GEWarrior
My good friend Stephen succeed in getting me back into GEWar a couple of weeks ago. I have, as my personality dictates, gotten sucked in. Which is a pisser, because it’s not even that great. If you started the original version of the game at any point after the reset, you’re boned; you will never be as powerful as the last powerful player who started, unless you’re a rabid jewel hunter. And the people, my God! Some of them are just downright obsesive! PeonBoss (my arch nemesis, as explained below) the number one player, has contol of 1047 cities. Second place La_Noce has 82. There are, in fact, only ten unoccupied cities in level one so far. They’re all pretty much worthless except for Durban, South Africa.
The new level system helps players get started and build up resources so that they can compete in the game, but also allow the players an unrealistic expectation of what the game is going to be like. The relatively few players allow each player to have a large slice of the Earth (or did, until PeonBoss started his batshit crazy approach to the game.) Unless you’re an unwashed loser who started at a reset, you will never have anything. Ever.
On to my personal narrative.
When I started, I was able to use the street name layer on Google Earth to place my home base very nearly on my house. (Aside: why are parts of the Alaskan wilderness at higher resolution than my county?). I attacked the two closest unoccupied cities: Marquette and Traverse City. Both fell, and I expanded into Canada. I was on a pretty good roll, and when PaidAssasin (the first-ranked player at the time) was bumped up, he left me some of the larger cities. Then another player left and I gobbled up his turf, including New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco. I was very nearly finished with my total conquest of Canada when I made a stupid mistake.
I had sent my forces to a few small towns in Canada that were at the time unoccupied. When I attacked them early the next morning, they were occupied by PeonBoss, but I unfortunately didn’t see that until after I had already taken one of the cities. I then faced a dilemma: should I assume he’s a rational, understanding person and appologize and abandon the city? Or should I assume that he’s a dick like everyone else on the internet and keep fighting this war before he comes at me with everything he’s got whether I apologize or not? I chose the latter option because…well…have you been to a forum?
My suspicions were confirmed when I next logged in. The exact transcript:
As a future reference, attacking me was a bad idea.
in fact it almost always is…I am the freak who will spend 36 hrs straight on here and take over the whole world, i know since i have done it a few times… but i do not attack folks till they hit me.
so you can learn and keep some cities or not and be zeroed. your choice. I am pretty relaxed about it.
Grade A dick right there. Anyway, he wasted me and took nearly all of my good cities, leaving me with Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, and a buch of inconsequential cities. Now my strategy is to sit, soack up the taxes, and have Stephen infuse me with cash right before I upgrade to level 2.