The era is coming to an end and I thought I'd write something about it.
When the idea of a Superera came up 6 months ago, we decided Reacro had to be in it. Seeing how difficult it was to find war targets as a big farmer alliance, I thought about playing low points. The ultimate account being one with 5 provinces, 1 boxed level 7 fortress in mountains, the rest fortress 1 or even 0 (Tugboat didn't quite get the message and built a level 3 fortress
. Grounds for dismissal, but he managed to avoid being kicked out). Our low point strategy we owe mostly to Octavian although we all went different ways.
My idea was finish the level 6 fortress get elites and then start declaring 4-5 wars a week. We knew that bigger alliances would gangbang us, and that we would lose lots of armies and lots of wars. It didn't happen quite that way... we couldn't resist starting wars as soon as possible. As soon as we reached 5000 points we started declaring. Once started we couldn't stop and one month into the realm we had a big lead in the alliance race. Farmer alliances like LegionIII had tried and failed to beat us and very few alliances fought back. Those who actually beat us (Alliance and Polska), did it by disbanding or kicking their members. We could have won against Polska had the vacation system worked correctly, not to demenorize Polska in any way, who fought a great war.
Our goal was to win the alliance ranking. We also wanted to do it with low points, for several reasons. One was that most of us only had played with high net worth before, both farmer and warrior ways, but always at high points.
We also hoped to force big farmer alliances to keep their points lower and make the realm more fun. With this we failed completely... after 3 weeks of wars we already had more alliance ranking points than we had when after winning R5 and all farmer alliances had given up the alliance race
Which paradoxly meant that we succeeded with another of our goals: showing that the current alliance system is crappy.
After realizing that noone was going to threaten us in the alliance race we decided to try to reach 60 wars won during the realm... and against 60 different alliances. We did reach 60 wins only because Djtomy declared on us by mistake. Someone asked him to join Uruk in the All-Star War... and I think he misunderstood... he declared on us instead
At least that's what I think happened. So, I believe we won 60 wars against 59 alliances.
The All-Star war was never about llllllll, nor about Uruk. It did give a special touch to the era, and I hope it will happen again. Thank you to everyone that participated, and congratulations to the winners whoever it is.
The name? The lllllllll, well that goes back to my first sejour in IO, Jan-Mar 2006, there was this player that I used to attack and I could never get his name right, I just couldn't remember the letters in the right order. It was XAHPYM or something like that (I still can't remember it... but I found him again in R10 a couple of months ago). I also wanted a difficult name when I came back in December 2006, thus Ill1mc. It didn't quite do the trick so I thought about llllllll and an entire alliance with the same name. I only got 2 more to take the name but it was fun anyway. Also the other two alliances that took llllllllll made one or two players ask a lot of funny questions. Next time I will make 2.... no there won't be next time....
As I am leaving the game I must say a few words about my comrades. All of them are among the very best in IO, it was an honour to play with you, I really regret we never got to meet eachother in real life, but it's not too late.
Tugboat, you are still a noob, but when you get your act together and leave all that board meeting and stock market shit, you will be the best.
Octavian, you master high points, low points, whatever. You managed to play IO extremely successfully, work full time, mostly without a computer and also study half time. Cheers
Isolde, everyones favourite multiaccounter
you have always been by our side with great loyalty and intensity. You screwed us up badly but I am really glad you are back.
Belgarion, you have been with me for 12 months now
, time flies. We have had a great time together, a lot of laughs. I still remember all the times we wrote the exact same thing at the same time, you always 1 second after me...
Take care of business now that I'm gone...
P.s. I copied this post here, it seemed more appropriate sorry if I made you read it again 
