Never Surrender

My province has been the central field in the battle against fisticuff. I and my people bunkered down along the shelters that litters the city. The nation of Sanctuary has already surrendered to the invaders and yet the attack on our fair province continues. We know what will happen if we continue to oppose those bullies; the catastrophic outcome that will inevitably happen. But our defenders are not huddling in the shadows, but instead there eyes sharply watch for any sign of the invaders. They have pride of knowing that after 14 hundreds of acres of lands was lost, after over a dozen attacks against us we as a province have never surrendered. On the first day of the war, the people have hope that the invaders will be satisfied with the last land grab that they took, but the greedy ones have not stop. Again and again, day by day, the invaders come and ravish our province, and day by the people hope it was the last, but the invaders continue to come and the war goes on.

Peace has finally arrived. The nation of Sanctuary has finally surrendered after the minimum time, where a nation at war is allowed to surrender. But the invaders still continue to come leaving a path of destruction in their wake.

Then slowly, as if touch by fate. The people, first a trickle then a flood, left the safety of the woods on the border and return to the province. Young men, old men too old to bear arms, and even women went to the ranks of defenders willing to die along with their fathers, son, and heart. Together they took strength at their fellowmen, vowing never to surrender while breath still leaves their mouth and a beat still vibrates in their heart.

Hear ye people of the world! Hear the tale of bravery and romance. Cry for thee a flood of tears, for the spirit that gives honor to the human spirit. Fall on thy knees and be awe at the bravery and weep at the tragedy. Do not forget our story, when tragedy finally has come to pass, the story of the people of the Crystal Palace.

Funny Message

I just received a very funny message.

screw you guys [3:4]
on
Jun 15, 2006
4:46 PM You shouldn't have hit me, because now i will kill you.

- cartman

The two of them screw and claw must have already attack my province over a dozen times, maybe even two dozen, with no end in sight. So I find this message very hilarious because I can’t see any difference from killing my province after my attack on him, to what they are doing before my attack. o.O

Then again they might not really have intended to kill my province before. They probably just wanted to reduce it to a 1 land size province. It is so funny! Hee hee! ~~

Shinning Moment Gives Birth to a Mission

One of my problems why I can’t retaliate was because I could not spy on them. So the constant barrage of attack continues. Even now, after our nation surrendered, I’m constantly hit again and again (I’m not going to post all of them here. They’re simply too many!). I solved this a little by increasing my spy centers. So when I was hit again.

Jun 15, 2006
11:13 AM Crystal Province [6:6] has been Assaulted by screw you guys [3:4], and has lost 100 Land.

I have thought about attacking smaller planets to gain some land, but I know that if I am ever going to have a little satisfaction with my attackers, it is now or never because they will soon grow too big for me to do anything about. So I spied on him. The result was shocking.

Screw’s SOMA

# Home General #1 General #2 General #3 General #4
Returns in 14 ticks At Home Returns in 6 ticks At Home
L1 Attackers: 6,963 3,384 0 3,384 0
L1 Defenders: 6,968 0 0 0 0
L1 Multis: 0 0 0 0 0

I have more defenses then him! Burning with just revenge, I unleash my unstoppable need for vengeance.

Jun 15, 2006
12:10 PM Crystal Province [6:6] has Sneak Attacked screw you guys [3:4], and has gained 102 Land!

Yeah! No matter what happens, this little message will sustain me through the game. This is my shinning moment, where for one moment in time, I was on top of the world and I felt that I will live eternally. Even after screw’s piggy backer assaulted me and took the land back, it did not damp my spirit. I now have a cause, one which I will pursue with infinite fervor. I intend to be a thorn to my enemies! One that will someday fester and take them to the cold embrace of a grave!

Bullies!

The nation of Fisticuff declared war on my nation yesterday. I felt that this is an unfair move as they are over twice our size and with the top10 mostly dominated by them, but unfortunately, I have no choice in this matter. When I saw the news, I already know bad things will happen.

I was right. Later after I created this BLOG, my province was attack 3x by the top 1 and 2 province. My fellow province was not spared also as the fisticuff provinces uses the war bonus to attack my friends and get maximum gain instead of the usual bash gain. Their nation also uses the Offense Initiative (This gives all provinces in the fisticuff nation a 10% offense bonus).

Jun 14, 2006
9:23 AM Crystal Province [6:6] has been Assaulted by Fear the Claw [2:8], and has lost 143 Land.
Jun 14, 2006
7:10 AM Crystal Province [6:6] has been Assaulted by screw you guys [3:4], and has lost 158 Land.
Jun 14, 2006
4:38 AM Crystal Province [6:6] has been Assaulted by Fear the Claw [2:8], and has lost 165 Land.

