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 Good Grief, that is insane.  That cannot be right.  Please, admins, fix this bug.

 I have seen this quite often too.  It is quite common that only the defender loses troop.  Even when both sides have lots of the military units, the attacker will lose nothing  Even on a failed attack, the attacker will lose 0 troops.  This is not good, and needs to be adressed.

 Standin? on a street light

Tryin? to get away
Guilty, Guilty I hear you say
Countin? down the hours
But I haven?t got the time
23rd Precinct jumping on the line

What I wanna know
Is will I get death row
Or is there a second solution

What I wanna say
Is will I die today
Or will I get second solution

 There are two things that give an empire high NW.  Troops, and Food.

If an empires networth is a great deal lower than their land, the standard being 1000/1,000,000 land/networth ratio, than it is clear they don't have many troops OR food.  Because they obviously don't have many troops (which make up a lot of NW) they become an easy and juicy target.

If their networth and land are balanced (see above) then they have either a good amount of troops, or a decent amount of food.  Since they might have a fair amount of military, people can have second thoughts about attacking them.  Or they may only attack few times, fearing retaliation.

If an empire have significantly more NW then land, one of two things have happened.
1.   They are either a farmer, with lots of food and/or money, and don't do much attacking.  People tend to avoid attacking farmers because they end up looking dirty for attacking a defenceless empire.
2.  That person has a massive amount of troops.  They have probably just been hit hard losing a lot of their land, but little military.  That person, therefore has a big army (for the amount of land) and will be looking to reclaim his lost land.  Since as soon as he can, he will be attacking with a vengance (and suprising force considering his rank) attempting to recover what was lost, most people want to stay out of his way.  

So, as you can see, it is better to have as high a NW as possible.  Since NW is often made up of military, you want people to know that your military is strong and able to defend and retailate as needed.  Or, you have NW with food, and just make people think your strong to keep them from attacking you.

Either way.  High NW is good.  Higher NW is better.

 What are stored turns?  I thought that after you maxed out your turns at 450, the next 250 get stored.  IF you go and use your 450 turns, you can still only use the 450 turns.  But when your done, and you start collecting more turns again, you will get 2 turns per 10 mins, rather than just 1, until the stored turns run out.

Hmmm, Everyone understand that?  I am not sure I did.  But looking at it this way, I don't see how stored turns would have helped him.  He did all the attacking before the stored turns would have made a difference.

 

I have a question . . . how did Hallucination go from the bottom of the list to number 13 in a matter of days?

I wanna know too.
Actually, he climbed that high in a matter of minutes.  I support Loren, so I am going to ask him how he did it.  Maybe he will tell me; maybe not.

 He attacked you 4 times, taking 1731 acres.... 1/6th of your land.
You attacked him 12 times, taking 946 acres.... 1/3rd his land.

Out of curiosity, why do you suppose he stopped attacking.  It looked like he probably could have taken more if he wanted too, but he didn't.  He didn't run out of turns either, because he took a shot at someone else.

True, I cannot speak for someone elses motives, but it seems to me, that he figured 4 attacks against one empire is enough.

If you wanted land back, you could have tried to take it from someone who had lots.  You may have been able to get you 1731 acres back and it would have only cost you the turns of 3 or 4 attack, rather than 12.
You may have been able to capture all the land you got back in those 12 attacks (946 acres) in a single strike against a stronger foe.   Because turns are so valuable, it stands to reason that you should want to achive your goal using the least number of turns possible.

12 attacks... that is... what 96 turns ( 2 attack turns+ 6 recovery turns = 8 turns per attack).  That is a lot of turns, almost a days worth, used to get 946 acres.   If you had attacked someone stronger than yourself, you could have gotten the land using much fewer turns.  I bet you could have even scouted out that land in fewer turns than it took you to take it.

 Perhaps you have identified a flaw in my own charecter.

Actually, it is not a new flaw.  I do have a problem with tunnel vision.  I can get so focused on what I see as being wrong, I am only focused on correcting that problem and not on what is going on around me.  In my efforts to protect new people to the game, I did exactly what I accused you of doing.... not considering the "victims" point of view; and for that, I appologize.

