Here are the comments of a guy that has been of both sides of the fence. For those who don’t know me, I was the founder and leader of Stooge and I ghosted too. And before any of you start blasting me for leaving my team, have a bit of context for my case. I left this world due to IRL reasons which are still in cause right now. I came back a month later to lead my team because they needed me to have a chance to win. With the win out of the question and my duties to my team done, I ghosted to get back to my IRL stuff. More on the ghosting later).
Before we begin, know that I played with and against almost every team on this server (GOH excluded, you guys were too far from me).
The win: I came back to this game after 2 years of break because there was this new end game that was meant to be a fight to the death so the mass simming and MRA teams would not be winning worlds. Turns out that is still the case… Even if LoE had some players that did hold the front, they eventually won by taking mass brown and recruiting as many players as they could and handing over. Now I don’t think that is how the dev’s wanted this to go/how this end game was supposed to be played, so I am disappointed in that. End of the day tho, a win is a win I guess.
The spam: Yet another reason I won’t come back to this game. You can’t attack a player 3 times without it being called spam lol wtf is this. I would literally HC a player, hit DLU, would resend 2 more attacks of OLU to grab myself some BP and then the heralds are calling spam and ofc once you “spam” someone then they “spam” you too so I got 10 3LS attacks coming my way. And it’s the same everywhere. Someone calls spam on one team so the other team starts a spam OP for “revenge” and it continues on and on and on. No team was innocent of this, and besides people just need to man up, in the old days you would get HCed all the time and no one would complain…
The “Good”, the “Bad” and the “Ugly”: Many people seem to push this narrative that LoE is a hero and MP is just full of (and I quote) “cunts”. Now my team has played by themselves against LoE and MP, we’ve played with LoE against MP, and with MP against LoE. And when it came to choosing who we should side with for DOM ( and we had tried every end of the spectrum), the MAJORITY of the team voted to play with MP, and the fighters of the team voted UNANIMOUSLY to play with MP. Now that says nothing about whether LoE are nice or mean, personally I’ve never had an issue with anyone on that team, you all are nice guys/girls. But it does say something about MP. From a non-biased view almost a whole team picked the MP side and were happy to play there. We hardly had any player to player issues between stooges and MP for the whole end game (bar some traitor but no comment) which is pretty amazing considering everyone outside of MP was telling everyone in stooge, “MP are cunts, they’re gonna make you leave the team if they don’t like you and bully you”. Well, guess what I’m gonna take one example that was in stooge: barb. She is not the strongest fighter or the biggest, but I had her on the team for personal reasons. And no one, NO ONE on MP ever had an issue or bullied or even brought up the fact that a 20 city player was playing with us. Now make of that what you will.
The cheating: From my point of view, MP is squeaky clean. The attackable ban was brought back in on MY authority because he was a stooge and I had a long chat with him and I was 100% sure he was clean after the ban (before is still debatable). Apart from him, no one on this team had ever been banned to my knowledge. On the LoE side tho, well I know a couple of players (which I won’t name) that I personally kicked from stooge after they admitted they were cheating. So please cut the crap on the cheating end, especially if you weren’t on the server.
Finally, The ghosting: Make no mistake, Leaders ghosted because the Game was over. With Torque leaving and kking back-stabbing the team (even if he got pummeled for 2 days straight), LoE was now standing with what would have been a 500-600 city lead, with 300 for them to go for the win. Now blowing a lead that huge, although not impossible, would have been more impressive then the comeback itself. So before you, trash leaders for leaving their team behind, bear in mind they left because it was game over, not the other way around.
This was my first and only time I will post on external. For those I played with I’ve already told you how I feel about you guys. And devs, I’ve been complaining the gryph is too strong all server (JK you guys do a good job keep it up).
Trist3 - ex-leader of a forgotten team.