Your very best.

[Kuda]

Nah, the angels wings in r9 that BW mentioned weren't Angels from r6, it was just a mass collection of noobs that no matter how many ppl they had still couldn't keep land. We were known as intoxication and had I think 15 members that round. Shame Zane spied on us for Virus at round start.

As for powerblocks, I wouldn't class Virus back then as a powerblock as the playerbase was much larger. Virus & VirusTwo in r7 however would have been the first time they used wings I believe.

Core/AppleCore I also wouldn't class as a powerblock as they originally started the round as Core with all members in that one ally. With Azzer changing the game mechanics mid round by adding CRA we split in 2 to avoid it. I think the idea of a 14 person powerblock when the game had over 2000 players comical however

Anyway back on topic.
r8 was my best finish with rank 1, Altho I enjoyed r10 more when I finished rank 2 when playing Prot-VD route.

My favourite moment in round 10 was zero'ing Tim (who was SO-SA) with my Violent Demonstrators

 

[BlackWolf]

Yeah Kuda I know it was hilarious idea to say core and appcore would been powerblock my point was exactly that if powerblock means only that how many alliances there are even their member count is not bigger than other allys, then core and appcore were powerblock

If instead powerblock is group of top alliances made to beat their competition by mass instead of fighting 1v1 then its powerblock. And only if its coalition made by groups to get that advantage. I couldnt call for example on round 17 and so when ally naps were allowed 2 napped allys to be powerblock.

It seems word powerblock is just so fancy to be used any time your alliance gets their ass kicked by someone else to "justify" your lose that it has made it all sound so ridiculous.

 

[Sir Drumalot]

Yeah Kuda I know it was hilarious idea to say core and appcore would been powerblock my point was exactly that if powerblock means only that how many alliances there are even their member count is not bigger than other allys, then core and appcore were powerblock

If instead powerblock is group of top alliances made to beat their competition by mass instead of fighting 1v1 then its powerblock. And only if its coalition made by groups to get that advantage. I couldnt call for example on round 17 and so when ally naps were allowed 2 napped allys to be powerblock.

It seems word powerblock is just so fancy to be used any time your alliance gets their ass kicked by someone else to "justify" your lose that it has made it all sound so ridiculous.

You're kinda contradicting yourself there BW, You say everyone only complained about Virus because of the "ass kicking" you all gave us, and here you are saying applecore/core were perhaps a powerblock.. Because of the "ass kicking" they gave you right? You have your reasons, we have ours.

In my opinion Virus and Core were completely different subjects, purely because Core started out as 1 alliance, and if I remember correctly Virus was at least 3 from the start. We're all just voicing opinions here so try to take it a little less personally. I dont wanna bring out EmoWolf again..

We had no need to justify our loss. We had nothing to prove to anyone, we were all very accomplished players by that time. Its just some of the opinions from our side of the fence were leaning towards the Virus coalition or group or whatever the **** you would call it being dishonourable and a cheap way of taking hold of a round (e.g. Powerblock). Sure it changed things up and looking back on it now its not so bad, but im gonna voice my opinions no matter what, just like you will yours.. You should know that.

Its been over 20 rounds, and although I enjoy your ramblings of "justification" I think we should put this one to bed now, unless you have more to add? We'll agree to disagree, yes? I hear theres been better examples of powerblocks since anyways..

 

[BlackWolf]

I meant that word powerblock is used wrongly by certain players which you obviously belong to, as you cant really state what powerblock means. You only use it when it suites you. You cant give me princibles where word powerblock is based. I can I have given them to you, thats why I said core and applecore as thats how YOU descripe powerblock to be.

Only reason core and applecore were in 2 allys was to avoid CRA... but still based on your opinion of what is powerblock according to what you have said powerblock is any alliance(s) that have more than 1 alliance and are on top, which they were.

As I tried to point out powerblock is not that easy word to use as you must put it to context. Compare whole situation on specific round to what certain alliances have done. Usually people start to throw word powerblock only when they have got their ass kicked by some better group which makes it to be used way too often of wrong situations (in my eyes) and it has put whole word out of its original context.

In my therms for example TBA (if you know whom they were) wasnt really powerblock as they were known to be together since beginning.(As such they couldnt be powerblocking) Too bad playerbase didnt react to them like that. There were together from beginning and even they had 3 alliances and much more players than other allys had we know they were there. As such they were not powerblocking, they fought their way up to top and only after they got to top they were called powerblock which nullfies whole word.

Word powerblocking is more therm at least it was before bushtarion time used in its predecessor PA used to descripe coalition of alliances that happend mid round for example alliances ranked 1 and 2 or 1 and 3 or so to secure their position. They made nap/ally in mid of round and decided not to fight each others but kill their rivals together and as such secure their win. These alliances in this coalition made mid round usually were already alone much stronger than their rivals and that 2nd ranked or so alliance joined that coalition cause they knew they couldnt win and wanted to secure win together. Making them way stronger than others.

