ATTN: I don't post often, but when I do, I mean it.

Wow! Man I'm new to this game. I'm on white giant. There is hardly any real activity there it seems. I've been in and out of a couple feds, but they were either isolationists or just plain un organized. I love the concept of this game in its potential to be great. But it just seems people are worn out on things and have no real vision for any future in the game. Id like to find a fed or group of people intersted in exploiting this game for its possibilities on all levels. Economically, militarily, politically and so on. Really liked the idea suggested about making land worth taking. Strategic water posession as far as being able to control sea ports and such. A lot of good ideas on here. I personnally think it would be a lot better if we could just find a way to get people excited about playing. Personally, the best way to do that is through good old fasioned interaction. People want to feel like they belong and like they are important. We need to work on beefing up the political side of the game . Maybe expand the UN concept to include all major feds with so many players and put more of a personal interaction element to it, with ambassadors and such. Giving the players thee ability to steer the direction of the planet. Just a thought. :-)

My point exactly, there should be a new forum that makes all this possible, friends lists, enemy list, fed list, make the forum more intigrated into the game, or just take down the forum and make a new one that intigrates with the game..

I think Rick has a Great Idea. Some countries should have more oil or other commodities that make the country more valuable. Then players would want to take it for the increase in profits that it could make. Thus causing more wars for assets that are linked to the country.

Creative war incentives would be really cool.

Hey JoJo! Smokes! I sent you guys messages. Good to see you guys are still around.

hey shave if your looking for an old premier Federation on WG that is consistently organized and active check out NATO what's your country name

Wild, should I spend my valuable time editing and restructuring your sentences in your posts? They are full of rambling statements, gross misspellings, and poor grammatical structure. Should I point them all out? No, it would be a monster post. Perhaps MY misspelling was one on purpose? I doubt that yours are. LOL

I have come back to play the game and spend money. Are you threatened by me being here? You seem VERY defensive in your posts. If what I posted didn't hit a chord, you wouldn't really be bothered, would you? Tsk tak, you aren't being good for Sim business! You should be encouraging me to play the game and spend money. :-) BTW where are my ingame welcoming messages from you and assets given freely to help me rebuild? LOL

Lol someone's got a chip on there shoulder.

All you bitches whinning about getting bullied and so on have runied this game not the other way around. It's thanks to you's lot all these restictions are in place. Complaining about being bullied on a war game is just pathetic.

Bring back the old days of SC. Im talking the days with 30- 40 country empires. These days there's no variety. I look around and every empire is a copy of another. My point is there's nothing to aim for when everyone's the same. There's no great empires to try and topple, no inactive empire's to plan and build towards taking down. Well there is but there all protected. What im trying to say is im building for the sake of building with no end game to it. Were's the fun in that? Anyone who says you can war with C3's will get a slap in the face. Fighting c3's isnt a war. It's a unavoidable, mind numbing hardship for very little reward.

The game needs a change of direction. It should be encouraging large multiplayer wars not restricting them. Massive armies should be the norm not in decline. Yes this gives longer term players an advantgae but why shouldnt they have. The GM thinks there loosing buisness from these players who've been attacked in the past but they've lost a hell of alot more buisnees with the resulting restriction put in place.

My new account is evidence of that. Im only 3 weeks old and im ranked 19th place on LU. That's without much effort either. The number 1 war ranked country only has 2.6 million man army. I could have that in under a week. On a game like this were guys have been here for years that should take months. Thats part of the fun and a reason to log on everyday to try take that spot.

Wargames make money. I wish the GM's would realise that because they have a unique setup here with the econ side aswell.

Anyway rant over. Like I said im back 3 weeks and im bored already.

PLUS 1 ima free player with one small country but I'm active maintain a large army for my size and keep good friends that will help protect my country the restrictions just decrease politics...the war game also needs to change the way it is now is just how much money the attacker is willing to spend the defender should actually be able to halt the attacker like in Stalingrad it also needs to be slowed down so you don't wake up one morning and your country is gone if here were tactical decisions to be made by each side in an attack it would slow it down and make pvp more plausible and in depth

Been there done that Gunther. I wasn't impressed with Nato. They had a lot of potential but they were really unorganized. Most of there leadership was in shambles. Their leader was 14 tril in debt, had a negative 1.6 trill cash flow, and a 5.6 bill monthly defecit, and said he was doing good because he was able to slow the progression of his debt slightly. Lol I left a fed peacfully do to a difference in the type of game that the leader wanted to play and joined nato. That leader got a hold of nato and started stupid crap about me so I went ahead and left nato as I could tell they were taking his side. All because I voiced my opinions about the way nato was being led. Sorry but I just don't think a guy with the worst economy has any buisness trying to tell others that they need to get their affairs in order. Lol a lot of stuff just made no sense. I'm ranked nineteenth atm. I can't see taking orders and putting up with stupid stuff from those that are no where near me in rank. Don't need the drama. I wanna get with people that know what they are doing and are less concerned about being boss, especially when they doing worse then me. Lol

Oh to awnser your question I'm. The democratic union of Padren.

Sylar, be sure to thank Wild and her misfit gang for Sim being what it is today. I wasn't the cause. LOL They are why the game is dudsville today. You all have allowed the game to be what it is by not having the balls to STAND UP against the gross wrongdoings of these players and the Sim game masters for allowing them to get away with it. LOL Enjoy your game. You've earned it.

