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Ocean 58 - The Southern Rim
I am going to talk a bit about how I came to be where I am now.
I started the world very late, and was seeded into the border of O57/O58. I played under protection for a few days, growing my city and learning the game. I was not an experienced player, coming from another server. I had played similar games in the past tho, and took those skills, while learning the new, to help me with this new game.
I knew if I remained unaligned, I was not going to last long in this world.
I did receive invites, to various alliances, as I grew to over 2k points in 3 days, just from over enthusiastic playing.
I really liked the name of the one, I actually had to look at my old messages to find the original name, haha. It was an alliance called The Darkside based out of Ocean 33/34. They were the 9th alliance at the time. I can't rightly remember who their main enemy was. King Joseph sent me an invite, and I still to this day have no clue why. I was the only person he every personally recruited in any ocean below 34. After I came out of BP, he game me rights to recruit players around me. He also changed the name of the alliance to Carpe Noctum.
Meanwhile, up in 33, there was a big falling out, one member turned out to be a spy, was helping Dominati take cities. After hitting our founder, taking all 7 of his cities, King Joseph one day just deleted his account. Dominati continued to take cities, unraveling the alliance, all while I am down in the south, freaking out that I'm going to get creamed.
I only later found out that King Joseph never passed on the founder rights. I had been recruiting and building a good little team down in 57/58. I had ten people, and we were slowly moving to the east along the border.
The thing I didn't have was rights to the forums, so I coordinated all I could in a thread. I also was looking for homes for the survivors of the alliance up north. Some of them went to the Boondock Saints, others, I couldn't even tell you. We did have a few pacts, so I know some of them dispersed.
While I was organizing that, I was also constantly farming one player of The Almighty Elite. I would let him build up for a day, then attack him, let him build, attack him again. He would try to hide his troops, but I was farming all the other stagnant cities anyways, so I would kill those too.
Eventually the Diplomacy Officer(Shaddow), for his alliance contacted me, asking me for a cease fire, while they asked for a NAP. It came out that I had no one in my alliance with rights to even accept a nap. At this point, Shaddow asked if we would like to merge with them. I asked everyone's opinion, I got 7 responses back, and said we would merge in. I was offered a leadership role, but not founder, which was understandable. Another Stipulation was that me and a few of my people had to take cities on their main clusters of islands. I shacked up right in between Shaddow and Lord Marq.
I moved my people over. We had a few issues with reservations. Seems their other Founder, Lord Marq, liked to reserve everything big in the area, then had select what he would eventually take. He had 11 reserves when we moved over. It left me with a lot of people unable to CS anything, thus stunting their growth for a wee bit, while I tried to sort some of that out.
I also started helping with the forums, which quickly became one of my favorite tasks, as well as communicating with the alliance as a whole. Due to this, I still have many players, no longer in my own current alliance, contact me on an almost daily basis. Communication and a bit of formal civility does go a long way, just saying.
I wasn't fully up on all of what was going on yet, when an alliance called Virus asked us to merge. I hadn't even settled my people into a routine yet, and there was talks of another merge. WE chatted with them for a good while, in council chambers, until we decided we would in fact merge over.
During this time, Lord Marq and I had a falling out. Still to this day I do not know the real reason, tho it did happen right after he found out I was a female. Lord Marq chose to downgrade himself to a regular player, and later when the merge did happen, he just didn't join us. He joined N&F 2.0, saying I had booted him out. Luckily Shaddow had a friend, xGhost, who he explained everything to. I also lost one of my favorite members, in the Virus merge, Calvin. Man that had hurt. I understand being a sellout, wanting to survive and just go with the biggest alliance around, but it still hurt. We kept a little peace, he would not attack any of my original 10, as long as we didn't attack him. He did however end up taking 2 cities from some of my fav students later on. Just more pokes in my side =(
Councils decided to rename the new alliance, keeping a bit of both, and Almighty Virus was born. We decided not to pick "The Purple Granny Panties". Probably a good thing.
I didn't know any of the Virus history, at the time of the merge, nor who they were at war with. They had neglected to tell us that their council had all but left, and then started attacking them.
While we were merging, Angry Penguins and Numbers and Figures were merging. So I essentially brought my people into a war, which I knew nothing about.
Also, the forums were horrid! I sat there for a day, just staring at them going, ***, where the h3ll do I start?
I quickly got to it, and within a week had the forums sorted out and everything up to date. I added new things, started learning how to make maps, look at stats, get patterns from the data.
AN and N&F renamed themselves to Apocalypse Now. Their first big op against us really taught me a lot. I was not as knowledgeable as the other council members. I dove into tutorials, making myself a better leader, making sure I knew how to answer questions for my now increased number of members. I made sure I was around, at least every few hours. I started switching my cities to defense, to help support our more northern players. I started taking lessons, on timings and other things.
AN was hitting us hard, trying to take our northern cities, competing for all the big juicy ghost towns of quitting players. I was also battling 2 of the bigger alliances in ocean 58, Polar Kingdom and Ocean 58. So there were days I'd have defense going out for the north, offense going out for the south, from all my cities. Multiple times a day. I was non stop making Ships and Troops. It really stunted my growth for my cities, but it sure did gain me a lot of BP.
Hope you enjoy learning about some of the lesser known alliances/oceans.
