Utopia

[StratOcastle]

I agree with the language deal. As a poorly educated American I'm humbled that so many nations would learn english.

[octobrev]

Eventually the other ghettos will grow out of range (except a few) and the randoms will slow down. Until then you could save yourselves a lot of grief shrinking down to 300- acres and focusing on sci/honor until the hits let up. You can max all categories in 15 - 21 days or reach prince in 18 - 28 days, either of which would be a lot more amusing.

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[Korp]

Most of the kingdoms that we have had retal wars with feels like its only natural that they need to teach us a lesson and how dare we hit them. Several promised also that they could keep it up all age, none has so far!

[Zombies are people too]

I never understood the mentality of raze retal; it's one thing to garner a double abduct with a double abduct(the win goes to the highest Uni loadout!!!!), but to full out raze retal because of rando hits? its like "this is a pvp game" lol why are KDs "off limits" beyond the mechanics of nw/acre ranges?????? This "how dare they hit us" attitude is sooo passe xD


-DM <3

[Danjor]

So we retaliated a double abduct with a single abduct on a top 30 KD, we are 50-60 ranked kd so way out of war range...10 ticks after they put 99 pts on the meter with abducts...at the same time a similar sized kd put 20pts with anon TM...so 2 ticks we lost like 140 scientists, buttload of nw and who knows how much def/leets. Whether you are a new or old player that kind of **** without any incoming diplo occurring is depressing.

[Calya]

I don't think I've any new suggestions that you haven't already heard/discussed amongst yourself, but it's a shame that as a kingdom you're now taking it easy. You showed us the power of a proper NM wave and we want to thank for that by finally beating you in war!
Oh well.

I understand why you'd be reluctant to get rid of the non-communicators, but such provinces are typically deadweight that make the entire kingdom a better target, and are much more likely to go off-message and cause a diplomatic/relations incident than those who regular chat/interact with the rest of the kingdom. Plus, cleaning house (even if there isn't a war-readiness or other type of goal in mind) is cathartic and makes room for others who may want to join a more laidback kingdom like yours.

It sounds as though what you're really looking for is a method of protection against bottomfeeding that involves the mechanics of the game. I don't know if that's a good or bad idea (I'm a fan of toprazing myself- That's true catharsis) but I can fully get behind the concept of protecting newer players from the carnage until they find their feet, and that's a ridiculous number of hits to suffer in such a short time.

I can't give you satisfying answers, but you have my empathy. Good luck to you and yours NighT.

[sl0hnd]

..... so u r 1:14

[Papa_Squat]

Right?!

Or that one time when my KD was declared on the same tick that we exited war?!

[Uhm hoi]

Right?!

Or that one time when my KD was declared on the same tick that we exited war?!

That can only happen if you are playing in the bully kingdom and didn't close relations after waving a kingdom and then running off to war another. That's several bad leadership decisions piled on one another for that to happen. I hope your monarch learned something from it instead of blaming the other kingdom.

[Allanon]

One solution could be to have new players play on a learning server for 1 age minimum before they can transfer to the competitive server, as they did back a few years. This would also give the less competitive kds a place to play the game without having to deal with the more hardcore kingdoms.

[Pillz]

One solution could be to have new players play on a learning server for 1 age minimum before they can transfer to the competitive server, as they did back a few years. This would also give the less competitive kds a place to play the game without having to deal with the more hardcore kingdoms.

Legitimately curious why you even bother posting such asinine ideas.

WoL and BF were merged because at ~20k players there weren't enough to have two healthy servers. The games got less than 3.3k accounts left, let alone players. The crux of all problems is the abysmally small player base.

What new players are going to get stuck on the ghost server anyways? There are none. These 'newbies' are old players returning.

Ideally, there'd be training kingdoms for new players to opt into, but I don't know of any qualified leaders willing to subject themselves to that kind of miserable experience. And the ones who will volunteer are almost all supremely unqualified.


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[StratOcastle]

There's a lack of stewardship due to too many nearsighted bullies and the inability of multitudes to render decisions based in their humanity.

What?

Humanity didn't survive because we think like dogs. Culture didn't thrive because we just bought in that lions were the top of the food chain. No. It was never perfect, but as intelligent beings we devised ways of living together, and conquer the wild.

The answer isn't for every kingdom to hit up, but we need a decent number to do so. Why? Because the stop gap is about competence and willingness to enjoy the game while protecting the base.

Let me say that this bullying has spread even to the old kingdoms essentially because nobody sees the forest for the trees. Those of us who've done the top kingdom tango need to grow up and play gently. I don't often say I don't care about something, but I don't care about badass attitudes and this being a tough game. Of course it can be, but I never had to raze anyone. How weak is the ego that loves to prove something every time a less enlightened player/kingdom overextends themselves? It's pathetic.

We shouldn't need two servers. Those of us who know what adult swim is don't go in the kiddy pool. You let them come to you, and show them patiently the difference. Countering saddism with greater saddism is game killing. Look; everybody hates the day they find out their dog can't fight. Anger and frustration naturally accommodate the learning curve.

When I read about some big kingdom poking fun at a smaller one that can't diplo, you make me want to skip diplo with you. I don't think about the little guys. I'm not worried about their missteps. Sure, there's a time to go full republican but we should really be more refined in our response and game conduct with obvious casuals.

There's room for all of us. The reason I love micro-kingdoms is because now we're doing it without any innocent collateral victims. Somebody comes screwing around we just go no matter who it is. Think about that.

@ steel. Yeah ok. Guy tries to help and you go rude. Stop trying to hurt feelings. I know you won't hold your breath, but you know I'm immune.

[Pillz]

There's a lack of stewardship due to too many nearsighted bullies and the inability of multitudes to render decisions based in their humanity.

What?

Humanity didn't survive because we think like dogs. Culture didn't thrive because we just bought in that lions were the top of the food chain. No. It was never perfect, but as intelligent beings we devised ways of living together, and conquer the wild.

The answer isn't for every kingdom to hit up, but we need a decent number to do so. Why? Because the stop gap is about competence and willingness to enjoy the game while protecting the base.

Let me say that this bullying has spread even to the old kingdoms essentially because nobody sees the forest for the trees. Those of us who've done the top kingdom tango need to grow up and play gently. I don't often say I don't care about something, but I don't care about badass attitudes and this being a tough game. Of course it can be, but I never had to raze anyone. How weak is the ego that loves to prove something every time a less enlightened player/kingdom overextends themselves? It's pathetic.

We shouldn't need two servers. Those of us who know what adult swim is don't go in the kiddy pool. You let them come to you, and show them patiently the difference. Countering saddism with greater saddism is game killing. Look; everybody hates the day they find out their dog can't fight. Anger and frustration naturally accommodate the learning curve.

When I read about some big kingdom poking fun at a smaller one that can't diplo, you make me want to skip diplo with you. I don't think about the little guys. I'm not worried about their missteps. Sure, there's a time to go full republican but we should really be more refined in our response and game conduct with obvious casuals.

There's room for all of us. The reason I love micro-kingdoms is because now we're doing it without any innocent collateral victims. Somebody comes screwing around we just go no matter who it is. Think about that.

@ steel. Yeah ok. Guy tries to help and you go rude. Stop trying to hurt feelings. I know you won't hold your breath, but you know I'm immune.

You need to get off the acid.

[Palem]

Please do not insult users

[Pillz]

Please do not insult users

What is the insult?
I ascribed his out-of-touch-with-anything posting behavior with drugs, rather than an innate flaw in his mental health or personality.

I'm not sure how users drug habits can be used as insults anyways.

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