Village mercs

[Spicules]

So I've signed up as a village merc for a few battles where they were pretty outnumbered, but was never accepted.  I signed up for the attackers as well, and these villages were taken for nothing because there was nobody on the opposing side.  Our WoM battle was pretty good, but why is it that all these other people are taking villages with practically no cost because the defenders can't or won't sign mercs?  Also, I'm lvl 30, and applied several hours in advance to applying for the other side.

[Knute]

Which village was it? Was the defense roster full but nobody showed up or the AI just didn't hire that many people?

I'm not sure if anything has changed but last time they had AI fiefs it seemed like if you were a higher level player it was easier to get accepted by the AI. It might also look at your reliability rating which you can see on the website next to your bio.

Edit: Just wanted to add, I heard the AI pays out gold randomly but if there was a consistent reward system when fighting for the AI that might help fill rosters. For example, show up you get x amount of gold then get x amount of gold more per kill with additional bonuses for top ten k/d or something like that.

[Aksei]

had problems yesterday, but today it works

a reward would be nice, but i play for the lulz. Would be boring for the attackers if nobody defends

[Spicules]

Ah, woke up today to find myself hired for Vayejeg, so perhaps whatever was stopping me before has changed.

[protox2k]

Having this problem :p

[HappyPhantom]

Come fight FOR me mango xD

[protox2k]

lol ill see if im still up

[phnxhdsn]

They need to implement a last minute check to accept people as i find you have to sign up like the day before to get accepted, also now a reward would be nice because people take villages for free much inlike when we took the first village it had 80+ signups vs the 40 of us ^^

[Keshian]

Thats what worked in strat 1 or 2 - everyone got paid - so tons more would sign up, and it was crpg gold paments - really drew them in.  Think that was strat 1 now that i think about it.

[HappyPhantom]

... because people take villages for free much inlike when we took the first village it had 80+ signups vs the 40 of us ^^

Maybe if the attackers are a big clan or one of the cool kids that people are too gutless to take on. Plenty of defenders pounding on my 2-man faction village attacks.