Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Buffster update

Several of his people now have been hitting pretty hard. Seems Buffster has moved or lost and rebuilt a couple of his cities I have him now at (26,6)((25,1)(24,1)(17,4).

I have written now to several of our allies for a consolidated concentrated attack intent upon the complete destruction of Buffsters personal cities. A couple of the bigger ones are interested, so that plan is in the works. Meanwhile, keep hiding your goods and building forces as possible and keep your rally point gates shut.

My goal is to get 30 people from our alliance and others, to send at least 5000 troops each and hopefully some seige weapons though these attacks have set me back a bit on getting that far this week. We'll also need maybe 500 Ballista to help take out the wall defenses and reduce casualty. I'm trying to have an equal split of swordsman and archers. I would think 150,000 troops arriving at the exact same time in an inconvenient hour of the day...will be quite effective. We'll also be sending strike forces to the other cities as well but many of them will be decoys. Unless we get so many volunteers to help overthrow this tyrant that we can justifiably hit several cities with destruction force all at once.

Once he himself is destroyed there are a few other big power centers (groups of level 10 Buff cities) that we will be able to turn our attention to if we can hold the alliances together on task. A couple of the ones planning to help, are at the moment actually at war with each other, but it is looking like they'll call a truce to assist us in the revolution to overthrow the tyrant.

Goodnight. I'm exhausted. LOL.

Buff neighbor attacks with his level 10 cities

My extra cities were attacked

I was online but the beacon's didn't alert me. Either because I was "in" the city that didn't get attacked or maybe I had mail or something up in front and the beacon warning was behind it?

Though he is my neighbor, he felt compelled to attack on his alliance leader's command. I sent him a message

First: "Sorry you feel you have to mind Buffster...we're your neighbors, got no beef with you, not even any benefit to you in Buffsters quest for prestige. Wish you'd leave that knuckle head and be at peace with us"

and then

..."If you're really just needing resources or something all you had to do was just ask neighbor..."

LOL...he didn't reply or at least hasn't yet.

Noticed he didn't even try my main city. Dang and I had many many thousands of surprises waiting on him...but I did go into the rally point and check the medic tab and found 29 wounded scouts..but no report indicating why. Guess he tried to scout me.

I also went around and went to each town hall attacked and did the disaster relief to get rid of the public grievance.

He got more than I intended to have vulnerable in one city because I had taken it out of the market this morning to upgrade. It makes sense that you are always your weakest at your weakest point...at your most vulnerable time.

I had the check mark in my Rally Point open the gates. So alot of troops got killed or wounded. Why did I? Because I had sent Ballista to my other two cities to protect them from catapult and battering ram damage..BUT I DIDN'T NEED TO in one because it had rock fall and that took out the seige weapons.

Another odd thing that happened, he hauled off alot of stuff from the third city because he brought transports with him.

What is odd is that my abatis were not even touched, none were even damaged, and no transports of his were hurt. I sent transports to pompey once when stephen had abandoned it and all the mines and archery towers were gone..but the abatis took them out. Thinking now maybe it wasn't the Abatis that took them out, but they flushed those records and I can't go back and study that old event. Wish i knew why his transports were able to go untouched?

He brought 600 Ballista that took out most of the wall defenses that were taken out instead of his troops taking the hit. Seems like he would have done better sending the Ballista in a wave by themselves but then again..his Ballista didn't take any hits.

He's got a couple of level 10 cities just a few miles north of me so it wasn't a far trip, he was able to send a firepower most won't have to face.

I'll study the reports more when I get back. Feel free to note anything you figure out from them. Like I said though, I knew Shakeand was weak, and I've learned that I had no where near enough fire power to be leaving my gates open. Will make sure to minimize exposed resources.

May have ticked him off with my two notes so much that he comes back to destroy that little town tonight when the truce is off. LOL..we'll see.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Buff declares war

Though we have tried hard to prevent it, Buffster somehow sees us as standing between him and his alliance reaching the number one position in dominating the world. We've talked before about how this was coming...and has now arrived. He has many members near all of us. The good news is, practically everybody is at war with him. I will be contacting our allies for their help. At this point I wouldn't go picking a fight with any of them that doesn't attack us, because some of them have even told me they will not attack even though he has declared war.

This guy doesn't want to talk about diplomacy, he's strictly in it for the war. Continue to build your wall defenses, keep large amounts of money hid in the market place on the buy side of lumber..and large amounts of resources hid there on the sell side until you need them...work carefully it is easy to hit the wrong button in the market place and sell stuff cheap and buy it high..lol.

I bet every flag on the game board is red to that guy. Right now we'll have to be mostly on the defense, and be very defense prepared. If we have nothing for him to plunder he will soon grow weary. But we'll also be contacting our allies and friends in any one on one events that need attention.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Organization

Bai and Tirfing are our Military Chiefs. They will work with our Vice Host or myself in coordinating in leading us in military or relief efforts. Lass has been appointed Presbyter to help keep us in line with our spiritual goals, should we stray from our path of peace she will likely be making contact with whoever and helping keep us on path.

Felidra has agreed to work as Vice Host. She has been very helpful in our recent negotiations of peace with other alliances and even in battles, and in recruiting. There are several others that will soon be promoted to officers because of their exemplary contributions to the tribal efforts...once they pass the threshold in prestige points and have shown true commitment and involvement in the actions we take as a tribe.

It is an honor to work with every member of this tribe. I have been "blown away" at the high quality of people that make up our alliance. I honor each of you and am thankful. While there will be more promotions to tribal officer in the future, the hierarchy at present in my absence and even in my presence, generally decisions are made after receiving input from the chief military officers and the Vice host.

