Attacks on Mamaquilla

Hello Illyriad,

a war player is currently being quite aggressive. This post is supposed to explain the situation and keep it for future generations.

The incident this post is about is not the first aggressive action.  More details about that in another post.

The next target was one of Mamaquilla cities.

Some background: Mamaquilla is the second account of Lupia, one of Illyriads greatest players and leaders. She did lead ITG/SMA until around 2 years ago when she got into IRL problems and did not play much anymore. She told us multiple times she wants to come back but is currently burned out and does not have the time and other things to focus on (i know the details and they really suck). She logs in from time to time to reset her accout inactivity. We have a way to reach her via Facebook - but it has been quite unreliable and i do not want to over-use it too much.

Lupia was an amazing player, leader and teacher who spent a lot of time focused mostly on training new players and building a welcoming, helpful, friendly and fun environment in ITG and SMA. For me she was the best leader i ever had (and i played quite a few MMOs). Leading close to 200 account alliances and teaching new players is a lot of work. To give an example: I have the biggest accounts in Illyriad. Still, on average 80% of my time in Illyriad i do leadership topics and teach/help new players. You are going to burn out at some point - all the big leaders have (Sa'Belle, Ranalos/Solanar, ...). When you spend thousands of hours for the community and the game you deserve a break. In my opinion those players are the diamonds of Illyriad that we have to protect. And make is as easy for them to come back as possible.

Lupia was a peaceful player and leader that tried to stay away from war players as far as possible. She disliked aggressive players and the impact they had on the game. She was not aggressive and always solved the issues with diplomacy. I do think the war players where a major reason why she burned out of Illyriad and took a break.

Back to the current issue: The Ork'Shire Ripper sent me a message asking to siege and raze the city. I explained to him that usually i accept those requests for inactive players. But because of the reasons above this is not the case for Lupia. She is a legend, stated she wants to come back and we have a way to reach her. I offered him a confed which would have allowed him to move cities close to the city. He told me that terraforms would still be blocked by other players around (all accounts he is controlling - and even then confeds would solve the issue) and to talk to Bazoon instead of him in the future. In the next days i made multiple deals with Bazoon. He broke them trying to get me to conceide more. I talked with one of the accounts he is controlling (thinking in the beginning i would talk with a real player) - all i got was lies, propaganda and making fun of the situation.

In the end Mamaquilla cities got sieged by an account he is controlling and siege trained by his accounts. I talked with Bazoon to stop the attacks and conceided some more (Lupia has to move the city as soon as she returns). He recalled the sieges and it was quiet for a few hours. Then a day later the siege trains start again and are continuing to rain over the city.

My goal to keep Mamaquilla away from the war players she disliked failed. When she logs into her account and sees the attacks she is going to hate it. And quite likely stay away for Illyriad longer. Or forever. I currently would.

Sorry Lupia, i failed you.

Conclusion

Quite a few people are telling me he is doing this because he is bored. There is no real PvP. The game is dying. When you bully the opposition in wars and the training/tournament alliances out of the game via Toxicity - what do you expect? Why do you think anyone would have have fun getting bullied like this? Instead of a fair fight you get a fight in the gutter - why would anyone opt into that?

Is he going to stop? I think not. The question is just who it is next time.

No respect for our legends and leaders. No appreciation for the amazing work they did for the game and the community. Instead attacking anyone that is close to you. With senseless aggression against players and alliances that in this case cannot defend themselves. Frustrating multiple important leaders in this game.

Because of this Illyriad is not a game i enjoy anymore.

Best regards,

Thirion/Ellania