Hello, I am the original owner of Vemork. I did not plan on quitting this early, I still wanted to fight on till we had lost beyond the point of no return. I knew we were going to lose it eventually from the way things went, but I just wanted to have a decent fight while waiting for the next world to come on. I am NOT saying I wouldn't have lost if I had stayed, so please do NOT twist my words.
What triggered me (and Shaun) quitting?
#1 Poor teamwork
Only a few people in my tribe fighting and faking. It's very discouraging when half of them just want players like myself, tallandsincere, Shadowmasta, alexinyoface, Bear Paws to carry their weight. (sorry if i missed out anyone) Most of them were actually content with sitting behind and refusing to climb to the frontlines. Everytime I nobled a village, I only saw fakes from 1-2 people, mostly from myself.
#2 Lack of communication
People went MIA without even letting the tribe know.
DJ Freddy going yellow for 5 days. Gen, telling the enemy he quit before telling his own tribe. RIP in Peace Rathi Smurf, duke of the tribe but going inactive. (That was probably the worst). Kekua, going inactive after so much big talk. I could go on and on, you get the point.
#3 Cowardly neighbours
RoyalE + Khan alike, refusing to partake in wordly affairs.
Despite numerous attempts to get RoyalE involved, I think it's pretty clear now that they were simply stalling for time all this while, so that they could get a really, really easy win in this world. I'm pretty dissapointed that W2V won't just rim them out, they honestly do not deserve a win.
Khan, sad to say but there was simply too much hype. Despite the long months of preparation, internalling...et cetra, when they declared war, they took so long before an OP was organised and they began hitting stacks. In fact, the OP organised against Urban Nudist had key members not attacking on time, many didn't even launch nukes/nobles :icon_eek:
All these can be labelled as excuses, that's up to you. I would not have quit this early, but on the 17th May, my router went down and isn't due to be replaced till the start of June (the latest edition just arrived in my country today and it will be a while before it's installed). I think it was during that period where I had almost no chance to log in that I thought, 'hey, guess it's time to take a real break from TW.'
Some rather lame accusations
#1 Vemork, you got poor war stats, you suck.
We have one of the highest, if not the highest ODA in the entire war since it's start from Venus. Prior to our quitting, we held positive caps and were doing fine.
#2 Vemork, why did you take so long to noble a W2V village? You are a noob.
We were based largely in the South and it took us a while to establish a cluster. Even more so, our nukes take ages to hit enemies, giving them plenty of time to prepare the moment we began launching. We took the initiative to get to the front, and I'm sure we caused problems.
#3 Vemork, you got few caps, you are a noob.
We had only 2 villages in South East K55 when this all began. We grew the cluster to close to 50 villages all on W2V villages, by ourselves. True, it wasn't 'alot' of caps, but each cap was really hard-earned. 2-->50, don't tell me that counts for nothing. :icon_confused:
#4 Vemork, you internalled to rank 1.
This is really alarming on your end, whoever said it. For one, the others in the top 20 have had plenty of internals. (Cursory glance at Cadger/Turkmenbeyi) will show that they have had a much easier time getting their ranks as I have (even if you look just at OD scores). Our most recent internal was only a week ago on Bukidnon Queen, who was a perma sat and the sit log hit 60 days. Her entire cluster was based within our villages, if you bother highlighting us on the map, and it was really natural that we took a chunk. Before BQ, I believe we took a few from Happy Kingdom. There was no choice, either we did or W2V did. Tribemates were too inactive to even internal him out. I sent tons of mails to get the tribe on it, but only a few were doing it.
#5 Vemork, you quit because you are scared of losing your rank
Hmm, it's true I've been rank 1 on multiple worlds now. I'm not scared about losing any stupid rank, because I've had a taste of it so many times it's honestly boring if there's no challenge. Perhaps you think otherwise, because you've yet to get rank 1 on any world? Not sure here, just presuming.
#6 Vemork, you lost some nukes at home, and you did not have 10K fakes to deal with.
