The thirst for power...

[Donkixot]

Players have to make one of 2 choices either:
1) fight H1 and be wiped out now.
2) join the H1 and be wiped out later by the second age

Both choices are equally unpleasant and I made mine.

[Adawulf]

The good news is, we are starting a discussion about this. We need more discussions like this. What this comes down to is the future of our server. If you care about that, then you should care about this discussion. As for the folks like jaxi and the other guy who are taking it super personally, I just don't get you types and never have. Chill pill?


What happened here was some smart accountant guy at SHK team noticed that they make more money when new servers open, and old servers tend to produce less cash. So they came up with the brilliant idea of speeding up the life and death of worlds in order to make more money. I don't want to participate in that for the same reason that I don't pick up my phone for solicitors. I enjoy the game, but I don't enjoy being milked as a cash cow. I'll fight H1 to delay the 2nd age as long as I can and so should everyone else IMO.

[Adawulf]

"That all said, I am glad to be at war again. I wish they had declared on us before attacking, especially after we honored our alliance even while they were attacking our sister House, but sadly that was not in the cards."

Jaxi obviously you are in the dark about what actually started the war between H9 & H1, or maybe you are in the know but don't want to say it here on a public forum. What actually happened was...

We were in the process of finishing off Wrath & Retribution when H1 suddenly began recruiting them. These new H1 members such as AussieDozer, Tigershark, SirHamish, Biggerman and others were in some cases still attacking us, and monking us even after flying the H1 flag. H1 recruiting standards are very low these days and nearly all of the defeated WaR officers are now part of H1. Thus technically H1 broke the alliance and struck first.

What's even more interesting is a tip we received from an H1 player who told us that H1 was planning to attack H9 in 5 days. I still have the email if you are interested in seeing it sometime. Catch me when I'm online (which isn't often these days) and I'd be happy to send it. It was that tip, combined with the attacks from former WaR members wearing the H1 flag that actually started the war. Of course the 2nd age issue merely adds fuel to it, but it was not the initial spark.

[Adawulf]

Interesting JaxiTaxi. Thank you.

[meatball2k]

What goes around comes around, H3 got beasted when they got in war with h9, h3 guys jumped to h1 now house 9 will get beasted, and h9 will know how h3 felt during the war in Perthshire.

[CREED.]

Just saw this on one of the threads. Another new rule by SHK for 2nd age


Lord Alacrity


Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:30 pm
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Location: Firefly - US Office

Re: The Second Age Information
This is the intended mechanic:

In the first age a parish retains the bonus from a building even if it is deleted.

In the second age a parish will lose the bonus if the building is deleted.



We understand that on Mir1 and W1 parishes were still retaining the bonuses for deleted buildings, which was corrected in today's update. In a future update, a check will be run to automatically clear the bonus from any deleted guild on a second age world.

[CREED.]

Lord Alacrity


Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:30 pm
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Location: Firefly - US Office

Re: ~Second age map destroy? We want to keep our maps! VOTE


1. It is impossible to "expand" the current worlds. More territory cannot simply be pasted on to an existing world. None of the worlds will ever merge or have additional territory added.

2. The end of a game world is entirely up to you, the players. If players do not want a world to enter the second age, there are a myriad of strategies to make this happen. If players on a world in the second age do not want a world to end, they can simply postpone the end of the glory race indefinitely.

3. Closing old worlds will allow for new and unique worlds to be created. We have a variety of alternate rule set worlds which we would like to open as well as many many new countries and territories. (Yes, a Europe map is planned!)

4. Players will not be leaving a closed world empty-handed. For the winners, the rewards shall be great and unique and everyone who was active on the world will receive valuable and unique items unobtainable by any other means. The rewards for finishing the second age will be geared towards getting players off to a great start on the next world.

[Adawulf]

And think about this Creed; they are also increases the effectiveness of monking into parishes and counties. Imagine the implications of monking in and deleting guilds with the new rules. There's no locking in a bonus permanently, so any guild you lose is a major loss and you'll need all the flags to get it back. You can do serious damage monking into a county and deleting guilds & they designed it to be easier than ever.

The 2nd age is just going to suck. For many of us 2nd age = time to quit SHK.

[CREED.]

I do not see any advantage to going to 2nd age and i do not support it. I really think we should slow are world way down and watch world 1 that is going through 2nd age right now. I know just from chatting with players on that world they wish they would of stayed in 1st age,because of all the changes that were done.