@morgo64 my post was in response to hearing accusations of us "only getting 4 because of being an mra" while also seeing messages fly about how Bloods has been asking every single breathing body on the server to join them... both before and after the 4-race. No bad blood here, just asking for people to stop claiming it was some poor play, and rather, just a better use of the players we lined up on our side. Remember, Bloods was angry that DOA wouldn't be their servant dog--
in addition to all their other allies-- to feed them the four and instead chose to team with us on equal footing. How cute would that server-wide coalition have been?
On one thing you said, I disagree. The race wasn't close at all, which is what has some of us still scratching our heads. We were so far in front at the end that if we'd known how that would go, we'd have gone for a 6th or even 7... but we expected it to be much closer because Bloods prepped all server for this, and "had the WW experts on their side". Something either went wrong on the Bloods leadership/planning side, or in the player execution, or both. We stopped boosting 2-3 days before our last three wonders dropped and had little left to do, which should never happen in a close race. It was puzzling and we kept thinking you'd come back and surprise us... which never happened. We were expecting a much tighter race. As two fighting teams who came together that were ill equipped for wonder prep, with fewer leaders and players with wonders experience, and a few rogue players who flipped Bloods core cities in 44 and 55 a couple weeks before wonders... Bloods was by far the frontrunner here and it was Bloods' to lose.
Maybe it was how in multiple rounds, 3-4 wonders seemed to drop the same time for Bloods to fill... or maybe something else. But it was shockingly not close at all in the finish. Intellectually, I'd love to rehash a play by play to see why-- it still doesn't make sense to me unless it comes down to activity levels... maybe someday after the 7 are decided we can have that discussion.
City counts with your allies vs ours were roughly even-- now are tipped even more in your favor. It will be interesting to see what the coming days bring. Oh, and you can't gold WWs... only hard work gets those things built.