Felidra will be helping us with recruiting and with peace negotiations and when I am not available please contact her with any concerns, and she will work with Bai and Tirfing for a decision of action needed.

Again, in my mind, I have seen honor amongst many of you, and as we grow, we will need to distribute the work load amongst other officers to be appointed in coming weeks so that we can all work together positively towards keeping our people safe.

Thank you, all of you, for your help in whatever manner you've been asked. I'm proud to be a member of this alliance. And thank you to those of you who constantly contribute to helping us attain or regain peace. To-date we've only had to eject 3 members...2 because of attacking unprovoked active player cities, and one because they were just unable/unwilling to relocate to our area so they are better served joining an alliance in their area.

The attack on Singh is currently off, and we're hopeful as a result we will have a peace treaty with them very soon. This again, primarily is the produce of Felidra having a good relations with her neighbor in IronFist.

What an awesome bunch of people make up this tribe, I am proud, very proud.

Sincerely

Injun Joe
Tribal Chief
Cherokee Alliance.

Sakima's attacker

102,186 several cities in that area and 110,185. This bozo has 2 accounts, one as Singhrules, one as singh.king. When he first attacked I noticed his flag said Buff but he was actually in S.P.K. I found out from my neighbor that Buff had kicked his dumb rear end out but that he didn't have any more flag changes so he is stuck wearing Buff Flag. When I wrote to him advising him the S.P.K. had allied with us (though SPmake that made the agreement is no longer with them, and we must not be on THEIR friendly tab or else he couldn't have attacked)..he backed off. But I did write to the new S.P.K. leader..got no answer but today noticed this same guy is right back to attacking Sakima but now belongs to IronFist.

I've written to him again, and to IronFist, and scouted his city at 110,185 and found only 1000 warriors and 150 archery towers at this moment, so I've launched a small strike force though it be 8hours plus away. I also learned you don't have to put anything in the food blank when launching an attack, it will automatically take it out.

Once you have antiseige weapons, from our attack on Mayhem we have seen it is beneficial to leave the checkmark in the open gates box in Rally Point. The plus side is...your troops combine against the invader with the wall defense also. The downside is...you lose troops too, not just resources, should they overcome you.
But it will not be long until the attackers are bringing catapults and battering rams so if you have ballista, I would recommend you leave the gates open when you fight.

Anybody else that wants to attack this guy is welcome to, and encouraged to focus on this one city of his to start with. If Sakima comes back online, we would be stronger fighting defense from within her city, since she may only have one or two spots open in her embassy though, contact me, we've got to send the biggest soldiers and food at one time so we can be of real use when he strikes again. Look at the war reports on Blesstopia to see what size force he is sending.

Those of you still blessed with a mom, remember tomorrow is mothers day, at least in the states.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

spk starts off the day

The attack on Sakima was disheartening, it means that S.P.K. must have changed us from the peace tab at least to neutral for him to be able to strike. I have written to singhrules (102,186 S.P.K. but says BUFF on his flag...LOL) and to their "new" leader to see if they would honor the peace treaty we had with their founder. We will wait at this point to see. One thing I did notice in the war report and want to mention, the size armies people are attacking with these days, several thousand traps is minimal security. Several hundred won't deter much when they use 10,000 or more troops.

Please upgrade and invest your resources whenever possible or warehouse them, and if you are going to be away a bit and have an amount of gold you want to keep, remember to tie it up in the market...like clicking Lumber, buy, set the price like half of what stuff is going for like .065 then change the amount of boards you're ordering high enough that your gold is used up,then post it. When you need the money, come in the market and cancel your post.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

A few days off I hope

It has been a busy few days. Hope after the battle everybody checks the rally point medic tab and the feasting hall to give your heroes earned promotions. Other than pompey gut of the undead coming back from surgery and finding many troops rebuilt though he doesn't play server 3 anymore and has said we could have his city, the happy drugs must have overcame him, he sent an attack at Bai and went back to server 4.

We've got that one problem going on with a demigod2 member, I have again contacted that player and their leader because they have entered a peace treaty with us and I'm hopeful this is just a misunderstanding..but for him to be able to strike us, I'm thinking their leader didn't put the status with us to friendly in the alliance tab. Still working on that.

Building traps, warehouse upgrades, troops, wall defense and upgrades all around. Have a couple new recruits, will be needing to update our coordinates list soon.

I'll only be on for short times each day for a few days, have stuff to catch up on around home. So drop me a mail if you have any questions, I'll get back with you i get it.

Peace is like a still Sea...it changes when the wind blows..so enjoy it when we can.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Cease Fire on Mayhem

Your response to come to the defense of Lass has overwhelmed me. I am convinced that those who make up our alliance of the most noble and honorable of any I've seen or could have imagined. Every contribution played a part. If you add up the total value of food, iron, wood, lumber that has been destroyed out of his budget in this attack, it is considerable.

I will contact Vlad and see if he will now let the waters be calm between us if that is what he truly prefers. At the beginning they scoffed at us being a mere 16 members as if we were just food for their cattle. It is my hope that this matter will now be resolved with diplomacy.

Those of you with analytical abilities may benefit us from a study of the war reports and how the different attack or defense counts of each piece helped or got wasted in this attack. Hopefully we can learn much from it. In fact the next time such an event occurs we may be taking an entirely different approach. Please be sure to refresh this page each day when you log in, and out..for any alliance wide plans, needs, comments.

Thank you Bai and Tirfing for excellent leadership in my absence. This entire day I've had to be out of town several hours on a surveying challenge with my state of real life residence...and it has been most draining. But after 36 hours of nonsleep research and work it is resolved and I am back but will not be too active this evening..LOL.

