Closed Week #25 2017-10-23

[DeletedUser111848]

does not look amercican

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

Do you perchance mean Saint Nicholas from Myra?

That’s the fellow, though only the Dutch continue with the very non-politically-correct story of his travelling with a black servant (slave? bed-warmer?) boy from Africa. But that’s alright: he was almost certainly a dark-skinned moor himself.

Nikolaos as his mother probably called him, Saint Nicholas as the English say it, Sinta Klaas as the Dutch have it, Santa Clausa as the Danish say it, he somehow morphed from his Christian Saint’s Day in early December to be the icon for a man he barely believed in, since even his Christianity can be doubted by the way he avoided Roman imprisonment for Christians and his writings on the prophet Duwad (David in English translations of the Bible and Qur’an).

I suspect that if he could have a say in the matter, he would today call himself a Muslim as much as a Christian (the Qur’an wasn’t written when he was alive), though perhaps not a very good one of either. Still, if half the stories are half true, he was a very decent fellow.

 

[DeletedUser108047]

Santa Claus (as distinct from St Nicholas etc) was a Coca-Cola promotion in the early 20th century....

@Test Ament perhaps the most attractive element of Atlantis is that you can get a decent wodge of plunder without having to battle and plunder everyone everyday... which means you can be a moderate plunderer and possibly still get some limited goodwill from your hood

 

[DeletedUser111351]

I can't imagine anyone going after and building a plunder-specific GB and then plundering less once they've obtained and leveled it. It'll just make them more bloodthirsty.

 

[DeletedUser110179]

@ Test Ament perhaps the most attractive element of Atlantis is that you can get a decent wodge of plunder without having to battle and plunder everyone everyday... which means you can be a moderate plunderer and possibly still get some limited goodwill from your hood

Sounds like a contradiction in terms ... but everyone needs a good villain (be it Capt Hook, Darth Vader or HAL 9000) .

If you're going to worry about goodwill from the neighbours ... you're probably not focused on progress and development. You really need to hit the neighbours hard else they're going to laugh at your split personality or call you bi-polar. I enjoyed defeating the highest ranked players in the hood ... Atlantis makes it all worthwhile .

Battle and plunder is a strategy for success rather than an enjoyment preference.

 

[DeletedUser96901]

I only attack and plunder people who don't aid me

and those already don't have a goodwill on me or else they would aid me

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

...I enjoyed defeating the highest ranked players in the hood ... Battle and plunder is a strategy for success rather than an enjoyment preference.

Make your mind up, Bridge. This is a game, so if sucess in it (however that is defined in a game that can’t be won) is what you enjoy then there is no ‘rather than’.

 

[DeletedUser110914]

Good morning everyone

 

[DeletedUser111589]

Inno goods collected sooner than Alcatraz ones and I started getting Alcatraz goods a week or two before. Now just to have terrace farm finish producing FP so I can store it to make some space.

Good morning @Yugure

 

[vikingraider]

You'll have loads of space thanks to Inno

 

[DeletedUser110179]

Make your mind up, Bridge.
This is a game, so if sucess in it (however that is defined in a game that can’t be won) is what you enjoy then there is no ‘rather than’.

I guess I enjoy power and influence ...

For me it was more about tackling the toughest dude in the hood than pilfering anything afterwards.
Even financial prosperity (in RL) can be more about status and power than any material needs (like food and shelter) .

That said you can still set goals and challenges which will be your personal victory or "winning" when they are achieved .

 

[DeletedUser111589]

Finished

 

[vikingraider]

Congrats! I'm down to 1 house thanks to Inno.

 

[DeletedUser111866]

Grats Ilela

I wish I'd be this lucky. Two weekly challenger chests, two 2xstore in a row. Hope you can store a GB with it, or else why should people use so kany of them? (Yes I am aware that I am lucky to have those daily challenges at all, but...) store building seems to be the worst prize to get from challenger chest, at least you can invest the FPs and get something right away, these are dead weight until a certain srt of circumstances comes up.

 

[vikingraider]

Some prize is better than no prize at all. (or even be allowed in the competition) You can't store GB's unfortunately.

 

[DeletedUser96901]

better no prize for no costs
than a bad prize for high costs

 

[vikingraider]

Some dc's require me(on beta) to do what I'd have done anyway, so no cost. e.g spend fp, aid 30 players, and so on.

 

[DeletedUser111866]

I've got one DC to defeat 30 and get 3 sectora, and nothing more. The reward was culture vs residential (chose culture). That DC was safely skipped XD

Some dc's require me(on beta) to do what I'd have done anyway, so no cost. e.g spend fp, aid 30 players, and so on

I like when these appear. They are like freebies then.

 

[DeletedUser111589]

Completed 2 weekly challenges in a row (14 daily ones) now for last 2 days I'm getting 'obtain 5 sectors on map'.

Thanks.

@vikingraider1 I need some houses for gold until I get more tribal squares.

@ih8regin store building proved quite nice reward. I had to store terrace farm for some space. Now that I've gotten rid of majority of houses I can build terrace farm again.

 

[DeletedUser111848]

hi guys go to fourm games and go to the one that says best