Super Catanian
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Have you seen the subreddit r/choosingbeggars? Loads of stories with people pulling off the gender card.
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DreadfulCadillac
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yeah good point your right
Super Catanian
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Perhaps she deleted those cities like in the messages she, or he, or “it”, sent you. Oh well, less people to have to deal with “her” crap.
Jern2017
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Victorian Gothic poetry.
DeletedUser29404
I'm a prolific plunderer. I've had my Blue Badge for what seems like forever, in 2 worlds. I've 23K wins in K world; so let's guesstimate some 18K-20K plunders there; and in T I'm 10K wins, for approximately 7K-9K plunders.
I warn people both directly, and in my city description, that I will plunder them. I'm relentless. However, as I Age up, and the hoods are filled w players who have made bad decisions (tech tree racing, off cycle collections, etc.) I'm starting to feel differently about taking their stuff. Granted, if they leave fps laying around, those are mine. But if it's just some regular stuff, I'm tending now to just leave them be. Their entire value to me now, asides from tower points, is their GBs. I'm more concerned/vigilant about sniping the hoodies, or, just locking spots on their stuff, as my K world Arc is 85 now. So even 1.9 donations are productive, tho the fps are a wash on anything under 1000 invested.
When this discussion was raised in Big Bang, some guildies called it "stealing" which I resented. The mechanism is there for a reason, and I always play within the rules (unlike Septic in T world) and felt that my guildies were being to harsh. But since that discussion, I tend to see some of their point.
Which leads me to think that, perhaps, plundering of some low end hoodies city is effectively harming the future of FoE, as I see a number of mid level players abandoning their cities.
I warn people both directly, and in my city description, that I will plunder them. I'm relentless. However, as I Age up, and the hoods are filled w players who have made bad decisions (tech tree racing, off cycle collections, etc.) I'm starting to feel differently about taking their stuff. Granted, if they leave fps laying around, those are mine. But if it's just some regular stuff, I'm tending now to just leave them be. Their entire value to me now, asides from tower points, is their GBs. I'm more concerned/vigilant about sniping the hoodies, or, just locking spots on their stuff, as my K world Arc is 85 now. So even 1.9 donations are productive, tho the fps are a wash on anything under 1000 invested.
When this discussion was raised in Big Bang, some guildies called it "stealing" which I resented. The mechanism is there for a reason, and I always play within the rules (unlike Septic in T world) and felt that my guildies were being to harsh. But since that discussion, I tend to see some of their point.
Which leads me to think that, perhaps, plundering of some low end hoodies city is effectively harming the future of FoE, as I see a number of mid level players abandoning their cities.
UBERhelp1
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Guess you could call it a form of Social Darwinism. The stronger get stronger, the weak drop out and leave the game. This is actually a major problem in the game. In older worlds, there are much fewer active low-age players, so it can be hard to start a new world there and thus, players who start on those worlds are more likely to leave the game. It's probably the main reason new worlds are created every-so-often, to draw in new players and make them want to stay in the game.
But back to plundering, I have seen cities of 7 rogues and 1 other unit. Free points. And today I got a 30-good plunder, so not all is bad.
That almost happened to me. Even most of the high-age players were rarely online, maybe once a week. That's why I only play on the most recent worlds.
But back to plundering, I have seen cities of 7 rogues and 1 other unit. Free points. And today I got a 30-good plunder, so not all is bad.
Super Catanian
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That's one of the best rewards, IMO.
Super Catanian
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I knew it looked somewhat familiar! I knew it!
DeletedUser29404
A Maharaja Palace is the best plunder, of all, in my opinion. #FatAndJuicy
Super Catanian
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Unless it's just the palace and nothing else...
DeletedUser29404
Than you dont plunder it. You take goods before a half-assed palace
Jern2017
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Got my level one Outlaw achievement in my diamond farm world.
