*
The alliance i am in, Myrmidon , had our leader away for about a week. Within this week one of our crazy vice hosts declares war on Doomsday alliance with only the consent of 3 players. As he says it was a vote to attack them and the outcome was a yes. Well as soon as the war was declared around 20 of our members got farmed up the ying yang. At this time i got on to find that most of our alliance was in shambles due to the massive farming. as i asked players what had happen they said "we have no idea we came on and war was declared and now we are all dying." Well i asked one of our vice hosts about it and she had no idea about it, so it must have been our other vice host. Sure enough him and 3 others started the war and as it turned out none of them where attacked or sent out attacks. As this was all unfolding i got in touch with the vice host of doomsday at the time Norcsn. He farmed a few of our players through out the day with his monster of an army. He stated that we declared war on them first and asked what my part in myrmidon was. at the time i was a petty officer, still am a petty officer, he said i had some big brass balls to come and talk to him since they are fighting and beating us. After about 4 or 5 hours of talking the dead bodies finally are able to be laid to rest and most of our members groveled at my feet thinking the war had ended. Later that night tho one of our members was foolish enough to scout norcsn and by the next morning chaos had moved through the ranks again! This time our vice host barage, the one who did not want war at all, talked them out of it again. so the time of peace came for about a week or so and yet our leader was not back yet. Soon mirage and doomsday would merge and who would be the one to run mirage now but norcsn! to this day mirage players under the command of norcsn farm every one of not only our members but any alliance in there way. My leader came back to find many of players had abandon ship and jumped to other alliance while even some have joined mirage! and as they farmed our main cities we abandoned our others so they could not take our mains. And even to this day we fight to live another day as we suffer by the hands of Norcsn leader of mirage!