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Sell/Trade / [TRADE] Powerful Great Long Bardiche

« on: May 16, 2011, 05:23:45 pm »

Looking to trade my great long bardiche for another double or triple heirloom item...


Don't need gold.

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General Discussion / Re: Message and Poll to NA

« on: May 13, 2011, 11:43:25 pm »

Giving LLJk a server was only a temporary solution...not all were banned on hospitaller 100 man, and they could still play on the 80 and siege.

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General Discussion / Re: Message and Poll to NA

« on: May 13, 2011, 03:12:19 am »

Yea, though all donations can be sent to [email protected] via paypal...this thread is not about donations.

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General Discussion / Re: Message and Poll to NA

« on: May 13, 2011, 02:00:05 am »

Indeed. Bit more transparency = less speculation + more willingness to help/donate
With the frequent disconnects and lag spikes it does not seem they are sitting in a high class datacenter right now.

The lag isn't coming from me, it came from the resent patches

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General Discussion / Re: Message and Poll to NA

« on: May 13, 2011, 01:42:37 am »

Wow dude you act like you are the only one who wants to run a server... How about you give us the privilege kind sir to run a few more servers of our own... Honestly best quote I've ever heard, "No one gives a shit." Guess what? I say shut them down, because you are asking for a pity party. I make all of my own maps and I could run two servers of my own without money from others. You are taking the donation money and acting like a child. You have had your time now give it up cause tons of others are looking to open servers. Also I say let's play on other servers like TunaTown, or the Blackrose Server, maybe.... even the new LLJK server.

I don't want a pity party...i want people to let me run the servers. I don't control who gets their chance to run a server and who doesn't.

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General Discussion / Message and Poll to NA

« on: May 13, 2011, 01:25:55 am »

Hello everyone,

Most of you know, and if you don't, you do now about how much i hate posting and reading forums. But apparently there is a situation that calls for it.

My name is Ecko and I run most of all the popular NA servers with the exception of a 1 or 2 that are no longer around or empty most of the time.

For clarification I do not host the servers nor do i pay for it all. I specifically have managed:

Gathering donations, setting rules, bringing quality custom maps(there were none before NA) to c-rpg, timely patch updates to the servers, creating events, and enforcing a mostly enjoyable environment to all players when possible.

I do nothing alone, its been a learning curve, and i have a great team that helps.

Since September, maybe October, not quite sure, it has cost 200 dollars a month to keep the servers alive. Since late December, early January Hospitaller Devilize has paid 100 dollars a month to manage one of the 5 servers now up.


It has been in the past and recently questioned how I run the servers. Though many of you have had problems with admins, its a long standing joke amongst the admins that i give many chances to get unbanned for those who might have been misjudged. Admins are not paid individuals, and though mistakes might be made, its much easier to correct a game admin problem and teach them how to make better calls in the future, than to remove their admin all together and give another random a shot.

I dislike the fact the servers are called ATS servers, there are over 20 game admins, not including file moderators, and head admins that greatly outnumber ATS.

I've tried making these servers community servers.

However, since the servers are mostly priavetly funded by hospitaller and ATS, I've maintained the right to refuse use to any asshat. PLEASE NOTE: I have hardly used that power available, recently Hospitaller Devilize has allowed it to happen.

Until the community starts donating more, I will always maintain the right of a server owner refusing game play. No donations given via the c-rpg.net site are shared with NA, and i'm fine with that.

To be frank, I'm quite tired of getting admins accusing me of running a failed server, particularly those who may or may not be able to cause trouble for me.

I'm going to ask this once, would the NA community like the servers to be shut down? If yes you're welcome to go play on the EU servers like before, or wait for clans like Acre or SoA to get a server going. Although i can almost guarantee you're not gonna find a better team then mine...


Special Thanks to the Following for helping me run the NA servers:

chadz
Garguro
Airith
Gorath
Gash
Devilize
Peppovitch
Grey
Nindur
Goretooth
Wookimonster
Shik
CtrlAltDelete
Canary
Sphinx
Aldryk
Damatacus
Lorn(yes you did help)
Arowaine(AS if french Canadians do anything right?)
Depaul
451
Dexxtaa
Gaga(who knew, an LLJK admin!)
Panderson
Mr.Rogers
Heroin
Native
Dr.Pepper
Dan
Nebun
Sharky

and the many more admins or file moderators that i've overlooked, to many to count.

