I played this game many, many years ago and enjoyed it a great deal. I was one of those monarchs that just enjoyed building a kingdom by teaching the new people how to play the game, and testing our kingdom against others in war. I did not care where we landed on the charts, I just cared that we got better by learning from our mistakes, and learning from the other cool monarchs that would give me advice after we lost a war. After a few years I was the one giving advice after we won wars and I made many friends all over the world. It was awesome! And then the Alliances came into play. I actually joined one with a couple of my friends thinking that we would take on some of the other alliances in the game, but halfway into the age I realized we were not attacking the other big and strong alliances, we are attacking the smaller and weaker ones or the kingdoms that refused to join an alliance. I quickly quit the alliance and spent the next couple ages fighting multiple alliances in the game. When we started to get attacked by much smaller kingdoms and told if we retalled their alliance buddies would raze us, I decided to quit the game. There were just too many bullies in the game.
When I came back a couple years ago I was excited about the changes in the game, but even more excited about the fact that the alliances were gone. I started building a kingdom again, teaching new players how to play and getting old friends to come back to the game. While we are still a "ghetto" or "newbie" kingdom we have had a lot of fun, and fought a lot of wars. We do not negotiate war, we usually just attack a kingdom of EQUAL SIZE, and if they either agree to war us or send a CF. If they CF us, we accept right away and move on. Now we have come across some awesome kingdoms that just smoked us in war, but usually they were cool and told us where our weaknesses were. We have also come across a few cowards.
I have read a few threads in the forums, and one thing that bothers me is how people keep saying Utopia is a dying game. To be honest, I was shocked when it still existed when I came back to check it out. I thought for sure it would be dead since it was soooo unenjoyable when I left. But not only is it still here, but it is 100 times better than before. We can recruit now, instead of having to hope and pray that the next newbie that comes into your kingdom does not go inactive or is not a complete idiot. We can have someone sit our province when we are on vacation. We have such better tools to keep track of our kingdom and our enemies, and the espionage page??? Amazing changes to the game. I don't know who deserves the credit for this, Bishop? Mehul? Al Gore?, but thanks for making the game so much better.
So why is it dying? Simple answer are their are still too many bullies and cowards in the game, and no one has put them in check. They are the ones trying to get to the top of the growth charts or honor charts every age. They don't do it with fair fights, they go around hitting smaller and weaker kingdoms and stealing their acres or honor. When the smaller kingdom sends a CF, they decline and tell them "give us 10k acres and we will leave you alone", or "we will move on once your Counts are Barons!!". They ruin the age for smaller and weaker kingdoms, and ruin the game for many players causing them to quit. Then they come into the forums and cry about how Utopia is a dying game when they are the ones killing it. They have no honor, no integrity and no guts.
I say it is time to call out the cowards of utopia. I mean, they already know who they are, but it's time for the rest of us to know. When you come across a kingdom that is cowardly, post the story here. You can give the name of the kingdom, but I am not sure if you can give the location. I will start it.
The first cowards we have come across is names Hostile. Now like many other cowards in this game, they made their name Hostile so no one else could attack them, when actually they are not hostile with anyone. What they are doing is waving a smaller kingdom that will not go to war with them and has already sent them 2 CF proposals. Of course, they declined and demanded 10k acres from us. If we ambush or do any ops on them they will keep waving us. If we roll over and give them the 10k acres, they will go away. So now we are in limbo until these cowards accept CF and go away. Then they will move on to another smaller kingdom and do the same thing.
Maybe one day the people with honor, integrity and guts will band together to spank the cowards and bullies of Utopia. Or maybe Bishop will put in something to spank them, like loss of gains, troops, and honor for attacking a kingdom that sent a CF. Until then I will just hope that the number of cowards and bullies do not grow to the point where I have to quit the game. Just dealing with these people takes all the joy out of this game.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Ed
