I spend much time in server 1 so had no idea about this. Most of the ranks in LOBR are also running the infamous Rebels league in server 1. 

From what I know they brought the game to a whole new low when they hack in to their rival league marshal's a/c, kicked out many members who had strong defence in their fortress and stats to swing her troops at the allied leagues. As I read this thread, it was clear that these players think the biggest credit limit will win the day. For sure it is, but it also a fact that most of the time its only few ppl who has deep pockets and you are up against leagues with powerful players who has played this game years before you. 

So when they team up and crush your hammer, thats what call strategy. And when you hit the wall and loose half of your offence, it hurts bad coz its not just virtual goods you lost. a good thousands of dollars you busted on them and also another few thousand that you need to spend on reviving them if you want to stay relevant. Now if you ask me what about our losses, well, it will be spread across 100 of players so mostly we are not in a bad shape as you are. Even if we loose a lot, it will not hurt that much coz the only investment on our side is time and maybe a deal made for $10.

Following screenshot will help you understand what I'm talking about. I'm not gonna play chicken by censoring my losses. In fact it will show you how minimal it is comparatively.

http://prntscr.com/hikqti 

So much hate, hostility and distrust in a game which is built for strategy and for fun.

It is hard to see this improving as the past (it seems), cannot be forgotten.

BR's Bob will not be returning to the game soon as it's understood he's got cancer and in a place called Hospice. Concerns over him attacking beacons will no longer be a problem, although the use of buying advantages through the use of the card (not Bobs) will still remain an issue and not restricted to one player or league.

So the game boils down to a war of coins, threats & intimidation which in some regards sadly, is the same in real life too. Wealth buys power or as mentioned earlier - advantages

The questions people need to ask and there's many more, but a couple listed below to see what people really think

What are peoples goals? Is it to fully build everything, have maximum power or levels so there's nothing else left to do?

Is it to see the destruction and end to a league, but on doing so in some context, who or what next - is there an end?

The game is rumoured to close in one maybe two years time and it would be interesting to hear what people's expectations were and the possible outcome or shape of the game at the end of that time?

In the mean time, have fun, don't forget about real life and if you make a mistake or something bad happens in the game, move on and don't let it eat you.

So much hate, hostility and distrust in a game which is built for strategy and for fun.

One thing I would never do is post another leagues Stats to another league. EVER !

Sparte attacked me, I retaliated once and was kicked, just like many other people, who woke up the next morning removed from DD league.

This is not an action of someone who has an axe to grind.

However since Annabelle RA, you like slander and make false accusations, indicating I have an "Axe" to grind, then I will bring an Axe to the party and you will see this "Axe".

time GMT.

1. 22:38 to 22:39 12/02/18 Dibdet attack me in DD 

2. 22:41 12/02/18 retaliate on Dibdet 

3. Annabella tell me not attack Sparte, so I stopped, go to sleep.

06:39 13./02/18 I am kicked from DD:  

4. I wake up, log on this morning, I am kicked, reason given was attacking Sparte. with mail from Annabelle RA

Blade said:

I truly feel sorry to hear Bob's condition no matter what our differences are. After all, this is just a game.

I'm not against ppl spending money on this game. End of the day this is a business and what ppl spend on the game is what keep it running. I myself spend a little. Maybe $20 per month or so on good deals. Issue is not about the coiners here. Issue is about the bullies who think less of the others just because they have a bigger credit limit. 

I know a coiner (marshal of a huge league). He had over 600k Dragons. When he hit me I felt so helpless given my level at that time. I was the marshal of a small league back then so I PMed him and told him that our league does not fit their pay grade. Apparently he has attacked because a hot head in our league went ahead and challenged him in an aggressive manner. Then I apologised and the next thing I know is he is extending me a FR and sending us an ally request.  To this day I respect him. 

So its never about the coiners. Its about bullies and the way they play this game. Trying to do what ever it takes to win, even cheating.

So I try my best to give them the finger when ever I can. Most of the time we get knock down. But when we do get to give them the finger, it sure feels soooo good so I keep on play this game :)

Bob, my wishes are with you mate. Get well soon.

Doing whatever to win in a p2w game? Does that surprise you? You can't complain about extreme coining and people swinging their cc's around like penis extensions. Plarium enable this, its part of the game and so called tactics of it. Some players juist like to watch the world burn, and that doesn't make them any less or more worth in terms of players. They just do what some players feel like doing in a pvp game. Do people play games such as Call of Duty and similar with intent of not shooting other players?

Hello All

Bob and Mjoan have started playing their own game and have decided to destroy the Beacons of their friends to achieve his goals. GR is the only league that has been their friend since rebuilding and dragging the War on. Obiuosly, there is no diplomacy in this game there is just the achievements that Bob has decided to get for LotBR regardless. This is not the way to keep players in the game. What good does it do to take all Beacons to level 1 and destroy other leagues? I heartily await an excuse.

It's funny to see how a totally irrelevant player fills pages of blog trying to teach others how to play and bragging for achievements that merely stem from the size of the credit card of somebody else and nothing more.

Nobody has ever seen more than one pike coming from the preacher's side...

Mad Ted said:

Can't we all just get along?!

The snowball we threw a year and a half ago is still rolling down, lol.

Hot_Nickelz said:

brunsonthomas said:

Hello All

Bob and Mjoan have started playing their own game and have decided to destroy the Beacons of their friends to achieve his goals. GR is the only league that has been their friend since rebuilding and dragging the War on. Obiuosly, there is no diplomacy in this game there is just the achievements that Bob has decided to get for LotBR regardless. This is not the way to keep players in the game. What good does it do to take all Beacons to level 1 and destroy other leagues? I heartily await an excuse.

I assume this means you want war with BR? I for one support a war with GR. I never saw any point with an "alliance" with GR, which was never an "alliance" in my eyes. An alliance is defined as a union or association formed for mutual benefit. Unfortunately, I never saw any benefit on BRs side with an alliance to GR. 

I only ever supported one alliance and that was with KT. Which caused division in their league/leagues and ended up backfiring in their almost complete annihilation. Better yet their 2nd league, surprise attacked BR which led to KTs biggest player being completely wiped out, and his eventual leaving KT as well as almost all respectable KT players to leave in first 6 months of the war THEY STARTED. 

Diplomacy in a war game is idiotic and is ONLY one tool that can be exploited to defeat enemies. If your league has diplomacy YOUR A FARMER, if your league has a no-hit clause with anyone on BOTS, your a farmer and a idiot. If you believe people are "bullies" or being "unfair" in a PAY TO WIN WAR GAME--then your an idiot who signed up to prove yourself an idiot daily, or a VOLUNTARY IDIOT.

Its your choice to participate in a PAY TO WIN WAR GAME--so you must be very bad at making choices- to continue to do the same dumb things OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER again.

I never spend money, I never revive ONE UNIT IN THREE YEARS with sapphires. You must choose how YOU experience Stormfall and how you measure YOUR success. Change your perspective on goals, fighting, and wins, losses etc. Or don't, but again its YOUR choice. I prefer whining,complaining enemies.

Stop blaming Bob for your decisions. Bob follows all of BR rules and is a valued member in BR as well as being one of the people I like most. I'm an anti-coiner but like Bob for his attitude which is just like mine. No one outside BR is our "friend". No one outside BR deserves ANY mercy. And anyone outside BR is a plaything to amuse ourselves with.

You had the choice to drop alliance or not with us. In fact, Ted has been more than nice about trying to accomadate to your ridiculous attitude and farming ways which I disagreed with from day 1 (but kept my mouth shut).

Stop blaming Bob, start looking in the mirror.Or don't. Post more things on forums, send Ted mail, send me mail. Shrugs. Your choice, and I will choose how to respond depending on my feelings, wants, likes, on that day. I could do a die roll (D+D style) to see our response. Nothing like random choices to spice up stuff. Lol.

We are all dumber for having read that,  at no point did you complete a coherent thought,  I award you 0 points and may God have mercy on your soul..

just like your pike attack's Complete waste of my time, right there. If this were true you would not be avoiding the German leagues like the plague. It took Quent quitting to attack them....

well.... we killed the server.  thanks Bob.  wonder how long til they shut the server down. 

