Thank you. we might as well close this thread, seems to be a go nowhere conversion, lol. Players seem to want to re-direct your personal mode of play or style of play rather than address the question. It is not up to players to tell another player how to play the game. In addition, stating this topic has been already discussed and they are not interested yet show up in this thread anyway as a heckler rather than simply staying out of this particular chat thread all together.
Play the game however you want to. Just don't come here and complain that you are at some sort of disadvantage that is unfair if your choices put you behind other players. If you don't want to be out done in the PvP towers by GvG players, get on a PC and get in an active GvG guild and join in. Fight through GE for maximum battle points. Attack your neighbors daily, even if you don't plunder them, to bolster your numbers. All these things are freely available to you...and every other player. Instead, you come here asking to be put in a separate, partial version of the game, like that is even possible. Every player makes choices in this game (and in life) and there are consequences to them. Those of us who have played a long time and still like the game know and accept this. I am one who in most of my cities could dominate the PvP towers weekly if not for GvG players, but I don't whine about it. I accept it and appreciate the game as a whole. (Even though the Arc is strenuously trying to ruin it.
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We all have four choices when we see the negative consequences of our game choices.
A) Get upset. Whine about it. Ask for the game to be changed to take away the consequences.
B) Accept and learn to live with the consequences. Appreciate and focus on the positive consequences of our choices.
C) Change our game and make different choices to be proactive about improving the parts of our game where we are unsatisfied.
D) Quit the game.
I sometimes choose B and sometimes choose C. I think the majority of players tend towards one or both of these choices. You (and a few others, judging by what I've seen in the Forum over the years) apparently like A. Others choose D. I respect the players who choose B, C or even D. Those who choose A get no respect from me.
Actually, there is another choice that I haven't mentioned. That is to come to the Forum and look for advice on the game. Usually, that is a kind of pre-choice to B or C. Someone who doesn't like what's happening in their game, but either doesn't understand why it is or doesn't know what exactly to do about it. They come here and ask questions. And instead of arguing with the responders, they dialogue with them. And they go back to their game with the information to make the choice of B or C and the tools to implement whichever choice they make.