I do not claim to know everything, to be smart, or to be wise.  I only want to see everyone have fun, and everyone have a chance to succeed.

In attempting to ensure the second of those desires happens, I violated the first one.  I ruined your fun.  I appologize for that as well.

I am sure there are many ways and different words that I could have used to bring my point across without attacking you so viciously.  I assure you that this conversation will result in a great deal of self-reflection on my part.  I am truely sorry that I hurt you.  That was never my intent.

 Sweet?  Me?
Now who is calling who names?

I really don't want you to delete your account.  That is the complete opposite of what I am attempting to do.  I am trying to keep the game fun and exciting for all players, both old and new.

 I am sorry that I hurt your feelings.

I just felt that what you was doing was wrong.  A guy was getting blasted for no reason other than he joined a clan.

I don't want you to delete your account.  Your a good and sensitive person.  I just wanted everyone to stop and think about things from their victims point of view.  

I am glad to hear that you stopped attacking him.  It would even be neat if you guys could work together.  If your both new to the game, maybe you could help each other.  Just a thought.

 *Sigh*

Don't you understand?  I am trying to protect the game.

Up until just a very short time ago, the game was stalled.  Frozen.  People had left the game, nobody was joining.  Many of this games players have chosen to take the low road and chose only to attack people significantly weaker than themselves.  This game is full of bullies and poor sportsmanship, people who see red whenever someone weaker even tries to climb the ranks.

In my opinion, the stagnent nature of the game resulted in most of the experienced player leaving.  This assault on anyone who tries to start playing has resulted in no new members joining.  As a result, there was almost NOBODY playing RWL.

As mentioned above, due to this clan war, things are once again made possible for new players to have fun, and become hooked to the game, like so many other.  I do not want to see the game revert to what it was.  I want new members to have a chance, not to be crushed from the moment they exit protection.

I mean not to flame, but I DO mean to point out that the style of playing of specific people illuminates a very dangerous charecter flaw.  I speak from experience when I say, seeing flaws in your own charecter can be hard.  Often times the offender doesn't realize that what they are doing will hurt others, and have serious reprocutions.

It is my intent to ilistrate these flaws, in the hopes that these, and other people will recognize what they are, and work to correct them.

I hope that Dixie Ros? is not intentially trying to drive away new people.  But her actions, and the actions of others, can result in the loss of players.

I have not said an untruth.  If you can argue or disprove anything that I have said here or on any other post, I truely want to hear it.  I do my very best to believe and forward the truth.  If something that I have said is incorrect, please tell me, and I will appologize.

 Dixie Ros? you coward.

Your fighting the weakest member of Loren?  I checked his history.  Your not fighting him, because he has not once attacked you.  It isn't a fight, it is a murder.  He has never attacked you, he hasn't focused his attacks on any one person or any paticular clan.  It looks like he is a new player, and just joined the first clan that offered him membership.

Not only do you pick on someone who hasn't done anything to you, or your clan, or to anyone; but you continue to attack him, even though he hasn't retaliated at all.

I hope you feel big.
Do you enjoy picking on those who cannot defend themself at school too?
Since they don't fight back, is it easy to push them around.

Well, if demolishing an empire that has not once raised a weapon against you is what it takes for you to feel worthwhile, then congratulations, you have proven your value.  You can point at that dying empire that did nothing to you and say proudly "Look everyone, I killed the weakest member of Loren!  Aren't you all impressed?"

This game is only now comming back to life, after what appeared to be certain death.  It was about to die, because we were getting no new players.  Wanna know why we weren't getting new players?  Because of people like you!  Someone new joins the game, trying to decide if they want to play, only to be crushed for no reason.  New players quit joining, because they had no chance.

Redwall almost died because of people like YOU!!

We all know how hard it is to attack someone stronger than yourself.  It takes skill, strength, and most importantly, courage.  If an empire attacks someone much stronger than themselves, regardless of if they succeeded or not, they should be congratulated.  It takes guts to attack someone who is obviously stronger.  Instead of saying "Wow, that was a great move for someone with your rank!"  We say, that person is 30 ranks below me, and for trying to attack me, I am going to crush him!"  Not suprising new people stopped joining.

