En1 server Big Boys not so big?

Cupish

marc582 wrote: »

Im from a small alliance but agree with what the guys are saying from the larger ones, you do make friends as you go through the game and as you both grow so will your friendship, we as a small alliance have made gd friends with another alliance of about the same size ( after a war too) That friendship will last as long as we all playing the game.
When you are a small alliance its all about teamwork and being there when attacked, defence is the best form of attack.
We have large alliance's coming knocking for our bigger players you always will, we had one today, he said no thanks they sent him a msg saying he was a fool because the alliance he was in could not support him if he was attacked, they attacked well 2 off them did,with support we beat both attacks so it just proves you can beat larger alliance if you work together.
So stop moaning if you are a small alliance and work with what you have you never know

Any large alliance reading this please don't come and attack us we have 4 large alliance around us that attack most weeks cant cope with anymore thanks

Nice alliance mate though I doubt you get attacked that badly. Rippedandforty and myself started in one just like it gotta love those local ones. Get to know people real well. Sadly the membgers in it went inactive though with there help rippednadforty now leads BRAVEHEARTITAN and I'm a general of his. Keep doing what you are.

marc58 (GB1)

Thx m8, you would be surprised how much we do get attacked by so called large alliance but we deal with it, just looked at your alliance that's the my goal to get us up there like that.

Cupish

marc582 wrote: »

Thx m8, you would be surprised how much we do get attacked by so called large alliance but we deal with it, just looked at your alliance that's the my goal to get us up there like that.

Yeah takes loyal rubyist in the alliance though really.

baronzamedi (GB1)

Humpers2 wrote: »

I guess if the alliance needs rubies for the cash box thats a fair point baron. Regardless I use flags. You can still reel in 10k+ / 1040 with flags.

True humpers, but u still suicide your troops for what benifit? I can see the incomings, alliances spend millions of rubies for a prize of 10k. After you have won it once what is the point in doing it again?

tasha_p39

ok im in a smaller alliance and tbh yes i have been from alinace to alliance and i will say BSK has attacked be on a mumber of times just like the dark union altho it really bugs me because of all the smaller alliances banding together becoming mates BSK and the others are the only way of getting glory i have even if its only a small amount i also have to agree with gisselle why should people have to drop there mates just to please everyone else in one of the alliances i was in i was made to feel this way what people really need to do is stop bloody moaning and get on with it its just a bloody game after all the reason EN1 is boring is because of the amount of people that take the game to seriously its just a bit of fun not real life sorry if i have ofended anyone with this comment but im bored of people moaning about the way the game is played

risesheena (GB1)

True the reward for the tournament should be some item or something on the each members castle with some additional PO. May be hall of fame .. :-) ,, have heared CM talk about not the same reward for same event, but the alliance tournament has been always with the same reward.

daniel freed

fujiwara wrote: »

I'm somewhat curious as to what you mean by poaching? Do you mean any and all attempts to invite someone to your alliance when they already belong to another alliance?

Yes that is exactly what i mean but i suppose its part of the game and if you want to keep your best players you need to invest in your aliance and make it bigger and stronger. However i am in charge of recruitment at NEMESIS! and i never approach players from other alliances. I only ever have searched for players who are looking for an alliance to join. There are alliances who are notourious for making approaches to our players. Only yesterday a large alliance made an approach to every single one of our members over lvl60. I think that is dissrespectfull

Cupish

Hi mrb

We are looking for good players to join the dakwanderers, the wing af the dark union, and you have caught our eye.
Would you consider joining us? let me know if your interested.

regards
Andy
So Darkwanders have invited a member of are's to join there alliance? Why is this I wonder? Caught your eye? May I ask who deals with your recruitment policy? Do you really think it's right you should go inviting members of are's with all your power? Sort out your recruitment policy.

Baldrick (GB1)

I think you're way off the mark Cupish. Alliances invite players to join them all the time, nothing to complain about there really.

Out of interest, where do you get your new member form?

Also, it's "ours", not "are's". No offence.

UltimateJhon

Cupish my alliance took 4 players from you , big deal.Me rip still friendly terms , cupish good players arent usualy allianceleess.And its the players choice to join them or not , no one can force you , if your players are joining other alliances then there un-loyal and you need find some good players.

ZeMaster830 (US1)

Cupish wrote: »

Is it only me who has notcied how boring the En1 server is compared to the others. All the Big boys are friends so theres never really any intresting wars to read about, the Big boys just pick on alliances that are strong yet not strong enough to hold there power in the tournaments that happen and theirs bassically nothing to get excited about on it. It really needs to change I think all of the big guns should drop there wings and fight it out. Higher lvl players on the server are always talking about never having decent targets, perhaps if they weren't all friends they would and alliances of a smaller lvl e.g mine wouldn't lose all there members to the big guns simply because they are getting smashed to bad. Hopefully I haven't got myself in deep trouble posting this though please reply with your thoughts I'm interested.

