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Interesting. First----I am just asking this question- absolutely and positively no offense is meant by it.
Villains Inc. made it to number one after the Star Alliance issue right? I am only bringing that up because to say we did it so you can do it, well your situation was a special situation. There was an influence from the Star Alliance situation where they kind of fell apart. It is difficult to take a number one spot when teams have a lot of trainings. If it didn't work, people wouldn't do it. They would treat the training trophies like they do the courage.
In my plan for the trophies, I just used training trophies as an example. But it could be done with all the trophies.
I think it would make the game more fun to randomly throw out the trophies at the end of the week or every 48 hours even. How cool would that be?!?!?
Drunken Degenerates is a good team. I think it's ok to want to be in the number one spot. Even if you are in third place. But the idea of making a more fair trophy environment, well it wouldn't just benefit DD, it would benefit the whole server. That is always a good thing.
DM was the long standing 1st place. Not Star. DM also held 5 training trophies for several months before we had any. And our rise was through MANY teams. Again, we started the server 8 months after the server started and many of the current top 10 teams were already in place. So to try and take away from what we did with such a statement is highly incorrect, especially considering the two teams in question merged to try to match our own strength.
WOW HATS OFF TO YOU KoT, I guess we have a lot to learn from you and your gang, I curtsy to you.I watched you this morning and you realized that the 7th place team who was attacking you were probably going to win and you would take the only trophy that they had. Your team did the valiant thing and all left the gang and returned so that you didn't sign up for the fight so that they could win. You guys gave up a training trophy for the underdogs. That was so kind of you to do that for them.
I totally understand what you are saying about this. Our gang, should also be recognizing this and consider helping out the smaller teams too. All I can say is wow, just wow, kudos to your team on such a nice gesture.
Thank you, though I'm surprised you know what happened, since that isn't your team and you're not on our's. Actually, we dropped several trophies, including the 3 I spoke of previously, which dropped us to 2nd place and 2 more today. We've actually dropped 6 recently. Unfortunately, the currently top ranked team were sitting like snipers to set one of the teams we dropped a training trophy to ranked in 16th place. And so we keep attacking them and then dropping trophies down to the lower ranks, where they just snatch them up again. Would be nice to get some help in this endeavor from some other top teams. If people really want a balanced server, one would think the Villains wouldn't be the only ones partaking in this.
We've already accomplished all our personal team goals when we became the strongest team and after we hit the 6 month mark in 1st place. So now we can start doing more to further our other goals, like balancing the server. Previously, we did a drop and grab strategy, but every time we did, one of the top teams would immediately take the trophy from the team we dropped it to. So instead, we started having players join us on our team for a week at a time to use our trophies and then return to their team and be replaced by another of their team's players. We did this w/ 5 low ranked teams to help them grow, 1 of which is now a top team in it's own right.
If you look at our team's mission statement in our description, which has been there for a long time, you'll see our goal was always to balance the server. But we had to get strong enough to police it 1st. Unfortunately, we're only one team. Granted we have friends in other teams which we help and they help us, but unfortunately, they aren't strong enough to help balance the server through drop and grab techniques like I was discussing. It would be nice if we got some help from the other strong teams on the server that can actually make a difference in helping balance the server, especially since the two teams that had the original monopolies we've been discussing merged to try and recreate that monopoly for themselves again.
Now frankly, you'll hear a lot of things from folks to paint a negative picture of me and my team to everyone else. But believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. Everyone moans that we're the bad guys, but we're the ones trying to help the server as a whole rather than just ourselves, and we have been since we reached the top 5.
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On that note, I disagree with the statement that trophy greed is human nature. It's only some human's nature. As I said before, we only ever wanted enough of any 1 trophy type to stay on pace with or just ahead of the strongest team. Which is why we only ever kept 3 training and 2 energy. That was the ratio we always wanted to help balance the server more. Some people do actually care about others before themselves and put their well being, even strangers, at the forefront of their thoughts.
So many here rail against villains and declare themselves heroes. But look what the villains have been doing this whole time, and then look at what the heroes have been doing. Then ask yourself, if you want to call yourself a hero, shouldn't you be making the selfless act too?
