Top 20 Medals

*Brandmeister agrees with Albatross.

One notes, for example, that Attack and Defense often break the top 100 when a big player is on the brink of death. The scores are not absolutes; they require considerable interpretation.

Arctic55 wrote: I myself do not plan on going got city 10 as I would have to reconstruct my cities which are currently built around large army size. Therefore, I have reached my desired position in population (or am coming near to it). Coming out of the building stage, I now see why many vets leave. It is BORING. Unless we want to do something dramatic:     move cities = lose population     start war = what we saw with H?     start training alliance = work and competition against the more established.

I recently got my 10th city, and my cities have big armies. And all res and gold on green.
But it took over two years of  building and rebuilding and planning.

It's like WoW.. The fun starts when you reach lvl 90!

Brids17 does have a point... just saying, not hating.

Develop your own sandbox tournament. If I ever have time, I will create a trader mystery of my own. I have the framework, but it's a long way off. Months at least. I think it's silly that big players complain that there is nothing to do, when they are large enough to create meta-content themselves. System medals and scores are not going to keep players engaged in a sandbox game. It's not why we started playing in the first place.

Tyrande Whisperwinds wrote: I must say... WTH! A medal for top 20.. TWENTY! t w e n t y... are you serious? If it was for top 3, i would see a small, little point to it, but top 20? for real? Name any competition, tourney, anything at all in which you get a medal for being in top 20. As, i'm sorry to say, threatning to abandon if you don't get a medal for your top 20 thingy is kinda... childish.. if you're bored, go do something else then! Lot's of games around.. Or, as many ppl said, go explore BL... it's a brand new continent with new, tasty mysteries to come!

I understand where you are coming from, but you need to understand, this is a sandbox. There is also no end game. Since there is no end game, there is no "winning" you just exist. Without anything to strive for, there is no reason to play after reaching where you want to be.

I myself do not plan on going got city 10 as I would have to reconstruct my cities which are currently built around large army size. Therefore, I have reached my desired position in population (or am coming near to it). Coming out of the building stage, I now see why many vets leave. It is BORING. Unless we want to do something dramatic:
    move cities = lose population
    start war = what we saw with H?
    start training alliance = work and competition against the more established.

All of which are not really good options when you think about it. (I remember when illy was a nicer place, but that's for another time.) From where I stand, there isn't much to keep players in illy after they reached their targeted pop. Which is also why many LoU players left. After contacting them myself, many of the ones that left, told me it was because there was no end game, and they just couldn't stay in a game with no point to play. Think for yourselves, if there is nothing to do, nothing to strive fore, how long would you stay?