Was dimspace part of FEE?
Technically I was, but then I wasnt.
I had quit en65 for personal stuff, but went back to help with the merge of my guys into FEE, and i got asked by FEE to join them. I went in, but didnt really play. I tried to set up some ops, i tried to offer guidance but argh.
FEE was complete and utter chaos. Dont get me wrong, all the guys there with maybe one or two exceptions are great people, really nice people, fun to be around, but christ, you have never seen such total chaos between a group of people.
If you set an op for launch time of 4pm on Wednesday, people would be launching attacks anywhere between sunday afternoon and the following week. You had 3k players trying to take 12k cities on rocks from 100k players, you had people with 10 cities asking for clearance help on a city with 100 swords in it.
And yes, players can be taught how to play, god, people tried, there were some very good players there who tried to guide people, who tried to help people, but then youve got other people who are just inviting every 1k player in the world to join the alliance, and it just becomes one huge great uncontrollable behamoth of chaos.
Yes, they were all great people, and yes, if you had 10, 20 maybe 25 of them in your alliance you could teach, support and train them and develop them into good players, but when theres a 100 of them, all pulling in different directions.
Even come Ww, they went in with the plan of going for one wonder and trying to force a 3-3 draw between FC and Syn. They were actually doing pretty well, and were neck and neck with their one wonder.. and then they decided to build 5
Its amazing they lasted to the world end, they basically got there by default. They were "allied" to the #2 alliance (ie. the #2 alliance saw them as no threat), and the #1 alliance were nearly as incompetant as they were
Like i say, I like most of the players at FEE, but god, ive never seen such a disorganised mess. FEE was like a kid sister, annoying, chaotic, and you cant wait to move out of home and get away from her, but at the same time, shes still your sister.