Not used of alliances/coalitions that existed before round and were known to everyone. Even if we extend idea of powerblock a bit it still leaves out situations where some group let them be divided to many alliances in game as they like as long as their membercount is in comparison to their rivaling alliances. Also I dont think powerblock can be called something like on r9 where Core was in great lead before was taken down and after that remaining alliances battled. Why would ViruS turn to powerblock only if they claim ranks 1 and 2 or so?

Thats my opinion of word powerblock which comes from ages before bushtarion and has always stayed same. Did ViruS how ever use mass over skill? Yes we did, but that doesnt make us powerblock in my eyes. I have said before that I am not happy of round 9, it was worst round ever and I am shamed of things that happend on that round. I must say tho that I tried to reason with Azzer but he didnt listen and well we all know what was outcome.

 

[f0xx]

Jesus BW, how do you even have any will to write such a long essay?

 

[Sir Drumalot]

Come on BW, I was directly effected by the 3 Virus alliances.. 2 we could have defended against but 3 was just too much. So of course im gonna think it was a powerblock, anyone in my situation back then would have.. You all bash me down to nothing. I had 12k land at the time, the most by at least 4k. While your highest land player would have been just over 3k. We had just worked our asses off getting rid of Angelas crew, and then a million noobs attack me. So of course im gonna think it was cheap tactic, anyone in my situation would have.

The only thing I honestly feel Virus had going for them, is they didnt leak a single thing. Me and Sordes were on top because our intel was second to none, well as we thought. Obviously in the end it wasnt that great for that round.

You're a talented player/leader BW, but you surrounded yourself with mass noobs that round. Luckily the majority have left the game now. I think you could do much better and feel much better about a win with just one alliance of people you know you can trust.

 

[BlackWolf]

Mate when you didnt play I have been part of this community since round 5. I have played pretty much all rounds and very many of those in V back in the day are well respected members of this community today. I am happy of our tactics on that round, what I was referring to was CRA and how it affected that round and how I was put to position to blackmail Azzer to remove CRA or put artificial limit on score people can grow.

You tell yourself now that ViruS was powerblock even we had not even won and were not even rank 1, which is even funnier. You sound bitter of losing to us back then and justifying your powerblock word using with that. I would like you to explain what is powerblock. What situations/things makes some alliance, group of alliances or hell what ever that makes you to call something with word powerblock.

Have you noticed how your wording, its usage and your message changes from post to post? You obviously are trying to drive some for me unknown agenda against ViruS even ViruS has been dead since round 14 but on r17 and 30 with small try. Yet I have leaded alliances to victory with even 1 alliance usage only. Which you obviously didnt bother to check... assuming I have not ever lead alliance made of 1 alliance only to success.

 

[Twigley]

R9 Virus alliance was not full of noobs thank you very much.

 

[BlackWolf]

After all this powerblock stuff I must say I am no offence Marty but pretty proud of what I did for your team on R20 or was it 21...
I am probably one and only guy who has been able to make whole "resistance" (you were not rank 1) out of nothing and made solo account only to beat you and with forum stuff managed to get you really pissed and eventually, I made alliance and won whole round. I must say that to be my best achievement of all times.

 

[Sir Drumalot]

My definition back then of a powerblock was any alliance that needed more than 1 nap to make their way through the game. Yours werent even naps, they were permanent alliances. You cant pull the "resistance" card either, because even though we were rank 1 alliance the round was far from decided.

So no matter how many or how long your posts you put up I will always think what I thought back then.. So we'll agree to disagree and be done with ancient history.. Ok?

 

[harriergirl]

After all this powerblock stuff I must say I am no offence Marty but pretty proud of what I did for your team on R20 or was it 21...
I am probably one and only guy who has been able to make whole "resistance" (you were not rank 1) out of nothing and made solo account only to beat you and with forum stuff managed to get you really pissed and eventually, I made alliance and won whole round. I must say that to be my best achievement of all times.

Round 24.. Retarted, we were #1 in ally points and bounty hunting, legion or something had the value rank , you made cagnes, and to be fair, you sort of used more allies than your own then as well, because once you hit us, you strongarmed the other alliances into staying on us at the risk of you coming after them. You hit us so near the end of the round there was no chance for recovery once you sicked the other allies on us l.


Round 21 was TRFC and you couldn't have toppled us if you tried.

 

[tobapopalos]

Hmm...I know this thread is just blatant ego-stroking but I'm bored, tired and have decided to post anyway.

There are probably only two rounds I'm really proud of. I've led a few decent alliances and portalled a few times, but my favourite round I didn't do either.