I am going to talk a bit about how I came to be where I am now.
I started the world very late, and was seeded into the border of O57/O58. I played under protection for a few days, growing my city and learning the game. I was not an experienced player, coming from another server. I had played similar games in the past tho, and took those skills, while learning the new, to help me with this new game.
I knew if I remained unaligned, I was not going to last long in this world.
I did receive invites, to various alliances, as I grew to over 2k points in 3 days, just from over enthusiastic playing.
I really liked the name of the one, I actually had to look at my old messages to find the original name, haha. It was an alliance called The Darkside based out of Ocean 33/34. They were the 9th alliance at the time. I can't rightly remember who their main enemy was. King Joseph sent me an invite, and I still to this day have no clue why. I was the only person he every personally recruited in any ocean below 34. After I came out of BP, he game me rights to recruit players around me. He also changed the name of the alliance to Carpe Noctum.
Meanwhile, up in 33, there was a big falling out, one member turned out to be a spy, was helping Dominati take cities. After hitting our founder, taking all 7 of his cities, King Joseph one day just deleted his account. Dominati continued to take cities, unraveling the alliance, all while I am down in the south, freaking out that I'm going to get creamed.
I only later found out that King Joseph never passed on the founder rights. I had been recruiting and building a good little team down in 57/58. I had ten people, and we were slowly moving to the east along the border.
The thing I didn't have was rights to the forums, so I coordinated all I could in a thread. I also was looking for homes for the survivors of the alliance up north. Some of them went to the Boondock Saints, others, I couldn't even tell you. We did have a few pacts, so I know some of them dispersed.
While I was organizing that, I was also constantly farming one player of The Almighty Elite. I would let him build up for a day, then attack him, let him build, attack him again. He would try to hide his troops, but I was farming all the other stagnant cities anyways, so I would kill those too.
Eventually the Diplomacy Officer(Shaddow), for his alliance contacted me, asking me for a cease fire, while they asked for a NAP. It came out that I had no one in my alliance with rights to even accept a nap. At this point, Shaddow asked if we would like to merge with them. I asked everyone's opinion, I got 7 responses back, and said we would merge in. I was offered a leadership role, but not founder, which was understandable. Another Stipulation was that me and a few of my people had to take cities on their main clusters of islands. I shacked up right in between Shaddow and Lord Marq.
I moved my people over. We had a few issues with reservations. Seems their other Founder, Lord Marq, liked to reserve everything big in the area, then had select what he would eventually take. He had 11 reserves when we moved over. It left me with a lot of people unable to CS anything, thus stunting their growth for a wee bit, while I tried to sort some of that out.
I also started helping with the forums, which quickly became one of my favorite tasks, as well as communicating with the alliance as a whole. Due to this, I still have many players, no longer in my own current alliance, contact me on an almost daily basis. Communication and a bit of formal civility does go a long way, just saying.
I wasn't fully up on all of what was going on yet, when an alliance called Virus asked us to merge. I hadn't even settled my people into a routine yet, and there was talks of another merge. WE chatted with them for a good while, in council chambers, until we decided we would in fact merge over.
During this time, Lord Marq and I had a falling out. Still to this day I do not know the real reason, tho it did happen right after he found out I was a female. Lord Marq chose to downgrade himself to a regular player, and later when the merge did happen, he just didn't join us. He joined N&F 2.0, saying I had booted him out. Luckily Shaddow had a friend, xGhost, who he explained everything to. I also lost one of my favorite members, in the Virus merge, Calvin. Man that had hurt. I understand being a sellout, wanting to survive and just go with the biggest alliance around, but it still hurt. We kept a little peace, he would not attack any of my original 10, as long as we didn't attack him. He did however end up taking 2 cities from some of my fav students later on. Just more pokes in my side =(
Councils decided to rename the new alliance, keeping a bit of both, and Almighty Virus was born. We decided not to pick "The Purple Granny Panties". Probably a good thing.
I didn't know any of the Virus history, at the time of the merge, nor who they were at war with. They had neglected to tell us that their council had all but left, and then started attacking them.
While we were merging, Angry Penguins and Numbers and Figures were merging. So I essentially brought my people into a war, which I knew nothing about.
Also, the forums were horrid! I sat there for a day, just staring at them going, ***, where the h3ll do I start?
I quickly got to it, and within a week had the forums sorted out and everything up to date. I added new things, started learning how to make maps, look at stats, get patterns from the data.
AN and N&F renamed themselves to Apocalypse Now. Their first big op against us really taught me a lot. I was not as knowledgeable as the other council members. I dove into tutorials, making myself a better leader, making sure I knew how to answer questions for my now increased number of members. I made sure I was around, at least every few hours. I started switching my cities to defense, to help support our more northern players. I started taking lessons, on timings and other things.
AN was hitting us hard, trying to take our northern cities, competing for all the big juicy ghost towns of quitting players. I was also battling 2 of the bigger alliances in ocean 58, Polar Kingdom and Ocean 58. So there were days I'd have defense going out for the north, offense going out for the south, from all my cities. Multiple times a day. I was non stop making Ships and Troops. It really stunted my growth for my cities, but it sure did gain me a lot of BP.
Hope you enjoy learning about some of the lesser known alliances/oceans.
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