Utopia - Age 18 - Page 4

Eli · December 5, 2002, 05:16

Victory!

We got our first war victory!

Zopperoni · December 5, 2002, 08:24

Cool cool

star mouse · December 6, 2002, 02:27

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Originally posted by Eli
Ah, great. Any chance some of your kingdom mates is leaving next age and I could fill his spot?

Since the start of the dragon war, we have lost 3 provinces and had their spots filled. One defected at the start because he wasn't active enough (we asked him to leave), the province that got killed off decided to quit the game, and another province chose to quit after the war ended due to a lack of interest.

Right now we have a province that doesn't meet our minimum requirements for a province and we may kill him off soon or ask him to leave. We are fairly strict with newcomers. We don't ever send them aid until they have entered their activation code, and we have other harsh rules that we enforce, such as being active (once per day minimum), posting in the forums and the like.

As a result of such strictness, we get a higher turnover of provinces, and we get to see more quality players that way.

Trouble is, spaces in our kingdom only seem to last an hour or two before they're filled, so if you want to land in my kingdom, you need incredible luck.

War4ever · December 7, 2002, 05:55

were in full throttle, took 4899 acres today, lost 2476.....so were up

Eli · December 7, 2002, 08:09

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Originally posted by star mouse
Trouble is, spaces in our kingdom only seem to last an hour or two before they're filled, so if you want to land in my kingdom, you need incredible luck.

I already had such luck last age.

You should consider convincing the provinces who leave to give their UN and PW. This way you can get in people you know to be good players. *hint, hint*

Eli · December 7, 2002, 08:10

Btw, we won the war and we now have a few days of quiet, so i'm dicing like mad trying to get as big as possible before the next war.

War4ever · December 7, 2002, 14:52

we have spent more time in war , than out this age LOL..its been excitiing, always taking of people larger than us, and coming out on top....

if you want a fun kd, this is the one to be in

good players too

Cyclotron · December 9, 2002, 02:24

Nuts, we're in BF and are bogged down in a war against a kd that can't fight a war for ****, yet their monarch will still not surrender. I hate it when they're obstinant.

Oh well, only one solution... kill their monarch.

star mouse · December 10, 2002, 02:37

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Originally posted by Eli
You should consider convincing the provinces who leave to give their UN and PW. This way you can get in people you know to be good players. *hint, hint*

I prefer not to do that because that's against the rules, and also our Kingdom rules. Not that our kingdom hasn't done it in the past, but when we get visited by Mehul we generally lose only a couple of provinces.

War4ever · December 12, 2002, 00:37

were in BF as well, the last two wars have been peace blocks after 15 of our mates hit at the same time,

seems the world is afraid of the smurfs

star mouse · December 12, 2002, 04:32

There are spots opening up in the Kingdom. We just killed off 2 inactives.

We have also gone through a tough war, where we will be surrendering for the first time. And I mean the FIRST time, we've never surrendered before in 5-6 ages of the current relations system. We also had some internal turmoil, in which two provinces that weren't toeing the kingdom line were asked to leave. So right now we're down to 20 provinces, plus 5 slots that will fill up and empty as we turn over the underperformers and keep the good people.

We are still strong tho, and I am still in the world top 100 for honor (but will likely drop out when we surrender). My wizards in particular deal out much damage to any kingdom we encounter - I have over 16 mod wizards per acre....

Lemmy · December 12, 2002, 13:15

Heh, here's how i look now after 2 days of beating by t/m's..
Before all this IIRC i had 1372 acres, 59 dpa, and during war could send out 94k mod offense and leave 60.5 dpa (50 raw) at home..and i was a Lord, now hang on...cos this won't be pretty

The bolds are added comments:

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The Province of Tail Bone (18:43)
[http://www.UtopiaTemple.com Angel v1.38 Beta 2]

Utopian Date: March 11th, YR7
RL Date: December 12th, 2002 (16:00 GMT)

Ruler Name: Mr. Lemmy the Sorcerer
Personality & Race: The Mystic, Undead
Land: 1,450 Acres grabbed some acres at the start of the war
Money: 68,868gc (5,481gc raw daily income expenses are 17,239gc)
Food: 3,818 bushels
Runes: 5,839 runes
Population: 26,851 citizens (18.52 per Acre) max population is 35,462
Peasants: 2,108 (100% Employed)
Rioting: b:25%, t:2.6gc, p:94%, m:84% This used to be happy
Trade Balance: -508,918gc (0% tax rate) Trade balance was even, 500k still no big deficitl
Networth: 186,907 (128.90 per Acre) This was at 230k, when i was 1372 acres
Thieves+Wizards+Science Networth: 9,587gc ehm..yes, 1700 wizzies were killed, 500 are left