Details for World 1, Round 23 - won't-you-take-me-t of unkytown [10]:

Score: 1,124,529,213 [Final Rank: 644] (Highest score held: 15,688,904,162. Highest rank held: 15 for 10 ticks)
Acres: 5,811 [Highest Held: 17,401]
Final Tag: EventHorizon
Effectiveness: 53,597,847 [Final Rank: 31]
Bounty Hunting: 2,659,459,863 [Final Rank: 48]

I think that was the round I truly played my best, despite my rankings not being that great. Started off in LeftOvers and, as it was LO, we had trouble with spies. I was thief route. Got off to a good start but then all the inc started appearing. I was rank 1 in kills and defences sent with HTs even after PBs were out, and was still growing pretty quickly as well. Got up to rank 15 as you can see and then got waved by SOTB and lost like 3k of my 6k acres With all the incoming LO actually got up to rank 1 in alliance points, purely from defending. After a while certain circumstances led to me and a few others leaving, and I joined EventHorizon, where I spent the rest of the round.

We dealt with a hell of a lot of incoming from all the alliances above us usually working together (Protest, Geno and Ren being the main offenders) and we sent pretty much every one of them packing, until finally all of the alliances above us (we were rank 6 I believe) hit us at the same time and there was really nothing we could do about it. It was a great round because of all the challenges put in front of us, and despite the alliance not having the best activity or contactability, we performed admirably as a group, and had a lot of fun along the way.

The other round I'm rather fond of was last round. I had an ID from the first tick, but did nothing until about 4 weeks from the end of the round. I logged in just a few hours before my ID was going to be deleted for inactivity, and bought some land. Then I started a development or two...then I decided since I was online I may as well try and find a small inactive alliance to sit around in, and I found myself in EventHorizon (again). So I started attacking, and I started growing, and about 3 weeks from the end of the round I was fully developed and bounty hunting:

Details for World 1, Round 30 - BAM - Ayre's Rock to the FACE [712]:

Score: 2,053,266,747 [Final Rank: 371] (Highest score held: 11,089,593,317. Highest rank held: 43 for 1 ticks)
Acres: 8,003 [Highest Held: 8,617]
Final Tag: EventHorizon
Effectiveness: 45,993,451 [Final Rank: 40]
Bounty Hunting: 13,238,656,876 [Final Rank: 5]

So basically what you can conclude from this is, if you want a fun round join EventHorizon!

 

[MattM]

So basically what you can conclude from this is, if you want a fun round join EventHorizon!

I'll drink to that!

 

[Melnibone]

best finishes Ashes and TGA (both top 20)

best rounds Saplings wesuck and currently old farts

 

[Dimitar]

I dont like statistics so my best round should be round 24 under BW, It was fun as hell You can never get bored when your leader orders you to suicide every day Yeah, Legends won that one on value, but we won on everything else (including fun) so I think thats a succcess

Details for World 1, Round 24 - Beasteh jerks of f on EKO-porn [9510]:
Game Mode: Standard

Score: 11,520,119,541 [Final Rank: 79] (Highest score held: 23,986,323,106. Highest rank held: 30 for 76 ticks)
Acres: 21,986 [Highest Held: 21,986]
Final Tag: Canes_Pugnaces
Effectiveness: 148,736,207 [Final Rank: 3]
Bounty Hunting: 2,208,233 [Final Rank: 803]

(FU Cheche and cityguy for not letting me have rank 1 eff )

 

[Rama]

stastisticly:
R 23 Rank 16
R 24 Rank 5
R 28 Rank 4
R 29 Rank 9

Round 17 and 18 was fun in the allys of beeker(evolution and escalation). Good all times.

R 22 first time I lead(ATHF), I still remember when we were rank 2 we made an attack on ashes one night only us and we actually hurt them, they were like "oh we didndt expect that" was really fun, ofc we werent rivals for them so the next weekend they raped us . but on the end we finished rank 2.

R 24 Lead Legends and won for the first time, alot of fun with tons of wars.

R 27 I created Jizz and till the time I had to leave because I just didnt have the time to lead anymore because of some RL shitwas alot of fun .Then Hero took over and secure the win.

R 29 I told azlev I wanted to make Khaos a ftw ally so he selected 5 old best khaos members and I put the rest. It was a great round and it was the ally with the best defence I have been in, specially taking into account it was a round of 5 minutes tick, just awesome.

 

[GUUUff]

Round 12, BeautifulChaos - Shadow of Darkness - we killed 17 alliances in 1 round with the help of NeverSurrender on a few of them

Aah i remember R12, best round ever. NeverSurrender was R13 led by me and some others.

