Adrowsy - fair points and I will address them
1. Never losing a war is not the same as never losing a city. Losing cities teaches you lessons as does gaining them against very good players. The losing and gaining of cities and the calibre of players you play against together with your own drive to suceed at the game and good friends willing to cover your account with a similar level of efficiency make great players. It is for these reasons and most notably for the calibre and numbers of enemies I have fought in my history that I have never lost a war. And as you say, losing teaches you something. Losing cities teaches you how not to lose them and inherently this teaches you how to not lose wars. Q.E.D.
2. I would consider myself one of the top ten players to have played on 2 worlds to date. On World 5 myself and TPC mainly sat the accounts of members under attack at serious junctures in the world's history. Keeping those strategic players alive allowed LFKD to achieve its stated objectives and control the core. Put this together with organising 50-100 players individual orders and strike times to remove top ten threats to the safety of the alliance at critical junctures when alliance members came under threat (and I am talking precision use of tactical resources not the mass bombardment you see after players have 100+ disposable cities) and I'd say yeah I was definitely one of the top 2 players on world 5. TPC was the other top 2 player.
3. I had #1 OD and ODD on world 4 before OA's 30 odd players was swarmed by the 1000+ players w00t spear-headed to take us out. I had top 5 OD on W5 as long as I played and while I never achieved top 10 ODD for my own account, dozens of the accounts that I sat defending at crucial points in wars reached that level. And I agree ODD whoring does not make you a great player.
4. In OA on world 4 I was isolated away from the tribe and the majority of the war against CULT initially went on far away from me. However, I had a large contingent of CULT about 6 hours away and I nobled into their area to take them out. I went toe to toe with 7 of their players. 2 of which were exceptional players the same size as me and the rest were mostly making up the numbers but I was out gunned and had a lot less cities and they also had 35 players 15-24 hours away which decided to start nuking me from a distance. I captured ground then lost ground. My tribe gave me defences and I switched to pure offence and 8 days later wiped them out in my counter attack as I got my nukes built before them.
Great players are a combination of a multitude of skills; Leading, strategising, direction of resources, offence, defence, personal sacrafice, advising, teaching, always learning and playing within the rules.
I am have these qualities, I have shown these qualities and while it might sound arrogant to other players when I say that I am one of the best players to have ever played this game, the fact remains that its true. There are still some players far better at some individual things than I am such as timing trains down to 0.02 between nobles but someone who understands scripting/browsers etc can easily do that. There are players in this game that are better than me in all areas of the qualities above that I have described and I include vpar2, TPC, Thana Nightshade (*hugs*) and Badlapje in those few handfuls but I am one of the best players in Tribal Wars for what is above and for everything else I have done that would take far too much time to list.
That is my experience; that is my resume if you will and while it sounds arrogant to you, for me its a matter of fact and this thread did ask about the experience of players and their aliases.
I hope this addresses your queries.