It is only with this new clan war... that new players have finally gotten a chance to play.  Attentions are focused else ware, giving new players a chance to play, enjoy the game, climb a little in rank, and become addicted to redwall.  People are returning to the game, because they are not getting crushed as soon as they come out of protection.

Kinda like what your trying to do.

I sincerely hope you don't drive him away from this game.  You, along with a lot of other players much stronger than him, succeeded in taking just about all his land.  He has been attack FIVE TIMES more than he has attacked!  What did he do to deserve this?  Nothing that I can see.

Maybe you know him personally, and have some sort of grudge against him.  Maybe he has verbally insulted you, sent nasty ingame messages to you.  Maybe he did something to you that I cannot see.  

What I do see, is you are a bully, and a very nasty person.
However, don't feel singled out.  I say this is true for anyone who attacks not for land, but for the simple pleasure of crushing the hopes of others.  All you sadistic people out there who tremble at the though of attacking those stronger than you, and have to spend your turns attacking those people 30 ranks below yourself.
I am looking at his history and I point out:
Checkerpaw's Horde II (#494)
Revengers of Evil (#411)
The Sockferrets (#49)

All of these empires are considerably stronger than him.
In fact, this weakest member of Loren has the smallest ammount of land in the game out of EVERYONE, yet he is still being attacked.

This game is only now getting fun again.  I hope you and the rest of the bullies out there haven't squashed this new seed of life, just as it was beginning to grow again.

 

I like all of these Loren people except Hon

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You like Loren?  If I am not mistaken, your the cause of a lot of these problems.  You not only wanted to attack Loren, but you recruited members of the "peaceful" clan of winter to help you in attack Loren.

This is a quote from Dead Eye, taken from the Clan Page:

CatFoodMade4Dogs: Did I make you hit Loren members?
almkman: Yes.

There. I am Catfoodmade4dogs

Doesn't sound like you like Loren very well at all.

 True.

Ad is peaceful.

This cannot be said for the rest of his team.

His ideals for his clan are no longer adhered too.  Either he should do something within his clan to correct this change in policy, or don't be surprised that Winter no longer has the reputation as the "Peaceful" clan.

I also will not tell you who I am for fear of being crushed for stating my opinion.

Everything I have said has been based in fact.  I have not said an untruth.  Yet, I bet if I told you who I was, I would be repeatedly attacked in an attempt to silence that truth.  As though this game were a communist state, where your not allowed to think or question things for yourself.  I am always eager to learn, and have no trouble appologizing if I have been wrong.  

These are the facts as I see them.  If you can find any untruth to what I have said, declare it here, before everyone.

 You claim to be a peaceful clan.

You claim not to be at war with anyone, in the hopes that nobody will attack you.

You claim to try and follow the "suggestion" of only unprovoked 3 attacks.

Hypocrite.

Consecutive mean in a row.  The times and days don't matter.  What matters is that members of Winter used every single attack against a single person.  They didn't attack one person, and then move on.  They didn't spread their attacks over a wide number of people.  They attacked one person.  Then the next day they attacked them again.... and then again the following day.... without ever declaring war or reason for this continued assault.

Your clan uses the war setting to decimate other empires, then turns it off and announces that it is peaceful, not at war with anybody.

You allow people into the clan with attempt to destroy other empires.   They declare war on other empires and absolutely nothing is done to prevent this, or even correct this.

I, Mikalae of the Dark Knights, most solemnly declare war on the forces of Athel Loren. I cast my lot in with the Blades, through victory or defeat, through death or life, so help me!

You allow your clan to become nothing more than murderous mercenaries of the Blade Clan against a clan that has done nothing to you.

Wolf Bite, many times emperor of this and other games had your clan pegged ages ago.  He has proven his mastery of this game, yet nobody believed him when he tried to tell people that Winter is not the clan they want people to think they are.

Now, as the truth comes out, and Winters "benevolent" appearance is shown as a fraud, Wolf Bite has once again proven his knowledge of the game and its players.