#davidc ; answers

[labyriinths]

@valucble​ “I don’t like the way they’re looking at you.” -Emily

David always knew he married up. It was why the idea of her finding out about his obsession with plays, when he was younger was terrifying. & Let’s be honest, he still loved them. So when he heard her words, he couldn’t help but spit out some of the beer he was drinking, from mere surprise. “Huh?” he asked, dumbfounded, eyebrows crinkling in a confused manner. They were at a fundraiser for the innocence project and they were surrounded by other lawyers and philanthropic people. He gazed around to see what she meant and found a colleague that he used to work with back when he did litigation law. She did have a thing for him then, but they hadn’t spoken in years. With his thumb rubbing his wedding ring underneath the table, he swallowed hard, smiling at his wife. He didn’t like confrontations. “More wine?” 

[utopia-game]

New Age, New Race/Personality, New Excitement!

Greetings Everyone!!

We are very excited with the start of Age 72: The Era of Venerated Bastions! Age 72 is not just another Age rolling in, oh no.  We’ve revamped the gains system significantly, we’ve added a new race, a new personality, a completely new mechanic called Kingdom Rituals, we altered the way science is generated, and wow...just too much to list in a short paragraph!

For these are the reasons I write you now!  The game administration is proud to announce that we will be partnering with John Sargent (JoRo to some Utopians) to present to you a fortnightly (maybe more!) live broadcast via twitch!! The first broadcast is scheduled for Thursday June 1, 2017 @ 20:00 GMT (1pm West Coast / 4pm East Coast / 9pm UK / 10pm EU)

On this first broadcast all the game administrators are expected to be in attendance, which includes Bishop, DavidC, Jeff and Munk (especially Munk I mean!!) with your host JoRo. We will begin by covering a wealth of topics that will include things such as: our synopsis of Age 71, brief overview of our objectives coming into Age 72 changes, some details about specific changes made for Age 72, new features that may be rolling out soon, timelines and goals for our team during Age 72 (Genesis!?), and perhaps some other topics not yet decided. However, the part we’re most excited about, after we bore you with our own ramblings, we would like to open up the floor to our listeners and speak with you directly, answer questions you might have and let the conversation go in the direction you’d like to hear! We have planned to go for about an hour to see how things shake up the first time through. 

We encourage everyone to tune in and provide your comments, feedback and questions.  

Event Details:

Location: http://twitch.tv/jorosar Date: Thursday June 1, 2017 Time: Thursday June 1, 2017 @ 20:00 GMT (1pm West Coast, 4pm East Coast, 9pm UK, 10pm EU)

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INTERVIEW: Sadira sits down with FFW

