haza: I’m Harry, better known as haza teh great in game and baron of Plight.

Justin/Jurasu: This week, I’m once again looking back upon individual’s history in W16. When, to the best of your knowledge, did you start in W16?

haza: I joined around April 2008 after I saw an ad from Travian, which I played with my dad. W16 was one of the newest worlds then, if I remember correctly, so I joined this one.

Justin/Jurasu: Do you remember where you first started?

haza: I started up near the northwest corner of K23 and I still have the same village.

Justin/Jurasu: What tribe did you first join?

haza: I joined the IRA. One of the dukes (mr shooting) was a close neighbor and randomly sent me a mail. We started chatting and the next thing I know I’m helping him and the rest annoy every major tribe in the area. I never really grew back then. I just sat around making jokes while the big tribes got bigger, just as I was on W18 and W20.

Justin/Jurasu: Most times in a player’s history, there’s one major, defining moment that is a turning point in that player’s history. What do you think that event was in your W16 career?

haza: I would say merging the last remnants of the IRA into Plight. When the war with PNX began in May, it was a tough week for me that led to a month long absence from the game while I moved into a new house. I promised I would get them through the war if it was the last thing I did and I was going to quit once it had ended. However, throughout the summer dopeas was kind enough to keep asking me to join Plight, and as the war died down and I deemed the tribe to no longer need my help, I decided to follow dopeas once more by joining him, along with a few from the IRA in my area. I believe this to be defining as if I hadn’t trusted dopeas on the idea, I would have remained with the IRA until I was rimmed by BANG! I would have been long gone from here.

Justin/Jurasu: Are you happy with your decision to stick it out and keep playing after you wanted to quit?

haza: Absolutely! Since joining Plight, the number of people I speak to regularly has jumped from maybe a dozen at most to over 100, and some, like RJGall, I consider to be incredibly close friends now, despite once being enemies.

Justin/Jurasu: What would you attribute your success thus far in W16 to?

haza: mr shooting’s diplomacy of find the toughest guy and kiss his backside. He and qixor became partners in the early days, and then as they both quit, shooters passed it on to me and qixor to dopeas, which is how we met and made the IRA and ORC close allies that culminated in us joining together in Plight. I also believe that my dogged determination to help my friends has had an influence as well. I survived the end of the ORC/BANG! war because dopeas stuck up for me in the negotiations that followed, as he knew BANG! threatened us to stop supporting ORC, so I sent a circular mail telling everyone to stop and then sent it all myself, leaving myself completely defenseless. This show of loyalty gave me the respect I needed to not get rimmed. So, in short my diplomatic abilities allowed me to succeed on w16.

Justin/Jurasu: So you would say that you’re the type of player willing to take risks to succeed, rather than trying to always play it safe and hope to skate by?

haza: Yea, I would say so. I put a lot into the game in order to help the tribe, and if there was ever a time that no one else was willing to step up to do something, which wasn’t often, I tended to volunteer myself, whether it was a good idea or not at the time.

Justin/Jurasu: Do you have any other funny or interesting memories in your W16 career that we may not have covered that you would like to share?

haza: I tend to log in from time to time and see messages on the tribe forum that I posted whilst drunk and can’t remember. They often spark funny debates. I should probably apologize for them at some point. My time with the IRA during our long alliance with ORC was always funny as well, especially during the ORC/Bang! war where I lost almost every soldier I had trying to hold ivanvk’s villages in the last week of the war. I lost track of the bad timing jokes made about that.

Justin/Jurasu: Heh, I wish I could see the drunk posts. Those are always fun.

haza: I’ll copy and paste one.

Plight – haza teh great on 30.10.2010 at 22:46 Quote Edit Delete
i r haza

i r drunk

i r greaT

This was from before I left to go out for Halloween, and I could barely stand at that point, so you can see it was a messy night if I was posting that before I even went to the night club. I woke up the next morning to find it and couldn’t for the life of me remember posting it.

Justin/Jurasu: I can only imagine.

haza: Yea, it was pretty good.

Justin/Jurasu: That’s all I have for questions. Unless you have something else you’d like to add, I’d like to thank you for doing this interview with me Haza.

haza: Any time.

Gammy: I am The gammy 1, the artist formerly known as dunbop from ~I~.

Jurasu: I’m looking back at the histories of individual players in W16. Do you remember where and when you started?

Gammy: I started in K87. It was a cold day, the wind was blowing crisply. The farm animals were starting to…oh my bad.

I saw a co-worker playing while at work, shame on him, and asked him about it. I logged on when I got home that day and started reading every bit of information I could find, including the wiki links, interviews with older players, tutorials, etc. I did all that before I even made an account. Once I got on, I queued up some buildings and said to myself, “Self, is that really going to take 2 hours in real time? That’s pretty gay.”

I actually logged off and hadn’t planned on going back, but after a few hours I checked, for nothing more than sheer curiosity, and saw the buildings were all done. It was on from there.

Jurasu: What tribe did you first join, and why?

