Merlin the Misfit
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Over the last several months I've lost a few from our guild and almost half of my neighborhood. I hardly get friends requests anymore either.
I've never had much turnover in my friends lists on my 12 worlds. Before, however, it had almost always been the lower level players leaving. As I posted earlier, this time is different. Almost 1/3 of the players I've removed from my friends lists lately have been in the top half of my lists, meaning the higher ranked and longer playing friends. So this is not the same as always, no matter how much you and others try to say it is.The number of players I've removed from my f.list has always been pretty high, they are almost always players that haven't done much before they quit. My f.list of higher lvl players almost never has a quitter, it's pretty rare. The game isn't for those that like to rush thru. It's not surprising since most people are in hurry to get what they want and bail since the game requires patience to advance.
True, but I play on 12 worlds and I've been playing for over 8 years, so the depth of experience is very different. And that's really the way it is.lol, our experiences r different, TFB; that's the way it is.
I don't "need" to be right. I just usually am.Most be stressful always needing to be right, no comment on psychology of that, lol.
Well, considering that you have been playing for over 8 years and haven't progressed beyond SAM, no one will accuse you of rushing through the ages.I don't "need" to be right. I just usually am.
Especially when in a discussion with someone who thinks rushing through the ages is the best FoE strategy.
I don't "need" to be right. I just usually am.
Especially when in a discussion with someone who thinks rushing through the ages is the best FoE strategy.
I doubt that this is true. The only time I think this might be true is if you're already an experienced player and get into a top GBG guild right away. There is no way that it's true for new players, solo players, or players in guilds that are not heavily into GBG. I guess it probably depends on your definition of "growth". I mean, in lower ages you can much more easily do DCs and events (not to mention GBG and GE), and thus stock up on many resources, including buildings and other items that you can sell in the AD.Rushing gives far more growth than a slow approach ever will if you're making purposeful decisions along the way.
As I said, it requires making purposeful decisions and not just blindly rushing forward without considering what your cities needs to succeedI doubt that this is true. The only time I think this might be true is if you're already an experienced player
And at the same time cripple their ability to expand their cityI guess it probably depends on your definition of "growth". I mean, in lower ages you can much more easily do DCs and events (not to mention GBG and GE), and thus stock up on many resources, including buildings and other items that you can sell in the AD.
Well I mean this is the crux of the matter.I guess it probably depends on your definition of "growth".
Not that I have to explain myself to you, but I don't play by anyone else's rules, nor to fulfill anyone else's expectations. I start and delete cities all the time. It's actually amazing that I have two cities past FE. The SAM city will never progress farther in age, as it is strictly a Diamond farm with over 100 Wishing Wells. I have an AF city that camped for many months in CE and then again in FE. It is well positioned to keep progressing, but it will do so according to my wishes and not to please/impress anyone else. I don't advocate indefinite camping, but that doesn't mean I can't do it if I want to. I'm playing this game for my own enjoyment and not for yours.Sorry to but in, but in my opinion neither are great strategies. I don't think you should rush, but I don't think you should camp forever either. I would recommend sitting in an age long enough to finish the quests, and to get 2500+ of each good from that age. Then you try to build up enough fp and get the goods to research all the way through the next age.
Somebody said that Johnny B. Goode is only in SAM and has been playing for 8 years. That does kind of seem like camping to me… 5 months is enough time to get the goods and points to move to the next age, and any longer then 5 months is camping. Johnny playing for 8 years and not being past SAM seems kind of hypocritical.
You have to practice what you preach.
OK first Am not defending JBG He is able to do that very well LOL.Somebody said that Johnny B. Goode is only in SAM and has been playing for 8 years. That does kind of seem like camping to me… 5 months is enough time to get the goods and points to move to the next age, and any longer then 5 months is camping. Johnny playing for 8 years and not being past SAM seems kind of hypocritical.
I totally agree on that first sentence lol. I should've put that I don't know if that was true, the 8-year thing. Somebody said that in a previous post, so I elaborated on it.OK first Am not defending JBG He is able to do that very well LOL.
What I am doing is challenging your unfounded assumption about how people LOOK to be playing the game based on "What someone said". I think Johnny has been playing longer that 8 years. Like me, he is just one example of thousands of long time players who have worked their way through the game and are now simply playing as they want to. I (for one) have been playing over 10 years. and have a city in Iron Age. Does that mean I have been camped there for 10 years? Therefor am not playing the game properly and being in some way hypocritical when I post an opinion here? Or is it a Been There Done That thing?
After playing the game for so long using so many different strategies many players no longer have any great interest in having a city just to go through the same sort of thing over and over. I have discovered the ages I like the best so why should I be bothered ploughing through the rest of them?. I also have a diamond farm in FE which I intend remaining parked in simply because I like FE and it suits me to stay there. I that city I no longer have to bother with the endless grind of events there. Neither have I any need to do any more GBG, GvG, GE or PvP there unless the mood takes me. It is a great place to relax. I also have a city in SAJM that I have been camping it with all techs etc long completed. That is where I spend most of my game time. It is an exceedingly busy, fun place to be that is a lot of hard work. I have (Like many other players) also played multi world and had 16 + other cities over the years ranging from Iron on up that I have since deleted as they served no further purpose when I decided I wanted to change how I played the game. The Iron age city is actually my newest one, started purely out of curiosity after listening to the endless wailing about how hard it was to get going in the game these days. So I wanted to keep my hand in and maybe help some newbies. What I actually did find is that the game is an absolute dawdle in the early ages with very little to challenge any gamer at all. So I see no need to move into the next age.
Sorry, it was just some friendly banter, I didn't know you what get so defensive.Not that I have to explain myself to you, but I don't play by anyone else's rules, nor to fulfill anyone else's expectations. I start and delete cities all the time. It's actually amazing that I have two cities past FE. The SAM city will never progress farther in age, as it is strictly a Diamond farm with over 100 Wishing Wells. I have an AF city that camped for many months in CE and then again in FE. It is well positioned to keep progressing, but it will do so according to my wishes and not to please/impress anyone else. I don't advocate indefinite camping, but that doesn't mean I can't do it if I want to. I'm playing this game for my own enjoyment and not for yours.