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Guys,
Just a general question. Would you say that your experience as dedicated wargamers gives you an advantage in Airline Empires?
Best wishes,
Steve
As for me, the answer would be a resounding "Yes".
Our alliance in this game is unique as we assist each other, we circle the wagons when an alliance member is attacked by someone and we coordinate our retaliation against them. When we see weakness in another airline we will often coordinate strikes against them so as to take over their routes and weaken them or knock them out of the game altogether. When one player sees an opportunity that they cannot personally exploit, they will often times make another alliance member aware of it, so that they, and the alliance benefits, rather than someone else. To a certain extent, this has generated a level of respect (or fear) to where some airlines will avoid tangling with us so as not to incur our collective wrath.
2ndACR can speak better to this as he has communications with some long time AE game players and they have taken notice of us.
Nearly all other alliance are just a way to gain a bonus in the game, but no other alliance (I am told) works together like ours does.
Our war gaming background has instilled things like coordination, planning, strategizing, intelligence gathering, and (for some of us) patience, when appropriate.
Our core alliance member approach his game differently from most AE players.
THe result speak for themselves.
In most of the game worlds we participate in, we dominate.
There are multiple game worlds where we have 2-4 alliance members in the top 10 player rankings; often more than any other alliance. This despite those other alliance having 2-3 times as many members.
Our alliance is normally ranked in the top 2 or 3 for alliances in each game world.
I only became aware of, and started playing this game in February 2012.
Most of our core alliance members have only started playing this year as well.
We compete against players who have been playing this for several years.
We've got four members in the top 10 in one world, compared to the size of the alliance this is probably a greater percentage of members than any other grouping.
I ran into a problem with another airline attempting to cut in on my routes, with help from the other guys (scouting out his routes, attacking his routes I couldn't and also letting others know when decent planes were available in the used market) the other guy went from top 50 to non-entity in less than a year. Even though I was isolated by being the only member in Europe the direct and indirect assistance from the alliance helped push me from around 30th to 4th position.
The other alliances are just a bunch of players doing their own thing under one banner, think of the Axis powers in WW2, an alliance in name only.
We'll share routes and info. If there are a bunch of almost new planes on the market that one of us doesn't use then that info gets shared so someone from the alliance can use those planes and get stronger.
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