I tried to counter some of their advantage by changing our nation’s initiative from Economic Initiative (gives mineral bonus) into Defense Initiative (gives a 10% defense bonus). I do not know how much it help it would do since I still got land grab by the top players but hopefully the smaller province have better chances of protection from attackers.

With my province weakened and probably impossible to catch up with the top provinces and getting a nuclear missile is still far in the future; there is no one that can threaten fisticuff. I think they plan to fill the top ranks with fisticuff members, hence all the bashing of smaller planets to push them down and lift their members up.

I have a plan to at least give my province some protection (although I’m not sure if it will work at all. those top province are so much bigger then me now.) but it will be sometime before I will feel safe again. It is so depressing. Phooey!

On the positive side, I finally finish researching the building upgrade 1. This means more defense and offense per acre of land because of better military housing. It also means better resources as the old building are upgraded to better and more efficient buildings. Small good luck after the catastrophe. :p

Still, I have a good outlook in life and hopefully fate will smile at me and my situation will improve in the future. Yay! ~~

Fantasian Kingdoms

What is Fantasian Kingdoms? It is explained in the Fantasian Kingdoms homepage as follows:

A text-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game ("MMOG") designed around the middle ages. You have to manage your people, defend against enemies, and expand your empire using brute force, or sharp negotiating skills

Some might say that it is just another one of that MMOG text style war games like Galaxies Ablaze, Mage Realm, Starkingdoms, and much more. This is only 25% true (maybe even less then that). Fantasian Kingdom or FK has evolved into a more complex game then the rest we are use too. It is hard to explain it, so the only way to see what I mean is for you to try it. Visit http://www.fantasiankingdoms.com/ and see for yourselves what I mean.

Now that is taken care of, my province name there is the Crystal Province and my ruler name is Lady Chrysellious. I am also the president of the nation of Sanctuary.

The reason a province should join a nation is because a province will never grow strong and move to the top without being a member of a good nation. Here are the benefits of joining a nation:

1. The province gains the nation’s Initiative bonus (This could be extra minerals, offense, defense, etc). (Independent provinces do not have this kind of bonus).

2. The province gains information shared by the other members of that nation. (Independent province do not have any forum were they can get important information they might need).

3. More powerful units. The president of a nation can customize the nation military units to make it more powerful. (Independent provinces are left with pewee standard units).

4. Protection and guidance by that nation.

Province must be wary on what nation they should join. If a province joined a unstable nation, this nation might disband causing the customize units reverting back to the standard units. So you build defense type units with customize 5 defense points but since the nation disbanded, these defense units will return to their ordinary value of 3 points. Ouch!

In round 3, I did not have a nation to join in, which led to my province being assaulted almost everyday. The attack only stop when I joined the nation of rampage and I start profiting from those bonuses mentioned above.

Now in round 4, I created Sanctuary to help those new players a sanctuary where they can be protected while they learn the game. It seems to be working as each member has started to grow and be more active. Sanctuary currently has 9 member province.
They are:

Province Status Location Terrain Land Networth Nation

Crystal Province [6:6] Tundra 1,474 136,734 Sanctuary
Ovaria [6:1] Multiple Terrain 1,002 101,083 Sanctuary
Zeal [9:3] Glacier 901 67,588 Sanctuary
Ravenswood [4:6] Forest 866 66,536 Sanctuary
JTown [6:2] Glacier 837 52,091 Sanctuary
cheeseman [1:0] Mountains 785 51,940 Sanctuary
Alchemist [1:1] Multiple Terrain 703 47,410 Sanctuary
DemonDust [8:1] Jungle 550 26,946 Sanctuary
NEWPORT [2:4] Multiple Terrain 542 26,831 Sanctuary


Today I made some pretty large grab that lift me up ranks real fast.

Jun 13, 2006
6:24 AM Crystal Province [6:6] has Assaulted Flaming Priests [6:2], and has gained 105 Land!
Jun 13, 2006
6:08 AM Crystal Province [6:6] has Assaulted The Jelly Beans [0:6], and has gained 93 Land!

Of the two, only Flaming Priest tried to blow up my buildings. Good thing I have good counter intelligence and most of its attempts were block and the once that succeeded means absolutely nothing to me.

My province Crystal Province is currently the 4th strongest province and the 4th largest province. Hope I would continue to rise up the ranks! Cheer for me okay? Hee hee!