Originally Posted by
Proteus
I don't really agree with you that people outside from family can claim that they know me better than I know myself. Why did I join Rage? Because it was a great opportunity to play at the very top, lead one of the best kds to ever play, and a great learning experience because in the beginning both ASF and Zoot were around. Crowning was secondary and honestly I even *brought* crowns as they happened when I was leading and kd was fully transitioned to me vs. "received" crowns i.e. when you join a kd as a player or just help out a little bit and you win....leader crowns when you average 4-5h of sleep a night in those ages matter.
What do I do in AMA? I play a province and I help out a little bit as is needed and just enjoy the game, spend time talking to people in the kd I play in, and that it. You are right I had choices...I could have kept on leading Rage for several ages but then I would be stretched too thin with work and this stuff (it is very time consuming) but bottom line I wasn't going to actively lead a kingdom after I stopped after end of age 57 and handed it over to 3 other people. Sure I could have stayed on as an advisor + help out like I do now but I chose not to because kd was going to be allied to Havoc...I advised not to be allied to havoc as they are selfish lying scumbags who only care about crowning because they have 0 crowns and will throw any 'ally' under the bus to get there (as you have seen already i.e. age 58). So no for me its not about crowns its about having fun and doing what I believe in. Also saying the reason I join kds or stay in them is for crown chasing but that doesnt make sense, if I wanted more crowns all I had to do was stay in Rage and keep putting time in...we won a crown our last age and would have won 2 if it was not for ****play.
As for QQing about **** happening now that I have done? What have I done in the past that I am QQing about...when I was leading the kd was a million times cleaner than the actions you've seen in the top last ages. I never dibbed anyone saying we were going to hit them no matter what and not to 'run'. I never threatened to 2v1 people if they refuse to fight us. I never farmed out to anyone to shape the charts.
What you are missing here is what AMA does is REACTIONARY. What ****play did AMA do in Age 57 when their first crown was stolen from them in a 2v1 by Sanc and Havoc for the planning/discussion of which I was present in Abscouncil and can share logs if requested. As AMA's main competitor that age, I thought they played the age clean...was I pissed about given 72h notice after we spent 5 days warring BB and taking them out...yes as anyone would be in a situation like that but it was clean. They served us notice and hit after it was over, we did not have time to prep so they got free land. After that AMA fought Sanc in a fair clean war and farmed them. At that point Havoc knew they had 0 chance to win as Sanc was a stronger kd than they were and just got decimated and AMA was bigger + explored a bunch so they arranged 2v1. What did AMA do to play dirty here? Nothing.
Age 58 was a joke age with Strippers dealbreaking Rage unprovoked, Havoc abandoning allies to whore entire age and let them get shafted. AMA was #1 majority of age from good execution and fought and beat Havoc 1v1. End of age AMA ended up eating GB from several kingdoms due to them wanting to crown and being mad about being outmaneuvered as they did not have experience navigating the top and were butthurt over it.
Age 59 race was between AMA and BB with kds changing positions. AMA receives vulture from ED who then spends entire age running from AMA after losing to avoid cow being farmed. When AMA is #1 eoa they received bucnh of coordinated razes from ghettos EOA from kds we have not touched entire age. EOA parth fail as ED monarch and go to havoc to try and win (crown chasing) and talks sh1t to us all age about how we get dibbed and 2v1ed after having spent majority of former age doing FW and running.
This current age we got vulture 2x, powerplayed, dictated who we would fight, dibbed in advance and threatened to be 2v1 on two occasions, had our deal abused and broken by auto dibbing...and after all of this does AMA respond and bunch the ****players. So it took AMA 3+ ages of playing clean and fair and not punishing ****players to finally respond and people get pissed about it. So according to spectaters AMA needs to be eating ****play indefinitely and doing nothing about it. Pretty easy to see how this is reactionary vs. proactive ****playing which has been done to us FIRST (i.e. havoc 2v1, robbing into eow, gb, auto dibbing).