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Strategus General Discussion / Re: Strategus History

« on: May 10, 2011, 07:06:01 pm »

It was an opinion

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Strategus General Discussion / Re: Strategus History

« on: May 10, 2011, 06:22:32 pm »

I think some people are taking this too seriously. I literally have no problem with the guy. I'm sorry you feel like I'm pouring salt on an old wound or slandering his good name.

He probably was a good guy, but this IS what happened. Don't blame me.


p.s. I clearly stated that it was my belief that he left on those terms, that doesn't mean he did. Cry more ya babies.

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Strategus General Discussion / Re: Strategus History

« on: May 10, 2011, 02:18:35 am »

Sounds like an excuse to me...


I wasn't slandering his name. He was a good commander but he bailed on everyone. You give him more credit than he deserves.

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Strategus General Discussion / Re: Strategus History

« on: May 09, 2011, 04:56:15 pm »

Here is Part 2 of Strategus ATS History:

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Part 2 of ATS Strategus History

A state of neutrality within a time of Conflict:

With the Northern Republic officially announcing its stand in the world of Caladria, many other Guilds were also paving their way. To fully understand the actions of the Republic, first you have to understand the situation they were presented with...


Strategus was still fairly new to crpg, but this Republic needed to figure out how exactly it was going to organize its leadership. Without leadership, a large mass of players is nothing more than a gun without bullets. It looks scary but all you can really do is hit people with it. It was decided that each guild within the republic would have one leader doing representation for its members. All decisions, whether diplomatic, or tactical would be cleared with all other leaders, unless under immediate threat.

The leaders would be Akmar of NK, Destin of Takeda, and Ecko (myself) of ATS.

I was the only leader of the three who played darkfall, a game much like strategus accept real-time and with magic. I witnessed firsthand the natural course of politics in a game that gave clans the opportunity to compete for land. With the so called rumored "wipe" to strategus coming, it was my feeling that the Republic should take a stance of neutrality, and not take sides in whatever the situation. The other leaders also agreed that it was within the best interest of the Republic to stay quiet and gather information about all other guilds within strategus. When the wipe came, we would enter the new blank map without any enemies, and potentially many friends open to trading.

I knew from darkfall, and the other leaders came to also realize that many of the guilds in strategus, who could not rightfully defend their land on their own, would soon sign up with other guilds to form alliances in the attempt to fend off aggressors. I was right.


In the early days, there was only a couple of large land owning clans. IRC to the south, Mercs in the middle, DRZ to the north, the Northern Republic to the North East, Fallen to the East, and Templars to the West. There were also a few smaller land territories owned by such clans as the 22nd, RCC, Legio, Remnants of Stratia, D’haran Legions, Shogunate, and Guard.

The first war of Caladria began with Growlz, the leader of Templars and his effort to crusade others.

With Templars being one of the first largest territory owners in the game, many who came into  strategus agreed to pledge allegence. In doing so they also sealed their fate. Growlz lead the Templars and his allies to first wipe out the 22nd Battalion and he did it with ease and without mercy. Although a good field commander, I do not think he fully understood what was to come. Though he at the time had the largest alliance and territory under control, he began fighting with others more and more without ever gaining complete victory.

Templar wars broke out with guilds like the Fallen, and Mercs, often with the exchange of small victories.

Growlz was the type of leader who had ambitious goals, and to achieve them he amassed large numbers within Templars, with no requirement to join other than spelling the tag correctly. This would come back to haunt Templars later, as it does for any clans who do such things.

The crusade on the 22nd had left them without land, but they were not gone. They retreated to a friend, a friend that was also growing. DRZ, The Republic's neighbors grew quite numerous, and did not see eye to eye with the Templars, especially with the mentality of crusading smaller guilds for the sake of role play. 

The threat was clear to most, and especially Growlz, who seemed to keep his cool and confidence of his allies. He was not declaring war on clans based on logic, he was declaring based on role play and to feed his power. It made him a variable to many who were not in his alliance. This particularly worried the Republic, if not many others.

Though confident in our numbers and players, the Northern Republic needed EU coverage. We did not see any feasible guilds at the time to bring into the Republic, so we did the next best thing. As said in part one, the Republic made a defensive mercenary pact with DRZ, meaning that if we were attacked in eu hours, DRZ was obligated to fight on our side, and same for us if they were attacked on NA time zones. This did not mean that we shared troops, or any sort of resources other than time.
This agreement was made to ensure our neutrality with the rest of the map, but at the same time to create a deterring force against anyone who had ambitions. It had the effect intended, however it did not stop the first Caladrian world War.