I will post in comments shortly any results of communication with Vlad.
Thank you, I am honored to be amongst you.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Are we still at war?

CHANGE of plans...If you didn't get a chance to last night, whittle more on that log at will today before he can rebuild. But be careful don't go broke on this one, try to keep improving your defense even if it is at a slower rate. If everybody gets their punch in that are going to...may send him the note this afternoon...that tells him...

...we have stopped. If you truly would prefer to hunt npc and non-alliance players then the waters will grow calm between us. That is what we would prefer as well, as this is a distraction from what is more enjoyable in the game...

then

we wait.


Unfortunately the timing is bad as I'll be away from the keyboard tomorrow. Bai and Tirfing are both in leadership positions to make decision in my absence. Whichever one is reachable. If neither can be reached, and he attacks again, you will have to decide whether to react or not within your own judgment.

Our war status with Mayhem

42,15 Vladymer prestige 84321
41,13 Vladymer
41,14 Vladymer
and his newest 42,14

This is the Mayhem guy in our territory attacking our own. Just this one guy, Is he close enough for you to start attacking??? We as an alliance are greater than he and Crusher put together, but we need to strike Vladymer. Let us begin with the new one.
See your email for the time and day.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Journal of Building a new city

Had 250 workers and 10,000 of each resource including gold, leave these in your city the attack force is coming from, don't take them with you when you attack. The flat i wanted was level one, it could be any level you can attack..i sent soldiers to attack it..from my second city..

Came back from bathroom and saw my flag sticking in the flat. Clicked on it and had 3 options..enter, build city, or reinforce. Since I didn't want to leave that hero and those troops there I chose enter..and hit the Recall button.

Then clicked on the flat again, and this time chose Build City.
It popped up a question anyway.."do you want to recall the reinforcing troops?" if i choose no then they will belong to that city i suppose, not sure how they could though with no barracks or rally spot..besides i already recalled them..so I click OK anyhow. OOps..system message..no more troops are allowed to sent at current level of rally spot. Please upgrade the Rally spot first. I think that it is talking about the automatic dispatch of 250 workers from my barracks..it can't do that yet because I only have a level one rally point and it is waiting for my troops to get back. I'm going to wait a minute before clicking the ok on that system message to give my returning troops time to get inside and get their boots off and get off the runway of the Rally Point.

Ok, times up..clicking ok on the system message. Now the "build city" option is darkened out so I'm closing the flat box and going to click the flat anew. Worked. Build City option is available. Clicking it. Nope, asked me if i wanted to recall troops again, cancelled now the build city is staying grayed out.
Hmmm. Clicking Reinforce and sending 250 workers. Same message..my lvl 1 rally spot is in use..I notice off to the side Build City bar is progressing, only has 1 min left. Hmm, maybe thats why it was grayed out.

Note to self, always check to see if it is already being built. Now a popup City Rename..and choose a logo....ahh it has begun...wasn't that hard.

DID YOU GET YOUR GIFTS??

At the top that annoying scrolling text telling about the civony world..has little bitty icons in it on the top left. I thought it was captain bars but looking closer it was a gold package with a red ribbon in the middle..click on it and claim your gifts if you haven't already!! Cool stuff..even got another city transport...so maybe if you were needing one.."thar she be"...Have a great day and don't forget..it is a GAME, supposed to make you smile once in a while.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

WAR WITH SPAM IS OVER

I sent a force to strike the offender back and wrote a few letters. He sent thousands to attack me, and got destroyed by my wall defense. The leader of SPAM said the attacker was out of line and the attacker apologized, the leader said there well be no more attacks against the Cherokee.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Anybody who gets this message please send a strike force against 107,178

This post is no longer valid, we have a peace treaty with them now.
Attack at will and often, I've sent two waves already, to give their lives disarming the towers defensive . Unite and strike together but strike and keep striking on such a constant and powerful member who offended our sister. We must target him, all that is with in there range and continually attack him with all we got, as long as we can afford it.

XIII ATTACKS FELIDRA

This is what happened, and hopefully how diplomacy resolved the issue more quickly than bloodshed...

Lord A.William of the XIII alliance is located at 82,93 and he has attacked Felidra in her new location. Upon learning of this I have toggled them to them hostile tab, thus declaring war against them. Apparently several of our allies are also, but I then sent a letter to Adominus...their chief.

"Your intro says your alliance is about honor..what is honorable about attacking an unprovoked attack on a member of the Cherokee Alliance that would otherwise be good allies?"

His response:
"Who has attacked you? and honour "

Mine:
"82,93 A. William attacked one of the Cherokee Alliance who just yesterday came out of beginner status, and had to move because of Mayhem bullying her, now your guy has
started in "

His:
"I am very sorry, im sure you have the same problem with keeping full control over your members. but they have recently got their armies and are wanting to flex their muscles. "

Mine:
"So far I've been fortunate because in recruitment they are made aware our alliance has a strictly enforced no unprovoked attack of active player cities policy. We seek to live peaceably if possible with our neighbors. If you can reign him in I would love for their to be a treaty of peace between your alliance and mine.

Otherwise my entire alliance will be focused only on him. We much prefer peace.

Sincerely,
Injun Joe
Tribal Chief
Cherokee Alliance "

and mine again in a letter with subject "Kindred Spirits"

"Like your alliance, we truly believe in protecting our own, so I'm sure you understand why we would bring all our forces against that one individual, but it is needless ...we would be most honored to enter into a treaty with your alliance where we did not attack one another. "

His response:

"Yes i fully understand, we have had some of our newer members picked on by SPK that is why i am so upset with my own members for doing the same, believe me I have messaged this member, and once he has got back to me i shall be giving him some words.I hope we can resolve this peacefully, with no more bloody shed, Adominus "

Mine:
Subject: Thank You

"Thank you, I will advise my tribe of this and hold off any attack on him...and when the 24 hour mandatory change of status takes place, will move you to the friendly tab, as I hope you will move us to yours. And we can be at peace with one another.
Very honorable of you, I appreciate this peaceful resolution. Looking forward to
adding XIII to our Friendly ally list.

