I'm srry to make this thread but its just become too big of an issue

[Kyrottimus]

Originally Posted by w_larsen

upgrading forts, when there is force to hold, isn't going to help in getting good fight at all. not that it would drastically change balance, but it's a clear message, that intent is not to have fair and good fight. it also provokes other realms of doing that, so *all* realms should abstain from doing that.

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Most people who war with me, at least, know most of the time if I'm in a group and someone upgrades an enemy fort we hold to 3 or 4, I immediately get on my horse and ride off....

..that is assuming the realm whose fort we've taken didn't zerg-camp one of our forts earlier and upgrade it to 3 or 4 and camp it for hours OR that we're not trying to put their gates in danger. In either case I will defend a level 3 or 4 fort.

But if it's just some random fort war, and someone upgrades to 3 or 4, I simply say, "See ya" and hop on my pony and ride off. I've done it plenty of times and many of our more regular realm-mates can attest to that.


To first overwhelm a fort with superior numbers is to detract from the intensity of the overall battle, at least initially and to do so repeatedly shows either the most impressive of patience or the most pathetic state of boredom--but to upgrade said fort is just a purely chicken-sh*t move that the wholly outnumbered force sees as a sign that the fort-takers don't want a hard fought battle but a protracted kumbaya circle-jerk inside the safely guarded fort for hours on end, with no real battle (or fun) to be found. Maybe sporadic RP here and there, but if you're one who loves to zerg a fort then upgrade it (or stay and defend it after said zerging and upgrading), then you're sorely mistaken and in for a disappointment.