While Growlz continued to feuded with mainly Fallen and Mercs, DRZ began creating their own alliance. It was time for them to step in, and when they did, they fought like no one else had so far.

In an effort to delay the inevitable, DRZ paid the Mercs to attack RCC, an ally of Templars in an attempt to give land back to 22nd. The Mercenary contract was leaked and Templars found out who the ordered the hit.

CWW1 had begun.

DRZ used every advantage they could, not only did they have numbers, but they knew weak game mechanics. Small armies were used to hold the enemy's larger ones in place, so the larger armies could hit Templar weak points. Those weak points were not Templars themselves, but their allies.

In an attempt to gain assistance against a threat to all, The Northern Republic was approached in this time of need by Growlz to assist against this threat who clearly knew no shame. We did not know what was worse, DRZ who would use the game against players, or Growlz who would throw people under the buss like pawns. We maintained neutrality, and gathered more information while building forces.


Growlz, being the ambitious leader he was, would not risk Templar safety for his allies. It was a brilliant but also evil tactic used by DRZ, in which they went for the enemy's allies, forcing them to either abandon the Templar alliance, or submit to destruction. Only a few stood by Growlz, many fled in the hopes to keep something. But in the end, not even Growlz stayed.

Half way during the invasion of DRZ, and their new found alliance called UIF, Growlz disappeared.  There have been rumored reasons to why, but it is my belief that he knew it was the end before it even had ended.

Templars and the remaining allies were wiped out. Many players in templars faded out of crpg, some remain to this day, not all in Templars of course. Those other guilds who survived either joined up with UIF, or left the game. Those who did remain however were not blind. DRZ's reputation was renowned for its aggressive behavior and ways of "abusing" mechanics.

DRZ and their alliance had now become a super power with all the land they took over from Templars. This threat divided Caladria. Though UIF shared a common enemy with the Mercs and Fallen, they themselves were not allied.

The Mercs like the republic also maintained a neutral policy; however they did sell themselves to the highest bidder.

Fallen started taking vassals, building their own version of an alliance.

In the end however, tensions grew as they always do, and the second Caladrian War was about to begin, this time between rivals of a past enemy.


While clearly there was action to be had in the world of Calardia...the lack of involvement by the Republic created a lull for players within. Though it went unnoticed by EU players, it did not for NA, particularly myself. ATS continued to get stronger and stronger, equipping large numbers of troops with gear that most of strategus had never seen in a battle. NK, and Takeda, though smaller, also equipped their troops; however they no longer actively played in crpg. It was a growing concern that in order to maintain a strong presence in strategus, you needed to stay active in crpg.

Conversations started to spread, and ideas of the republic fading out. With the destruction of the Templars and their alliance, there was also opportunity. Small remaining and some new guilds were looking territory in which they could safely recruit troops, without having to pay high taxes.

The Republic immediately pounced on the opportunity, particularly ATS. The idea of finding small guilds to tax brought comfort that perhaps the Republic did not have to depend on activity in crpg as a source of income. We were wrong. The amount of gold gained could not cover the costs of the equipment and troop upkeep needed. 
Something needed to be done. Though Akmar of NK and Destin of Takeda were inactive waiting for strategus to be reset, it was starting to seem that the "wipe" would never come; therefore we could not afford to slow down.

They could not be convinced. Not trying to anger my fellow leaders, i maintained the basic idea that you cannot own land that you cannot defend. Though if attacked we could surely defend ourselves, how long could we go on? I began baiting the other leaders with talks of merger, each time receiving a no.

Fear of news spreading of the weakness of the Republic, it was time to start plans of take over.  -
The operation was called Order FF. The plans of Order FF were created by myself, and a new Commander of ATS named Goretooth. It was determined that to successfully take over the Republic, we would have to take the territory from NK and Takeda as fast as possible, but we decided that giving it to ATS alone was a poor choice. It would make us a larger threat to the rest of the world, attention that we did not need. We needed another clan, if not two to take over the territory, and they needed to have the trust we came to rely on with NK and Takeda.

The NA community, as large as it was, was also limited to clans that could be trusted. We had history with the Remnants of Stratia, but they were one of the guilds who stuck with Templars to the end, and we did not need to give DRZ a reason to look at us. Though loyal, they were not a viable option.

