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Domination Dynamics
Its been a busy week in Leontini. Alliances are trying to become the server's first victor of the domination system.This is the En server's first domination world. For those who are new to the game or unaware of the changes. The old system of victory involved building the seven world wonders in order for an alliance to achieve victory in a server. The winning alliance had to complete four of the seven world wonders in order to secure a victory. But if you built all seven wonders, you got the crown that appears on some player's profiles and an additional few awards. Often times, multiple branches were formed and the crown was shared among these branches as a reward for supporting the winner's victory. This operated in the same way that a back up or practice squad player still gets a ring for being on the championship team.
Domination is different. There are no more wonders. There isn't a crown sharing option anymore. There's only the winning team and everybody else. For those unfamiliar with the rules, on January 7th, 2019 at 04:00:00 server time, the domination end game will begin. The goal will be to control 40% of the world, which will likely start as a difficult mark for any alliance. But after 14 days and every 14 days after that, the percentage of control required will begin to decrease. Likely by 1% or 2%. So don't expect the winning team to control 40% of the map. But whenever an alliance achieves dominate control of the map, the count down will begin. 17.5 days is the required amount of time for an alliance to maintain control. But the system will likely favor the dominant alliance as during that time, they'll at some point have the control requirement drop. Expect to have to dish out a lot of damage during this time. The best defense against allowing a domination victory, is to stop teams from getting separation early.
This Week's Interviews
Without further delay, here are the interviews from the major alliances that chose to reply. Each interview is in the spoiler so if you don't want to read them all, you can cherry pick.
Thermopylae's Criki
Its been a busy week in Leontini. Alliances are trying to become the server's first victor of the domination system.This is the En server's first domination world. For those who are new to the game or unaware of the changes. The old system of victory involved building the seven world wonders in order for an alliance to achieve victory in a server. The winning alliance had to complete four of the seven world wonders in order to secure a victory. But if you built all seven wonders, you got the crown that appears on some player's profiles and an additional few awards. Often times, multiple branches were formed and the crown was shared among these branches as a reward for supporting the winner's victory. This operated in the same way that a back up or practice squad player still gets a ring for being on the championship team.
Domination is different. There are no more wonders. There isn't a crown sharing option anymore. There's only the winning team and everybody else. For those unfamiliar with the rules, on January 7th, 2019 at 04:00:00 server time, the domination end game will begin. The goal will be to control 40% of the world, which will likely start as a difficult mark for any alliance. But after 14 days and every 14 days after that, the percentage of control required will begin to decrease. Likely by 1% or 2%. So don't expect the winning team to control 40% of the map. But whenever an alliance achieves dominate control of the map, the count down will begin. 17.5 days is the required amount of time for an alliance to maintain control. But the system will likely favor the dominant alliance as during that time, they'll at some point have the control requirement drop. Expect to have to dish out a lot of damage during this time. The best defense against allowing a domination victory, is to stop teams from getting separation early.
This Week's Interviews
Without further delay, here are the interviews from the major alliances that chose to reply. Each interview is in the spoiler so if you don't want to read them all, you can cherry pick.
Thermopylae's Criki
1) You've led Thermo in the past. Winning Mesembria by a landslide. But after that wheels fell off the wagon and you lost in Istros. Could you explain what happened?
"I took a break out of the game after we won Mesembria and the other 2 original Co-founders also left but did not return so Thermopylae was continued on the next world being run by one of our regular members Jredge and a few of his friends, They ended up merging with Victrix to win that server, I decided to return to play in Istros but was not given my rights back and as a result the Alliance was managed by Jredge and his friends who had very close friendship with Victrix. They decided that we should pact with Victrix from day 1 which I completely disagreed with but my Opinion was not taken into consideration and we were forced to follow the decisions of extremely poor leadership giving exclusivity to an ocean to Victrix.
Having many old friends in Thermo I done my best with planning OPs and enjoying the game with them, My OPs planning enabled us to take out all of the competition in our area and take on waste management successfully in O55 giving us a strong position in the Corner of o55 and eventually resulting in WM disbanding and leaving the world.
However that was followed by another very poor decision, The new founders instructed us to give exclusive rights to O55 to Victrix, Even though it was us who fought hard to take out the top alliance and break into that ocean. We were then forced to Jump south to fight Written in Blood who were quite some distance away from us and following these events many players started leaving, Going inactive and I personally lost interest in the world, Barely playing.
One day out of the Blue, my screen was lit up with attacks coming from victrix on all of my safe back line cities, followed by many other members being attacked. As we were completely caught off guard we struggled to stay afloat and many of our members started leaving, Including two of the founders, Leaving only myself (promoted at this time) and Leblob as a remaining Founder of the alliance. Trying to turn a bad situation around, I restructured the leadership team and we fought back doing the best we could, having some success in the initial OP and breaking some ground.
Victrix called on other alliances in the area including a MRA called poltergeists to heavily support their cities against us leaving us, with only a small amount of members against multiple alliances and with victrix poaching our players promising them a crown in the server if they switched sides, Unfortunately quite a few took the bait and failed to show loyalty to their alliance. Some of those players are now here with the same group to now fight against their old team mates such as kanar4eto and Yellowhold
Since I took over leadership at the end of Istros I found out that since Victrix had betrayed us, Our founder Leblob had kept in regular communication with them and made an agreement not to attack them or offer our members support against them, helping to tear us apart from the inside. He also moved over to them in Istros turning on his old team and has followed them here to fight against us now.
