Quote Originally Posted by Tinkertoy View Post
To those of you who think people are "happy" to pay tribute, you are delusional.

I spent weeks enjoying Evony. I was peacefully minding my own business, building my city, and I never sent my troops out farther than 5 squares in any direction, and never went near any other player cities.

Then this jerk comes along from a few miles away, and takes my city. Every day he was stealing (yes, stealing) about 200 of my ballistas, and every troop I had was wiped out during my uprising.

So I sent him a message, hoping to peacefully negotiate: I would stop resisting and killing both our troops, if he would provide protection and stop stealing my ballistas that I used to farm the NPC city right next to me. And you know what he did? He laughed! He said that most people were "happy" to pay tribute.

Well that's a load of bull! People are NOT "happy" when their hard work gets stolen! It takes 10 hours to build 25 ballistas.....and he was stealing about 200 a day! If you really think that people are happy their hard work is going down the drain, you are truly delusional.

So then he tells me not to take it so personally; he just wanted my land. Bull, again. He didn't take my land; never touched it. What he took were my ballistas. So yet again, this jerk was lying to himself and insulting me in the process.

The point I am trying to make is don't lie to yourself, and don't insult my intelligence by lying to me (or anyone else, for that matter). You people who become warlords without negotiation are stealing, plain and simple, and people are NOT "happy" about it. And "I wanted it" isn't a good justification for ruining others hard work.

So I sabotaged my city so he will get nothing. He lost more in troop deaths during the uprising than he will ever get from my resources. And I will never play Evony again. This is the second time I've tried to play Evony peacefully only to have some jerk start stealing my stuff.

And I will be certain to tell all of my friends that Evony is the worst game I have ever played, because you can't get away from the arseholes.
As stated this is a War game. There is no "Playing Peacefully". If thats what you want to do then you need to play a different game. Quite obviously Evony is not a game meant for you.