Hi there! I am Lady Moiya, an R4 of the alliance, SEA (Currently Sea Dragons) Server 187 has not yet started Season 2, so there is not much to report. Our alliance did go thru some changes after the last season. We culled our alliance of all players that had been inactive for quite some time. Because of this we are now left with 30 to 35 active players. We are currently in talks with the other largest alliance on our server regarding the idea of merging for Lost Island since neither of us have enough active players to participate on our own. More details to come.
Hello everyone!
My server is finally starting the pre selection for Island! YAY! Just a little longer to go until we actually get to fly away to the lost island.
We have run into a little bit of a complication. As I stated in my previous post, once we returned to our server after Season 1, we made drastic cuts to our alliance members. We removed all dead hills (people who had not logged in for 10 days or more) and also those who continued to not be helpful during our time at the island despite us encouraging them to participate. Because of this we are under the required amount of members with T8.
We were able to find a server with an alliance that we met during the previous season that was on board with joining us for Season 2. This would have solved our problems, but it didn’t. When cross server opened up, only 50 servers were opened. This alliance is beyond that 50 mark. We are still in talks with the only other large alliance on our server in hopes they will join us for Season 2. We will have to wait and see if we are able to participate in Season 2 of Lost Island.
Update: 08/17/22
After a lot of hard work and determination, we have finally made it to the Match up phase!! We are very excited to be able to join in on the island event once again. We had a rough time meeting the requirements in order to be able to go.
As previously mentioned, after Season 1, our alliance decided to remove all players who were inactive. This brought our alliance from almost 100 players to only 30. Our server is very small and only has 2 larger alliances. Neither alliance would have enough players meeting the requirement on their own to go to island, so we had to join together. There is good and bad with this. Each of our alliances, even with only 30 players, were very strong. Now we have two separate strong groups trying to learn to play as one. There have already been a few growing pains and I anticipate many more during Island adventures. Each of our alliances had a not so great experience during season 1. I hope that we all can learn to work together to make season 2 a wonderful and fun experience.
Season 2 - Day 1
We have made it! We are here! At last the wait is over and we have begun Season 2 on the Lost Island. We have made a good bit of progress in the few short hours that we have been here. We have managed to defeat 2 lairs and have 13 alliance towers built. It is already a better start than season 1. It has not been all fun and games though. We essentially have 2 separate alliances trying to work together as one in order to be here. We have already ran into an issue where part of the other alliance believes that we should give a 2 hour notice before taking over a lair. This poses problems for others in the alliance as not everyone has the same amount of play time available to them. Having them wait 2 hours before they can play does not really work for them. We have agreed for now, but I do not see that particular request lasting throughout the season.
For now,
Lady Moiya
Season 2 - Day 10
We are still trudging along! We are into Day 10 of the season. We are making strides forward, but not as fast as some of us would like. We have begun to work as a team with the alliance who joined us…for the most part. One team really wants to push forward at a faster pace while the other is content to sit and wait for things to happen. We have team members chomping at the bit to start invading enemy territory. We have managed to take over 19 of our Residence, Lairs, and our wonder. We have 4 ferries but have not taken over any tunnels. We do have enemies at our gates, but have not moved forward. Some of them have messaged us to state they do not want a war, but we are not sure that we trust those messages. Time will tell.
Currently, I would say that the merging of our alliance with another has been helpful and is working to a point. We are approaching the day when the vote can be made to leave the island. Our original alliance is not in favor of that, but feel that the other alliance is going to want to leave.
Some take away info from members of our team: The cap of clay each day is hindering our process of moving forward at a steady pace. In Season 1, we did not have enough players to ever come close to having enough clay. This season we have plenty of players, but now there is the cap of clay which means we have quite a bit of time without being able to continue to build towers.
We just unlocked our Mudskipper. Personally, I am just not advanced enough to have multiple marches with enough strong troops to take on the Mudskipper and achieve decent points. With each attack costing 30 stamina, I am not able to complete each days points achievements. It has been suggested to cap the amount of attack times and make the stamina cost zero along the same lines as the Pangolin. Also, the Mudskipper is invisible to many players. They are having to reset the game multiple times in order to get the mudskipper to appear, if it ever does.
That is all for today,
Lady Moiya
I know that this season has ended but I wanted to finish up the journey. In my last post I felt good about merging with another alliance in order to participate in Lost Island. In the end it turned out to be a very big mistake. The two alliances never could agree on anything and the journey became very volatile and toxic for everyone involved. The drama was unbelievable and continued well after Island had ended.
Before voting opened up to decide if we left or stayed, the current R5 demoted everyone to R3 so that no one would be allowed to initiate voting. This was because we knew the second alliance wanted to leave. Even though I didn’t want to leave the island early, I knew this was a big mistake. The other alliance felt they were being held prisoner and there was no coming back from that.
We did end up having a big discussion with the leaders of the alliances and decided to try and work together to finish off the island, but there was already so much bad blood, that nothing worked. The rest of the island experience was awful and going home was not any better.
The result of merging with the other alliance actually cost us our home. Our alliance was original to our server with the other alliance only recently joining the server. We have since moved servers and joined a new alliance in hopes to get back to enjoying playing the Ants game and eventually having a better island experience.
Take Care,
Lady Moiya
