My 10p...
I joined OF when they were rank 5 if I remember correctly. I joined because it seemed like a decent collection of old school players, generally playing for laughs rather than to win. Having not played Bush for about the past 20 rounds (I used to play back in age3/4) I really had no intention to do particuarly well or finish with a high rank.
That said, OF is made up of some very talented players, so without even particuarly trying we ended up as the rank 1 alliance. In all seriousness, as far as I am concerned that was not our agenda....it just kinda happened. Suddenly I found myself at rank 11. Now I would class myself as a casual player....I log in when I can, I bum around on IRC and have a laugh...but at the end of the day I have too much going on in real life to be a top player. I think a lot of players in OF are like me....they have their real life, and bush is just something to do in spare time...ie it doesnt dominate our lives. THeres also a few more dedicated old school players...but most of them have already finished highly ranked in the past and aren't really bothered what happens this round either.
As far as the decision to go into mass sleep, well, I think a lot of you have really really REALLY over analysed it. In the other thread by Steve_God he talks about how we must have carefully worked out that STN/Enmity will lose 1/3 of their scores if they war blah blah blah. I can assure you it was far less calculated than that. We literally had a thread on politics talking about how we are all going on various holidays over the next couple weeks to sun our wrinkly skin. Someone (I cant even remember who now) threw up the idea of a "mass sleep". Most the rest of us agreed it would be a good idea if half of us were going to be on holiday, and anyway it could turn out to quite funny. There were also a few comments about how it would be fun to see if STN/Enmity had a war in our absence. That said, as far as I'm aware, that was not our reasoning for all hitting sleep...merely a potential outcome.
We decided to do this around 13:00, tried to contact all the players who werent online (a lot of our players are uncontactable, so this was quite a challenge) and did it at 17:00. So there was literally a few hours between deciding to do this and actually doing it. It wasn't something we had been meticulously planning to do, it was very much a spontaneous spur of the moment solution to the problem of having lots of players imminently going on holiday. End of.
I'm off for a week to Exit Festival in Serbia tommorow and I cant wait! BOOM!
I joined OF when they were rank 5 if I remember correctly. I joined because it seemed like a decent collection of old school players, generally playing for laughs rather than to win. Having not played Bush for about the past 20 rounds (I used to play back in age3/4) I really had no intention to do particuarly well or finish with a high rank.
That said, OF is made up of some very talented players, so without even particuarly trying we ended up as the rank 1 alliance. In all seriousness, as far as I am concerned that was not our agenda....it just kinda happened. Suddenly I found myself at rank 11. Now I would class myself as a casual player....I log in when I can, I bum around on IRC and have a laugh...but at the end of the day I have too much going on in real life to be a top player. I think a lot of players in OF are like me....they have their real life, and bush is just something to do in spare time...ie it doesnt dominate our lives. THeres also a few more dedicated old school players...but most of them have already finished highly ranked in the past and aren't really bothered what happens this round either.
As far as the decision to go into mass sleep, well, I think a lot of you have really really REALLY over analysed it. In the other thread by Steve_God he talks about how we must have carefully worked out that STN/Enmity will lose 1/3 of their scores if they war blah blah blah. I can assure you it was far less calculated than that. We literally had a thread on politics talking about how we are all going on various holidays over the next couple weeks to sun our wrinkly skin. Someone (I cant even remember who now) threw up the idea of a "mass sleep". Most the rest of us agreed it would be a good idea if half of us were going to be on holiday, and anyway it could turn out to quite funny. There were also a few comments about how it would be fun to see if STN/Enmity had a war in our absence. That said, as far as I'm aware, that was not our reasoning for all hitting sleep...merely a potential outcome.
We decided to do this around 13:00, tried to contact all the players who werent online (a lot of our players are uncontactable, so this was quite a challenge) and did it at 17:00. So there was literally a few hours between deciding to do this and actually doing it. It wasn't something we had been meticulously planning to do, it was very much a spontaneous spur of the moment solution to the problem of having lots of players imminently going on holiday. End of.
I'm off for a week to Exit Festival in Serbia tommorow and I cant wait! BOOM!
