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"It is always the calmest before the storm"
The quote above has been proven throughout history. Time and time again, the world will quiet and all will prosper for some years.
But Grepolis is not the world. Grepolis is a browser based simulation game, of the world. The key word here is simulation. A simulation game, by definition, simulates an event or time period. A good simulation game should follow the events well. Now you make a connection, simulation of the world and the world.
There is a depression among the players of Beta. A certain sadness and worry that the world maybe just maybe is actually coming to a close and everyone has spent more than a year of their life for nothing. For it all to end because the foundation of the world is set so solid none can break it. No one dares challenge any alliance that isn't on the rim. But look at it from a different view. Consider the foundation of Beta as the foundation on a game of Jenga. Each brick seems to be key and the one who toys with it brings the whole tower (world) down upon them and their mates. A fear of losing. A fear of bringing down the wrath of the world on oneself. That is what Beta has, not a foundation so solid no machine can topple it. Everything may be set in their ways and all players may have powerful allies, but this is NOT SOLID. The world is slimming and each piece holds more power than the next and no one challenges the order.
The fear is that alliance A is allied with alliance B and we can handle alliance A but alliance B is a no no. The fear is bringing down the world. I am no massive player. My alliance is no world power. In diplomatic terms were a small country that is well set. The simple fact is no matter what alliance you are in it can seem this way. DH is at war with DS and that is it. No one touches anyone else until the mega-alliances do or say to. The truth lies in your leaders heads. Each one knows somewhere that something must be done but what can be done? What can one alliance do to fight a behemoth alliance? Who can charge a castle when the first defense is a insurmountable wall? All we can do is ally with other alliances and sit and talk about what our plans our. But is that it? Have times gotten so bad that a once flourishing and exciting world filled with the best players known to Grepolis can't realize that all it takes is one overjoyed poke at a single block to cast the world tumbling down and have it rebuilt?
By now you probably forgot the quote I stated at the very beginning. The complaints about inactivity and loss of skilled players are futile. Dark ages have been overcome. By what? Certainly not just talking and messaging or someone posting on the forum. But by those who take a risk to stand above the crowd and shout to the world "I will not stand and watch. I will take action". Is communism ever ended by doing nothing? No. Was the Berlin wall passed by simply down talking the government who put it there? No. Certainly slavery of the Jewish people was not ended by crying out to the slave drivers. It was ended by people, or a person, standing up and taking the reins. Does that quote not apply to Beta? You all can do it. No matter how many cities you have or what alliance you are in. Change takes one person. Who will that person be? No one knows. But next time you say or read someone saying "Beta is dead" just laugh in your head and remember, it is always calmest before the storm.
So is Beta really dead or is it just on the brink of a massive thunderstorm so large it will shake all of Grepolis? You decide for yourself, because only you can make the change...
The quote above has been proven throughout history. Time and time again, the world will quiet and all will prosper for some years.
But Grepolis is not the world. Grepolis is a browser based simulation game, of the world. The key word here is simulation. A simulation game, by definition, simulates an event or time period. A good simulation game should follow the events well. Now you make a connection, simulation of the world and the world.
There is a depression among the players of Beta. A certain sadness and worry that the world maybe just maybe is actually coming to a close and everyone has spent more than a year of their life for nothing. For it all to end because the foundation of the world is set so solid none can break it. No one dares challenge any alliance that isn't on the rim. But look at it from a different view. Consider the foundation of Beta as the foundation on a game of Jenga. Each brick seems to be key and the one who toys with it brings the whole tower (world) down upon them and their mates. A fear of losing. A fear of bringing down the wrath of the world on oneself. That is what Beta has, not a foundation so solid no machine can topple it. Everything may be set in their ways and all players may have powerful allies, but this is NOT SOLID. The world is slimming and each piece holds more power than the next and no one challenges the order.
The fear is that alliance A is allied with alliance B and we can handle alliance A but alliance B is a no no. The fear is bringing down the world. I am no massive player. My alliance is no world power. In diplomatic terms were a small country that is well set. The simple fact is no matter what alliance you are in it can seem this way. DH is at war with DS and that is it. No one touches anyone else until the mega-alliances do or say to. The truth lies in your leaders heads. Each one knows somewhere that something must be done but what can be done? What can one alliance do to fight a behemoth alliance? Who can charge a castle when the first defense is a insurmountable wall? All we can do is ally with other alliances and sit and talk about what our plans our. But is that it? Have times gotten so bad that a once flourishing and exciting world filled with the best players known to Grepolis can't realize that all it takes is one overjoyed poke at a single block to cast the world tumbling down and have it rebuilt?
By now you probably forgot the quote I stated at the very beginning. The complaints about inactivity and loss of skilled players are futile. Dark ages have been overcome. By what? Certainly not just talking and messaging or someone posting on the forum. But by those who take a risk to stand above the crowd and shout to the world "I will not stand and watch. I will take action". Is communism ever ended by doing nothing? No. Was the Berlin wall passed by simply down talking the government who put it there? No. Certainly slavery of the Jewish people was not ended by crying out to the slave drivers. It was ended by people, or a person, standing up and taking the reins. Does that quote not apply to Beta? You all can do it. No matter how many cities you have or what alliance you are in. Change takes one person. Who will that person be? No one knows. But next time you say or read someone saying "Beta is dead" just laugh in your head and remember, it is always calmest before the storm.
So is Beta really dead or is it just on the brink of a massive thunderstorm so large it will shake all of Grepolis? You decide for yourself, because only you can make the change...
