April 20, 2009
Almost since the beginning of the game that players have began forming alliances.
But in the old days it was all much different than it is now. In the first rounds there was no alliance interface like now. It all came down to a group off players that said that they were from the same alliance. They changed their name so they included an alliance tag, but that was all.
Like Tiago already said earlier it all began with the ACSK alliance (an alliance dedicated to overthrown Shadow Knight from the top of the ranking). In response to that the CUS alliance was created. CUS stands for Shadow United Club, and as you can guess their objective was to protect Shadow Knight and help him.
But that was not all. Some players decided that this war was not for them. So a third alliance appeared: Independent Universe Conquers or IUC for short.
The powerful System Lord also appeared around this time. This alliance formed by the game programmers was most known by their diplomatic abilities and their capacity to make the several alliance go into war.
In the third round the AIR alliance was created. AIR stands for Independent Ruler Alliance and was created by me and Miguel18. It all started in the office where I worked back then but rapidly other players joined. Around this time some of the IUC players started joining other alliances, as the IUC leaders stopped playing.
With the end of the ACSK and CUS alliances two other were formed: GOAL (Game Over Alliance) and ORE (Orions Renegades).
GOAL was maybe one of the biggest alliances that ever existed, with more than 40 members. They became so powerful that now the alliances have a member quantity limit. They won that round individually and by alliances.
Still in the first version of the game the Cosa Nostra alliance was created. With only 2 members their superiority was amazing. It was one of the most successful alliances ever although some times the two member attacked witch other. But it was all in a good spirit and those episodes were very funny to watch in the game forum as the discussions toked place.
Although many other alliances were created just one more got some notoriety: the ST’s (the Star Trek alliance). A small group of friends but all very god players. It must have been one of the most hated alliances ever in the game, but that didn’t stopped then from some success.
Nowadays the alliances work in a very different way that back in the first version. There is a cool alliance interface and even game messages. Some of the players from back then don’t play the game anymore, others changed team and new people got into the game.
And if those times were very nice and fun the future seems even brighter. The game is growing and the players are becoming better and better.
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Oh… memories.
The battle against Shadow Knight was memorable. I remember that at that time he had 35 planets and was quite ahead on score. We all started to attack him and he had a lot of battles to face! Imagine yourself with 20 planets being attacked by good players!
And the fact is, that ACSK did manage to bring Shadow Knight down, and we didn’t win that round. but was a hell of a fight!
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Mawhrin-Skel — April 20, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
When I started playing Cosa Nostra had 20 members with 5 taking to top spots and alot more in the top 20. Air and ST took up the other slots. You could not do anything without them being there, but all things must come to an end. Cosa Nostra’s time was coming to the end, as was the game as we knew it. Things were about to happen… A Revolution was about to take place and I was there welcoming it. So Prophets of the Revolution was born, born out of the chaos, and grew in the void of power that change leaves in its wake. These are exciting times, and the future looks even better… Take it from me I am a Prophet.
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AD420 — April 20, 2009 @ 5:37 pm
This history lesson stops around the end of the first version of the game.
Now there are a lot more alliances and new and good players (like you) and is a little hard do keep up.
I’m sure that Prophets of the Revolution will be a huge success.
Best of luck to you all.
Comment by
AirDiogo — April 20, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
Very good description of all these historical events…
But one thing you said, and is very important, the overall quality of the players is growing greatly, in that days few players play well in the board and now is really hard winning a tournament for example.
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Tiago Sousa — April 21, 2009 @ 12:35 pm
Nice one, I always wondered how things came to this point
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reborned — April 21, 2009 @ 4:17 pm