I'm camped in the Iron Age, not working too hard on my offensive boost and rarely attack my neighbors unless it's required by a Daily Challenge or they send annoying messages with trades etc. It's certainly fun, though. Seeing so many neighbors with only two spearfighters or a one Rogue/Champion defense brings back some memories.
I'm camped in the Iron Age, not working too hard on my offensive boost and rarely attack my neighbors unless it's required by a Daily Challenge or they send annoying messages with trades etc. It's certainly fun, though. Seeing so many neighbors with only two spearfighters or a one Rogue/Champion defense brings back some memories.
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Volodya
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Just for the record, Inno themselves explicitly call plundering stealing in some of their welcome screen blurbs. They should know. Your change of heart is spot-on though.
Emberguard
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Debateable. It only harms the game if those players weren't already looking to quit the game from simply struggling in general or lack of interest. Which if they can't afford to lose one thing every 24 hrs, either they were struggling to work out the game or they're way too attached to their stuff. Looking at other games that allow you to plunder and destroy entire cities this has never been a problem for those playerbases. The complaints are usually centred more along being beaten by those who spend money with no way to counter that with free play, not that they were beaten. Forge of empires on the other hand has collection times and building types as the main line of defence and this doesn't require money - just invested time into events and a understanding of the game.
Jern2017
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There are other reasons why someone would quit the game, being plundered is just one reason among many. People who quit because they were being plundered usually have less developed cities with low FP/goods production, low level GBs... and they complain about the game and how unfair everything is because they find it harder and harder to play the game as they progress through the ages.
Super Catanian
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Or because they never collect on time, don’t bother to set up even a decent defense army, or rush through the ages, thus not taking the chance of savoring each age and being left with lower-age buildings.
Or maybe they hadn’t acquired the Raw Alabaster deposit in the C-Map. Can’t blame them then.
DeletedUser30312
I can't wait for the shuffle. One thing I really hate about Inno's neighborhood based events is that they start the even a week after a shuffle, run it for about a month, and then end it more than a week before a shuffle. So freezing the hoods for a roughly 4 week event usually ends up with a hood that lasts 6 weeks. That's not good for players on either end of the plunder and I have experienced both ends. The guys getting hit will be mercilessly plundered by the same people for a month and a half which can get frustrating, while the plunderer gets bored with the current hood. Also, players go inactive and without a refresh the number of potential targets goes down.
That's not an opinion, that's a well-known fact.
DeletedUser37617
I love to plunder and do so almost daily, though right now I am looking forward to a change. It is interesting to me to see different reactions: some players actually put up a defense after being attacked daily for over a week and therefore get left alone by me; a few send me a friend request after a while which spares them as well (though one time I a player I was not plundering because they had a good defense sent me a friend request, and I thought that was interesting); by far the most people do absolutely nothing about me plundering them; but the last, (and the funniest to me!) is those who send me messages asking or ordering me to stop plundering them when they refuse to either friend me or to build up their defense! lol, I fail to see the logic there since I have it on my profile that if my neighbors don't want to be attacked they should friend me. Just this morning I got my third (or was it fourth?) message from someone I have been plundering (still me friend request or defense) saying the following:
'Please GO AWAY AND GET SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOURSELF'
(The all caps was exactly the way they sent it) lol, should I tell them that plundering is a great source of income and is therefore something very good to do with myself? LOL.
'Please GO AWAY AND GET SOMETHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOURSELF'
(The all caps was exactly the way they sent it) lol, should I tell them that plundering is a great source of income and is therefore something very good to do with myself? LOL.
Super Catanian
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You should tell them, "Alright, I'll steal from a different building next", or, a more helpful option, "Have you tried building a better defensive army?".
DeletedUser38090
Man, plundering has been fun, but I'm going to quit the habit by next hood rotation. I've changed my city to pump out all the IA goods I need, and I'm better off peddling those goods in exchange for FPs on my GBs for hoodies who need goods for building a lighthouse.
My city does look like I'm the most ravenous plunderer in the hood though:
My city does look like I'm the most ravenous plunderer in the hood though: