Mar 10th 2015, 6:24:21
Hi everybody. Some of you may know me as the person running country #390, better known as "zip". I've debated about asking for help here, and I'm still considering alternatives, but here goes:
TL;DR: help me farm LaF's bully, and you can take advantage of a limited time offer to farm me.
I decided to play untagged this set for the first time ever. I quite enjoy it, and I think it adds to the entertainment of the game when there are landgrab targets out there that actually give people a run for their money. Landtrading is boring, mechanical. There's no element of winning or losing there. I've always been drawn to the challenges that actually carry real risk. Will I be able to outrun a retal? Will that country think of me as important enough to retal if I hit him 3 times out of 100 other hits he has against him? It's fun.
Untaggeds have been driven from this game by excessive farming and bullying.
Untaggeds are also killed if they "suicide" with any nonstandard attacks, or if they farm unsuspecting countries who haven't been aggressive against anyone.
I think that the "excessive farming" is an acceptable tradeoff for the challenge--I decided I am willing to play while being farmed constantly, and I would only retal countries within a normal 48-hour window.
However, there's a fundamental disadvantage when alliance members use wartime tactics against me, and I know that I can't use those same tactics back without being killed. My production gets shot, so I can't even use my normal retal tactics.
It's one-sided bullying at its finest.
I would like to fight back, but I can't do it by myself at this point. See history with #187, who has gone against his own alliance's directives to continue using wartime hits against me, even days against my last retal against him.
So I am faced with three options as an untagged:
1). Suck it up, because gosh darn it, you're an untagged on the Alliance server. Possibly quit playing out of frustration.
2). Join an alliance, get them to FA me, and farm 187 to kingdom come for the next 39 hours as a retal.
3). Appeal here for FA/offensive alliances. Offer anyone who gives significant help a free opportunity to hit me with as many landgrabs as they want in the next 5 days, and I won't retal any of them.
I really don't want to join a clan right now. So I'm here appealing for option #3. If you help FA me with significant amounts of cash/bushels/offensive military, you can farm me for five days and I won't retal at all. Happy to negotiate for more if you can offer significant FA/military.
I'm hoping there are enough people here who will help, whether out of greed, distaste for LaF, or just sympathy for the little guy. I'm not offering two-stepping (I won't give you any indication as to when my hits will happen), but I won't retal you for a limited period.
If you have any questions, or want to suggest an alternative, or would like to help, message me here or ingame as soon as possible--I only have 39 hours from the time of this post to make it happen.
With gratitude,
Player Z
TL;DR: help me farm LaF's bully, and you can take advantage of a limited time offer to farm me.
I decided to play untagged this set for the first time ever. I quite enjoy it, and I think it adds to the entertainment of the game when there are landgrab targets out there that actually give people a run for their money. Landtrading is boring, mechanical. There's no element of winning or losing there. I've always been drawn to the challenges that actually carry real risk. Will I be able to outrun a retal? Will that country think of me as important enough to retal if I hit him 3 times out of 100 other hits he has against him? It's fun.
Untaggeds have been driven from this game by excessive farming and bullying.
Untaggeds are also killed if they "suicide" with any nonstandard attacks, or if they farm unsuspecting countries who haven't been aggressive against anyone.
I think that the "excessive farming" is an acceptable tradeoff for the challenge--I decided I am willing to play while being farmed constantly, and I would only retal countries within a normal 48-hour window.
However, there's a fundamental disadvantage when alliance members use wartime tactics against me, and I know that I can't use those same tactics back without being killed. My production gets shot, so I can't even use my normal retal tactics.
It's one-sided bullying at its finest.
I would like to fight back, but I can't do it by myself at this point. See history with #187, who has gone against his own alliance's directives to continue using wartime hits against me, even days against my last retal against him.
So I am faced with three options as an untagged:
1). Suck it up, because gosh darn it, you're an untagged on the Alliance server. Possibly quit playing out of frustration.
2). Join an alliance, get them to FA me, and farm 187 to kingdom come for the next 39 hours as a retal.
3). Appeal here for FA/offensive alliances. Offer anyone who gives significant help a free opportunity to hit me with as many landgrabs as they want in the next 5 days, and I won't retal any of them.
I really don't want to join a clan right now. So I'm here appealing for option #3. If you help FA me with significant amounts of cash/bushels/offensive military, you can farm me for five days and I won't retal at all. Happy to negotiate for more if you can offer significant FA/military.
I'm hoping there are enough people here who will help, whether out of greed, distaste for LaF, or just sympathy for the little guy. I'm not offering two-stepping (I won't give you any indication as to when my hits will happen), but I won't retal you for a limited period.
If you have any questions, or want to suggest an alternative, or would like to help, message me here or ingame as soon as possible--I only have 39 hours from the time of this post to make it happen.
With gratitude,
Player Z