Well I figured after so many years on Grepo it's about time I made my first (and no worries, also my last) post in the externals. Just for the thrill of it. Don't bother replying to what I'm about to write for I won't be impressed by it anyway, as I have
never been impressed by any of the responses here only by the fact that so many people waste so much time to even read this nonsense regularly.
First of all I would like to congratulate certain people (and no, I'm not an old gossip-type grandma so I won't mention names) for totally wrecking something that once received the
MMO Game Of The Year 2012 Award. It's dead. Grepo is dead. There is no more teamwork, no more inspiration, no more discoveries of talented players, no more "the best will win". It has become a monster of politics, better-said Al Capone-like relationships where someone who's just a player no matter how good or bad has any chance of just having fun. There are maybe 10-15 players who rule the game as a whole and the sad thing is none of them bothers to post or respond to anything in the external forums. Even sadder is the thing that some of these players who decide who wins and who loses aren't even playing in the world they are making decisions about!
Second of all I have to express my deepest pity for those who
are responding to posts made in the external forums on a daily basis. Obviously you got the essence of the game totally wrong. The game is under
en95.grepolis.com, not under
en.forum.grepolis.com.
That having been said, there is one player I have to address publicly about his "principals". Or better said, his lack of them. Someone who did not only contribute even more to the mafia-like relations I mentioned above. One player, one person who empersonates so many historical figures that it's almost impossible to list them all. But just to give an idea:
Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus, Judas Iscariot, Guy Fawkes, Robert Hanssen. The idea is the next: Claim that you're member of an alliance (better said ex-leader who stepped down himself) and you're not happy with what's happening in the alliance. There's three things you can do. Try and change it for the better for everyone. That's too difficult for this guy. Leave the alliance and join another one. That's too easy for this guy. So you sit in that very alliance and do your own diplomacy with other alliances while not being the alliance diplomat and while not being in leadership. You make deals with a founder in Caustics without even consulting the leadership nor the remaining players of your own alliance. You start PMing the better players in the alliance you're a member of telling them how dissatisfied you are with the leadership and promise them you would do it better.
Promise #1 made: you wouldn't do politics (now read back three lines and say you're not doing politics).
Promise #2 made: you wouldn't allow simmers in your alliance. Puzzle included: find the simmers in the table below.
Promise #3 made: you wouldn't hand over your O43 cities to Caustics. Do I really have to explain the map below?
Promise #4 made: you wouldn't attack small targets. You want big targets. Targets that fight back. You wouldn't want to take all but one city you took during the last few weeks from your ex-teammates in the alliance you betrayed and left.
So much for principles. So much for honor. This is why Grepo is dead. This is why people are leaving. You're all free to start discussing now. Is the author of this post a good leader or not? Probably not. But save your keyboard and your time. It's not important.
Is the author of this post a good player or not? Probably not. That's also not important.
The matter here is about
LOYALTY. Here's the link for
iMrCornetto. Cornetto, check it out and learn something new:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty