Originally Posted by
Cybersnake
Hello guys, I'm Sparkling Champagne from xx
Interesting post, may I join the conversation? :)
I won't talk about justice, since each side has it's own vision of the things that happened, and they strongly believe in that. As always, people have their own reasons and motives to do the things that they do, and nobody can blame them for that.
I'll make a generalization of events so that you guys don't start falling asleep while reading. But still, it's not a small post.
After cf we asked 3 kingdoms for war. (We sent messages)
Somehow xx accepted our proposal, was it through a reply message or through a hit, I don't remember.
We were prepared to war, so we started actions as well as they did.
We understood that we have a problem, this is the first kingdom that doesn't push the button, but wants to draw on hostilities.
We attacked further hoping that they will push the button someday soon. But our hopes were in vain.
We stopped attacking, entered fortified stance hoping for them to give us the button or declare eventually. None of that happened.
Eventually we understood that we'll lose the war and we're loosing too much time with this kingdom, but we couldn't do much.
With luck on our side, we found another kingdom in the same situation as us, xx that were harassed by xx. So we arranged a war with them.
After entering war, we started to get hit by xx, I guess that the same goes for that are still hit by xx, but I don't know this for sure.
Ok. Now some details about all these events. From the time that we started actions with xx till we entered war with another kingdom passed 8 days.
We are still a young kingdom and some of us didn't know about the 200 hostility points ceiling. So we thought that hitting in them would be futile, this is why we stopped hitting into xx, and entered fortified since we were getting badly OP'ed on. The reason is that xx are more focused on T/M's, while we are more focused on attackers. Please keep in mind that 3 of our faeries, aren't real T/M, they have sage personality.
One funny thing I want to say is that, the current "hostility" mechanics aren't good enough..
Unfriendly: Unlocks certain ( Unfriendly / Hostile / War ) spells and thievery operations to opposite Kingdom
Hostile: +10% Combat Gains; Increases the Networth Range of the Conquest Attack; Mana & Stealth costs for offensive spells/ops reduced to 2%; Opens almost all the magic/thievery operations;
Below the cap, only the kingdom with the lower hostility points may declare war; The Hostile Meter is capped at 200 points; If both Kingdoms reach the cap, then both Kingdoms will have the option to declare war; If there is a disparity between the two Kingdoms' hostility point totals greater than 100, then gains on attacks will be reduced;
So let's review.. What does hostile give to more attacker heavy kingdoms? 10% combat gains? Really? But this bonus is given to both kingdoms. As long as one kingdom keeps their hostility points lower than the opposing kingdom, everything will be fine. But on the other hand 2% mana/stealth is given to the T/M heavy kingdom.. Hail to the gods, what else does such a kingdom need? :) We all know that T/M's are provinces that deal damage over time. Give them enough time and you'll weaken any kingdom, and not only weaken, disable it completely, since a kingdom can't do anything if it's half-ready for war. And by the way, attackers don't get any time-travel bonuses in hostile, I bet T/M's are happy :) As I understand both kingdoms need to reach 200 hostility points so that they automatically enter war? But hey, did you know that there is a 16% (16.3% or 16.6% don't remember) decay on those points? So, if you have 150 hostility points, the decay will be 24 points in 24 hours, that's 12 hits, and taking into consideration the fact that your armies return slow, it's very hard to reach those 200 points, but hey a kingdom focused on T/M's would even benefit, since all their attackers can attack without even reaching those 200 points... Very nice.. The idea is that a smart kingdom can draw out the hostilities so much, that you can keep a kingdom on it's knees for a very long time.. Say 2 weeks, 4 or more, depending on what you want to do :) So, as you understand, it's enough to have a few more T/M's, say 2-3, the more the better, and by drawing out hostilities, you'll have the upper hand when war starts. Fantastic, this is something only a smart kingdom can see. But not everybody would use, since it requires quite some time..
Who would like to go hostile with a kingdom that wars with you 1 or 2 weeks before even war starts? We're a fast paced kingdom, we don't have time for kingdoms that use poor game mechanics to win a war. But in any case, we can't say anything about it, since even though it's wrong, they did use the game mechanics fair and square, so we had to obey to the game rules.
We are a honest kingdom, we don't set-up wars, we didn't ask any kingdom for help, even if we didn't like the situation, and we would have gone to war with xx because we wouldn't have a choice.
BUT!!!! They made a miscalculation, LOL :) Thank God for "not so good" game mechanics, but this time, it was our luck.. When we stopped to make hits on them, the hostility points on our side was 60 and on their side, since they are VERY VERY SMART and BADASS guys 58... What do you know, just enough to have the button on their side. And what do you think? :) After the decay it was 50/50.. HAHAH, can you believe it ? A week of hard work, operations, carefully attacking, and in the end they CAN'T DECLARE? Now, doesn't this smell greedy? :) Why not leave 2 attacks behind guys? You would surely have your plans put into action then.
When we understood that they can't make the next step, we decided to find war with another kingdom, we were in luck, and soon war started, but what do you know, after more than 3-4 days of no hits from xx, they finally started to hit in us? When we're at war? Really?
While we were searching for ways to get xx off our back, I was talking to their king, and told him that they can take the acres and we would like to end this situation, but even after 7 days of "weakening", they were still afraid to give us the button, this is why they didn't hit. LoL ) I can't say that we would have lost 100% if they hit and we started war, but they had a ton of chances to win, after a week of operations on us, since our T/M's weren't doing as good as a job as their T/M's :) Some were disabled, some were doing nothing, since we were searching for ways to get away from x:x
Now I want to ask. Is there anything that the administration can do to stop the hits of xx? Since as I understand, it's unfair to attack into someone's war?
And for the guys from xx, more to their king really. You guys can chew on your nails and fingers because of your anger all you want. I already wrote this, but I'll write it once more. It's not our fault that you made a mistake, a miscalculation. I'm really happy that you attack into us, since this feeds us with joy, we can't stop laughing at what a perfect plan you destroyed by your hand, how much time lost in vain, sad, guys, very sad. But every action has reaction. We made a mistake once, but we don't make it twice, remember it well. And I told you guys that WE WON'T WAR YOU! And that happened.. Wishing both kingdoms luck in next age, hopefully some game mechanics will change...
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