Have been working on a few.things prior to getting back to my studies,.and was wondering.about .a. few things related to those of you in the top 5 tribes here on w81.
What do you owe your success to?
Is it your skills?
Is it your D:O vils ratios?
Is it some other factor?
Is it a combination of all of the above? If so, what percentage of each?
Please feel free to give as.many details and.examples that can be safely shared in an open forum.
Cool post. I'll weigh in my 2 cents on all of it. I'll do my best not to make bad jokes / troll comment / sarcasm etc. as well as not gloating b/c I know there is tons of haters, not only that these forums are out weighted by the people winning on w81 vs the ppl viewing , ppl losing, ppl observing. Keep in my this is my humble opinion and I will be direct about it.
What do you owe your success to?
assuming success means winning vs learning..
If you are successful in the game you have to have to have several things in your corner. First comes experience and knowledge. You need to know and understand how the game works... There is a lot of variables that come into consideration when it comes to success. Ill try to put them in order of priority, I'm sure opinions will vary in here:
activity , knowledge / information / skill, execution , resilience / attitude, strategy, integrity, perseverance / stamina, luck.
activity : doesnt matter who you are or what you know, if you dont log in, if you got" rl issues" or school or other excuses to login and tend the acct in the high times /low times / launch times / snipe times / tagging / farming etc, doesn't matter who you are , how good you are, you will not amount to anything. You need to log into your acct, tend your Skype / tribe / members on a consistent basis or you are not going to get anywhere . Many players that are considered good, I will use Alex from WP as an example, are actually total trash bc they disappear when they are actually needed for activity , so it doesn't matter who you are or what you know, if you don't actively log in, you are
shit, period . That is why I would never recommend starting a normal TW world (non speed round) with at
LEAST 1 coplayer. Never assume a roll of leadership or act as a leader when others depend on you if you dont tend to stick around when they need you. PRW / Alex are prime examples for neglecting leadership rolls when others needed them to step up- total scrubs.
knowledge / info / skill - difference between knowledge and information is simple- its the application of it, some ppl may or may not not know the right advice or choice or play / action but the application of it is vital and thats when information becomes knowledge, when it is applied. skill is the actual ability of the application of it all. I'm not gonna get into a huge discussion here , all ill say is that offensive always beats defensive due to the fact that it builds 3x as fast, trades evenly unless its stacked 1:3 against. and needs a wall. Defense application... mostly its put
DIRECTLY infront of nobles, or to stack vills to high hell. You need to know how to snipe, and snipe with confidence , I've sniped probly 15-30 nobles on this world with LC / axe alone, because its that ez to kill a noble with 50axe/ lc- when a typical noob would just stack n lose everything to a nuke. If you dont know how to snipe/ prenoble / renoble / backtime / etc etc etc; You are playing in an entire different league then the top tier players on the game. The game has many phases, early game mid game , late game , ultra late game. If you think you are good on this game or want to learn this game fast, you should play speed rounds with the top tiered players in the world, you will be humbled quickly when you experience back timing, sniping , cancel sniping , and so on. Many early game players dont have patience for late game, many late game players suck at early game. At end of day it all comes with time,
sometimes you win, sometimes you learn. Like PRW for example, he is learning alot on this world - like that you cant build nukes that have 0 cats, or have nukes that have 100 cats and consider it a "cat nuke" lol.
Imacros wont win worlds vs you mike, you need to learn to play.
resilence n attitude , we all know the player that got opped once, or lost a village , or splatted a nuke and just quit. some of the best players ive ever known, quit after losing 10 spears due to unlucky first attacks on barbs, or hitting 1 spiked barb, or being opped, or having the odds stacked against them due to politics, resilence in this game goes a long long long long way. Defending is easy, attacking is hard. Its hard to cap a village, keep it with a 0 wall, not get sniped , not get prenobled / renobled n so on. if you have a weak personality you will leave this game due to several attacks on your farms / warehouses. I think lifeless clown is a perfect example here, where bigcheese made channel 4 news team, a rank 9 account at the time quit with 10 nukes only and several hundred cats. the player had no knoweldge of how to defend or back time, stacked a handful of villages on a "warfront" had his core villages catted with 1/4 nukes split up, and never was heard from again. total example of what a gutless scrub weak personality can do to an account. vs differnt personality , daniel beri, who took massive losses time n time again but had the resilence to stick around for weeks n months on end, making the most of the situation and sticking around to see it through. resilence in the game will typically take your attackers to change targets or ask you if you are interested in joining vs attacking you and spinning there wheels.
strategy and integrity - some (PRW) people strategist to try to horde inactive accounts, invite to gain ground (bezerk) vs nobling to gain ground, wait for inactives to go red so they can internal inactive players(prw), shuffle account sits around to stack there own villages while there tribies suffocate(prw) .. in most worlds ive seen the top ranked players do nothing but internal villages, this world is very similar, PRW has majority of barbs / internals to count for his points, he has really done nothing significant, he honestly has no clue how to attack aside from what he has learned from being attacked by bigcheese and others in LRO. He counts on others around him quiting, so he can grow off their gifted villages , even priding himself off how many ppl gifting there accounts to him. Many other players , far n few in between, attack regardless of the odds, because of location or because of politics. - You want to pick your tribe smartly, but you dont want to be dumb to what tribe you are in, you need to be aware of corruption and people using and abusing you and others for there own personal gain- example prw / beserk, its a total joke- prw is willing to do anything / join anyone if it means the chance he will get support mules / inactive accounts to noble- yet every target / player attacked by bigcheese , asked for support and was not only declined help but ridiculed by prw and other leadership. total disgust.
TLDR
The success on bigcheese account comes from several variables , number 1 having 3 players on the account that work well together and think alike, secondly having the skillsets to snipe while maintaining a offensive ratio even while having the odds stacked against us at times. Having the resilience to defend vs the odds of tribal attacks, imacro fakers (prw ) , the combined experience of 30 years between the 3 ppl on the acct. not to mention dozens of speed rounds and having a solid tribe, solid leadership , and core group of players that have the same vision of winning w81.
There is no way to weigh in a % of which is most important, whatever your weakest link is will end up burning you the most. You have to have priorities. Focus on your strengths
, bigcheese for example focuses on destroying accounts, that is our strength. PRW for example focusing on farming with imacros and internaling his tribemates, that is his strength.