Yes, I will not deny the claim above. However, we only had 50 villages or so in K55. 1-2K fakes across 50 villages meant a constant 40 to each village. It wasn't the 'number' we had to deal with, but rather the 'concentration' of it. That's what made it hard to dodge, and good job to W2V. But if you come here and call us out for being noobs because we missed some dodges, then I think you're being really childish. It's not like your tribe dodged everything either.
#7 Vemork, you failed OPs on faps.
We were in the process of nobling out BQ villages. While doing so, we decided to throw some nukes over so that they could rebuild in time while we took out the internal. That was the main reason, sure we had nobles nearby, and if they were empty, it's a bonus and we'd have sent nobles over. They weren't empty, so we didn't. Faps stacked hard, honestly nothing too special about it... Couple of times when I nobled villages there, RoyalE were supporting them anyway.
Overall thoughts on this world
At the moment, I'm using my personal hotspot to type this out. I didn't want to have to post here but Shaun sent me the link and told me I had to say something, so I have. This world is pretty weak in general, it really cannot be compared to previous worlds skill-wise. Many of the good players left pretty early on and what's left is just a shadow of the world's former glory.
W2V won because they had teamwork, loyalty, and they played their diplomacy right. That's good on their part, but I will not accreddit their success to 'good play' except for Nghazpha (from what I've seen, I have not had a chance to see everyone's attacks). As much as Venus were guilty for 'merging', W2V are definitely on par if not worse than Venus was in terms of the amounts of recruitment made all round.
Too much internals going on, on all sides, really pathetic that this is a war game but everyone's just taking easy villages all the time. Both my tribe, even myself on some occassions, and enemies as well as neutral tribes. Leaders are also very narrow-minded at times, and refusal to cooperate meant that the South was always going to collapse when W2V applies pressure. Leader of RoyalE actually told us that he could fight W2V if it ever came down to it, 1v1, because he was a 'good leader' with 'loyal and active tribemates'. Look what happened now, just empty talk from a guy who thinks winning a Croatian server means he's almighty. :icon_idea: I can't believe that I thought, deep down, he actually wanted to fight and not make this world a rollover, pretty sad he was just waiting till enemies were more or less eliminated to finally show his true colours. Honestly nothing to be proud of if you noble up Stop! members now and get 'war caps' because we all know that it's easier than eating jelly at this point of time.
On every world where someone is rank 1, there will always be people looking for avenues to play down his success. I'm used to, and fine with haters, it's what makes this game so tense sometimes. I'm happy to have met some dedicated and fun-loving players in this world though, so, a special shoutout to the few Stop! members above, and turkmenbeyi, the only non-tribemate of mine I'll like to play with again in the future. Sad that I've not had much healthy interaction with W2V members. I got a few mails like 'HAHA, LOST YOUR NUKES' and 'Thanks for the ODD, I liked killing your nukes' etcetc, people forget that this game is about using your nukes :icon_rolleyes: So, I lost my respect immediately for such people. Account is set on delete, so I can't quote them here.
Conclusion
This world should end soon enough, I've learnt some lessons over here (not technique wise, but more of the diplomatic and planning side). Couple of decisions made by my ex-coplayer Chris that I honestly wished I could've taken back but it's too late and there's no point crying over spilt milk. I hope that W2V members will win this world in style and noble up remaining players instead of further recruitment. With key members in Stop! quitting, it shouldn't be hard to do so. I will probably be looking into the next no-haul world 75 and hopefully we can get more fair and fun fights over there. :icon_wink:
I don't want to have to come back here again, so please, let's all be more mature about wins/losses. It's a game, I can't win everytime and I'm glad I'm humbled by a loss as I haven't in quite a while. Verbal assaults here and there that are not based on facts and are clearly made by prejudiced people with preconceived notions about me should not be made, or it will just further degrade my opinion about this world.
Cheers,
Matthew
Ex-Vemork