Sincerely,

Injun Joe.
Cherokee Alliance

His:
"As i must admit, your resolve is admirable, I appreciate your tolerance while i regain the reins of my alliance.I look forward to seeing you as a friend in the future.Yours in faith, Adominus"

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Mayhem declares war on us for resources

X:118, Y:200 is where their leader lives, a level 8 fortified city with at the time of this post, Naen is the host.100 members 35th in rank founder : dreyfer
requires recruits to move to Lower Lorraine and have 10k + prestige. Goal : "Be the best alliance on the server." Obviously they don't mean best in Character.

The stats on 118,200 went like this...Food 1,691,168
Lumber 667,341
stone 342,122
iron 1551846
gold 53450
population 19694
loyalty 83
7 level 6 cottages and 7 level 5 cottages. 4 barracks at levels 4,4,6,4
three warehouses at 3,2,2
8 sawmills at level 7, two at level 8
11 farms all at level 6
one stable at level 1
one inn at level 2
one forge at level 2
a market place level 1
a relief station at 1
academy at level 5
workshop at level 1
feasting hall at level 3
embassy at level 1
rally spot at level 2
town hall at level 10
walls at level 8
Rollinglogs 100
Archer's tower 1500
Trap 1000
Abatis 100

Other members I've located of their alliance:

39,18 orrix 12085
41,17 Crusher_99 42315
42,15 Vladymer 84321
41,13 Vladymer
41,14 Vladymer
44,18 Crusher_99
44,19 Crusher_99
44,19 Crusher_99
94,224 ceaser IV 31596
93,225 ceaser IV
65,226 Adarianna 17423
41,208 Gobo 39093
26,207 Jaleya 33174
27,206 Jaleya
6,203 poloster1 20424
120,203 Kujoe 58547
118,200 Naen 60,700 (alliance host)
118,201
119,201
120,201
121,201
134,185 Naen

Naen's attack she sent
2135 workers
559 warriors
951 swordsman
1998 archers
8 transports
20 Ballista

and in that one attack stole 67,037 food, 2973 lumber, 444654 stone, 1137 iron 19895 gold.

Vladymer's attack on Beta he sent:
500 workers
6500 warriors
1500 pikeman
2500 swordsman
3000 archers
150 transporters
10 Ballista

Took 364,444 food
437575 lumber
686.706 stone
374,972 iron
19796 gold

Beta had 111 archery towers, 400 traps and 200 abatis don't know what his archery level in academy was so don't know what his range was.

Tremendous amount of force..noticed the Ballista's must be being made in one of Naen's other cities beside her because it takes a level 9 barracks.

Still have alot of research to do, and have asked our larger alliances that we have peace treaties with to help..but I'm seeing that the most important factor here is warehouse all your goods, check the warehouse proportions to cover everything by going into the warehouse, if need be take academy classes on it..they don't get warehoused goods till the city gates fly open..thats when your loyalty drops below 5 I believe. That is also when the troops will go out and fight.

More news later..press time.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Building a Stronger Defense

Troops are actually the last line of defense when you are offline. Always keep the gates closed (in Rally Point where the little "open gates when fighting?" box is..NO.)

Have enough warehouses and upgrades on warehouses and Academy warehousing courses to have everything secure, then when you are attacked, they don't leave with your stuff..though you can't seem to warehouse gold, try to invest it in training or upgrading before you go offline. If an attack is pretty inevitable and it is worth the commission fees, make a ridiculously low offer on logs or whatever is most expensive at the market place , ordering enough at that price to use up all your gold. When you come back in the morning or whenever, cancel the offer, the gold will be put back in your account less the commission fees. You can also do this on the sell side, putting something up for sell at the highest price like stone or logs that won't fit in your warehouse, but remember it is going to charge you a commission. (Bai thought that move up, very clever)

Protecting your city from being over run, upgrade your walls and build up your towers till you have a minimum of a thousand archery towers, traps and abatis and rolling logs and rock fall. Invest heavily in this.

Improve the range of your archery towers with greater levels of archery training, improve the strength of your fortifications with engineering. Other courses in the academy will be helpful to you in a defense matter.

Be sure in your embassy to have the box checked so someone in your guild can send reinforcement if you are being attacked (always make sure your hourly food production is way more than what you need so that you can feed troops while you are away if they need to garrison there.) Embassy upgrades allow more than one person in your alliance to send in troops. But I don't believe these troops will come into play until the wall is breached.

Felidra had an excellent quick reaction..while she actually was still in beginner status on her screen the olive branch was still up, she logged in and saw having just been pillaged with the first run from Mayhem, she quickly applied Truce from "my items". Give her time to warehouse stuff. Tirfing also reacted quickly to the attack on his city in the post that follows this (about Mayhem..this is an edit of this building a stronger defense post)..he logged in, attacked a weaker of their tribe...and teleported. Brilliant people.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

We are not at war with Legend

A Legend member attacked Cir accidentally thinking him to be inactive (remember in that earlier post when I talked about how Important it is to be very careful about attacking abandoned cities..and never attack an abandoned city that has an alliance tag)..It is hard to imagine how he could have thought it abandoned, Cir had only been there 2 days..but nonetheless, Addleon apologized and withdrew when I wrote to him, let us hope that is the end of that.