Gammy: A few buddies and myself, from work, started a stupid little tribe called Scary! That was what Frank said in the movie Monster Squad, but you probably wouldn’t know anything about that! As for why, our first initial goal was to make fun of all the other tribes with ridiculous names or pages.

Jurasu: How did you find your way into ~I~ after starting in Scary!?

Gammy: Camarade Popov recruited me into ~I~ after I secured my fifth village as dunbop.

Jurasu: Going through this game, players often experience at least one major event that changes the course of their game. Can you think of any such experience in your W16 career?

Gammy: It would probably when I had to quit the first time around due to real life issues.

Jurasu: Why did you return after quitting the first time, and did you return as The gammy 1, or on another account first?

Gammy: I returned after quitting the first time for a few reasons. In no particular order, my wife, then girlfriend, was about to enroll in college, plus she working full-time, so that gave me some time away from her to do whatever. I initially quit because the company I worked for was going out of business and I had no idea if I was even going to have the time to play anymore. At my previous job, I could log on just about anytime I wanted during the day. My time is restricted some now, but I manage to stay active. I also missed playing a bit. I messaged Salvkas for a spot in ~LS~ to help fight against Dust. Apparently I never got the memo of her hating me for who knows why. She abruptly turned me down. I then wrote someone in C², can’t remember whom at the moment, to mail Zvone and ask if any accounts were available. Long story short, I finally got in touch with Zvone and here we are today. I took the account with 160 villages and a little over 5 million ODA at the time.

Jurasu: What would you attribute your success in the world thus far to?

Gammy: Several things, including small white lies (even though I consider myself an honest player, I wouldn’t lie about major things, etc) and activity (I used to send out 2200+ farm runs a day on my old account, and that was when the account had around 40-50 villages. Proper planning is vital. I try not to do things ill mannered or half prepared. Some call that pointwhoring. I like to think of it as preparing.

Jurasu: Do you have any other interesting or funny stories that you would like to share with the readers?

Gammy: One time, when I was around 5-6 years old, my brother and I were sleeping in the same bed as my mom. I forgot the reason why, but maybe we were both scared or something. Anyway, I woke up in the middle of the night and had to pee really bad. I was in the middle of them both, and I would have woken them if I tried to get out of bed. So, I propped my left leg up on my mom, my right leg up on my brother and let it flow.

Needless to say they were pissed off when they both woke up wet.

Jurasu: Ok, thank you again Gammy for the interview.

Gammy: No problem.

obryant/ob: Well, I play the obryant account and I have been on it since the start of the world.

Justin/Jurasu: This week I’m looking back on individual player’s history in W16. Do you remember where and roughly when you started this world?

obryant/ob: I’m not sure of when, but I started in K43, pretty close to the center. It was probably a few days to a week after the world.

Justin/Jurasu: Do you remember what tribe you first joined?

obryant/ob: DWC was the first tribe that I joined.

Justin/Jurasu: Why did you join them?

obryant/ob: I was asked by wezzel to join after about a week of playing solo as I didn’t want to join a tribe until the area was a bit more stable as to who the tribes in that area where going be and who was going to be around longer. Their tribe was mostly a little premade.

Justin/Jurasu: How did you eventually make your way to your present home in C²?

obryant/ob: After a while DWC and haznog merged as both were small tribes and it was in both tribes’ interest at that time to make one larger tribe, but soon after joining haznog, the leadership quit and myself and wezzel decided it was best to leave rather than stay in a failing tribe. After a week or two, wezzel applied to CND for both of us and we soon joined them. We stayed there for quite a while until the end of the CND/C² war, which ended in a merger of the two tribes. The only other thing of note was the war with Milk while I was in CND, which was pretty much a slaughter as the Hippos war was already on a decline by the time I joined CND.

Justin/Jurasu: During a player’s lengthy career on the world, there is often at least one major event that dramatically changes the course of their game. Can you think of any such experience on W16, and if so, what would it be?

obryant/ob: I would have to say the CND/C² war ending in a merger as CND was slowing in a decline due to activity issues and lack of targets. It really set in motion a chain of events that has lead to a great tribe with great players.

Justin/Jurasu: What would you attribute your own personal success thus far in W16 to?

obryant/ob: The willingness of C² members to help each other out. I have never played with a better group of players in the terms of being true tribemates. They are always willing to help each other out whether it be with offense or defense and the willingness to give one’s claim up quickly to someone else if they have a better chance to take it. In one word “Selfless” is the best one I could use to describe the way the tribe is.

Justin/Jurasu: So you attribute your success to the efforts made by the group as a whole, rather than to something you’re doing or have done as an individual?

obryant/ob: Yes. A player is nothing without those around him to help. They may last a while, but no one can do it all without help.

Justin/Jurasu: Do you have any other funny or interesting stories that you would like to share with the readers?

obryant/ob: Nothing other than the occasional odd attack.

Justin/Jurasu: Ok. I’d like to thank you again Ob for doing this interview with me.

obryant/ob: No problem. Anytime.