There were also other guilds such as BRD, and others who were too small, and seemed to be more concerned with making themselves stronger, rather than a larger power. If the Republic was going to be replaced, it needed to be replaced by clans who would have 100% trust in each other, and commit fully into making the alliance stronger, not just themselves.

The first guild we found was Hospitaller, a small North American guild that made the mistake of trusting Growlz, but never held any land. They were a small ambitious group that bought troops from the Republic in the hopes to gain land for them down south, but were ambushed by Fallen.

Since they had nothing left, we decided to get to know their leadership; it would be unwise to declare some an ally without knowing their personality. Surprised, we found the mentality of their leadership was much like our own, giving them lots of potential to grow as a guild. With the assistance of Goretooth, the leader of Hospitaller, Peppovich, and his right hand man, Devilize, undertook steps to increase their strength. Before they were approached it was decided they would become one of the guilds to replace NK and Takeda.

Once Goretooth and I spoke to Hospitaller, and revealed Operation FF, we gained a new ally. Hospitaller grew rapidly, but not in ways like Templars. However, it was kept secret that Hospitaller was on such friendly terms, to prevent any suspicion if anyone was keeping a close eye.
It was determined that we were about a week away from implementing Order FF, and I still approached NK and Takeda in the hopes to get them to merge and have a peaceful transaction without war. Takeda seemed to be more accepting at this point, however NK was still a hold out.

War was imminent.

While this was happening, a new guild arrived into the spotlight. Eastern Tsardom, an NA guild who recently left Fallen Vassalage, and was shopping around. Though their guild did not have many active, after getting to know their leadership, it was determined that they too, had much potential. TS_Boyar_Josko and his co-leaders Timothy and Panderson were smart individuals, with different traits that could bring multiple views to the table, something not all guilds can do.  Yet their loyalty and their understanding of what ATS wanted to do seemed to be unquestionable. They too, were chosen as one of the guilds to take over NK and Takeda.


With replacements found, it was decided that this new alliance, should have a new name. Being the only NA guilds that would have land, we needed a name that represented such, but also did not limit us to just North Americans. It was settled that the alliance would be called the Northern Empire, but have the same style of leadership as the old Republic, with no official emperor.


It was 24 hours before Order FF would begin, though my commander Goretooth could not be present to begin the attacks. In a moment of one last ditch try, I decided i owed my former allies, who were unaware, a warning of impending danger from myself.

Takeda took the news very well; they decided to merge into ATS giving over all troops, gear and gold. They understood the reasoning, and they only requested they be allowed to fight in battles while still being heard within the Empire. Their terms were gratefully accepted.

NK, took the news a little harder. It was foolish of me to present to them an ultimatum; the first hour was a mixture of silence and anger. However, they returned and agreed to also merge into ATS under the same conditions of Takeda. I don't think I’ll ever be able to take back what I did, but I'll always be grateful that they handled the situation as they did.


Without any fighting, the Northern Republic was finally dead. Within one week Hospitaller and Eastern Tsardom had taken over the territory and now were one of the largest NA guilds.

The Northern Empire was able to amass an army worthy of Pub Crawl, yet it was never used.

Strategus was frozen, and all gold, troops, and territory were wiped from the game. It seemed the rumors Takeda and NK were waiting for happened after all, just not soon enough…


Stay tuned for part 3...The Second World War of Caladria, and the Rise of the Northern Empire.

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Strategus General Discussion / Re: Strategus History

« on: May 06, 2011, 03:45:29 am »

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It all started in Native Warband.

This is the story of the first North American Guilds to enter strategus.....

At the time of CRPG, when it was first created, the community consisted mostly of EU players with a few dedicated North Americans.

CRPG itself held little attention in the beginning until it was announced that a new form would be arriving, a strategus beta release would offer clans the chance to compete for land much like single player.

Immediately many of the old beta NA guilds made the conversion now that were was something to fight for. The first to enter the delayed strategus launch was NK, followed by ATS and Takeda...forming the majority of the North American Players in strategus. With no land, scattered players, and low level players with only one NA server to play on, we three major guilds from native started talking.


Almost everything was already claimed by EU clans, and we realized that there was no possible way for us to enter strategus at this point on a level playing field. The delayed invites allowed guilds to get territory with minimal competition. It was decided that the only way for us to achieve our goals was to first show to the rest of the eu clans at the time that we were not working together, thus creating no threat to those around us.