In Istros Victrix had their members attacking our last remaining 20-30 active members every day of the week 24/7 with attack alarms going off at 2/4/6am in the morning etc with no regard to our personal lives and no interest in keeping it at a reasonable level. Despite taking thousands of attacks around the clock they still could not take cities off my which I was mostly self supporting all on red islands, There was no organisation, Co-ordination or any real direction, In my opinion it was just a huge group of simmers that simply outnumbered us and using underhanded tactics and pretty much anything to win..
In the end with all of the foul play, deceit and invasion of our personal lives we decided to ghost to make a fresh start on the new server, Yet I am extremely proud of those who stayed with me and fought under the Thermopylae flag right Until the end, We left with our heads held high and won the morale Victory in that world."
2) You're once again facing the same team that dealt that death blow in Istros and they're up 6 to nothing currently. What do you think needs to be done to turn the corner? Are you confident that you'll win?
"Knowing that we were coming into this server with the same MRA in Istros around us we knew that our only option would be to recruit new members and make a larger team to level the playing field, Unfortunately we knew that they would result to the same tactics they use in every world mega pacting and mass recruiting to outnumber their opponents. We had given some new faces a place here with a chance to prove themselves and unfortunately picked up a number of inexperienced players who were not actively playing the game and lost some of those cities as a result of that, However we have not yet lost a single city from one of our active/long term players.
This group is known to target inactive cities and weak players and that strategy did pay off at this early stage of the server, However it also shows weakness because they are simply afraid to even attack any of our active players and are exploring cunning ways to try to get the better of us, such as individually contacting our players on more than one occasion to try and convince them to switch sides (player poaching)
This shows weakness and clearly displays the threat they feel from our presence here."
3) You're spread across a few oceans right now. Which would you say is your main ocean?
"We landed in the center of the map so naturally we do have a spread, but I am not overly concerned about that.
Having many old friends in Thermo I done my best with planning OPs and enjoying the game with them, My OPs planning enabled us to take out all of the competition in our area and take on waste management successfully in O55 giving us a strong position in the Corner of o55 and eventually resulting in WM disbanding and leaving the world.
However that was followed by another very poor decision, The new founders instructed us to give exclusive rights to O55 to Victrix, Even though it was us who fought hard to take out the top alliance and break into that ocean. We were then forced to Jump south to fight Written in Blood who were quite some distance away from us and following these events many players started leaving, Going inactive and I personally lost interest in the world, Barely playing.
One day out of the Blue, my screen was lit up with attacks coming from victrix on all of my safe back line cities, followed by many other members being attacked. As we were completely caught off guard we struggled to stay afloat and many of our members started leaving, Including two of the founders, Leaving only myself (promoted at this time) and Leblob as a remaining Founder of the alliance. Trying to turn a bad situation around, I restructured the leadership team and we fought back doing the best we could, having some success in the initial OP and breaking some ground.
Victrix called on other alliances in the area including a MRA called poltergeists to heavily support their cities against us leaving us, with only a small amount of members against multiple alliances and with victrix poaching our players promising them a crown in the server if they switched sides, Unfortunately quite a few took the bait and failed to show loyalty to their alliance. Some of those players are now here with the same group to now fight against their old team mates such as kanar4eto and Yellowhold
Since I took over leadership at the end of Istros I found out that since Victrix had betrayed us, Our founder Leblob had kept in regular communication with them and made an agreement not to attack them or offer our members support against them, helping to tear us apart from the inside. He also moved over to them in Istros turning on his old team and has followed them here to fight against us now.
In Istros Victrix had their members attacking our last remaining 20-30 active members every day of the week 24/7 with attack alarms going off at 2/4/6am in the morning etc with no regard to our personal lives and no interest in keeping it at a reasonable level. Despite taking thousands of attacks around the clock they still could not take cities off my which I was mostly self supporting all on red islands, There was no organisation, Co-ordination or any real direction, In my opinion it was just a huge group of simmers that simply outnumbered us and using underhanded tactics and pretty much anything to win..
In the end with all of the foul play, deceit and invasion of our personal lives we decided to ghost to make a fresh start on the new server, Yet I am extremely proud of those who stayed with me and fought under the Thermopylae flag right Until the end, We left with our heads held high and won the morale Victory in that world."
2) You're once again facing the same team that dealt that death blow in Istros and they're up 6 to nothing currently. What do you think needs to be done to turn the corner? Are you confident that you'll win?
"Knowing that we were coming into this server with the same MRA in Istros around us we knew that our only option would be to recruit new members and make a larger team to level the playing field, Unfortunately we knew that they would result to the same tactics they use in every world mega pacting and mass recruiting to outnumber their opponents. We had given some new faces a place here with a chance to prove themselves and unfortunately picked up a number of inexperienced players who were not actively playing the game and lost some of those cities as a result of that, However we have not yet lost a single city from one of our active/long term players.
This group is known to target inactive cities and weak players and that strategy did pay off at this early stage of the server, However it also shows weakness because they are simply afraid to even attack any of our active players and are exploring cunning ways to try to get the better of us, such as individually contacting our players on more than one occasion to try and convince them to switch sides (player poaching)
This shows weakness and clearly displays the threat they feel from our presence here."
3) You're spread across a few oceans right now. Which would you say is your main ocean?
"We landed in the center of the map so naturally we do have a spread, but I am not overly concerned about that.