However, once I toggled that war switch, it will not let me change it back for 24 hours ..so we are NOT at war with Legend (thankfully, they are huge)...and it will be switched back tomorrow night to neutral.

CEASE FIRE AGAINST THE UNDEAD

Stephen50 is requesting peace and claims he and Sala have worked out an agreement of peace. I'm waiting to find out from Sala if this is true. He claims when she tele-ported in all of a sudden he was intimidated not knowing her intent and wrote her but didn't get a response so he attacked. Not so much to pillage and plunder but to defend "his territory" from what he though of as a potential threat. He has apologized and is seeking peace. For the time being we have agreed to a temporary cease fire until I can hear Sala's input and wishes.

We are at heart and principle a peaceful alliance, so if this resolves peacefully, good. We have learned many lessons from this attack and hopefully will continue to build into readiness because it will not be the last time we have to go to war to protect our own...Hopefully next time we will be much much stronger and more coordinated.

In the Alliance tab they have been moved off the hostile tab, to the neutral tab. If this is resolved and a permanent peace treaty is agreed to, we will move them to the friendly tab with agreement that we will not attack one another.

Until further notice, continue to prepare for a massive attack and defense, because it will be inevitable in the future...its part of the game..and the reason we are allied.

Will keep you posted on the progress of establishing peace with the []UNDEAD[].

ROSE MEDALS

Needing to upgrade from Knight but short on Rose Medals?

Needing Rose medals to increase to Baron status I've been hitting level 1 lakes..and getting freedom medals and other higher level medals. So I changed the way I attack, and only send a minimal force, like 100 warriors and 5 pikemen to a level 1 and sure enough...Rose medals are there time after time. Got to give credit to Bai for that idea..but it definitely has proven out. So if you're needing Rose medals...scout the level one lakes..see what they got, go into the rally point and put their troops on the defense side, and figure out how many warriors you'd need to send with maybe 5 pikemen..or just warriors..to win without too much casualty..and you'll be collecting Rose medals in no time.

A new Allied Alliance

Weapon is an alliance with this intro:
"Welcome to the new, up and coming alliance WEAPON!-you can keep your flag the way you want it, its easier for lords. -If there are people around you without an alliance invite them to ours."


They currently have 20 members and are ranked 362 with prestige of 232,968.

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Letter written 4/28 10:00:06am
To RedSword (host of the Weapon alliance)

Greetings Lord RedSword,

We of the Cherokee Alliance reside primarily in Friesland, we operate under a "no unprovoked attack of other players" but unite in fight to defend our friends and allies. We would like to establish a treaty of peace between your tribe and ours that we will live peaceably along side one another and work together to keep peace in our great state of Friesland. If you agree, we can add each other to the friendly list in Alliance tab.


Injun Joe

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From RedSword
4/28 12:26pm

I agree to your terms and hope for a peaceful trust between us.


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To: RedSword

Thank you. It will be nice to be able to work together for a peaceful Friesland, and be at peace with another. We will honor our treaty. I will enter the alliance and change your alliance to the friends tab.

These are turbulent times, and several of your members are near me so it will be good to be of assistance to one another in the event of war


Sincerely,
Injun Joe
tribal chief
Cherokee Alliance
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Information on The Undead

The Undead claim to be a peaceful alliance, if it is so..then our whole battle is only with Stephen50 who keeps attacking our city Damen. What is happening though is that when we go to strike his city at X:38 Y:48 there are no troops coming out to fight.
So until we knock his walls down he is probably hiding right there. Yet the scout reports don't show any troops there..hmmm. I've noticed there is another Undead city near by at 22,44..perhaps he is garrisoning them all there in anticipation of destruction? Another very very realistic possibility is he is reinforcing one of the valleys he controls...hiding all his troops there.

He does own another city, that we haven't located yet. If any of you get time to use your arrow keys and click thru the map with the X between 0 and up to and including 199...same with the Y coordinates...post any undead coordinates below and who the lord of the city is... The cities should show up plainly under the red flags. Post your discoveries to this blog post.

Their intro page says they are primarily a North March guild..so that is probably where we'll find him. But for his attacks to be so repetitive, he's got to be holed up close by. If you find any others in Friesland please post their coordinates.

Attacking Abandoned Cities

If you notice in the war reports that I've attacked a city that is not in an alliance, not in our enemy list and wonder what is going on? How can someone strongly advocate against attacking cities unprovoked turn around and loot a city? Before you jump to the wrong conclusion let me explain...After scouting and watching a city for a long time..at least a week, and noticing no change, I typically write to them asking them to reply if they are still active in the game because it appears they are no longer playing...and that if they would reply I would not enter their city. If a day or two goes by and still no response then I have attacked abandoned cities. And every day or two I go back in again..usually only sending workers and one soldier...to carry off what the computer produces for the day.

I'm not attacking players, just abandoned cities...and if you decide to do this, I would plead that you be very very patient and notice their prestige and the level of each thing in the city...scout report...and look again in a week, and write them at least two separate days...and make sure that they are not in a guild..because even if the player is no longer active..until the alliance host dismisses them, you will likely ..more like most certainly ...cause the alliance to retaliate.

Is it a good source of extra income..yes. Is it dangerous to our reputation and safety as a peaceful alliance? Not if you do it right, with patience, and plenty of observation and correspondence...and make sure it is not a city in an alliance even if it is abandoned.

-Peace-
Injun Joe.

Monday, April 27, 2009

The letters behind the scene of our first war

Peace Treaty attempt with []undead[]
Letter from Injun Joe to Lord Hiddink:
4/26 13:20 Subject: Friendly Alliance

Greetings Lord Hiddink,We of the Cherokee Alliance also reside primarily in Friesland, we operate under a "no unprovoked attack" of other players but unite in fight to defend our friends and allies.