Hello Utopians, I am sitting on my stoop watching the rain outside when FFW, leader of Merciless, came to sit beside me and have a talk. (S) Morning, FFW. Been keeping busy during this Covid19 crap? (F) Been a little slow to be honest. Some of us being front liners mean we have less time dedicated to the game. (S) I personally thank all of you essential workers for putting up with us slackers. Let’s start with some basic stuff. How long have you been playing Utopia? (F) I’ve played on and off from age 7. So many many years I guess. This is probably the longest I’ve played utopia consecutively since age 72. It’s great to see how the game changed over the years and how much simpler the mechanics are today (S) Do you feel it is too simple? (F) Personally, I don’t feel it’s too simple. Some mechanic changes actually force the strategies which were once stale to evolve again so there is still complication in today’s simplicity. (S) How did you get into Utopia? (F) From a neopets ad. I was a kid back then and I saw ok maybe I press this and see where it goes. (S) Are you serious?? (F) Absolutely (S) That is too precious. Do you play other games? What games? (F) I play DotA2, elsword, maplestory from time to time, Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2 and Hearthstone (S) Does your significant other hate that you play utopia? Have you tried to get them into playing? (F) Well at the moment I’m a proud bachelor so I can’t answer that question (S) Can always find love thru Utopia. Would you like to give a shout out to any past kds you have played for? (F) Probably Bodega of Lotus since it was the only kd that I would remember for life (S) I remember that kd. Who do you feel you learned the most about this game from? (F) It’s probably the fact that there’s no eternal friends or enemies only mutual benefits (S) That is an interesting statement, would you like to elaborate? (F) There are players I’ve sworn never to trust in my life but definitely some have come to my aid when interests are aligned. Can’t really go into too much details or I’d be openly flaming them haha (S) Would you say you play this game strictly for the competition and challenges? (F) I wouldn’t. I just play it with people I get along with since it’s something I do with my spare time (S) How long have you played in Merciless? (F) I was part of the founding crew in age 75 which didn’t go too well so we reformed in 79. I guess all the ages we’re around for. (S) Has the kd always been called Merciless? (F) Yes absolutely (S) Any back story to how it got its name? (F) In age 75 we didn’t know what to call ourselves since we never decided on it. So we put it to a kd vote at the time. I decided we should be no mercy based on the song from the living tombstone. Zhogun another part of founding council said why not merciless. So we put it to a kd vote and merciless won. The name was really liked by the crew at the time since everyone just wanted to fsu (S) It is a catchy name. How would you describe your kd and your kdmates? (F) Well if you watch DC’s legends of tomorrow, I think that’s an apt description. A band of misfits that did really well. (S) Your kd is pretty successful age to age, to what do you attribute its success to? (F) Mainly everyone’s commitment to continue trying new things and find ways to improve. I mean we played human warrior when everyone was hyping dwarf tact. That took a lot of faith and belief to try. (S) Do you like to test combo's that the majority of kds don't try? (F) Absolutely I think there’s really no bad combinations. Just how you execute your strengths is what differentiates a winner from a loser (S) Does your kd have a particular goal in mind each age? (F) Yes we do. We normally set it from the start of the age and keep to it. We don’t always achieve it but it helps post age reflection (S) Do you have any suggestions to potentially new players or existing players that might find themselves lost? (F) If you find yourselves lost. Ask yourself what do you want to do in this game. I know it’s hard to part with kdmates that have been with you for ages but if your goals are not aligned it’s time for some changes. Don’t fear the