Been gone for a bit so apologies for the late reply to this thread and for the fact it is off topic for the intended subject. MGGA "won" as defined by the parameters of the game (congratulations) but I think some of what is trying to be conveyed to them is that none of the other alliances cared about winning but felt forced at the end to build wonders as a deterrent rather than pursue a victory. No one wanted to build wonders but MGGA........we at Shadies from day one said we were not going to build wonders and we don't care who wins, we just want to have fun and kill stuff. I personally lobbied for no one to build wonders and let MGGA have at it. Look how many of our players quit when wonders started, that was always the plan for most of us on this server.
Just so I can say something on topic.........nice bust Erik but the rumor has it you were only in this world to test the battle villages? I remember you joined Emporion just to "observe" us in Syndicate and then ended up leading the coalition against us. I sense a pattern.
I hear you ares, but just because no one wanted to play the game to win, doesn't take anything away from our victory. The entire alliance worked hard and put a lot of time and dedication into winning. To say we won based solely on numbers is far from accurate, and is simple propaganda for the sheep.
No one forced anyone to build wonders. But the fact the entire world raced us, with alliances picking 1 wonder each to race us on- a loose form of collaboration, possibly even a coalition, actually adds to our victory. If no one had raced us for wonders it would have made it a more of a hollow victory, as I'm sure you knew, and that is why you lobbied for it.
So the fact the world tried to build wonders to be a "deterrent" actually had the opposite intended effect- it instead served to make for a sweeter victory when we won.
If anyone paying attention to this forum may have noticed I never once said "MGGA will win". Many times I said things along the lines of "We will see how the world plays out" or "Nothing is set in stone, anybody could win or block the wonders".
Alot of sheep on here were far too overconfident that MGGA would never win wonders. There were a few theories, bluffs, and traitorous moves that were pulled to try and demoralize, or stop us.
-Reproduction trying to play mind games by saying he had a traitor(His own brother in fact)on our WW Island Team, which he would have ghost just before we won the crown. Although this very idea was despicable it garnered quite a bit of praise from those who are Anti-MGGA on here. This led to a review of our WW Team, and in the end, we concluded, it was, in fact, BS as suspected. It sure did give alot of noobs and rim alliances hope and our leadership received some funny pms about how we would never win because of reproductions mythical brother who would ghost our wonders.
-Thizzle and Noobs leadership running a PR campaign on here to try and convince our branch members that MGGA leadership was scamming them out of a crown, and we would never have rotations. Again a despicable, and disgusting idea. One that we put to rest when we gave a crown to every deserving branch member who wanted one.
-The SohniEST and olympicwar traitor handoffs. This was noobs only hope and play to stop us from winning the WW's. By getting a free ticket from the traitors into our core they were able to gain an advantage of almost 40 close quarters CS ready cities by our WW's. If we had done the same thing to them, the entire externals would have been filled with outraged and crying noobs members.
And in fact, we did have the opportunity to do the same to them when several of their members jumped to us early on, yet we didn't. It goes to show the difference in sportsmanship between the 2 teams.
These are just a few examples that stick out in my mind. It was clear cut who was playing dirty- and who was playing clean.
MGGA played with honor, we did not once lower ourselves to low blows. This is why the only ammunition our opposition has against us is the fact that we merged with Synergy.
I am sure some noob will come out and say "But Smurfy was spying on us!". Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't, however even if he was, it was not leadership condoned, nor an ongoing alliance operation. At this point even if he was I wouldn't care. You lose the informal gentleman's agreement between 2 alliances when you arrange handoffs to be stacked with 3-4k FTS each on the enemies core with traitors. You cannot in any way, shape, or form label that as an honorable move.
In the end, it is not our fault you didn't want to build wonders. You cannot blame or disparage a team for winning a game how it is meant to be played in its current form.
Food for thought next server