Newspaper Issue V~Quick Update on Top 12

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Issue V​
21[SUP]st[/SUP] October,2014​

In Today's Issue:

  • Update
  • Quick Update on Top 12
  • Artemesia Conquerors Tales
  • War Stats
  • Weekly Stats
  • Competition

Update:

The past week has been again dull.Not much action really happening.happening. Rhammus is going back to that stage wen it had nothing really happening in it. Mostly simming and the few wars that exist are getting a bit dull as well.
What really makes headlines this week is top players in -veni Vidi Vici- ditching their alliance and joining The Scorpions. Other than that nothing really interesting has really happened in En80.


Quick Update on Top 12

Since the week has been dull i have asked the top 12 alliances how everything has been going for them. Unfortunately not every alliances seems to be interested in the papers anymore and therefore making me lose interest as well.Got 4 top alliances interviews.

1.How is your alliance doing so far?
Soluto I said:
We are doing good, slowly setting ourselves up for what is to come.

2.Is your alliance involved in any wars at the moment?If not what is the reason for this?
Soluto I said:
No, not yet, and well it depends what you class as a war. We have been doing a lot of fighting with "The Jesters" in 36 but thats been a pretty decisive battle:)

3.Your alliance seems to be taking more internals than enemy cities,your thoughts on this
Soluto I said:
After the merge with "WTW" as expected there was a fair bit of deadweight to deal with.

4.your thoughts on everything else happening in this world,other wars,upcoming event,ally mergers etc?
Soluto I said:
Hmm well, i find it funny that the largest of -Veni Vidi Vici- have ditched their alliance for Scorps, if they had have been better team players their alliance may not have been in such a state. I am also hearing rumours about a certain alliance merging with evo;)

5.Anything else you might want to add?
Soluto I said:
Yeah, Long live Invicta.

1.How is your alliance doing so far?
Tacion said:

2.What wars are you guys currently engaged in?And why have these wars started?(if in any)
Tacion said:
NO COMMENT

3.Your thoughts on a player in your alliance leaving and saying that your alliance is very disorganized,has 3-4 conquests tabs etc.
Tacion said:
WE ARE VERY ORGANIZED, RATHER SEE HOW THE PERSON MAKING THIS SILLY CLAIMS ARE DOING

4.your thoughts on everything else happening in this world,other wars,upcoming event,ally mergers etc?
Tacion said:
NO COMMENT

5.Anything else you might want to add?
Tacion said:
A Reporters View:
Regarding question 2 and Avernus's "no comment" makes ME wonder what they call their fight with Oceans Veterans then. Either they think that they are not fighting OV or they are fighting OV but in Avernus's eyes it doesn't seem to be a war for them. May be this is because they have not really taken many cities from OV.

1.How is your alliance doing so far?
Skullyhoofd said:
Pretty smooth sailing I'd say! There have been a few losses here and there but those were generally from isolated outliers or inactives.

2.How is your war with OV and scorps going?
Skullyhoofd said:
OV and us are in a stalemate atm. Our cores are unusually close so it's hard to conquer a city from either side. Scorpions are being crushed. They got a few of our inactives bu now that those are gone they haven't really been able to do anything. It's also not only scorpions and OV anymore. There is a coalition of 5+ alliances actively working against us. When you take that into consideration I'd say we're doing pretty awesome :)

3.Is it me or does it look like the OV war is kind of ending?No realt city takeovers from OV recently
Skullyhoofd said:
See above, stalemate situation.

4.your thoughts on everything else happening in this world,other wars,upcoming event,ally mergers etc?
Skullyhoofd said:
Lot's of interesting stuff might happen in the near future, but I'm keeping my mouth shut. Just wait and see ^^

5.Anything else you might want to add?
Skullyhoofd said:
Not really, I'm loving this world!

And the best for last
1.Tell us a bit about OV.About your players and your leadership.
Th3K1ndr3d said:
I'm speaking from the position of a regular OV member, I'm not part of the leadership.
This is my 4th server with OV. We've always attracted a certain type of players. As our profile said a few years back we are an alliance of friends, moms, granddads.. I guess what I'm trying to say is that there is a strong social component to the way we work. We know each other. I'm not saying I know all 140+ members, but the ones I talk to regularly, or the ones I do ops with or the ones that I've played for years - they are more than names on the screen to me. We know and care about each other as people. And that makes it easy to work together. It really brings out the team spirit and you can see that a lot - what people do for each other in this alliance amazes me even after all those years. There is a lot more one is willing to do for a friend than a stranger.
I have a lot of respect for our leadership. You don't know what it's like running and managing a 150 people alliance unless you've tried it. They kept it (and us) together through some hard times on different servers and I can't think of a situation they haven't dealt with before. I have full confidence in them.

2.How is your alliance doing so far?
Th3K1ndr3d said:
Have a look at our stats. That's neither a boast (if you're looking at cities taken) nor an excuse (if you're looking at cities lost). We don't see it that way. There is a war to fight so we fight it. From my perspective it doesn't matter that much whether we're on the winning or losing end. We fought a "losing" war a few years back for the entire time on a server. It made us stronger and a better team and we had a great time doing it for the most part.

