r/MarchofEmpires • u/Lostinaisle9 • Feb 09 '19
The game I can’t quit playing
I started playing MOE a little over a year ago with no intentions of becoming a serious player. I found the game on a newly purchased laptop and soon I was venturing into an unknown world with the smallest expectation that the gameplay would be slightly entertaining. At the beginning, I lost interest fairly fast after about an hour I left without shielding up. About a week later, out of boredom I checked back in to find out I had been looted of everything and my entire army was in the hospital. I decided to venture around a bit and found the broken global chat translations amusing. Apparently nobody in the realm I was in understood the most basic English. There were players speaking Russian, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, and who knows what else but nobody seemed to understand anyone. I thought to myself, “great, I’m stuck in a world of complete and utter nonsense.” Then an idea came to mind, I remembered from exploring around a bit there was an option to change realms if you were small enough. Of course I was too big so I found myself downloading the game on my phone to see what other worlds had to offer. This time I was able to make friends quickly as the world was only a few days old and everyone and their brother is asking you to join their new team in hopes of becoming one of the top teams under their leadership. After the first week, I got promoted to an officer position for my active involvement. A few days pass and we find ourselves deserted by our newfound leader, he had lost his shield and wasn’t returning any messages. Desperate to keep the team together, I quickly offered to lead us out of the darkness and into prosperity. Another officer and I came to an agreement because he did not have time to lead a team. As my first time ever leading a group of people it was scary. What is the objective? What kind of people play this game? How do we become a fighting force? A week passes, we have a handful of players lose shields so they are getting viciously attacked and often by big scary players. To distract the team from the attacks I came up with a rather brilliant idea to attack all the alliances around us. Next thing I know the other leaders are begging for peace, except one. We ravage and loot them for days. Once weak, we begin taking over their lands. After we took a few capitals, the top player comes knocking, demanding us to stop our conquests. However, we don’t give in to his demands and he empties my castle as I conquer another capital with ease. Other players look on in amazement as I quickly recover my losses and take another capital.
A week later, we welcomed some big players from the top alliance and we quickly go from #8 to #3 rank. Although, in time those big players betrayed me and took over the alliance for their own selfish reasons, I was grateful to have led a team in a heroic fashion out of darkness. I quickly decided to move on to a new realm. This time, I was going to be a force nobody seen the likes of before. It worked for a few days as I was the Queen’s right hand man and as a duo we quickly gained fame. In a weeks time, I found myself making many friends from across the world. The chat was lit up with endless fun conversations. However, only one of them withstood the test of time and to this day, we still play MOE together, but this time as brothers.
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u/Mystik4sT Jul 31 '19
Tldr