I'm really disappointed in this Sword of Mara Stuff ... Developpers have no idea how this earthquake was felt within the game. It was much heavier then a bloody Sunday ...
Strong players with fortress Champs of +50% , offense bonus of +50% for a week and 100% to 300% force increase with this Sword of Mara are lethal serial killers. . It was a black day for many leagues, never was it so easy to demote a fortress level 20, of leagues that used to reign !
The Sword in hands of a player who has 200 to 300kk off power and all above listed bonuses in combination with a sword level 2 to 5 can easiliy punch out a 1kkk league ... well well
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Then on the victim side, and there were many ...
A hit league despite being able to regain 90% after the tournament, faces several problems. With Line a hit league , like a wounded animal leaving blood is smelt from a distance, information is spread once a league is demoted, other leagues get curious and add to the misery like real vultures.Its hard to break the vicious circle !
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Another observation is that once a sword player ressources reaches its end, he wil finally raid small leagues, before it is handed over to another account of another at least friendly league. There is also no way that Plarium can prevent this handing over as there is no way to know about alliances nor players having accounts in other leagues.
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Many leagues have sleeping accounts, and store substantial def forces of players that actually stopped playing, but uploaded all they had. If a sleeping account is kept, its because they contrbuted substantial. So once these historical sleeping accounts defensive power is lost many face a deficit with current mebers of 20 to 40%. Moreover once a fortress was hit, people spend less , a normal response as if a war broke out in real life and you need to save a bit more for yet even worse times. This is called stashing up.
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I know the sideeffects of being member of an hit fortress , about the hatred that deep side unveals, and this weapon gets the worst out of some players believe me. How many times you have been harrased in the game ? A war game ? Some are total maniacs and get bananas , I even dealt with a guy who was in jail and a real criminal. Kim Yung Un is a barking dog compared to those. The final settlement , the ultimate chance of revenge reigns in stormfall. . Therore I can't appaud the facility offered to get into this kind of reflections.
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Some say oh well its a fight among the big ones. No it isn't. A sword is indeed changing hands and initially the sword may be in hands of a lvl 90 player but in the final phase only the strongest (or the immortals) survive and indeed the sword remained in the hands of lvl 125+ players till the very end.
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If the owner of the sword his forces are depleted and he needs to wait to revive till after te PVP, he can easiliy hand it over in a controlled manner to another of his accounts, or a friended league. In such manner the same fortress can be hit many times by different accounts, still in hands of the same player or a firend within the alliance
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I consider what fun is it to pleasure a small elite group at the top and dissappoint the largest community ? Please answer ? If such incidents repeat itself, massive players will say bye bye forever. This game does not need this , we hardly digested the stoneheart stuff and many are still careless about champs. The 10 thousands of runs I did and lost time doing so on this infinite small champ improvement ... Oh My God ... what fun is that ? Eversince the arrival of the champs the best renewal is the Duel PVP. So the person who had this idea deserves a medal.
On the other hand the classification of the leagues should not be disclosed, unless to leagues of its own tier. As the information provided with its statistics already had inspired some to strike a fortress, based on league activity stats. So an advise to plarium. Keep the stats within its tier and do not disclose those to other tiers, as it had caused havoc as well..
