BUCKLE UP KIDS, WE HAVE A LOT OF HISTORY TO COVER because I don't think I've mentioned any of it before

In my defense, it moves very quickly

So I have been on 3 servers for NA East, Laslan, Magna, and now Kastleton

Generally the way things go is there is a guild/alliance that sits at the top. They own the main castle, they show up to all pvp events and just dominate

Any competing alliances usually fade out, break apart or transfer to another server where they might be able to dominate instead

So basically, if you aren't top dog you leave lmao

This is awful for a few reasons. Firstly, winning is fun. But you can't win anything if you fight nothing and top dog guilds are now facing that reality very harshly.

Previously, there was no cooldown to server transfer. If you had a ticket, you transfer. You could transfer twice in 5 min.

Now, the ticket you had to buy SAYS "cannot transfer again within 30 days" but it was broken

Ahahaha! But not anymore

Last week they finally fixed it and now the 30 day cooldown is in place

And this is where it gets interesting!

So since the game's release, politics have been extremely unstable. Guilds have been hopping around constantly trying to find a server where they can crush competition

And AGS never announced it was going to be fixed

It was shadow patched

This detail is important

So what has happened is a few top dog guilds transferred to servers with less competition to ensure that they win a castle fight (big Server Wide fight, winner takes all the taxes earned from the marketplace)

But then the shadow patch came and although some of the members of said top dog guilds transferred back to their home server, many got stuck on the temp server they joined

All right so. Magna. I was on Magna for most of my time playing this game. Initially there was good competition. An alliance called TC fighting a group called RV

RV was the stronger group by far, but they shied away from fights. For conflict bosses where a world boss becomes a pvp FFA (alliances intact though) RV would just watch TC dominate and not really intervene much to the dismay of the rest of the server

You see, TC are pretty toxic, known to be assholes. RV has a few bad apples but nothing like TC

Also, to note. TC is a mega alliance with guilds across multiple games so if the name rings bells that may be why

RV, despite being castle owner eventually said We don't like the competition here and LEFT. They moved to Laslan

Which left Magna with only TC and no one willing to put up with their shenanigans

This is all backstory still, sit tight

TC attends all the conflict bosses, completely dominates castle with 0 competition

At this point, in my current guild there was a personal drama that I was dealing with. Basically a guy nearing stalker levels

So for my own peace of mind, I left that guild and said Fuck it, let's see what makes TC tick. A friend was in there and despite my gear being sub-par the friend convinced them to let me join

I will say, as soon as I left the GM of said guild I departed from. We'll just say C. Messaged a very ... I guess like professional apology. The stalker was removed from the guild and the GM posted an announcement reiterating guild rules of social conduct etc. He lamented I did not speak up for help but also like

I had. I just got ignored so. idk

SO ANYWAY

I joined TC

dun dun dun duuuuuuuun

And my god are they assholes LMAO

Okay so each alliance can have 4 guilds

TC had Cobra, Mamba, Snek, and Viper

I joined Snek specifically

Snek was the worst in terms of strength but the GM seemed chill

seemed

TC was getting tired of no competition of going rusty, they said

See, they have the strength. But they lack the organization of good, strong pushes. So when it came to castle siege they always fell short when fighting RV who were far more organized and goal oriented in their strategies

And I could see all of this first hand lol

They had numbers but fell short in every other way in strategy and Snek was by far the worst

People didn't follow SC (shotcall/shotcaller) they'd run off and do their own thing and just completely ignore any strategy that was offered them

Very unga bunga

So TC decided. We want real fights. So we will transfer to the most competitive server there is. Xeroth.

I have to give TC credit because they clearly thought they were just going to walk into Xeroth and own the place. Lmao. They did no such thing. But the ego balloons! MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

But at least instead of playing it safe on Magna, they wanted to grow. So okay, props to that at least

AND THIS IS WHERE DRAMA part 1 begins

TC Snek's GM saw an opportunity. If TC leaves, there's a power vacuum and he wanted to fill it

Snek GM did not tell TC that Snek wasn't joining them on Xeroth. Snek GM lied at multiple points as they prepared the date and time. Snek Advisor, however, wasn't having it and she ended up telling the rest of TC, by the way, we're not going

And this is where Snek fell out of favor with me

Snek GM was pissed at Snek Advisor because naturally, TC wanted to kick Snek from the alliance sooner because they didn't want to share loot with the guild that was lying to them just to avoid being beaten in conflict bosses

Now, I don't know specifics but I know Snek Advisor was thrown under the bus after that and a lot of Snek soured their opinion of her

So TC drops alliance and a few days later they leave for Xeroth

Meanwhile Snek GM is promising he has alliances lined up with the remaining guilds in Magna

INCLUDING C, the one I had left

So I contact C's GM to be like Are you seriously taking the alliance with these guys? lol

TC's reputation real bad okay

And he said Don't know, probably won't.