Soldiers: 0 (89.9% estimated draft rate)
Skeletons: 8,012 (32,048 offense points)
Zombies: 9,064 (36,256 defense points)
Ghouls: 5,616 (33,696 offense / 28,080 defense)
War-Horses: 6,675 (up to 6,675 additional offense)
Prisoners: 112 (336 offense)

Total Attack points: 72,755 (50.18 per Acre)
Practical (60% elites): 59,279 (40.88 per Acre)
Total Defense points: 64,336 (44.37 per Acre) this would be 45.1 dpa in war
Practical (40% elites): 47,486 (32.75 per Acre)

Thieves: 1,459 (1.01 per Acre / 100% Stealth)
Wizards: 592 (0.41 per Acre / 100% Mana)

Crystal-Ball on your province will show:
Max. Possible Thieves/Wizards: 1,598 (1.10 / Acre)
Estimated Thieves Number: 1,198 (0.83 per Acre)
Estimated Wizards Number: 380 (0.26 per Acre)

Buildings: 1,425gc to build, 712gc to raze
Away bonus: 10,540gc (12h) / 31,620gc (20h)

Then there are my buildings

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Buildings Report of Tail Bone (18:43)
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1. Homes: 174 (12%)
2. Barracks: 287 (19.8%)
3. Guilds: 112 (7.7%)
4. Towers: 85 (5.9%)
5. Watchtowers: 158 (10.9%)
6. Stables: 65 (4.5%)
7. Libraries: 155 (10.7%)
8. Dungeons: 7 (0.5%)

Total Land: 1,450 Acres (71.9% built)

And no, i'm not running any weird barren land strategy

At least i'll have something to do for after the war...

Lemmy · December 12, 2002, 13:23

Just used the news formatter at utopiatemple for my news..i lost more wizzards then i thought

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Recent News Report / Summary
[http://www.UtopiaTemple.com All-in-One v2.16]

** Received **
- 10,000 bushels, 481,036gc, 5000 runes and 313 soldiers in aid.
- 25 acres as bonus from the Utopian Lords.

** Lost **
- 14,712 bushels, 3093gc and 1262 runes to thieves and plunderers.
- 1 acres to Land Lust.
- 11,039 peasants to attacks, kidnappings and fireballs.
- 2048 wizards assassinated.
- 70 homes to arson/dragon.
- 10,390 runes to lightning.
- 300 buildings to tornadoes.
- 950 peasants and 3447 troops to meteor showers.
- 168 troops to night strikes.

Zopperoni · December 12, 2002, 21:39

Painful, man =\

DinoDoc · December 13, 2002, 00:17

Would you like me to look for looting targets for you?

Lemmy · December 13, 2002, 04:08

Wow...nah, won't be necesary, i just logged in, and had absolutely no news at all.

And i couldn't break any sizable target in my current shape.

star mouse · December 13, 2002, 04:23

Man I run a freaky province...

Peasants 8514 (20.2%)
Wizards 9193 (21.8%)
Military 24,501 (58.0%)

I need more peasants, I think.

star mouse · December 13, 2002, 04:37

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Originally posted by Lemmy
Heh, here's how i look now after 2 days of beating by t/m's..

Ruler Name: Mr. Lemmy the Sorcerer
Personality & Race: The Mystic, Undead

Thieves+Wizards+Science Networth: 9,587gc ehm..yes, 1700 wizzies were killed, 500 are left

Thieves: 1,459 (1.01 per Acre / 100% Stealth)
Wizards: 592 (0.41 per Acre / 100% Mana)

1. Homes: 174 (12%)
2. Barracks: 287 (19.8%)
3. Guilds: 112 (7.7%)
4. Towers: 85 (5.9%)
5. Watchtowers: 158 (10.9%)
6. Stables: 65 (4.5%)
7. Libraries: 155 (10.7%)
8. Dungeons: 7 (0.5%)

Total Land: 1,450 Acres (71.9% built)[/q]
And no, i'm not running any weird barren land strategy

At least i'll have something to do for after the war...