3.What are your thoughts on your war against Venom and Ruse?
Th3K1ndr3d said:
Both Venom and RUSE are strong alliances and I respect them as good opponents. To me war is what is the most fun in this game, because it bring your own alliance together, it motivates you to do your best, makes you think hard to outsmart your opponent.. As long as we keep it civil I'm happy we're fighting. I see it as kind of a long sports match. I want to be able to shake hands at the end and have no hard feelings.

4.Do you think Ruse can get back up from the position they are in right now?Meaning with the loss of good players etc.
Th3K1ndr3d said:
Yes, I do. They're not the first this has happened to or the last. I think in this game not giving up is worth more than winning.

5.your thoughts on everything else happening in this world,other wars,upcoming event,ally mergers etc?
Th3K1ndr3d said:
I have to admit I don't know much about other alliances than the ones around us. What I do know comes mostly from the newspaper (Thanks Druvi). :)
I'm looking forward to the event. It brings a bit of variety, different rewards open more options on how to approach things and that is always exciting, because you might be able to do something that you opponent doesn't anticipate. There is nothing like saving a reward for the right time and when you use it you get a pm from your enemy saying "Where did you get that? That event ended 4 months ago!" :)

6.Anything else you might want to add?
Th3K1ndr3d said:
Not really. Keep up the great work with the newspaper Druvi, for most players it's the only way to find out what is happening outside their alliance's borders.


Artemesia Conquerors Tales

1.Tell us how OV were among the very first few to take one of Artemesias cities?And how you guys achieved this.
Th3K1ndr3d said:
We made a decision to go for the city, we knew when the event was starting so we prepared and we did it.

2.What did you guys think of the event?
Th3K1ndr3d said:
Cool event in my opinion, something very different from feeding a chicken or clicking on pumpkins floating in the ocean. We're happy with the rewards, even though in my personal opinion they're somewhat over-powered. Giving 150 players multiple rewards that last for weeks is too much. It would probably have felt more balanced if the world was older. Increasing population in ALL your cities in the world? Too much.
I prefer small rewards that make you think carefully about where and how you best use them, because you have one try and then they're gone
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3.what are you thoughts on other alliances not really going for her cities?
Th3K1ndr3d said:
Every alliance needs to make the decision whether or not it's worth it. By now they know what's inside those cities so they just need to answer the question - is it worth exchanging thousands of units/ships for the reward? As the rewards get smaller there is the threshold where it doesn't make sense anymore.
I also understand that some alliances might not be able to commit their forces to the event if they need them in a war they're fighting.

1.Tell us how Avernus was one of the few alliances to grab one of artemesias cities.And explain to us how you guys achieved this.
Tacion said:
TEAM WORK

2.What did you guys think of the event?
Tacion said:

3.what are you thoughts on other alliances not really going for her cities?
Tacion said:
NO TEAMWORK

1.Tell us how Venom took a city of Artemesias so easily within 24 hours of the start of the event?
kekeREAL said:
We just prepared and executed perfectly ;) Thats basically it. The day the event started everyone knew exactly what to do.
We cleared the harbor within 3hours and then started to send non escorted ALU nukes. ( We started to launch them about 90minutes before the harbor was even clear )
In the progress we sent multiple CS at the Supercity without really knowing how long its going to take clearing the Land defense. Once the city was cleared we could go with the next CS in line without worrying about remaining wet ALU nukes. They all would just sink to our own CS without hurting it. Other alliances did not execute this very well and most had to wait until their big ALU nukes hit in order to land a CS.
Funny side note: We actually pulled our first CS, because at that point we already knew we are going to win 100% and wanted to minimize friendly fire. It landed 90min before the actual CS, so technically we had a siege ongoing there only 7.5hours after the event started ;)

2.What did you guys think of the event?
kekeREAL said:
This event was a great opportunity to get something done as a team. Gold was almost irrelevant in this event. The rewards are slightly imbalanced in high ally cap worlds as the amount of defense is not scaling with Allycap. They should have done a better job balancing the Return of Investment for alliances on different worlds. In late game worlds with small allycap not even 1st place is worth the troops. Besides that its a great event.

3.what are you thoughts on other alliances not really going for her cities?
kekeREAL said:
Its a race. Only top 4 prices are actually worth the investment. So i think most alliances made a good and rational decision not even trying to compete.
Regarding individual fire power i think Evolution did a very good job, almost getting 2nd place in this event. Avernus did not bad as well in that regard. OCEANS VETERANS regarding their fire power did actually pretty bad. They almost lost to Evolution and when the city was cleared it took them over 3 hours to actually land a CS. In summary it took them over 30 hours to clear this city when they have the most fire power available on this server, which demonstrates that you need more than just big hitters and a lot of cities in an alliance ;) Organization, Communication and Teamplay is the key to success.