Oh and who might YOU be, Sylar???? If you tell me who you are I will tell you who I am. LMAO Anyways, I am not whining about anything that I've lost to this game in war. You miss the point of my issue with these players. Some players pay good money and play by the rules, these misfits did not and more than likely still don't. Come on, wise up! LOL

@greggwalken and anyone else interested: Be aware that the WildEyes active today is not the same person who wrote the WildEyes' Leaving Guide-to-Everything which was pretty well done and gets bumped once in a while. She left the game as a prominent player almost three years ago. Go look up anything written by author WildEyes (aka Petra Arkanian aka Siva) from July 2009 or earlier, and compare to the writings of the current imitation.

I agree i talk to her a lot back then and she was a very prominent player and very helpful. I went by different name then

"You all have allowed the game to be what it is by not having the balls to STAND UP against the gross wrongdoings of these players" GW

jeese. coming from your perspective? thats laughable. truly! as i feel the same!!

had the method of defense been, well, defense, rather whining, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

i'm amazed at what sylar has to say.

"All you bitches whinning about getting bullied and so on have runied this game not the other way around. It's thanks to you's lot all these restictions are in place. Complaining about being bullied on a war game is just pathetic. " sylar

i can't say i agree with all you said Sylar, but i follow, and agree with your concept. I'm not sure we need to make this game a blood bath. But powerful feds should be prepared with a real defense, rather than whining to get rule changes. (That ironically, in the long run destablize their own power base, lol)

JoJo, I am quite aware that the current Wild is not the original WildEyes. It is quite apparent that the original Wild was an intelligent woman, while the current one is barely coherent in her writing, and "out there". It doesn't really matter, though. Everyone or rather long-time players are quite aware that she is not the original. This was a calculated game move on her part to dupe players and use the reputation of another player to build hers. Maybe this one is trying to help the game along now, and if so, then great, but I disagree vehemently with this player as a moderator in the game, given her past game behavior, which is ever present in the forum. It puts a cloud of doubt about the integrity and fairness of the game. I have never been one to present in chat, as our fed members for the most part were discouraged from going there, but we do keep up with postings in the game forum.

K, it sure bugs me to see people even talk to him or her while he or she is maintaining this fraud and harming the reputation of the old WildEyes.

I'm kind of out of the loop...what is a game moderator, anyway? Is that a forum or chat room moderator, or something different? And do the GMs know that she/he is pretending to be someone she/he is not?

oh yah I remember you shave I was the one that recruited you I'm the fascist kingdom of monto ya I understand where you are coming from I was the same way but the leader was active and a very longterm player and we have free elections so that's who we chose a lot of our members are really bad economically right now even me and I consider myself quite good top 50 usually but we still have a good time keep in touch man you seem like a good player

I had the privilege of serving with the 'real' WildEyes in a fed (TGC) for a short period, along with Tendo, EO, Kitsune and a few others.

No personal attack intended, but there IS no substitute for the original Wild!

Jojo, thanks for bringing it up. I think it is important for people to know the difference.

Gregg, I'll have to say your identity is intriguing . Maybe you'll tell us who you were originally one day. ;-)

After an evening with J daniels, I AM the real WildEyes!

What I would like to know is why this charade keeps on going.

Im just someone who knows what the game used to be like Gregg. I dont blame the aggressive players for the changes. Like I said without people maoning to the GM's we wouldn't be having this convo.

What wrongdoings are you reffering to? How is it wrong for people to go to war on a wargame lol? I agree it should be up to the player base to stop these players but if they cant then keep quite and build until there able to do something. That's what SC is all about. Well for me anyway, but no you guys ran crying to the GM's and now look were we're at. So I lay the blame at them for ruining the game for everyone.

I dont want a bloodbath all the time either Orbiter but the choice would be nice.

To be fair, the problem of the war game, is 3 fold.

not in any particular order

1. Overly aggresive players, have certainly played a part in scaring more timid players away from the war game. (many of who would gain confidence, if they could safely learn how to defend themselves,)

2. Powerful players that would prefer to do nothing to maintain their influence, have choked out most new war players, by refusing to teach them war, until they've built up more than they can defend. and then they have to rely on less than forth coming leaders.

3. W3C, needs to take a very large portion of the blame. how is a new player expected to learn how to war when the game documentation is largely outdated, and inacurate to the point that it is dangerous to rely on the very documentation provided by the game makers?

So we have an environment, that war is some what complex, time consuming, filled with bugs, inaccurate information, spineless leaders, and the few war players that find their way through that maze... become as resented as they are powerful.

So even though the agressive players are shouldering the blame, the problem wount be fixed unless other steps are made. the coming C3 tutorial will, i think, in the long run, change the demographs of SC. unfortunately, its gonna take a couple years to change the player base, over all, to a stronger war enviroment. and many of the old leaders that have built up for years, are going to find themselves as dinosaurs, useless, unless they change their ways.

Sylar, you would never be able to build up to take out these players. They have amassed too much over the years through multiple accounts and just plain cheating. The GMs are aware. Perhaps they like the drama that has unfolded. WildEyes stated above that this thread got people in chat and talking on the forum. I have one question and one question only, and I will address this to Andy. Why was WildEyes given the privilege of Moderator over any other player in the game? How did this happen when you have stated that no player has any advantage over any other and no private conversations take place other than communication through email. Sorry, but I don't buy it.

It's a straight forward question, deserving of an honest, straight forward answer.

From Orbiter's post"

3. W3C, needs to take a very large portion of the blame. how is a new player expected to learn how to war when the game documentation is largely outdated, and inacurate to the point that it is dangerous to rely on the very documentation provided by the game makers?

For the sake of all noob's (most prominently myself), I send an urgent plea out to all the vets. Spend a few minutes examining the documentation, and propose changes to the outdated portions in the Suggestions thread.

I'm doing what I can when I run across errors. But I'm simply too new to spot the errors. Until they rear back and slap me in the face.

Many thanks for your time and consideration,
Marshal Ney