White stopped playing ?

Insensitive, perhaps--but realistic.  Browser-based games simply aren't for the impatient, hotheaded, or inattentive.  Sooner or later, they'll be outshone by players who have the opposite qualities.

Illyriad is different in that there's room for such people, who can instead play a more casual game focused more on trade or NPC warfare.  But they still need to involve themselves enough to have allies against other player types--or trust their luck not to raise notice.  The players who don't diligently play the hard game and yet provoke others who do are just plain foolish.  Any other path of action leaves some opportunity to thrive, but not that.


Edited by HonoredMule - 11 Sep 2010 at 17:38

Brids17 wrote: HonoredMule wrote: We do play a fairly serious game, but many of us are mature adults, so that's the attitude and set of sensibilities we bring to the table. That's sort of contradicting. If you're a mature adult, shouldn't you realize it's just a game and not take it so seriously?

First off - there is no-one who plays 24/7 - to even suggest it is pretty silly. I'm not even aware of anyone who has deliberately interrupted their sleep to hit a send time for an army (something common in other games like Eve).

Some do not work and can check the game regularly during the day, but even then that doesn't mean they are actually playing 16 hours a day, just that they can check the game every hour or so to see what's happening.

That being said - with the speed at which siege engines travel I'm pretty sure White saw every single siege before it even landed until they threw their toys out of the pram, gave up and went inactive. I also saw plenty of activity at all kinds of strange hours on their side too.

Laccy - The solution to your issue is pretty straight forward - spend 60 seconds checking your cities for incoming between the time you wake up and the time you go to work.  That way there is never more than 8-10 hours (maybe 12 if you work a long shift or have a crappy commute) where someone can sneak up on you. It's no different to checking your email or reading the news and constitutes about the same level of "dedication"....

My favorite ploy utilizing Johannes was the time I sent away my "main" army to defend a newbie and (unlike normally) did not tick "covert," drawing out Diablito's siege army to slaughter.  The intent was to time the debut arrival of my new army at Istan for just before his siege.  Though I goofed on the timing and sustained one round of attack, he launched again and was destroyed soundly.  I believe the destruction of his capital followed shortly...either that or the siege we failed; I don't recall which for sure.

Diablito had his alt in our alliance (Johannes, whom we kept as an initiate and occasionally used as a leak for misinformation) who would have seen my in-game online activity almost from the beginning.  I and many others intentionally stayed logged in 24/7 since we had no desire to advertise our absence, nor any other truly verifiable/accurate intel.

My favorite ploy utilizing Johannes was the time I sent away my "main" army to defend a newbie and (unlike normally) did not tick "covert," drawing out Diablito's siege army to slaughter.  The intent was to time the debut arrival of my new army at Istan for just before his siege.  Though I goofed on the timing and sustained one round of attack, he launched again and was destroyed soundly.  I believe the destruction of his capital followed shortly...either that or the siege we failed; I don't recall which for sure.