I type this with pride, but with a heavy heart.

At reset, SOL will say farewell to a few veteran players who made playing here great.

WeeZy, Academus, Req, Bru, Suicidal, Steeps, ABM & Coalie (Shared custody, SOL had parental responsibility every other weekend and 1 week in summer).

Most of them are unable to respond on EEdiscord or forums, but will remain active on SOL discord (as stated in the release forms they each signed before accepting their LoA paperwork) hopefully, it will be temporary but I pray that it's permanant, it is time.

We know that it's the community that makes this game addictive, the game being the one thing we each have in common to start with.. but the glue? That glue comes from the clan, camaraderie, fun and banter. It's the countless hours spent talking about real life be it; stocks, trucks, holidays, mealpreps, kilts, and precious stones, sharing concerns for loved ones and eachother, celebrating milestones such as marriage, sobriety, employment and much more. Some of us have been friends through birth and death. Becoming more than just clanmates, becoming life-lines in many cases and friends in all cases.

SOL ranked too high in all stats the game monitors, however SOL has always and WILL always rank #1 for active inclusiveness.

Stand Easy SOLers, your nicks and names will be etched onto the walls of our war room, your sacrifices remembered, your accompishments talked about for decades as history proves we do NOT forget, our doors will forever remain open to you and the tag always at the ready to be worn.

No longer silenced.

SOL

I will miss all these premium patron members of the community that I have had the pleasure of playing with all these years.


All the best to you all IRL.

Peace be with you brothers

Yup I'm gone too once Classic and Coop reset.

Yall are an amazing group of people and we had a lot of fun! Thank you for the time yall shared with us, we appreciate you guys!! This is not a good bye but an until we meet again. If your ever free and in Houston; dinner is on me.

fogo de chao?

never know where that line is. ban is crazy when the game only has a hand full of players

For many years, we have played side by side. We have shared victories and defeats both in the game and in our day-to-day lives. The game will not be the same without you there.

Salutes to each of you!

I came back hoping the game was healthy. Might be my return is short-lived. I can hear the death rattle all the way up North

I will certainly be sad to see SOL with fewer players, as I have now found out that it could have a big effect on the game in future.

My country was left in absolute ruins after having to tag kill RedX's motley crew, I went from fully war prepped to not having as many missiles as when I started. CRIPPLED.

It seemed obvious, that the SAINTS' FS was merely a diversion due to the overall nature of it being that it was utterly and indefensibly terrible. So we awaited the inevitable real FS, somewhat surprisingly none came.

With a few weeks left to go in the reset, intelligence was suggesting there was no other war on the horizon, that SAINTS were in actual fact just terrible at the game, life, monopoly AND bingo. As such I would likely just be spinning my wheels for the rest of the set. Easy life, tech and sell!

What better to do with a largely purposeless country than have some fun in the market, and what fun there was to be had! Some wild buyouts meant I was able to cash in on some totally ridiculous prices 😂

Whilst it's unfortunate that there wasn't really any point to me generating all this cash, it was kind of fun. I've just recently found out that SoL were behind the buyouts, and so I guess this seemed like a good place to say thanks to you guys for being such good sports.

So I guess moving forwards SoL having fewer players *will* be a big loss. It's likely that any opportunity to cash in on their market buyouts in future will not be quite the same.

Would have been awesome to see Mercs and SOL kill everyone as darkness did in teams before it was shut down.

I’d wager that alliance will end up like team sooner than later.

What’s the point of this server now that we have coop if there are no war tags left. It’s just a redundant server that’s gonna go into the archives.

Someone convinces me that I am wrong in thinking this.

@ugo Why so many words to say something so simple.

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You are 100% correct imo.

The introduction of Co-op makes Alliance the defecto war-server. The "how it's supposed to be played"-server, specifically for all the people that think this is how the game is supposed to be played.

Everyone should be happy now, but I suspect they won't be.

When SoL found out people were messing with their boosting effort, why didn't they do something about it? Find out who was doing it and demand it back under threat of war—not some phone arranged crap, a good old fashioned blindside!

If that's too rich for you why not look for countries that have stock home that are in the same tag as the country doing the blocking, and gently take it from them with some light farming!

Or make it about honour, kill the countries of people that go on AT and make fun of your alliance in a farewell thread (hello!).

I dunno find whatever reason you need, but do SOMETHING to make this the war game that people are so vocal about wanting!