Then join USA, we never have real peace. We've had at least 3 server wars, soon to be 4. sigh...

Andy0072

Cupish wrote: »

Hi mrb

We are looking for good players to join the dakwanderers, the wing af the dark union, and you have caught our eye.
Would you consider joining us? let me know if your interested.

regards
Andy
So Darkwanders have invited a member of are's to join there alliance? Why is this I wonder? Caught your eye? May I ask who deals with your recruitment policy? Do you really think it's right you should go inviting members of are's with all your power? Sort out your recruitment policy.

Thanks for putting out there that we are looking for members cupish it saves me a lot of work, and no we don't have a "recruitment policy" or do risk assessments or method statements we have guidelines and rules as this is only a game.
As others have said before me all alliances look to players in an alliance to approach with an interest of joining them as any player worth his salt is already in an alliance.
Instead of complaining that I approached one of your players you should be congratulating the player on his loyalty to you although he has only been with you a very short time and doing as much as you can to keep this player.
What you need to remember is if an alliance becomes stagnant and does not grow then all good players out grow that alliance and leave to be able to get the most from the game. Ask most players in a large alliance why they left their previous alliance and nine times out of ten the answer is they got bored and the leadership did nothing but complain and other members stopped supporting or sending resources.
So before you complain about your members being "poached" make sure your own house is in order and ask yourself why players may be leaving.

marc58 (GB1)

Andy0072 wrote: »

What you need to remember is if an alliance becomes stagnant and does not grow then all good players out grow that alliance and leave to be able to get the most from the game. Ask most players in a large alliance why they left their previous alliance and nine times out of ten the answer is they got bored and the leadership did nothing but complain and other members stopped supporting or sending resources.

This is so true well said

Terriah

Agreed with Andy 10001%.

Regarding the "poaching" thing. I would liken it to headhunters in the business world.
If you're good at what you do, you become noticed. I think if someone offers you a good position/move it's a form of flattery and not rude.

I think it ties back to what Andy said nicely, that if someone is truly happy where they are and the alliance is good, supportive and looks after its members, they'll tend to stay. Same as with work. If you work for a good company who respects you, are appreciated, enjoy your colleagues, get good wages etc, you won't really want to leave.
But if you're unhappy in your alliance - you're not respected, not supported, you outgrow your alliance path and someone offers you a good move, you'll likely take the offer. Same with work. If you're unhappy where you are, don't like your colleagues or bosses etc, if someone offered you an equivalent or better position you'll probably take it.

If your members (in general) stay, I think you can be secure in the knowledge you're doing alright. You just need to keep working on developing your alliance and keeping people happy and expanding. If your members suddenly leave or start leaving en masse, I wouldn't be so quick to condemn the alliances they're leaving you for. Perhaps you need to take a good, long, hard look in the mirror and ask where you're doing wrong. Perhaps ask for constructive feedback from your ex-players.

fujiwara (GB1)

Terriah wrote: »

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This forum needs an upvote feature - I completely agree with Andy and Terriah - that last post is about as succinctly summed up as I could see possible.

Bulwy

daniel freed wrote: »

Yes that is exactly what i mean but i suppose its part of the game and if you want to keep your best players you need to invest in your aliance and make it bigger and stronger. However i am in charge of recruitment at NEMESIS! and i never approach players from other alliances. I only ever have searched for players who are looking for an alliance to join. There are alliances who are notourious for making approaches to our players. Only yesterday a large alliance made an approach to every single one of our members over lvl60. I think that is dissrespectfull

At the end of the day the member has their own choice, I don't think poaching is an issue, it's flattering but if the player leaves then thats of their own accord.

If a good player wants to be approached do they leave their alliance?

Cupish

Baldrick wrote: »

I think you're way off the mark Cupish. Alliances invite players to join them all the time, nothing to complain about there really.

Out of interest, where do you get your new member form?

Also, it's "ours", not "are's". No offence.

Inviting members is understandable though leaders? If you hadn't read my comment earlier on in the thread I mentioned how big alliances kept inviting him to join. And while I have your attention Baldrick i'll give you a hint that you may want to sort out your attack setups. Any alliance that has been attacked as badly as ours knows the Bsk fashion no offence.

Baldrick (GB1)

Cupish wrote: »

Inviting members is understandable though leaders? If you hadn't read my comment earlier on in the thread I mentioned how big alliances kept inviting him to join. And while I have your attention Baldrick i'll give you a hint that you may want to sort out your attack setups. Any alliance that has been attacked as badly as ours knows the Bsk fashion no offence.

Are you actually offering me military advice? It's hard to work out to be honest. The last sentence in particularly makes no sense at all.

Cupish

Baldrick wrote: »

Are you actually offering me military advice? It's hard to work out to be honest. The last sentence in particularly makes no sense at all.

no matter your loss.

Bulwy

Cupish wrote: »

no matter your loss.

If you can see a flaw with Team BSK attacks I'd be very interested to see it as I think they're a pig to deal with to be honest.