From your own subjective "relevant" view, Hot Nickels may be insignificant...  However numerous players may disagree on the opinion of four people. Together up-voting each others posts in order to present the illusion of truth. Desperately trying to win a war of words.

Let me ask you, does every individual have to contribute to a greater whole in the same way? We all have different abilities and are able to provide various means to achieve a purpose. Just because someone does something in a different way, doesn't mean that they are "irrelevant" or "unworthy".

The same criticisms and condemnations can be applied to all of you.

IronApex Turok, Artisana, Flowerofdoom, Stacker Pentecost: Where are your Beacon hits? Fortress hits? What is your contribution? Why have you not turned the tide and made great advancements in this "war"? Why do I not see your names in the leaderboards? You use your hypocrisy to try and elevate yourselves above others, knowing that the forums are your only hope of presenting the facade of victory.

Hot Nickels is a respected and valuable member of LordsoftheBlackRose who contributes in his own way, and does make a difference. Your argument denounces the 80% of players who do not significantly invest in the game. Does that mean all of the players in Dark Phoenix or Knights Templar who do not pay-to-win are irrelevant or not valuable to the league? It's unfortunate that they should have to play with that dogma...

"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein

IronApex Turok said:

i think i'll go ahead be the first to declare server 2 dead. 

without drastic changes to the mechanics of the game from plarium, the server is at a stalemate. 

at this point, the strongest strategy is to just sit around and wait for the others to quit first. 

Spoken like a TRUE farmer. Surprised? No I am not.

Tsar said:

IronApex Turok, Artisana, Flowerofdoom, Stacker Pentecost: Where are your Beacon hits? Fortress hits? What is your contribution? 

The answer is in the profile. Some can hit fortresses, some may hit beacons, some may hit other castles... Ask Daryl what he lost short ago... 

  Just because everyone doesn't make hits on the scale of Bob, doesn't mean that those players are irrelevant.

And if you see me doing nothing, then I am doing my job right.

tony said:

Ironclad on Server 3 is recruiting. We aren't associated with Ironclad on server 1. If we get a few more high level players of big coiners there we could hold a beacon. We want to topple synergy's domination of Server 3 but to do that we need players. I cannot provide the job of coiner since I'm 17, in high school and i don't have a job yet If anyone will come over to server 3 and join our league. we need to end the dominance on Server 3 and make it a fair server before the last server becomes like server 1 and 2. Anyone Interested?

So you want coiners to join your league to help combat coiners that make for a unfair game..... and when you completed your objective I guess the coiners will all delete their armies and go play hello kitty online? :p State of the game is not a player issue, its a Plarium issue. big coiners that create unbalance is just a symptom of the disease, or cancer if you want that Plarium unleashed.

LOL it looks like many of you have a lot of time on your hands lotS and lots of posts .....I haven't been back since I responded to Artisana's rubbish .But someone sent me a meme about Sparte that had Artisans signature on it  ...I am here to see what Artisana has to say about all of that ... the silence rather suspicious in my mind . No way KT would sanction involvement in that .....FoD is a smart guy he wouldn't get  KT  involved in that ...Artisana ?

What have you to say Artisana about the destruction of Sparte ?

IronApex Turok said:

i think i'll go ahead be the first to declare server 2 dead. 

without drastic changes to the mechanics of the game from plarium, the server is at a stalemate. 

at this point, the strongest strategy is to just sit around and wait for the others to quit first. 

Im not sure I would say dead,   its wounded and not doing well,  people are dropping and barely logging in.  Few small changes will revive it.  

Force limits on beacons,  more levels to beacons and change the force limit as you upgrade (like forts) at some point be no limit.

More people in a league attack,  why 3  why not 20?  force limit still enforces how much total just spread the losses more...

https://prnt.sc/jnu6vk

hot nickelz wisdom here. 

according to these rules, enemies #1 and 2 should be off the list. 

It sounds like Hot Nickelz wants his league to be enemy number one when the game changes occur.  

I guess itll be a race to see which of the 4 can take down their fortress first after champions are added. 

Nice to see you guys are still at it on server 2.