My story probably has 5 parts.
Sparta 300
Omicron was my first world and when i started i founded Sparta 300. We stayed away from the major alliances but did like to fight, most of our wars were with alliances that members of Sparta 300 had had issues with in previous alliances. Admittedly we were probably a little bit sim but didn't back down from a fight. Our first major war was with The Victor Web who were a similar size as us but we quickly took all the cities from their leader and started working down the list, taking out one player at a time. Then the game changed, a member of D3TH (who we had tried to pact with before) started attacking me and took a city from me, the first city i had lost. It was moment of truth we either carried on taking on the smaller alliances and let this attack slide and probably start being farmed or we could stand up for ourselves. At the time D3TH were the #1 alliance so it took balls for an alliance who weren't even in the top 12 alliances to attack D3TH but we did. 24 hours after me losing my city, we took it back and took a second from him. At this point R3dfox message me saying if we took another city from D3TH they would unleash themselves upon us, we didn't want a war with D3TH so we immediately backed down but i think it worked in gaining their respect a little.
D3TH and D3ATH
Shortly after my message from r3d we were invited (forced in hindsight as we were told if we didn't we would be seen as an enemy) into forming an academy for D3TH with a few of the guys from Toxic Virus and formed D3ATH. Our cities were mainly in o25/o24 so reaching the frontline in O45 was a difficult task but we were told not to worry about the massive gaps between our core and the frontline as everything in between was safe and protected by D3TH. A couple of months after we formed D3ATH, R3d decided that it was time to disband D3TH. Some from D3TH joined BS, others went ghost, this meant the cities we had gained in O45 were quickly consumed by BS as we had no support close enough to protect our cities as our core was 2 oceans away.
As the leader of D3ATH i got my men to re-group in O35. GS was shortly formed and pretty much became the old D3TH but with a different leader which did give us a bit more stability and we pretty much went along as we did before fighting BS and eventually Evo. However, after months of attempting to crack Evo it became apparent that it was impossible to beat Evo by sending attacks 14-18 hours away, we were constantly ridiculed by DF and GS for not getting involved in the fight despite sending constant support and organising ops that often lead to city wins by DF and GS.
World 2.0
When 2.0 was announced we quickly realised that D3ATH was in a strong position, we were 5th or 6th alliance in the world and had a lot of cities in 3 very safe oceans, we decided to try and force a merge through with Spartan Gods which would not only give us more members to build the WWs but give us access to the war they had going on with GE at the time.
The only problem with this merger was that we had a gap of 1 ocean - o34 between our core and SGs core in O33. We got to work of bridging that gap by taking on The Throne - the leftovers from BoJ and BoH, we started taking their cities and they were ok defenders but posed little as an attacking threat. However, this war with TT did not please GS, they weren't getting as much support from D3ATH so tried to negotiate a cease fire between the two alliances. We refused but agreed to a temporary cease fire because GS had taken some cities up north needing support. During this "cease fire" we were still attacked TT but we kept our support in GS cities regardless as they had been our allies for a good 6 months by now and we were loyal to them. 2 weeks later (the agreed time we would have the cease fire for) i told r3d, blood and malas that we were going to continue our fight with TT, i was asked to wait a couple of days by Malas, so i agreed, 2 days later, TT merged into GS...
The very alliance that we had supported for months had shafted us. This was the start of the breakdown in the relationship between D3ATH (who merged with SG anyway) and GS. CT became the 2nd ranked alliance on points and put themselves in a strong position for WW era. However, i got bored of not having an enemy within close proximity and i had numerous arguments with leaders of GS and DF and the final straw was a city claim that got jumped by a GS member and the CS i had incoming to the city was sea stormed by the member and i was told tough luck by GS leadership. I decided i was going to leave CT and go it alone.
Lost Boys
As soon as i left CT, i received loads of messages from my friends who had been with me since Sparta 300 days who wanted to join me, they, like me, had fallen out of love with Grepolis and we wanted to finish the world fighting, not being a defensive arm to an alliance that was run by people who not only still treated us like their academy but never thanked us for our support.
We formed Lost Boys, an alliance of 12 members who would take on and clear up the oceans we had cities in that because of pacts made months ago we couldn't attack under CT. Our first target was MI, i had bumped heads with MIs "diplomat", spike, who had threatened to attack Sparta 300 because of a mistaken city claim. I sent a few attacks at Spike but the world quickly closed down any chance of a war with MI, threatening and plotting to attack us, apparently by leaving CT meant we were pacting with Evo, some people made up quotes from me to force the world to attack us. We decided to back down as we want to fight, not commit suicide and there had not even been contact with Evo at that point!
Sparta 300, the alliance i had set up and founded was the target, full of noobs and sim city players the plan was to quickly destroy them and move on to the next target. However, CT decided to support them regardless of the fact the only reason CT and S300 was because of me. This meant the task of taking cities was a lot harder, but not impossible and we took quite a few.
At the same time CT had merged with MI which meant even more support incoming to Sparta 300.
At this point i contacted greymon who i have been friends with for quite a long time now about the potential of a 3 way merger between Lost Boys, DF and GS. The idea was received warmly and once the merger between GS and DF went through i was contacted to discuss Lost Boys joining. We gave 3 conditions of our merger, we were allowed to continue our fight with Sparta 300, and for GS to use their relationship with MI to stop the support of S300, all members were allowed to join and we had one position in leadership (even if that wasn't me). The nonnegotiable offer came in, we had stop the fight against S300, 3 of our players could not join GS and we would have no member in the council, we would become the defensive arm for GS WW islands and feed them with resources. I posted the offer in our forums and we all had a good laugh, i replied to the offer and i said thanks, but no thanks. Two days later, Boudred came back to me again, this time with the same offer but worded a bit more diplomatically - we had to stop the fight with S300, the 3 players who weren't allowed in GS could join DF until they proved themselves and once we had earned respect we might get a position in the council, again i said no thanks.
GS then decided to try and force us into the merge by making Sparta 300 their academy and thus leaving us with again no enemies to fight (screwed us over again). We were then given 48 hours to give up our cities surrounding GS WW or Malas was going to take them by force. There was no way we were giving them cities - a decision made by every member of Lost Boys (despite Malas and Blood assuming i had mislead my men) so i made contact with Evo. We quickly agreed a merger with them once they had the player space to have us. However, in the meantime we got caught supporting Evo in O34 and the war between GS and LB began. GS continued their public rubbishing of us but "secretly" tried to recruit and turn most of my guys into spies or joining GS, some lead Blood and Malas on so they could save themselves from being attacked while they built their defense up others told them where to go. But the messages from the two did make me laugh.
Evolution
Evo got their player spaces and Lost Boys joined Evolution. Sure we have lost a couple of cities but that was always to be expected and a week after we joined we have helped take a WW city from GS. Our merge with Evolution quickly gave us what we all wanted, to be in the core of a major battle ground. And FYI blood and malas, we didn't make any requirements to join Evo, we only joined to screw you over but have ended up with 5 members in council and a position in the #1 alliance who is going to win the world in less than a month so for that i sincerely thank you
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