the biggest FLOP
same as everybody else, rz. but maybe not for the same obvious reasons. however, in the interest of being thorough, let me state the obvious reasons.
prior to the war between karma (fka as dreadfleet) rz tried and tried and tried to broker a deal. "let's just avoid each other and then we can come up with something so we can both WIN THE WW." but we said no. for our reasons, not relevant to this post. honkey, in a classic honkey move, even announced the start of the war in this forum, and forbade us from attacking until the official start.
at that point, the begging-for-peace-rz became the boasting-about-how they would beat us so bad and WIN THE WW.
so the war started. and the results started coming in. but it didnt stop rz, not initially. he started twisting numbers, and leaving stuff out conveniently. fortunately, we had honkey who loved numbers. and honks would take the time to go thru the numbers and show how rz was tilting them, and how lopsided in karma's favor they really were. but at that point rz promised "we are winning the war and we are gonna win the WW"
eventually, and this is a major accomplishment, the war results were so one-sided that even rz, with his remarkable ability to exist in this world but live in a totally different world found somewhere near his ego, could no longer even pretend that they were winning the war. so rz changed his tune. "we are letting you guys win these cities, and waste your slots, because we have a super duper secret strategy to WIN THE WW. THE WW ARE THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS" Now the war that they said they were gonna win, and failed, became a war they lost on purpose so they could win the WW.
Now at this point you may be thinking, "dude, why the all caps" thats because i want to highlight that no matter what ridiculous position rz has ever maintained, it always included winning the world wonder. rz has flipped and flopped but his one constant thing was to boast and taunt how he was gonna win the WW.
well,....until he didnt. he and his top rated alliance failed. miserably. spectacularly. and for every KE member who is not rz, i can very confidently tell you all this. you lost because of rz. his antics. his lies. his taunts. his forays into personal out of the game harassment. the coalition against you was forged in our mutual respect and friendship, but it was so long lasting and unbreakable because the universal thought was, "anybody but rz."
now that's the obvious reasons he is such a flop. he had one goal, and failed at it. not because of anyone else, but because of his personality.
the less obvious reasons that some of you may not know.
i have spent a fair amount of time attacking KE folks. and i can say this truthfully, rz doesnt fight for them. for example, once i was attacking one of gbang's city. rz had a city right by it. rz was online, because he was attacking me, and stuff. when i cleared rz's trips in gbang's cities, rz put some troops in there. i cleared them. and i put a cs in the city. (our cities were all neighbors) rz knew it. ole gbang not online. rz never did anything else, though he continued to launch attacks on me and the other people on the island for about 8 hours. i conquered the city with a few LS and a couple hundred troops. gbang comes back on. he was a decent fella and we talked. he had been travelling and at some sort of meeting and couldnt get online. i kinda gigged him a bit about the fact that no one in KE helped him. and he explained that he wasnt on to give notice to anyone. i told him rz knew, and he said rz denied it.
that's just one instance, there have been numerous others. many times were rz puts his troops behind other peoples troops. and fails to pitch in. sieges where you guys go all out to break it, and rz attacking me, but not the siege. multiple times.
so for all those reasons, the biggest flop is ole arrzee.
the top player? too many to mention really, but i will give a nod back to mr wimpy, who is a good-natured, honorable, and pleasant person. i've played a lot of these games, and he is one of the best.