War Stats
**Note:This week only did a few alliances mainly because Grepointel is down,also the stats may not be 100% accurate.

Venominium vs Scorpions
32:19(City Gains)
Percentage=62.8%:37.2%

Oceans Veterans vs Venominium
22:29(City Gains)
Percentage=43.1%:56.8%

Oceans Veterans vs Ruse
38:65(City Gains)
Percentage=36.1%:63.1%


Weekly Stats

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Competition

This week's winning number:
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No.3:1K of each resource

Numbers which had Special Rewards/Plagues:
No.11: 4X Weddings+4XNatures Gift
No.4:300 Free BP!
No.10:Hapiness+3K of each resource
No.11: Plague casted on a city of the number holder
No.9:Earthquake casted on a city of the number holder
No.10:Lightning bolt casted on a city of the number holder.

Congratulations to "Two Chainz",You are our Lucky number winner this week.You win 1K of each resource to a city of your choice

Please go ahead and reserve a number for next weeks lucky number draw!
1)Wlodziemier
2)Two Chainz
3)
4)
5)Wandle
6)
7)Bond 007
8)Digital Myztik
9)Rock V
10)
11)
12)
13)
14)
15)

Enjoy!

And that's the end of another issue.Really could use some suggestions to improve the paper.
Also BIG THANK YOU to EVERYONE who helped to get this weeks paper out.
Thank you for taking your time to read
Hope everyone enjoys
 
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Well done :) no:5 please, does seem very quiet on here at the moment! Need some arguments to happen between the big boys to liven things up!

Skully! TH3K1dr3d said you are a loser and you smell. (That should do it) :p
 

DeletedUser22708

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+ rep druvi, you've done a good job yet again. I'll take number 8.

I heard people say Wandle has 3 nipples :eek:
 

DeletedUser13405

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Druvi...I have to spread some reputation around first, but +rep from me.

And Skully...I never get tired of seeing that report! LOL
 

DeletedUser46838

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9 please!

For some suggestions add comics, slow down on the release of news just a tiny but it's great so far
 

DeletedUser25971

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Skully! TH3K1dr3d said you are a loser and you smell. (That should do it) :p

I never said any such thing. :rolleyes:

I know better than to antagonize someone who has a very unflattering report saved on me. :p

On an unrelated note - Wandle smells. :D
 
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DeletedUser33980

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quite enjoyed the read again:D happy to be the winna this week hahahah!!!! hmmmm i think ill pick up 2...No. 2 for me plz!
nj again with article
 

DeletedUser

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I never said any such thing. :rolleyes:

I know better than to antagonize someone who has a very unflattering report saved on me. :p

On an unrelated note - Wandle smells. :D

Haha it was in jest mate :D and yes I do smell!!!! Of noob! :p
 

DeletedUser27128

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Good one. Haven't been really generous, so can't +rep. Will do as soon as I can :)

#7 for me please
 

DeletedUser47883

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I have a couple of comments I'd like to make. I keep looking in the "Top Twelve" Update for some mention of The Praetorian Guard (TPG) and never see a mention. WE have now moved into the Top 10. I would hope that this deserves a mention.

As for nothing exciting going on and wars, take a look tomorrow at the war between TPG and Legion XIII. A few weeks back we made the rankings with our war against Lightning Shadows II which included 17 cities conquered by us versus 1 lost for a 94% ratio. The newest war is going to be an even bigger blowout.

Drop me a line if you want to discuss our methodical expansion.
 

DeletedUser30490

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thanks everyone
Legion doesnt really count as a war:p

i stopped at the top 10 really i tried talking to you guys once did not get a reply!
 

DeletedUser47940

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I have a couple of comments I'd like to make. I keep looking in the "Top Twelve" Update for some mention of The Praetorian Guard (TPG) and never see a mention. WE have now moved into the Top 10. I would hope that this deserves a mention.

As for nothing exciting going on and wars, take a look tomorrow at the war between TPG and Legion XIII. A few weeks back we made the rankings with our war against Lightning Shadows II which included 17 cities conquered by us versus 1 lost for a 94% ratio. The newest war is going to be an even bigger blowout.

Drop me a line if you want to discuss our methodical expansion.

:D & who is the newest war gonna be ?? ;) haha
 

DeletedUser

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I have a couple of comments I'd like to make. I keep looking in the "Top Twelve" Update for some mention of The Praetorian Guard (TPG) and never see a mention. WE have now moved into the Top 10. I would hope that this deserves a mention.

As for nothing exciting going on and wars, take a look tomorrow at the war between TPG and Legion XIII. A few weeks back we made the rankings with our war against Lightning Shadows II which included 17 cities conquered by us versus 1 lost for a 94% ratio. The newest war is going to be an even bigger blowout.

Drop me a line if you want to discuss our methodical expansion.

Looks like we are not the only alliance in need of a real war;)
 

DeletedUser

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Do a Rim alliance review also mate besides the core alliances :) Im sure every alliance wants to get recognized in the externals
 
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