A lot of changes in Grepo since the 3 years I been away, but nice to see some old timers still kicking around, and shooting the breeze with the newer to Grep players.
I see a lot of good/decent players, only a few truly skilled like less than 100 tops, I find it ridiculous how many players boast about awards, abp counts, city counts, or servers won, when the game has become a pay to win and with WW's a sim to win scenario.
if this was stripped back to a fixed aliance cap 75 memebrs, no academies, no gold burning only advisor perks, and nothing else to spend gold on, youd find skill players who know every single aspect of the game inside out,
teamwork, skill and activity though can always break even the largest teams, but the amount of alliance jumpers when their teams get hit hard, and people bail to survive or get a WW victory near the end ruined a truly great fighting game, you can still get some good scraps in it though and the banters always good.
Im proud to say I never gave a toss about WW's, when they were forced into the Alpha servers when 80 thousand signed ingame petitions to keep our fighting servers, they ignored it and rolled it forced it in anyway, the players i played with and against back then agreed to build 1 WW each of the top 7 alliances who were all at war as a huge North V south server epic, and my team of 50 members finished our WW first, many of they players are well known in Grepo EN & US, & some are still on these forums I see
but only the Honey Badgers had the balls and integrity to say we wont do WW's, we just came to fight and earn our reps. not too many servers we played where the top dogs got to finish that way once theyd picked a fight with HB, the only reason we were so strong was good recruitment,
you dont mass recruit, you find players on the battles and make sure their worth having as a team mate. there is very little team work in the majority of teams on servers these days.
If I can make 4 suggestions to keep a server entertaining,
1, limit your pacts to 2 max,
2, don't do academy's (like HB never had one anywhere in any server) break your enemies and let whats left regroup or quit. (WW's though make MRA's)
3, don't pay to win, players spending a £100 bucks a week to be rank 1 or burning gold to buy their takes doesn't make them good players, just means your innogames best customer lol)
4, Keep in mind its just a game, enjoy it, we stick around mainly because of the people we get to know the game itself isn't that great, but it is still one of the better team games going.