unknown, try it and embrace it. If you’re a new player don’t be afraid to ask stupid questions. That’s the only way you can grow. For veterans don’t downplay stupid questions either maybe it’s something you never thought of otherwise and keep an open mind (S) If you could go back in time and give the "newb" you one piece of advice, what would it be? (F) Stop wasting time trying to convince people who never will listen. Making your own kd is far easier (S) Describe any funny or peculiar incidents that made you either laugh until your sides hurt or had you wanting to throw your computer/phone out the window. (F) We have a nasty habit of people being quick shot with dragons. Many will accidentally send dragon for various reasons and it drives me insane. We also had a dragon situation once with Void where we were bored so we robbed Tetre of a full dragon gc and sent it to Void for kicks and laughs. Unfortunately, our stew at the time Taco was on a side chat to negotiate war with Void so he flipped out and rage quit haha (S) If you could sit down and have a drink with DavidC, what would you be drinking and what suggestions would you like to mention? (F) Pepsi since that's the only **** I drink at a bar. I would encourage him to look at bottom feeding protection a bit more since it's currently the most broken thing in Utopia. People are abusing bottom feeding protections to annoy people at the top with robs and trads on smaller provs in larger kds. For instance, SWEA robbed us all age last age and we couldn't do anything to them because of bottom feeding mechanics until they came into range and we sent a full wave of learns to spite them which we all agreed alright CF we're even (S) Didn't a long time ago, kd size didn’t matter, only province. (F) that was equally broken since it was disproportionate and encouraged bullying too much (S) So what do you think is the solution? (F) mmm i have my ideas but might be a little challenging to code. Perhaps introduce a zero protection when meter points are higher for aggressors so a smaller kd cannot intentionally annoy a bigger kd without consequences, else it kind of defeats the accomplishments of kds who strive to be the strongest since strength comes from size due to war win mechanics (S) Hmm..maybe its also a bit of ethics and respect. Only a handful of kds tend to use that to their advantage. (F) for ages if you land top5, its a massive target on your back saying please hit my lower rung provs for free or rob me to your content (S) I could argue that kds that land in the top 5 got there pushing their way thru smaller kds. (F) absolutely true as well since war wins are built on beating a weaker opponent for every top 5 kd there's 20 kds buried to build it (S) So you don't feel like a kd that 'taxes' smaller kds should be touched for their resources? (F) I have no sympathy for kingdoms who chose of their own volition to stay tiny to beat on other less skilled kingdoms.I am not talking about tiny kds. Im talking maybe T15. (S) T1 goes down the line, taking acres one kd at a time to get that crown. You don't think a kd that has had its land taken by that kd should not be allowed to rob resources off them? (F) Those kingdoms aren't entirely helpless either. They could fight back with ops or hit back (S) I am just playing the Devil's Advocate here for the moment, you say smaller kds annoy bigger kds. I say bigger kds annoy smaller kds with waves that they know the other kd isnt going to retaliate. But we digress, let’s get back to these all important questions. Maybe you can get this bonus question right: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? (F) Honestly, i have no idea? 300 miles an hour? (S) -=tosses him off the bridge=- Wrong! (F) eh worth a shot (S) Anything you would like to add or any shout outs to any players? (F) Shout-outs for sure. Topsy, Dowla, ahtoad, Mansoor, Evil Queen, MasterOfOrion, you guys make utopia fun and interesting, since some of you are on break hope to see you soon! (S) Thanks for sitting with me and chatting. Let’s go get some Pepsi and watch some submarine races now. (F) Thank you and drink time! since its morning I shall drink green tea