* As a Mystic, you can recover quickly. Build Guilds on all your barren acres, and you'll get back to 1700 wizards in about a week or two. Consider razing unnecessary buildings like Libraries to get wizards back faster.

* Cast Love and Peace to help you repopulate.

* Address your Happiness problems. What ever they are complaining about, fix. To fix thief happiness messages in future wars, use your thieves in war to do simple thief ops against enemy attackers without watchtowers. Burn Forts against an enemy attacker with 10% forts, no watchtowers and 0.5 TPA is good for this. For mage happiness, cast Storms and Drought when you get your wizards back.

* Consider using Reflect Magic and Magic Shield to defend against mages in future wars.

* You have 10% watchtowers. Consider using as many as 20% WT if you want a really annoying thief defense in future wars. I use 20% WT to protect my thousands of wizards, and nobody goes near me.

Lemmy · December 13, 2002, 05:58

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* As a Mystic, you can recover quickly. Build Guilds on all your barren acres, and you'll get back to 1700 wizards in about a week or two. Consider razing unnecessary buildings like Libraries to get wizards back faster.

i like my libraries

And i'm not an active offensive mage, so i might settle for 1 wpa.

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* Cast Love and Peace to help you repopulate.

I got it always on if i dont' have max pop.

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* Address your Happiness problems. What ever they are complaining about, fix. To fix thief happiness messages in future wars, use your thieves in war to do simple thief ops against enemy attackers without watchtowers. Burn Forts against an enemy attacker with 10% forts, no watchtowers and 0.5 TPA is good for this. For mage happiness, cast Storms and Drought when you get your wizards back.

tnx for the tips, my peasants have never been happy about my thieves..
I'm releasing a dfew thousand off specs soon, the biggest concerns are economy and military size, releasing the units should solve most problems.

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* Consider using Reflect Magic and Magic Shield to defend against mages in future wars.

I already do that.

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* You have 10% watchtowers. Consider using as many as 20% WT if you want a really annoying thief defense in future wars. I use 20% WT to protect my thousands of wizards, and nobody goes near me.

normally i have 15%...tornadoes destroyed most of them

Eli · December 13, 2002, 09:23

As usual, it's war here and except NSing and AWing the only thing I do is stockpiling money and runes. I think I can pay for a Dragon.

War4ever · December 13, 2002, 22:50

we just came out of war, and it was a toughie....of course we prevailed and their king was honorable so we let them off with a draw....

they were 600k bigger , we fear noone.....but we have our own internal problems...we warred a myth kd....but they had no outside help....there is some honor in utopia....

i love warring pretty much all age hehe

Eli · December 15, 2002, 15:27

11:48 just wont surrender.

Eli · December 15, 2002, 15:27

And eventually I did pay ~80% of the Dragon costs.

Zopperoni · December 15, 2002, 18:01

Right, this is our (partially hilarious) story:

Three hours before declaration, a 1,800-acre UD defects into our target-KD.
At first, we were not amused by this, but now, it seems it's worked out in our favor:
The big UD has nice plans:
1) He wants to become the Monarch; and
2) When he is Monarch, he'll surrender to us.

1) is already achieved. The War will still go on for fourteen hours, so we'll have to see about 2) then, but we are 153-47 ahead

War4ever · December 15, 2002, 19:40

we go hostile tonite....were on the road again lol

War4ever · December 16, 2002, 02:29

Were looking to remove a few less active plyers from our kd...if anyone is looking for a fun, active , always warring kd....let me know...

we may have positions...we have just joined KLA, trying them out for the rest of the age......no guarrantees we will stay, but were testing the waters as they seem to be pretty honorable and don't interfere on one on one wars.....

eli, zops, anyone ? let me know via icq 30200920

or in game message... i am idiotic smurf, of the smurf kd of 23 23 BF....

Zopperoni · December 16, 2002, 07:48

I'll pass this time, mate. I'm pretty comfortable where I am now.

Maybe in the future.

Eli · December 16, 2002, 08:54

I'm interested.

Eli · December 16, 2002, 09:03

I'm very interested. Your kingdom looks great, and KLA is a very good alliance.

Zopperoni · December 16, 2002, 11:23

That's it, we just picked up our second [W]-win of the round!