We would like to establish a treaty of peace between your tribe and ours that we will live peaceably along side one another and work together to keep peace in our great state of Friesland.

If you agree, we can add each other to the friendly list in Alliance tab.
Injun Joe
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04/26 18:32 War Report stephen50 of the undead alliance, attacked the city of

damen (38,46) a member of the Cherokee Alliance.04/26 18:39 attacked again.

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about 20:00 unknown to them, I dispatched everything I had that I had workers to carry food for...with about a 8 our journey ahead...
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In response to Stephen's attack on our alliance member Sala 4/26 22:41

From Injun Joe
To Stephen50:

That is a new player you are attacking and just moved to Friesland. If you do not stop I will see to it that the primary goal over the next few weeks of my entire alliance is to destroy 38,48

Also letter to his alliance host...
From Injun Joe
4/27 To : Hogwarts

We wanted there to be peace within our state, till your stephen50 attacks a new player of our alliance, freshly moved to Friesland. What must they think of our fair state now? What must they think of their very own "neighbor" that flies your
alliance name in their popup. If he was out of line in attacking the innocent, expel him as I would were he in my tribe and there will be no war between us.

We should be keeping Friesland,our homeland, at peace, not attacking our newest residents!
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From Hogwarts
To : Injun Joe
04/27 02:30am

How the mighty warrior race has fallen, to be the **** of rage,as time has flown and the braves have been forgotten,gone the smarts the intelligence, wise man no more, no sage.So come white skinned pretender, bring it onwe'll slay your every last **** til at last your race is gone.♠Undead Alliance♠If you need help with the big words
give us a shout.

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04/27 04:34 am
To Injun Joe
From Hogwarts

I respect the peace fair man, but alas stephen is both bold honourable and brave. I ask you to cease and not lose your lives against our walls. I offer a trade traitor an enemy of us both that offered me information as to your weak cities if you call it off and befriend us. We will fight by your side brother. Apology will come from nmy brave steve for any wrong doing

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4/27 04:38
From Injun Joe
To Hogwarts

Very well, if indeed you are interested in peace within our borders as you say, I will toggle the tab against the undead off of war.

But Stephen will be treated as if he were not part of our agreement and by this time next week he should be able to begin a new city on his flat and may be a better member of our fair state through it all.
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From Hogwarts
To Injun Joe
04/27 05:09am

Your an honourable man it is plain to see but as I am sure you'll know an act of war is just that. Steve reckons he wrote to your brave and was ignored...if thisis the case your brave offered no claim against wrong doing. Peace I want. But I will
not cut steve off, and as we all know an alliance is truly about honour, except for dogs...pull back and there will be no more war, and I will testify to this and will end the membership of anyone that does...respect♠Undead Alliance♠
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04/27 06:00:04 Injun Joe

Troops arrive and attack pompey1 (38,48)
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From Hogwarts 04/27 06:04am

OOOOpppps now you've done it. You have declared war. Honourable surrender. Not an
option we are coming!!!

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4/27 06:17 From Hogwarts
(he drew a sketch picture of a skulI and sent it to me)
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04/27 6:16am, 6:29am, 6:30am,

6:30:21am, 06:31am,

06:31:53am, 06:32am, 06:33:38,
06:33:50, 06:34,:04, 06:34:19

war reports of stephen50

attacking and looting damen.
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Injun Joe attack Pompey1 with second wave of troops 04/27

06:39:10
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Stephen50 continues 8 more

attacks on damen between

06:41 and 06:44:28
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Bai Kolio attacks Pompey1
04/27 11:55
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Bai Kolio attacks Pompey1 04/27

18:52
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4/27 19:22pm
from Injun Joe to Hiddink, host of the []undead[] alliance:


It is with great sorrow that I announce to you that we will be destroying the city of pompey1.

While our alliances are at war, it is only the offending member that is being punished at this point. He should have known better than to attack an allied member, but he did not.

Such a tragic waste for us all. It will not happen all at once, but it is inevitable. I regret that he has so damaged such an innocent city as Damen, and that such drastic course of action has to be taken.

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Alliance News

Ok ALL...PLEASE enter your embassies and check the box to allow allied troops to garrison or we can't reinforce you in battle...we have to attack the attacking city and that is giving them the high ground.

And in your RALLYPOINT..don't leave that Open gate box checked !!!

Also..we are at war with Stephen50 of the "undead" alliance who without provocation attacked Sala. You can read all about that war up to this point in the previous post.

Please be upgrading your soldiers, Pikemen are really helpful, but cataphracts are great, just require alot of upgrading. If you go into your rally point and click March and put in the coordinates 38,48 it should tell you in the bottom right how long it will take to get there...you'll need to know that because hopefully we will be sending out the time for a coordinated attack within a couple days..be as ready as you can be. Word will go through the mail though since this is too public.

Use the comment button to post whatever you want to post about...but in the previous post..the one about the war...

The first war in our new homeland

Last night Stephen50 of Pompey1 (38,48) attacked Sala, twice. I wrote to him and to his alliance leader but it did not help. I sent out calls for any and all to attack that city, even our allies. As of yet nobody else has arrived. I knew my men would arrive first, with the mission of doing all the damage they could do against his walls defenses. They gave their lives doing just that and died honorably. The following is the report:

06:00 my first wave arrived at pompey1 (38,48) i sent what I had available and they travelled all night. Knowing they were surely going to their death they marched bravely on. In hopes that at some point others would join into the mission but knowing at that hour of the night the chances were slim. 196 workers (to carry the food) and 300 pikeman died after 16 rounds of attack..