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INTERVIEW: Sadira sits down with PersainCat

Hello everyone, this is Sadira and I’m sitting here having a drink (Pepsi) with PersainCat, leader of Divinity and he has agreed to take time out of his busy schedule to answer some questions. (S): How long have you been playing Utopia? (P): On and off since age 8 (S): How did you get into Utopia? (P): Friend in school was playing and it looked fun so I created my own prov and have been hooked ever since (S): Do you play other games as well? What games? (P): Yea, I play a variety of other games. I migrated to mostly PC games right as the Arma 2 DayZ mod was first released and miss it, there aren’t a ton of games that recapture that feel. As it died off and lost popularity I've ended up putting some time into Ark, League of legends, PUBG, Stellaris, Civilizations, Age of empires 2 and still make my foray over the console for Mario Maker. (S): Does your significant other hate that you play utopia? Have you tried to get them into playing? (P): I'm unattached...so lucky mean no impact on utopia. But generally utopia doesn't have that much impact on my personal life, been playing so long it just kinda sets the tempo for my life. (S): Would you like to give a shout out to any past kds you have played for? (P): Well I spent my early ages of my time in random ghetto's followed by genesis. Then in the late 30's came back to WoL and the core of that kd merged with Divinity late 40's. Three of us remain so there no long term kds shout out to anymore. (S): Who do you feel you learned the most about this game from? (P): Troll....he’s my current "war leader." Really though he's the other half that makes my kd work...no matter how smart/good the rest of my players/leaders are he can tweak things just enough to make the kd concept successful. (S): How would you describe your kd and kdmates? (P): KD is home, kdmates are "friendly". Besides the typical 'everyone in my kd is my friend" the real focus of Divinity is we don’t accept those into the kd that don’t fit in personality wise no matter how good they are, and because of that we have a core of about 30 that rotate in and out. I think of the current 25 only 4 have <5 ages in the kd and 20 have been with the kd since we absorbed Shinra in the 50's. (S): To what do you attribute the successes of your kd to? (P): As above, the people. As our personality mix is correct it means every single player that stays here more than 1 age just gets it. For example one of my biggest slackers spent an age legal xlogging a full avian kd in one of the utopia competitors yet can come outa eowcf on 3 epa 9 dspec on a pure attacker. Sigh, yet a few words and he’s fixing it and knows he ****ed up (S): Does your kd have a particular goal in mind each age? (P): Fun, fun is always the sole goal. Mind you it’s more fun to win then lose, and we've aimed for top land once or twice, but those things are always secondary to having an interesting and overall "fun" age. (S): Do you have a particular race combo that you love and find yourself always wanting to play? (P): Personally I love the concept of undead mystic. High wpa, lots of smashing. Miss it not having NM or hospitals or well science as of late though. (S): Do you have any suggestions to potential new players or existing players that might find themselves lost? (P): Go play genesis and talk in chat. Talking helps, getting someone to mentor/suggest things helps but nothing quite makes the game more fun/easier to figure out then spending a few ages just doing random **** till u figure out what u like/have the most fun with. That’s harder to do in WoL even in a ghetto. (S): Genesis is so fast though and can be overwhelming to new players. Couple hours of inactivity and you find yourself intra razed (P): True and that teaches you to always log in (S): Describe any funny or peculiar incidents that made you either laugh until your sides hurt or had you wanting to throw your computer/phone out the window. At this point PersainCat sent me a link to some saved quotes from his kd. I will share some of the more humourous ones that everyone can relate to. <@AzureKnight> Current Honor 1,512 <@AzureKnight> IM HONORABLE <@Frylock> I am the lord of the plunder <@AzureKnight> its normal to take your neighbors chicken at midnight <@Chane> never was in whore school, care to teach? :P <~PersainCAT> my kd role is that of kd nub <@Zaza> *persain pulls down his pants* <&Troll> *troll pulls a big spoon up from his pocket* <@Liberado> imagine the hardship that will be caused by those logging at work and a co-worker walking by seeing a wall of dicks' Acti and Peetah agree that undeads are Intel *****es What is mages fury again? •Gust> Going fort OOP is opening the gateway to your rectum I want a bang bang with ur body yo <@AzureKnight> this ***** just went on vacation <@Liberado> probably the smartest move anyone from that kd has made woke up with a boner having to pee, now I cant fall asleep again =( <@Carberphone> Safe and easy money <@Binar> failed x3 Squadron', 'PersainCAT need to see if anyone else can get it in 'peetah', 'persain donates 1.2mil gc for the dragon at 4:19. Peetah: weren\'t we supposed to wave 5:1? Persain: oh ****.' <•Binar> NOOOOOOOO <•Binar> I ****ED UP <•Binar> and released all my archers <@AzureKnight> i wish i wasnt so fat 'Llama: Need gold before tick, On 0....Maxwell: province?.... Llama: Send me food, thanks... Maxwell: WHAT IS YOUR PROVINCE... Llama: That is my prov {prov name=send me food} <@Maxwell> My manhood is throbbing with glee (S): (after having a chuckle going thru the quotes) If you could go back in time and give the 'newb' you one piece of advice, what would it be? (P): My suggestion to noobs is find a core of players and someone willing to lead, follow them and stick with em. Game is to have fun with people u enjoy talking to nothing more (S): If you could sit down and have a drink with DavidC, what would you be drinking and what suggestions would you like to mention? (P): I’d just be drinking water, nothing like a good glass of water. As for suggestions, I’m game for just about any, doesn’t seem like massive radical changes going to happen to just mess with things so simplest things I think could be fun FOR AN AGE, overfunding dragons, we have over pumping ritual, why not let us send a 200% power 400% hp dragon would be funny to see a kd lose 30% ME to a fully funded ruby or -60% gains lol that and I'd like to see unlimited # of generals, I chain u I have 500k off u have 10k def...welcome to 50 tap city. Even at 3-4 acres a pop u could really damage someone (S): LOL, I don’t know if I like that last one (P): There’s something to be said for an age of gimmick (S): Anything you would like to add or any shout outs to any players? (P): Naw, to many people to say cheers to, and just happy to be asked (S): I appreciate you taking this time to do this. I always felt it is the same people that get interviewed and I wanted to get out to those that have been around but don't always crown. I think they are just as important as any "crowning" kd (P): Indeed, though i might be one of the people that gets interviewed a tad more often of the non crowning kds, might not wanna make me FIRST Sorry, PersainCat but you are first for me. Thanks again for taking the time to talk to me.