The next objective was to find territory that would be rather easy to take. Upon strategus beta release, there were two types of guilds. Ones who had land with the members to hold it, and ones who got land because they got there first. The land with the fewest members and the most surrounding, un-taken, land turned out to be CoCo and Ninja's to the north, territory now belonging to the Northern Empire and Drz.

The third objective was most important. At the time, the only way to get troops was to recruit 2 per person every hour 1 minute past, that is if you didn't already have land. Without troops, there was no way to gain land on strategus, you were useless without an army. The only advantage of the three NA guilds was that ATS had more active members than most, creating a surplus of farmed money in strategus. The important part however, was dividing a way to get troops from an EU guild without funding someone who would use it against us later. The largest EU guild on strategus at the time was Templars whose power seemed daunting to everyone. Their leader Growl was approached by myself where I introduced myself, fluffed some of my active member count, then proceeded to try and befriend him for troops.

An offer was presented instead, Growl would provide troops for an alliance, with that a warning was presented as well, those who did not ally with him might find themselves crusaded against later. His offer was refused and a sum of 55k(a lot of money at the time for templars) was paid for 1000 troops. The NA guilds had received the troops they so desperately needed.

In the meantime, while ATS was acquiring troops, the other two NA guilds were dividing by misinformation the territory they wanted. Takeda went and made a defensive alliance with CoCo and Ninja, convincing their new allies that NK and ATS were small and bothersome to Takeda as well.

NK convinced Ninja that they did not want territory that CoCo had, but rather wanted the land south of their border. What neither CoCo nor Ninja knew was that not only did these NA guilds have an army, it was well equiped, large, and organized.

With the 1000+ man army, it was time for some battles to begin. It was agreed upon that it would be best to take some territory untaken by ATS who had not yet been clearly known by ninja or CoCo. This would prevent conflict with those nearby for a longer period allowing more time if needed to acquire troops that might be lost. To our surprise though, with the help of the 3 NA guilds, and a few mercs including RS, within 24 hours ATS had taken 4 villages with less than 200 loses. Now that we had a source for troops, we gave 400 troops to NK to start their approach on CoCo, and 300 troops to Takeda.

Takeda wisely let a small un organized clan take a village in which they had only 14 troops remaining after the battle, and became an easy pickup for themselves later. They then reinforced NK as they started in on taking over the rest of the region.

This new North American power now had territory that rivaled most in strategus, and would have continued to grow had not a new Russian power arrived around the same time. DRZ also figured out that Ninja was a weak guild holding more land than they could really defend. Outnumbered and out matched, the ninja clan was wiped out on two fronts.

Grateful for the accidental help, DRZ offered a defensive merc battle pact with NK, it was still unknown that NK was in league with ATS and Takeda, so it was officially announced that these three guilds would become the Northern Republic. The defensive merc battle pact was shared over all within the republic, and DRZ became our first friendly neighbors.

This pretty much sums up the rise of the Northern Republic...we continued to solidify our lands by taking the rest of the neutral territory and beginning to fortify. Templars never made good on their threat, CoCo was never seen of again, and Ninja moved down south into shogunate territory. Rumors spread that a wipe would come to strategus, so it was agreed upon that rather than make enemies for no reason, we would maintain a neutral policy until then, gathering information on all other guilds who held land, and those who did not. Sadly, this lack of involvement in battle caused 2/3rds of the republic to go inactive....stay tuned for the fall of the Republic, and the Rise of the Empire.

Part 1 of ATS's involvement in strategus. Its a detailed account of what was done by the republic, not just ATS.

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Suggestions Corner / Re: Patch Poll

« on: May 05, 2011, 05:39:22 pm »

Dunno why so many people voted no...no one has anything to lose with a repick

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Suggestions Corner / Re: Patch Poll

« on: May 03, 2011, 03:03:50 pm »

Many people are not reading my post....this is not meant to be a troll topic. Either +1 or -1 and vote. If you want to discuss how much you hate the mod you can go post on the taleworlds boards where no one will read it.

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Suggestions Corner / Re: Patch Poll

« on: May 02, 2011, 11:54:29 pm »

Hey chadz, some people are wondering about those who sold their heirlooms because they thought they were useless now because of the patch...are they gonna be hurting or are you gonna have some mercy for those poor souls?

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Suggestions Corner / Re: Patch Poll

« on: May 02, 2011, 08:32:20 pm »

i'm not a fan of this, but it might happen.

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with my conditions

Wouldn't mind that.

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So long as you keep it logical sir