Ancestral not getting the point...

So one of the Saga players doesn't seem to get it...

First to understand this chain of emails, you need to realize Dawnbringer is Ancestral's alt that he is lowby PvP farmer. He plays level 10-14 players with level 7 troops. (This is a very high troop level for level 10-14, most of his opponents are probably fielding Level 3s.)

Then he attacks me for having a high fake rating. Even though I did a blog on this DAYS ago, with the idea to PROMOTE pvping for fun:

http://sagathoughts.blogspot.com/2008/07/rating-means-nothing-pvp-for-fun.html

Then he asks me to put my "main" on wilderness?? I have 4 wilderness on the CCIE nation. I swapped to Nature after playing it on my girlfriends account. You can CONSIDER my CCIE account my main, and feel free to raid me. You did raid me:

You got a total of 212 mats and 4 shards. (Raids cost 1500 god favor and 5 shards to run)

You guild has done a stack of raids on me, raids I welcome for the fun that ensues!

What's the problem?

I'm confused why you need to QQ?

LOL Elrandor!

Eldaror, I can't come out to play, I'm at work!

Hail the Chaos Actives!

The guild of our friendly neighborhood card seller http://www.sagaunits.com/ came to visit my wilderness territories.

I hope they got the joke for the fact my wilderness territories are defended by not 1 but 3 units of light infantry! :)

I talked to Sagaunits, and I told him that if they felt froggy to JUMP! (I also told him PvP is good for writing blog content :)

Here is the list of the mighty Chaos Actives:

TOWNSHIP OF REDFORD - so far raided me
RAGNORK
AZZAMEAE
JUDENIA
BLUHOTEYES BROTHEL
CHINCHILLA LAND
KALTHAX
DAWNBRINGER - I raided him
SAGAUNITSCOM - sold me lots of units
DARKRAGE
SHALLOW
HOLYKNIGHTS
JUDEA
LUSTERMERE - raided me
TREVORIA - raided me, I raided him back
GILMAR - raided me
ODINGARD
GUMMI
ANCESTRAL - espionaged me
TACONIA - raided me
KANDE

All I have to say is "Avast YOU fiend" :)

Oi! Swiper no swiping! - Espionage Part 3

I got returned visited today.

• After espionaging 600 people and getting success only 200 times, (successes don't tell the victim who hit them), out of 400 only 13 felt froggy enough to jump.

Thats a 4% froggy ratio.

• The only two nations that got froggy that have wilderness are Ancestral and Tortal.
• Ancestral of course being a level 35 nation who spends all day playing on his level 12 alt Dawnbringer spamming "Level 12 looking for pvp with 14 or lower". Of course I've been told he has leveled up a couple rank 10 troops on his level 12 nation so if you fight him, he fields all Level 10s.
• Whatever floats your boat.
• Tortal is a level 19 with a single wilderness.

Poor guy, seems like he just started.
Well I only started a month ago, and he DID felt froggy:

My raid didn't pay my costs in going to visit him. 143 gold, 92 wood, 147 stone and 159 food.

6 shards, it cost 5 to go play.

Kheldara says if you raid 5000 times you get a statue in the center of your town. - 4999 to go!

Espionaging - Part 2 - Profitable? Nope

• So I ended up espionaging about 592 Nations.


• Yes I really did copy and paste in almost 600 nation names.


• It cost me over 80,000 gold. I am very serious about my testing.

Here are the results:

1. On average even including the 31% bonus's from the University, I was hitting at about 1 in 4 for successes.


2. I would get on average about 220 supplies from a success.


3. It cost 600 gold for 4 attempts, so overall espionage costs the espionager more then the espionagee. This is even disregarding police, because I avoided espionaging people that most likely had police setup.

Here are the Nations I successfully hit.

See below on the left for the screenshot of the attempts. As you can see most are very minor successes.

Kheldara told me tonight that espionage was draining, and it was better to go raid and "Fill your Chariots with loot".

I have to agree with him...