 

[Tim]

Statistically, in terms of score, my best round was:-

8 666 Hell Give thanks men to Timster 32,034 £95,567,898,330

In terms of land held, my best round was R8 when I held around 69k acres without being in the top two alliances. I was like a machine that round.

However, my best round in terms of overall gameplay and cunning was Round 7:-

32 2157 NTHellers Farmer_Lilt Dominos 15,727 10,544,036,419

 

[FeR]

Round 13:

First time to get a win, leaded by BlackWolf when i was just a noob who started playing 2/3 rounds ago without understanding ****. I didnt knew any ratios or ****, was just too stupid to get it. I have been rank 2 for more than a week and that was awesome for being a new player. Last week i didnt have time to keep it up, and got rushed 24/7, so just had to park troops at HQ and gave up 20k land, which took me to finnish rank 15.

Route: Poms/Hypnos.

15 1403 Pegasus FeR Argentina Scoundrel 9,744 37,031,682,937

Round 20:
After that round, i "quited" for few rounds, and got back on round 20, to get alliance win again, even if top10 was full of solos lol.
Interesting round, we started in Scream, got the top very fast and kept it for some time.
One night, when were attaking when we got 20 incomings per member. It was like hell. Totally sleepie, without stengh, we got PWNED.
After that, some players quited, and we all went to Guernica, again, leaded by BlackWolf, who took us to the win.

Route: Terrorist Leader

Score: 10,897,213,061 [Final Rank: 90] (Highest score held: 26,257,980,920. Highest rank held: 9 for 73 ticks)

I ended on a very bad rank

Round 24:

Best round in fun terms, we won eff/bh/alliance points, but would never get value points.
Alliance Canes_Pugnaces was created half round, and we did have so much fun there. Again, leaded by BlackWolf.

Route: Secret Agent

Score: 32,367,675,814 [Final Rank: 24] (Highest score held: 33,048,530,686. Highest rank held: 20 for 1 ticks)
Acres: 26,551 [Highest Held: 26,551]
Final Tag: Canes_Pugnaces
Effectiveness: 43,540,113 [Final Rank: 58]
Bounty Hunting: 2,698,396,530 [Final Rank: 67]

Round 28:

First round playing robo. Very good round, with Podunk leading YouSuck, it was my first round to get rank 1 for more than just some ticks.
Got rank 1, and it was really cool, but very boring also. This was my best round, by far.

Route: Robotics / PA

Details for World 1, Round 28 - Michael Phelps of Consumes Drugs [8973]:

Score: 188,746,031,143 [Final Rank: 1] (Highest score held: 188,749,544,756. Highest rank held: 1 for 6,601 ticks)
Acres: 53,505 [Highest Held: 53,505]
Final Tag: YouSuck

Round 29: Got the win with Khaos, on the 5 min ticks round. As rama said, amazing alliance, we did pwned.

Route: Secret Agents

Score: 119,229,642,669 [Final Rank: 6] (Highest score held: 119,229,642,669. Highest rank held: 3 for 1 ticks)
Acres: 41,914 [Highest Held: 41,914]

Round 30: Could have been my best round as for stats, as i have been rank 1 for lot of time, but this round was SO BORING. Powerblock FTL.
It was easy to get the win, but so boring... I suicided about a week or two before round end, all staff, to SAS, and went to Chance.

Route: Robotics / PA

Score: 12,650,103,461 [Final Rank: 97] (Highest score held: 104,902,776,194. Highest rank held: 1 for 8,864 ticks)
Acres: 3,041 [Highest Held: 27,696]
Final Tag: Chance

 

[john]

round 17 i was in Valhalla (some reason it didnt save as a final tag though.) my first time being in the rank 1 ally and i learned alot of stuff that round. I fell in love with SA this round lol.

Details for World 1, Round 17 - Ballad of A_Dead_Soldier [127]:
Game Mode: Standard

Score: 61,481,528,294 [Final Rank: 24] (Highest score held: 61,481,528,294. Highest rank held: 22 for 86 ticks)
Acres: 23,605 [Highest Held: 23,605]
Final Tag:
Effectiveness: 0 [Final Rank: 0]
Bounty Hunting: 0 [Final Rank: 0]


then last round, it was the first time i had ever been in the top 10, then i ended up finishing rank 1 . i went SA this round too .

Details for World 1, Round 31 - Real Recognize Real [1196]:
Game Mode: Standard

Score: 164,469,288,179 [Final Rank: 1] (Highest score held: 164,328,076,089. Highest rank held: 1 for 718 ticks)
Acres: 76,128 [Highest Held: 76,128]
Final Tag: Second To None
Effectiveness: 33,584,713 [Final Rank: 78]
Bounty Hunting: 4,363,885,585 [Final Rank: 58]
Awards: Crop Stasher, Big Tycoon