Aten
Go read Rap's thread that you think is so great. Then perhaps you can try and make a valid point without insulting people. Insult their actions in the game, sure, but once again you feel the need to insult the people you are playing against.
Everyone understands why Hot did what they did. Sure it was a harsh move to do but they felt it necessary. Not to be the big dog, because they still aren't. Aten still is. They did it to keep Aten from becoming a big dog that could have no equal. Perhaps thats what you wanted and you were so close to having thus why you are so pissed and feel the need to constantly try and degrade other players?
Its been explained over and over yet you continuously try to make it out to be the actions of horrible people instead of actions by decent folks who saw that there was about to be a power in the world that couldnt be matched, that the power had already shown the desire to fight a single tribe at a time and to throw their numerical superiority at them.
Its your own tactics that brought this on. I truly understand why players would be upset about all the work seemingly all for naught, but that sometimes is the nature of this game.
Basically stop trying to assassinate certain persons character with every post you make, slipping in single sentences to do such is still the same as making an entire post dedicated to such. Get control of yourself idefix because in the end its just a friggin game.
I really disagree with this. To me this is a lot like my wife explaining my motives to me. Somehow she always feels as though she knows me better than myself, yet most of the time I feel as if she doesn't know me at all. What's really happening is that she's substituting her thought processes, trying to explain my decisions.
Of course I agree with most of what Idefix has said, this is what is going on in our heads. I can see some the logic behind what others are posting, yet that's not really what was going on with us. We were involved in a very, very, very, long and drawn out war with ST. We were very focused on that in a way that might be difficult for others not involved in similar apocalyptic wars to understand. I don't think that it ever really occurred to any of us that we were the most powerful tribe, or that by defeating ST that we would dominate W2. In fact, much of the opposite is true, it has always been one of our objectives to NOT appear to be so dominant that folks constantly trying to put together an anti Aten coalition would find sympathic ears.
I don't know, we go at this over and over, neither side convincing the other. Perhaps if you look at it like this, you might see how I personally see it.
In the real world, we all know that we can't be stupid, and we've got to pay attention to what's going on with our women, or someone else will take them from us. We expect that. If your wife is having an affair, it hurts, but we all know that life sometimes throws curve balls, and we move on. However, if the person that your wife is having an affair with is your best friend, or god forbid, your brother, then that rachets the level of anomoisty up another whole level.
This is how we see what has happened between HOT and Aten. HOT had a chance to continue warring against the broken up CEG tribes, but chose not too, then after almost a year of us beating down ST, HOT steps in and supports them, and promises them that if they merge with HOT, that HOT will go to war with Aten to protect them. This is exactly what happened. HOT made this promise to ST, in writing, and moved forward. Once HOT started supporting Aten's enemy, merged with them, and promised to war against Aten on their behalf, how could this have ended up otherwise than it is now?
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