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[-314195] TPain (GB1) [GB1] :: July 24, 2016, 10:18 p.m.

I put to the common players of the UK Server. Do you think that having families + wings in any way benefits the general gameplay of Empire?

Personally I think the whole thing is counter-intuitive. By making yourself 'stronger' than other alliances by joining up all you do is narrow your gameplay. And the result of that ends with bullying and boredom.

If we just stuck to the number of pacts allowed by GG and disbanded all family and wing ties, I think this game would become a whole lot more interesting again.

I'd welcome some logical arguments against this.....

[4499850] Graycat (US1) (Banned) [None] :: July 24, 2016, 10:26 p.m.

it just leads to big alliances being able to do whatever they want is all

[4499851] TPain (GB1) [GB1] :: July 24, 2016, 10:27 p.m.

and then eventually they get bored, want to get involved, but can't because all the other alliances are that much weaker. Its flawed.

[4499992] bobjoerock (US1) [None] :: July 25, 2016, 3:48 a.m.

TPain (GB1) said:

and then eventually they get bored, want to get involved, but can't because all the other alliances are that much weaker. Its flawed.

You cleary have to see the server war going on USA1 server.

[4500523] Graycat (US1) (Banned) [None] :: July 25, 2016, 11:55 p.m.

boring, just a bunch of big alliances fighting each other for property

[4500529] Pallu (IN1) [None] :: July 26, 2016, 12:17 a.m.

Property which really isn't even valuable.

Capitals ARE useless, metros are not useful enough to justify cost to take them.

[4500708] Frogger (BR1) [None] :: July 26, 2016, 10:23 a.m.

I thought uk player agreement was for no alliance to have more than 3, and yet bsk have 4 alliances now, which closes up the server. In brazil Snow have a lot more wings, and 4 of the have higher might pts than the main bsk75. Its not good for server Imo.

[4500837] gazz65 (GB1) [GB1] :: July 26, 2016, 2:27 p.m.

My last count only four bsk's.
do you count people jumping around with caps into other alliances
as wings or just good friends.

Could name quite a few alliances which might as well be wings to certain alliance.
But no rules stopping people jumping around so wings or no wings its how the game goes.

[4500853] UltraFlavoured (GB1) [GB1] :: July 26, 2016, 3:03 p.m.

This is a pretty good question

Pros and Cons for it too.

But I suppose if you class a friend as an alliance leader would you hit your friend? or would you be inclined to join them in a adventure?
Granted once the Alliance Tournament / Royal event arrives is does hinder your progress.

~Ultra

[4500998] Lucas1999 (NL1) [None] :: July 26, 2016, 6:15 p.m.

Wings don't really make an Alliance great. Here on NL1 we have Alliances on Top that don't have huge wings like Demolition or Legion XII or Immortals (Top3). So you can be a huge alliance without a wing.

Second of all wings can also break you. If they go on on their own they got a lot of players with them en sometimes that head of family becomes weaker than the wing. (Happened to Sincerity, whose wing Sincerity R1 went their own way as Resistance)

[4501991] TPain (GB1) [GB1] :: July 28, 2016, 8:35 a.m.

Ultra: I think we should fine more fun in hitting friends than we do. Only pixels after all, and everyone learns more if we can openly talk about an attack and how someone tried to defend it.

Well so far it looks like most are in agreement on here that it ruins the game, interesting. :-)

[4502331] Klingon (RO1) [None] :: July 28, 2016, 5:53 p.m.

Lucas1999 (NL1) said: ...

Second of all wings can also break you. If they go on on their own they got a lot of players with them en sometimes that head of family becomes weaker than the wing. (Happened to Sincerity, whose wing Sincerity R1 went their own way as Resistance)

... after years i still see (other game) the "2" in the name of first server alliance ... i pushed hard and it worked. i no more have that energy now ...