ehhhmmm, excuse me, but you won't be getting those nuggets unless you leave TW and join us, cause thats the only way you'll succeed.
we're having a small but exciting battle here at Endless Nights. i got KOd, but i was also mostly alone on the duelers tower (im a soldier) and against about 7 men. some with some pretty good guns. i was pretty pissed, cause i almost KOd 2 or 3 of them. i hopped around the tower, and when they were at the edge ready to jump in, i got in before them. lol. it started as like 21 attackers on 17 defenders i believe, but its actually 15, cause 1 suicided (advanced off the tower into the attackers) and another is inside the fort doing nothing. we ground them down though, and those attackers with 100-300 health left died eventually. im waiting for it to end now.
I was on the wrong side of that battle, I need to finish my quests soon and re-spec back, my fort combat performance has been dropping lately.
WTA used to be part of ETC but left
miestas were our allies, but they never pulled their own weight (if only 4 show up to defend their own, imagine what we could expect from them if we asked for help in one of our battles). the same could be said of LG and of the 2nd GE (0E0).
if you guys don't think kman and myself, and others from ETC have been trying to cobble something together in these months since Elundial left and we had our implosion, then I don't know what to say. you think we like losing forts? so all of you asking why we don't just do "one big battle"... you don't know what you are talking about. I have acknowledged many times that inactivity is a huge problem for us, and I had thought we got it under control but obviously thats not the case at all.
@RoD: just like I told you in personal mail, I will say it again. this was not my OP. so please don't try and cast harsh words at me. and all this crap about "if we wanted to do fake attacks we could take every fort in the world" is getting old. because just last week, you took advantage of a previous attack on ETC when you attacked our large fort. ETC outlaw soldier drew 45 ETC members away for a 10 person fight. and your attack on our large fort was declared ~5hrs AFTER the ETC outlaw soldier battle. so you guys saw that battle (or had devils woods initiate it for you), and placed your attack ~5hs afterwards. this is the SAME strategy (multiple attacks spreading forces thin) that you are now complaining about, and accusing me of orchestrating when I didn't. nobody in ETC did, we were approached by lokiju like everyone else, and excuse us for not turning down an opportunity to get a fort back. how "unfair" and "cheap" of us, isn't it
@Blitzkrieg: regarding your criticism of the lack of veteran fort battle medals in my town: we have plenty of good fort fighters, and just because we haven't been involved in as many fort battles as some of your members doesn't say anything about how people's stats are allocated and how well they will do in a fort battle. so your criticism really makes no sense to me at all; how am I responsible for a lack of fort battle medals. you think ETC recently has been involved in nearly as many fort battles as TW/TSC (taking into account attacks and defenses)? the answer is no. so there is your medals; congratulations. its not mine or anyone's else's fault that no other large empires have stepped up to give you good competition. you got months of good fights out of ETC but we are not what we were. I'm sorry but it just sounds like you are complaining that you are on top; if you guys want some good fort battles how about you fight each other if we are all so "below" you? sheesh
I really do not know what to say. I am not complaining from the top at all, I was trying to help and point something out, TW and SB in general participated in a bunch of fort battle. Owning forts = potential for a lot of battle but if you believe ETC did everything possible, then so be it. I was not in ETC, I actually was on friendly term with some ETC member, if you check at least one ETC town, I believe I am still listed in their mortician as dueler who did most single damage. When I was in ETC town, I contribute as much as I could as a town member. It's the same when I was in Miestas long long time ago, I posted in their forum, tried to help, etc.
I have a policy of I shop at a town, I try to not cause trouble and I will try to avoid dueling residents of that town in the future.
You also need to realize I am looking from the outside, I did not know how much effort nor what you have put in towards ETC's success or current state. Some of our posts and threads recently have shed light on the fort diplomatic development in W1, where people contributed what they know about what happened, allowed me to put the picture together better.
Inactivity is our biggest enemyand probably for entire W1. We try to keep our member interested with fort battles, help each other with quests, etc. etc.
If you look at the salon thread of whos' questiest, a bunch of people are from TW towns on that list. A good portion of hall of famer are also from TW. Like Rosencrantz pointed out, once you reach level 99, you need to find some goal or else game may become pointless.
Some of them turned into cash machine, funding fort challenges. Some enjoy building up towns & forts (I lost count how many large forts we have built up after we took them over, I certainly helped with some of the forts construction myself before I re-spec to try to complete some of those quests). I hope more activity will generate into more interest overall and attract more fresh blood into W1.