Board Thread:Game Discussions/@comment-110.22.148.185-20150301231004/@comment-198.160.9.62-20150309190537

I was once disillusioned myself. I started playing around Nov 2013 and joined the first guild that invited me (lucky to finish in top 750). I stayed for about 3 months before I was basically running the thing. The GM just disappeared, so I went off and started my own guild. A bunch of my former guild mates followed me to my new guild. I ended up building up my new guild and we were easily finishing top 500 every event, with the highest finish of 89 in a blitz war. Over time, people got tired of the same old thing and I even gave up GM thinking I was done.

A few more months went by and my replacement GM was quitting the game so I took it back. Same old thing (t 500 finishes event after event). It was boring. I took some initiative to seek out joining an alliance. We successfully joined one of the larger alliances and the game became fresh again. However, my guild still wasn't doing much better, so I sought out a guild merge for my active members. That ended up being the best thing I did in the game. We joined a much stronger guild. My guild became a sub guild (feeder guild) and I moved over to the main guild with a few of my members.

I have never really been one to spend a lot of gems, but got a lot during the golden Tapjoy era where they were practically giving them away. I ended up running in a war where we were going for top 25 but ended up placing in the top 10. That was a rush and the game was once again exciting.

Fast forward to now and I'm part of the best alliance in the game as well as GM of a top guild. The gameplay itself is still fairly dull, but the coordination and work it takes to be a top guild is fun. LINE chat is way more entertaining than anything that could be accomplished with K&D alone.