Mar 15th 2013, 7:00:59
LOCKET!
WHILE I AGREE WITH YOU THAT SOME - PERHAPS EVEN A MAJORITY - OF THE UNTAGGED PLAYERS IN 1A UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE GETTING INTO AND ARE THERE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF REVENGE AGAINST A SPECIFIC CLAN, I DOUBT VERY MUCH THAT THE NUMBER OF SUCH PLAYERS APPROACHES 95%.
I'VE SPENT A BIT OF TIME LOOKING OVER THE NEWS OF UNTAGGED COUNTRIES - SPECIFICALLY DEAD UNTAGGED COUNTRIES - BECAUSE IT IS A TOPIC THAT INTERESTS ME. WHAT I SEE IS *VERY* FREQUENTLY AN UNTAGGED COUNTRY RETALIATES WHENEVER HE CAN AGAINST HIS TORMENTORS - OFTEN ONLY WITH REGULAR ATTACKS WHICH WOULD BE ACCEPTED IF THEY CAME FROM A TAGGED COUNTRY - AND WINDS UP DEAD FOR DOING IT.
JUST NOW, IN THE FIRST THREE DEAD UNTAGGED COUNTRIES THAT CAME UP, I FIND:
ONE COUNTRY WHICH SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED SIMPLY FOR MAKING STANDARD RETALS.. IN FACT, A LOT FEWER RETALS THAN ANY ALLIANCE WOULD HAVE MADE. HE DID NOT TARGET ANY SPECIFIC ALLIANCE, NEVER RETALIATED MORE TIMES AGAINST HIS TORMENTOR THAN HE HAD BEEN ATTACKED, AND STILL HE WOUND UP DEAD.
ONE COUNTRY WHICH LANDGRABBED TAGGED COUNTRIES, AND NOT EXCESSIVELY, AND WAS EVIDENTLY KILLED FOR IT.
ONE COUNTRY THAT MADE LAND GRAB ATTACKS AGAINST OTHER MEMBERS OF THE TAGS FROM WHENCE HIS TORMENTORS CAME. RESULT: DEAD.
I'VE ALSO SEEN THIS FIRSTHAND IN SEVERAL CIRCUMSTANCES. MANY MANY YEARS AGO, I LED A CLAN FOR A COUPLE YEARS WHICH WAS STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE. NO MATTER WHAT WE DID, WE WERE POUNDED INTO THE GROUND BY DAILY FARMING. THE ONLY THING THAT STOPPED IT: NUCLEAR RETRIBUTION. THAT CLAN STILL EXISTS TODAY. I DOUBT VERY MUCH THAT IT WOULD IF WE HAD NOT HAD THE FURY WITHIN US TO START GIVING BACK A LITLE OF WHAT WE GOT.
SINCE COMING BACK TO THE GAME LAST SUMMER, I'VE BECOME FRIENDS WITH ONE PLAYER WHO LIKES TO PLAY UNTAGGED OR IN SMALL CLANS ON THIS SERVER... A VERY GOOD PLAYER WHO ABSOLUTELY *DID* HAVE THE POWER TO RETALIATE, AND USED THAT POWER RESPONSIBLY. EVERY RESET WITHOUT EXCEPTION, HIS ROUND ENDED WHEN AN ALLIANCE KEPT RETALIATING AGAINST HIS RETALS, AND EVENTUALLY KILLED HIM. I THINK THIS RESET HE FINALLY JUST GAVE UP (NOT SURE ABOUT THAT ONE, AS I JUST RECENTLY SAW HIM POSTING AGAIN)
AND WITH THE MIGHTY CLAN [DANGER]!.. THIS RESET, HOO BOY DID THE PROVERBIAL EXCREMENT EVER COLLIDE WITH THE RAPIDLY SPINNING OBJECT. I SCREWED UP MASSIVELY, LEAVING US WITHOUT RETAL ABILITY, AND IT WAS JUST LIKE PLAYING UNTAGGED. DOUBLE, TRIPLE, QUAD, QUINTUPLE TAPS COMING IN FROM ALL OVER THE SERVER. ONCE YOU'RE IN THAT POSITION, THERE IS ONLY ONE OPTION: START EXPLODING THINGS. IF I HAD NOT KNOWN THAT AT SOME POINT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO VISIT SOME PAIN ON A FEW OR ALL OF THOSE WHO WERE ON THE LIST OF THOSE WHO ARE TO BE EXPLODED, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY INTOLERABLY FRUSTRATING. I WOULD HAVE PACKED IT IN RIGHT THERE AND WASTED NO MORE OF MY TIME ON THIS GAME.
THE MOST EXTREME EXAMPLE - AND THE MOST LAUGHABLE - WAS ONE AGGRESSOR THIS RESET WHO ASSAULTED US 14 TIMES IN UNDER 40 HOURS. WHEN I WENT TO HIS CLAN'S FA, I WAS TOLD THAT THIS PLAYER WAS "PARANOID OF SUICIDERS" AND THAT MAY BE WHY HE TREATED US SO. PARANOID OF SUICIDERS, SO HE HITS A 4 MAN CLAN 14 TIMES, VIRTUALLY GUARANTEEING THEY'LL BE INFURIATED??? THIS IS WHAT I REALLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE MENTALITY OF THOSE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT "SUICIDERS". RESERVING THE RIGHT TO WRECK ANOTHER'S GAME WITH RELENTLESS FARMING, THEN COMPLAINING ON THE RARE OCCASION WHEN THE VICTIM HAS THE CAPABILITY FOR A LITTLE PAYBACK.
ANYHOW, I'VE RAMBLED LONG ENOUGH HERE. MY HOPE IS THAT AT LEAST ONE OR TWO NOOB-FARMERS WILL REEVALUATE THEIR ACTIONS, AND PERHAPS ADJUST THEM.. OR AT LEAST UNDERSTAND WHY THAT LITTLE JERK JUST WRECKED THEIR COUNTRY.
HA!
SAM
CHAMPION OF THE EUGLAF DIVISION,
THE MIGHTY CLAN [DANGER]!