This world is a joke. It's over. Only 3 of the top 15 players are not in your alliance. I thought Kasmenai and Helike were pretty uncompetitive but since 2013 I've never seen a world this anemic. People can blame whatever for this, but when every single dominant player groups up together of course the world is gonna be dead. And if gold spenders steamroll through the competition, of course the golders are gonna swarm the world. IMO, players in a world have (mostly) themselves to blame for its lack of competiton.
I dont disagree, but i also dont feel thats the fault of US.
The facts are we dropped into this server with 7 players, putting us in a position where recruiting was required.
We were able to add good players because the leaders of the other major alliances were so focused on pacting each other they forgot that you have to fight and take cities to win.
As we grew they joined.
You are 100% right this world is uncompetitive, but it gets real old to have people whining about us when in reality for the most of the server we have been the only alliance actually here to play. Everyone else wanted to gold trade or hug, and that opened that window for us to grow like we have.
Be salty that were big, fine. But you should be just as salty at the original leaders of: From the ashes, The avengers, Honey Badgers and bad news bears. Them all group hugging is what let us get as big as we did.
Our original play upon joining this server was to find a good group to merge into. Had any of these alliances tried fighting us early on that probably would of been what happened