Eventually, all of the remaining guilds on Magna DECLINE Snek's alliance requests

All of them. No one agreed. Everyone said Nope go fuck yourself, etc.

AND THAT'S WHEN WE HIT DISNEY VILLAIN LEVELS

So Snek GM says Fine, they'll regret that. If they don't ally with me, then we'll send in spies to destroy them from the inside

I SHIT YOU NOT.

HE SAID THIS

At this point I'm like Nope, I'm out.

Talk to C's GM again, we sort some stuff out and I'm allowed to rejoin them

So I'm back in C and I warn them of all the nonsense Snek GM is doing

Castle Siege happens and C's alliance wins the fight

Snek got demolished, but they also were fighting the entire server

Since everyone refused to ally with them

But it gets worse

DRAMA PART 2

Apparently since all of Magna hated Snek GM's butt the GM instead looked to other servers for allies and he got some bites

We will say BW

So BW agrees to transfer to Magna to join Snek GM's new alliance

BW is also not great. They poach, they lie, they cheat

So Magna returns to a toxic dominated by this one guild setting

AND SNEK GM, I QUOTE says at a conflict boss

You wanted a villain, I gave you a villain

NO ONE WANTED A VILLAIN

YOU ARE LITERALLY BEING MOTHER GOTHEL. STOP

To make matters worse, as I said there was a lot of poaching

C's alliance is losing members to Snek

Mostly people with Snek/TC mindset and big ego balloons so it's not like a personality loss but they are good players

One of C's allied guilds decides to go Casual. Another implodes. The 3rd is bad at communicating and isn't telling us, C, what they want to do or where to go from here

MEANWHILE

TC on Xeroth is 10th in the rankings, got their ass whooped in siege and had to consolidate members and cut out under-performers

It sounds like a hot mess

Technically, I'm still in the TC discord

They removed every Snek they could but I think I was new enough and not well known enough to know which guild I was in within the alliance that my name got overlooked

Literally watching them implode at a distance is a bit satisfying. But hey, gotta hand it to them they are doing their best with what they have

It is a humbling experience

Anyway so C's GM is in a worry because it's just not fun because all pvp content is essentially blocked by this one dominating guild

A lot of members are threatening to quit the game, or server transfer or just join the horde because they want fun

So C decides. We move to Kastleton

At the time, Kastleton had 3 major alliances. THREE. It was healthy and active

In the time it took us to decide and start moving over, one of the 3 imploded. :c

But we had already started talks with one of the alliances to ensure we had a place with one of the top 3

Luckily, it was not the alliance that was in the process of imploding

Siege happened this past weekend and we won castle but it was a tough competition. Really gotta hand it to the other alliances they had us fighting tooth and nail the entire time

So we're doing great now

And you might be wondering

Ma'am, where the drama, I was promised drama

SO BACK ON MAGNA

As I mentioned. BW transferred to Magna at Snek GM's request to become allies.

Each nighttime in-game causes open world dungeons to become pvp zones and some are better than others

One of them has chests that spawn at night and give fun rewards like extra dungeon run tokens, etc.

During one night fight

Snek and BW are on island, where these good chests spawn.

And Snek suddenly drops the alliance and kills all of BW in order to keep the chests for themselves

lmao

BW is now refusing to re-alliance with Snek. And the Snek GM villain finally has an archnemesis

Also, BW is stuck there because of the 30 day cooldown still being in effect

So I'm just enjoying this with popcorn at a distance

Bruh, never trust a snek

That's all I'm going to say about that

So at the moment, a few who got poached into Snek are now asking C if they can come back and thankfully, C GM is turning them down

I also want to mention that when C decided to transfer, we offered to have our other alliance members go with us, but they all turned it down only to transfer to a totally different server a week later