Or don't, why should I care. I got "boring" net-gaining to do over on the "boring" server, with all my "boring" friends 😂

It's funny that the thing that brought me back to alliance this reset was that I was not netting, and it's ended up being a pretty fun reset!

Maybe I will stick around. Are there any alliances out there that intend to play this server properly next reset?



Because I can.

I wanted to wipe monsters tag your tag off the map but they wanted peace for their last round

My post about Ugolino dying 100 times in teams got deleted?

So I’ll try this again.

I am pretty sure that Cyref would not appreciate you calling for monsters to be hit by war tags. I assume
As much based on all the drama that went on when RedX hit you two rounds ago and this round.

MONSTERS wants to netgain, I think everyone knows that. It's on the clan homepage!

However, when they are attacked they will war, when they are threatened they will be ready.

You say MONSTERS wanted "peace" for their last round. What does that even mean?

Red was doing his thing again, so they got ready for war again. There was never going to be any "peace" this set, so I don't really follow your logic.

I think that what Red was doing to MONSTERS is a shining example of how dysfunctional Alliance had become.

A peaceful net gaining tag, that wanted to play the game their way, becoming the most viable target to war. Herp derp.

Seems the most logical next step is to go to war with the bots, they are not war prepped at all, can't hit back and certainly aren't going to wall.

Imagine the glory upon your heads. The war stats will be impeccable. Everyone will see that you are indeed the best at playing the game how it should be played!

Nobody will have clue what it is you are trying to prove though.

I'll let them know that you have decreed this to be MONSTERS last reset. As far as I was aware they had no plans to leave Alliance, despite my attempts to persuade them otherwise.

I'm still trying to figure out the whole "wipe you off the map" comment. It seems like you have some bigger goal than simply warring.

Are you intentionally trying to run people off servers? This seems like an odd thing to do, given that in the next breath you will be whining and moaning about how there are no players and its all the netters fault.

What is it you are expecting the netters to do, line up each reset and be cannon fodder?

I suppose it makes sense. I don't know if you played TEAMS but I remember trying it briefly. I posted looking for a netting tag, and was invited to join a new alliance. I don't know if there was some history I'm not aware of, but I remember that a bunch of existing players took an almost irrational dislike to our very existence, and for seemingly no good reason blindsided us. The following reset we prepped, but that was met with being gang banged by multiple tags co-ordinating.

It didn't really feel much like it was about war. These people seemed motivated by a genuine desire to run people off the server. There didn't really seem much point sticking around so I left. I can't say I was sad to see it shut down, it looks like those players got what they wanted.

It follows that if it is also the case that people are actively trying to drive people away from alliance (i'm guessing that the people doing that on TEAMS must have gone somewhere?) then the only logical conclusion is that they are trying to get this server shut down too.

Those people that actually enjoy playing the game, would do well to recognise the real enemy of it.

If it comes to pass that those players succeed and get alliance shut down. Then MONSTERs will have no choice to move to co-op, I think they would do well there, but I think they would be disappointed that it had come to this.

Who knows what goes on the minds of other people though!

I think you shouldn't write a cheque with your mouth you can't cash.

I think you are either drunk off farming bots or you can’t read my friend.

SOL and Mercs! Wanted to peacefully netgain before all of the members that have forum bans retire at end of send.

I think you should alert Cyref to come read this thread and your posts and see what his thoughts are :)

Ah, I understand what you meant now.

...but wait, if it was you guys that wanted to peacefully netgain, what went wrong?

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We netted?

If you say so!

Well said. That explains why this silly text-based game has lasted for so many decades....

Nothin' but luv for allya
https://youtu.be/yDTjdR_tpU8

but your spokesman Ugo has no love for us. he wants to get a war going against Monsters. Last time we fought Ugo in team server he didnt wall once and after 3 rounds dying in MKR he packed up and left yo!

Correct, wasn't the game itself, the game was just a meeting point, it was the socializing aspect that kept us here.

Yeah well, the romanticising will keep us here another 10 years I'm sure.

We are definitely deep into the old-man arc now!

I would have said old-people, because I am very inclusive, but also I respectfully never comment on a woman's age.

Thank you lol

But yea, some of us have been here forever

Preach

Xavier! <3

i will be a grandpa one of these years!

Alcohol on you, but I'll get the food

I don’t drink anymore so I am a cheap date!