No damage was done to the enemy's 200 archery towers, but 246 of his 320 traps was destroyed. No damage to the 266 Abatis.

At 6:39 the next wave arrived and 250 workers and 463 archers fought bravely. 41 of his 200 archery towers were taken out and 76 of his remaining 86 traps were destroyed and none of the 266 Abatis (but I used no cavalry) The fight lasted 16 rounds before the last man died.

It was impossible to send more because I was out of workers and it is too far for the soldiers to carry their own food. So I will continue to build and at some point in the near future return with siege weapons and plenty of soldiers and help and we will leave those coordinates as they were before such a dishonorable speck as stephen50 built his first cottage.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Words did no good...

When the attack on Cir began and I could not reach any of the allied neighbors, I wrote to the host of their alliance:
Lord Narvarchus,my attack report shows your member Momus has attacked Cirburg...an innocent peaceful neighbor who has been of great service in assisting new players get started and is of good character and value to the land of carinthia. Is this the common practice of your alliance, to attack the innocent non provoking players? Are there not enough NPC barbarians to take on with honor instead of attacking the weaker newer good decent people of your own state?


This was his reply:

Hey Joe, Im the leader of the Myrmidon alliance and you recently declared war on us. As you can tell, we have taken one of you members cities and are preparing to attack further. If you beg for forgiveness we will let your members live, if you dont check the alliance rankings and think about your chances.Sincerely Narvarchus



and mine:

I've seen your ratings..and watched as they have dropped from 1 to 8 and still falling. I've also seen your intro, where you don't care to assist newcomers. You have defined yourself well, and your spirit is unworthy.

Injun Joe.


All night I watched this guy attack more and more cities in Carinthia as alliance after alliance responded by marking them in the alliance tab as hostile (thus declaring war on them)...So as I have urged all members to relocate to my state where our alliance is strongest and our allies are decent...we also must prepare with stronger warehouses and stronger walls.

By tomorrow night I should have cataphracts and be better ready to speedily assist.
As each of us go about enjoying building our cities economically, keep on guard.


If you use the city transport from the my items list...and have more than one city, they will put you in the state you select but in random locations within the state so your cities may be in two separate places in state, and you'll lose your resource valleys but there are plenty more here to recapture and upgrade to higher levels.

I regret that this new era has come so quickly, but now our eyes are open.

Cir Lives !!!

Just heard from Cir...

He is alive and well in his primary city, it also had been under attack but his walls withstood...and has no city transports left in inventory.. Wish they would let us mail stuff like that.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

War Lessons

Looks like the honorless Myrmidon alliance in Carinthia is busy attacking Cir while he is offline. Can't get any communication going with him, from what I can see scanning the area for red flags they are very strong in that state.

I'm hopeful he has anything left when he logs back in, but I can't reach the other tribal members in that state either. I'm encouraging all tribal members to use the "my items" city transport...it says to a random location, but I'm told it lets you choose a state..choose Friesland, we have less hostility here and more strength. We're just too spread out to be of much help to each other this early...because we don't have the cataphracts and upper level transportation speed abilities yet.

By monday morning my level 8 wall should be up, but I'm also seeing from what is happening in Carinthia that it is important that we upgrade our warehouses so there will be nothing to pillage unless they can completely destroy the city. Pretty honor less of them to be attacking the guy in the late of night when he's not even online, but then again..that is why we are banded together for mutual defense..its just that we were not prepared logistics wise to be of assistance that far away and the 3 other members in that state can't be reached.

I know transporting would be an inconvenience..but actually maybe more of an adventure. (Like it says on the sides of the Uhaul trucks..an adventure in moving). We've got several strong and growing members in Friesland and a peace treaty established with another major alliance already here..the USF....hopefully as many as possible will relocate here and we will be able to maintain a peaceful existence.

Printable workmap


You should be able to click on this picture and make it larger then print it if you want to make a map of your state. The X coordinates start on the left and will go up 200 to the right..see the server 3 map post for your state. The Y coordinates go down from the top of the page to the bottom they increase.

Upgrading to a level 8 wall

1,280,000 stone
64,000 iron
384,000 food
192,000 lumber
quarry lvl 2
workshop lvl 1


That is the requirement upgrades to go from a level 7 wall to a level 8. I still need 125000 stone...at my current production rate that is 5 more hours.

The construction takes 44 hours and 10 minutes if I don't have any speed ups in "my items". While I could spend the time today "farming for medals" (attacking level one or two ponds or swamps or flats)...think I'm going to spend most of the day today with my wife and kids. Just finished cooking bacon and eggs, and since there was some bacon grease left and the fire turned down low, popped open a can of biscuits and am frying them like eggs...making what my dad use to make when i was a kid...and he called them "terepins"..because the pattern on their "backs" is like that of a turtle. May be online later but thats the news for now.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Evony Workmap

For a poster with coordinates for the Evony World Map Click on that link, if it doesn't work you can access it through www.squidoo.com/evony . Pretty handy on a bulletin board, or laminate it and use dry erase markers on it. Or even just let it hang on your wall to make your place more fun.

If you just want to see a bigger map of the Evony world click on the picture below. Disregard the outdated information at the top calling it Civony and server 3.

New members and war is nearing

As all the members know, invites are only extended to people who are share our basic "philosophy" :

We of the Cherokee alliance are intent on destroying only derelicts and defending ourselves, not in attacking or pillaging for gain of the labors of others who have not provoked us.

