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The Seven Stages of Grief - "When being nobled" edition
Everyone must sooner or later deal with the concept of villages being nobled. Some take it better than others, especially if you're the one doing the nobling. While the following may apply to you, one of the key components in understanding your targets and helping them ease through the difficult and emotional process of loss is to understand what they are going through. Once you understand, you'll be able to better help them cope with what is no doubt a stressful and taxing time for them.
With that, I present to you, from countless hours of research (laughing at the mails people send to me or forward onto me in game) a comprehensive guide to the seven stages of grief that your target will be experiencing as he watches the countdown to when he loses his village.
All of these are pulled from actual ingame emails I have received or that others have forwarded to me.
Stage One: Shock and Disbelief
The first stage is quite a harrowing experience. Your target will be farming away, building his village, and perhaps sharing in a joke or two upon the forum, happy they have found an online version of SimCity. Much like the US before Pearl Harbor, war is just a distant tale in faraway lands.
Suddenly, all that changes when they see the attack symbol. They are, as the stage suggests, filled with shock and disbelief. Afterall, they never attacked anyone! They never farmed anything that wasn't touching their main village, and cannot believe they are being nobled! Examples:
Stage Two: Denial
Once your target gets over the first stage, he moves into Denial. This is characterized by not wanting to believe that he IS being nobled. The incomings are fakes. After all, don't you see his point count? How can the likes of YOU possibly stand against his 7k point village with it's all powerful 1500 swords and 60 HC? Your target either goes into denial about the attack being a real one...
Moving past denial, your target will realize he is in fact getting cleared and nobled. At this point, he still believes he can salvage the situation and then try to bargain with you. This can take on several levels...
Trying to appeal to your humanity...
Stage Four: Guilt
When bargaining doesn't work, then your opponent starts to come to terms with his increasingly hopeless situation. While asking himself what he did to deserve this, he looks back on all his previous transgressions within the game.
Stage Five: Anger
More often than not, the feelings of guilt will morph into feelings of anger when they believe they did nothing wrong, certainly nothing that could justify an attack! Your target will become very unstable, and will say anything and everything that comes to their mind. They may insult you, either in the game or personally, or brag about their skills on other worlds (none of which has any bearing on the current world) and be indignant that you don't know who they are.
Stage Six: Depression
Anger burns itself up rather quickly for some, or it can last as long as the train takes (depending on how drunk your victim gets) but will ultimately move on to depression as they realize nothing can stop the outcome.
Stage Seven: Acceptance and Hope
Your victim will finally come to accept that their village will soon have a new aristocracy, and in doing so, may look towards the future.
Player does not exist.
Everyone must sooner or later deal with the concept of villages being nobled. Some take it better than others, especially if you're the one doing the nobling. While the following may apply to you, one of the key components in understanding your targets and helping them ease through the difficult and emotional process of loss is to understand what they are going through. Once you understand, you'll be able to better help them cope with what is no doubt a stressful and taxing time for them.
With that, I present to you, from countless hours of research (laughing at the mails people send to me or forward onto me in game) a comprehensive guide to the seven stages of grief that your target will be experiencing as he watches the countdown to when he loses his village.
The Seven Stages of Grief (when being nobled)
All of these are pulled from actual ingame emails I have received or that others have forwarded to me.
Stage One: Shock and Disbelief
The first stage is quite a harrowing experience. Your target will be farming away, building his village, and perhaps sharing in a joke or two upon the forum, happy they have found an online version of SimCity. Much like the US before Pearl Harbor, war is just a distant tale in faraway lands.
Suddenly, all that changes when they see the attack symbol. They are, as the stage suggests, filled with shock and disbelief. Afterall, they never attacked anyone! They never farmed anything that wasn't touching their main village, and cannot believe they are being nobled! Examples:
Stage Two: Denial
Once your target gets over the first stage, he moves into Denial. This is characterized by not wanting to believe that he IS being nobled. The incomings are fakes. After all, don't you see his point count? How can the likes of YOU possibly stand against his 7k point village with it's all powerful 1500 swords and 60 HC? Your target either goes into denial about the attack being a real one...
Or they are in denial of their odds of survival...
Stage Three: BargainingLOL, yeah right...your attack lands in 20 hours, you'll be surprised at how much defense I'll be able to churn out with my level 25 barracks before then
Moving past denial, your target will realize he is in fact getting cleared and nobled. At this point, he still believes he can salvage the situation and then try to bargain with you. This can take on several levels...
Trying to appeal to your humanity...
Offering you friendship...
Appealing to your sense of sportsmanship...hey we should team up we could totally pwn everyone around us
Evoking pity and attempting to bribe you...
Or perhaps they just skip that altogether. They may try to bargain with your tribe leader..
Stage Four: Guilt
When bargaining doesn't work, then your opponent starts to come to terms with his increasingly hopeless situation. While asking himself what he did to deserve this, he looks back on all his previous transgressions within the game.
I guess I shouldn't have attacked your buddy, I had no clue you guys would attack me this bad
Stage Five: Anger
More often than not, the feelings of guilt will morph into feelings of anger when they believe they did nothing wrong, certainly nothing that could justify an attack! Your target will become very unstable, and will say anything and everything that comes to their mind. They may insult you, either in the game or personally, or brag about their skills on other worlds (none of which has any bearing on the current world) and be indignant that you don't know who they are.
Stage Six: Depression
Anger burns itself up rather quickly for some, or it can last as long as the train takes (depending on how drunk your victim gets) but will ultimately move on to depression as they realize nothing can stop the outcome.
Stage Seven: Acceptance and Hope
Your victim will finally come to accept that their village will soon have a new aristocracy, and in doing so, may look towards the future.
Oh well, I learned alot playing this world. I'll definitely do better when I restart or in the next world, I'll see you then and maybe it won't be so easy
And the one we all know and love the most?
Player does not exist.
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