We've had quite a few new members join this past few days...and I believe we have the best bunch of people out there. And am thankful for all. I lost that little green olive branch from the upper left corner of my screen so my Peacetime protection is gone. Several others of our tribe have lost theirs too. So we will be entering a new era and learning much about warfare.

If you see any neighbors that you would like me to send a letter of inquiry to, send me their names and I will be glad to...our tribe is still young and spread out at this point so we need to develop more alliance members near our own cities.

I'm including a map that is pretty small scale but if you enlarge it enough and print it gray scale (saving your colors) it might help you as a work map, I've got one I use to chart approximately where all the tribal members are. I'll put the map on the next post so it is by itself.

We'll be learning alot and probably be under attack soon. I will be busy trying to establish peace treaties with alliances that come closer to sharing our common compassion. We're entering turbulent times though, please upgrade your walls and your warehouse as possible.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Taking on a level 7 forest

Naturally since my informatics is only level 5, they weren't much help. But here is how it turned out. I did actually win, but lost many good soldiers :(

A forest several miles away was level 7
I went into my townhall and my valleys tab and abandoned a level 2 or 3 I was holding and went for it...

hero level 29
warrior 1182
pikeman 400
archer 267
cavalry 126
no survivors

Quantity I sent ///casualties

Hero level 15 1/0
warriors 610/339
scout 1/1
pikeman 622/622
swordsman 263/262
archer 215/215

fight lasted 10 rounds
prestige gained: 103
wounded portion 10% (cured them all when they got back but it was close to $5k in medical bills)
Experienced gained by hero 14,400
Earned 1 Honor medal

Still wonder what they mean when they say that the medals can be used "in the persuasion of rival heroes"...

17% increase in lumber production

Finally upgraded my walls to a level 7...started it last night..it took about 20 hours. Think it finished sometime early this afternoon. wow they look "purdy".


I was taking screenshots with "screengrab" using it in my firefox...but now when I take a shot it logs me out...LOL..not sure what that is all about, but all I could figure out to do with those "copy" shots was to paste them into word or wordpad..but still couldn't convert them into a jpeg format so I could annotate or add tags or crop them and all that good stuff...

I know its done..seen shots like that posted in the forums..but how??? THAT, is something that I do need to know.

Also had a little fun tonight with my valley limit reached..my town hall is 4 and I control 4 valleys...just go pounce on some pond...Death74 taught me that one...some level one or two pond, send plenty of troops while you wait on some upgrade...sometimes they bring a medal back, and they gain a little experience.

Did you know that in server 3 each "spot"...like what your mouse shows as a circle on Map view...is a square mile...one mile wide, one mile long...and there are 40,000 in each state, and 16 states. Goodnight.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

FLAG COLORS

I've not tested this 100% but so far it seems accurate. When I click the MAP button in the top right and drag the map around in view there are different color flags...
Since we've (our alliance) have been kicking around the idea of having a common flag, I thought this was interesting...

"Gold is yours, Green-others in your alliance, Blue- people in an alliance with whom you are friendly, Red- an alliance with whom you are hostile, Grey- anyone who is not in one of the above."

Interesting...I had been wondering about how we could change our colors but, evidently...color is in the eye of the looker....my Gold flag that seems to match NOBODY else...doesn't look Gold to ANYBODY else...haha.

The email system in Civony isn't very advanced for making it easy to communicate within the alliance...it needs like a bulletin board or round table meeting room..guess we can use this blog for that.

Got quite a few ideas for a common flag, and a couple that want to keep theirs individualistic for various reasons...so here is what I plan to do....

Since "U" pronounced like the OO in the word "book" ...is a Cherokee word referring to someone being strong of heart. I'm thinking in the 4 spaces we're allowed I'm going to put a space, a capital O (the letter not the number), another capital O, then a space.

Anybody else in the alliance wants to do that too ...that would be super..if not, that is just as super..because to me your gold flag looks green anyway. :)


To change my flag I'm clicking on QUEST, then in the left hand side clicking on ADMINISTRATION, Then down in the bottom left block, clicking on NATIONAL FLAG,

Cool..i see that there is a reward of 1000 gold and another National Flag (that will replace the one in "My Items" that will

probably get used in this). It also gives me the instructions.

My quest box says "Click your head icon to open Player Frofile"....FROfile? ...is that something to file my "fro" with?

But I don't have a Fro. They'll probably correct the spelling on that someday...but it is at least some humor at the moment...

Anyway to change the Flag...Click on the avatar/picture..it opens the Player Info box...on the left side , at the bottom I see Flag:_____ and the change button. Looks like I don't need to mess with putting in empty spaces, looks like it will center it on its own so I'm typing in two capitals OO and clicking CHANGE.

Little wait symbol comes up....guess the server is busy but it is working on it..aha..System message box popped up,
Change Flag Successfully it says. I click the OK button. Click the X in the top right of the Player info box to close it...my Quest light is flashing meaning I've got a reward to claim...gee..wonder whatever could it be..LOL.

I open the Quest box, click on Administration on the left side (has a green check by it now meaning I've completed something )..look down to the bottom left "National Flag" is checked...look over in the panel on the right..click "Get Award"

Quest box was still flashing, scrolled around to find some other stuff I needed to claim the reward on...strange got one for having a level one market place...strange because I've had that for several days now...but I'll take the reward :)

To look at my new flag, I click the button on the top bar near my picture that says "MAP" and there it is..my fancy gold flag with OO in it.

I see the blue flags of my neighbor, reminds me I need to contact them and get a more formal treaty made between them and us...the more alliances on our friends list the better, good public relations might save us alot of soldiers and expense.

It is time to pick up the kid from school so I'm going to try to start the next horse riding level study in the academy, an upgrade of housing, and maybe create some more pikemen.

Interesting adventure.