
I recently ran a competition for W31 as part of my stint as the guest blogger while Ebony was away. I was a bit disappointed only four people entered, but the quality of those four entries was tops.
The Announcement:
The TW Blog presents…
“What w31 Needs Now Ingame” Competition
Here’s a little something to set the mood.
The Rundown:
I am looking for the most creative response to what you believe w31 needs ingame right now. Does it need a new war? some betrayal? a little more love? noble cost reduction? more spear nukes? This is your chance to be creative and let your imagination run free.
The Rules:
1. All entries MUST adhere to forum rules.
2. All entries MUST be posted to this thread by July 2, 2011 at 12:00 ST.
3. All entries MUST be a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 500 words.
4. All entries MUST contain at least one image that relates to your idea in some way.
The Process:
Once the entry period closes, a poll will be created for you to vote on the eligible entries. This poll will be open for 3 days.
The Prizes:
1st place = 200 premium points
2nd place = 100 premium points
3rd place = 50 premium points
Winning entries will be featured on the TW Blog.
Good luck and happy dreaming!
The Entrants:
Over the next several days I waited eagerly to see what people would come up with for ideas. Sadly, there were only four entrants; I was hoping for a good deal more to be honest on such an active forum. Fortunately the four entries I did get were top notch: Queen gantlet, Pasta Monkey, smerdyakOv, and Metus. It was a 50/50 split with two taking it more seriously and two having fun dreaming up ludicrous unit types. I found them all to be entertaining in their own way.
Once the entry time ended, I put up a poll and left it to you, the W31 players, to decide who should win. There was some controversy and maybe a couple hard feelings, which is unfortunate, because this was meant to be fun. As with anything else though, when people are involved, it is never completely neat and tidy.
Again I was a bit surprised to see how few voted in the poll for the winners. In the end only 27 people voted and 1st and 2nd place were separated by just one point.
The Winners:
The winning entry was submitted by smerdyakOv. Many found his outrageous ideas funny even if they were a bit over the top. He won with 37% of the votes. Congratulations, smerdy!
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Humbly submitted for your consideration.
new redneck weapons
- jacked up truck with a full cooler of beer and a bunch of rednecks with shotguns. Can traverse villages quicker than a paladin, but 10% of the time it crashes and kills it’s inhabitants. 10% of the time it gets pulled over and goes to jail for a DUI. 10% of the time it shows up at the wrong village and attacks instead of supports.

martyr character
- can only create one at a time. When he dies in a village, the village becomes holy ground of the tribe that owned the village at the time of martyr death. That tribe gets 50% morale boost and a new ‘suicide bomber’ attacker.

dirty hooker character
- a morale killer. When placed into enemy villa as support, she infects 20% of troops with VD.

Rupaul character
- another morale killer. When placed into enemy villa as support, 20% of troops spend all their time and energy chasing each other around the village square whilst wearing fabulous clothes. Population growth slows by 30%.

new paladin weapon
- Crystal Methaleus’ energy pack – paladin operates 3 times faster for first few days but then falls into ‘tweaking mode’ and does nothing but farm the same village over and over for 4-7 days. After the tweaking phase, paladin must sleep for 2 days.

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Second place went to Pasta Monkey. He had 33% of the votes. Some thought he might not do well as they feared this was a popularity contest rather than a vote on the merit of the entry. Since he missed first place by one vote, I think people can put those fears aside. Congratualtions, Pasta!
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World 31 has multiple issues. Some them can be fixed by the Mods others can only be fixed by the leaders of the top 5 tribes in W31.
Essentially, the crap has to be kicked to the curb and everyone needs to actively participate in wars, We need to end the stalemates.  I’ve talked at length in my personal blog about this. The major leaders are allowing mass inactivity to happen week after week, simply to hold numbers, rank and points.
People, who are not participating to actively end the world, should not have the privilege of being part of a top tribe or all it does is water down the ranking. The over used cliché “you’re only as strong as your weakest link” is very accurate in World 31.
Suggestions for the Mods on how to help World 31:
1) Shorten the allowable sit time to 30 days, and the account goes barb at 45 days (maybe with a 3 day ban prior to going barb).
2) Possibly put a sit limit on how many accounts someone can sit at 3 accounts. That way it forces other members of the tribe to help and one person can’t have control of a massive army.
3) Removal of Morale/Luck. Part of ending a world is removing the little pesky accounts and tribes that wont go away (BOA/SOS/RR) and others.
Suggestions for the Leaders of the top tribes:
1) Cut the fat. Kick the crap out. I remember a time in W31 when if you went yellow in some cases you risked being kicked out of a tribe because it was a privilege to be part of an elite tribe. That is no longer the case. It all seems to be about numbers, rank, and worse the Ego of those in charge.
2) A Merge needs to happen. FREE and BASH need to reunite and FURIE needs to become 1 tribe. See #1 on how to make this happen.
3) Ops need to be better executed. 1000s upon 1000s of nukes have been wasted on strong active players. Why? There are dozens of crappie inactive or unskilled players on both sides that could easily be wiped out with the right numbers. Stop wasting time and resources on personal vendettas. You win a chess game by knocking out pawns first. Why should this be any different?
In summation:
1) Shorten sit time.
2) Cut fat
3) Merge
4) Better Ops
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Metus took third place with an entry similar to smerdy’s. He received 18% of the votes. Congratulations, Metus!
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I’m up for giving this a shot
Stealth Bomber:
You can’t see when its attacking you, it doesn’t add incomings to your screen, so you pretty much no way of defending against it Also it destroys all your buildings.

and to distract the defending team from looking up in the sky we have…
Jehovah’s Witnesses: You can send them to track down any army or any village. Nothing can defend against them and they pull all your villagers to leave your village open.

Conspiracy Theorists:
They debunk all your army setups andgive you -100% morale

Bear Grylls:
How can you defend against Bear Grylls? Legend has it….

Royalty:
Now for a bit of a serious entry…
Kings, Queens, Princesses, Princes. This would allow for marriage between other players royalty. The royalty can also fight and have much stronger effects than Paladin, can ride faster and automatically give a 10% boost not all the army he/she rides with. The marriage would allow for royals to combine when defending villages and many other small “bonuses” given to the players.

Thanks for reading.
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Since there were only four entries, I am going to post the runner-up as well. Queen gantlet did a great job and obviously put a lot of thought into her post and she was the first one brave enough to give it a try and get the ball rolling for the competition, so I want to recognize her efforts. She received 11% of the votes. Thank you, Queen gantlet!
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I will give this a go……
TRIBAL WARS WORLD 31
I’ve always wanted to hear the clanking of swords and the sounds of troops dying when attacks land. I also would love the ability to have music playing in the back ground, but i would want it to be from a list that Us Players could choose maybe from a Jukebox, it would allow us to upload songs to share with the World.

see this is a Very Time Consuming Game a Pause button would be great!

Yep Jeho, there is always Love in the Air so it seems….so maybe a few weddings is in order. 
Anyone up for cake?

Then of course with a wedding there is always a few funerals….
rest in peace western w31.


And with death there comes new life.
the once in-active lifeless account becomes alive. *rolls eyes*
I’m watching these now…..
cirquee 44days 13 hours
sir skipalot 29 days 13 hours
danecore 28 days 11 hours
CORMAC Z 128Days 7 hours
Raiza 1 111days 15hours
Rohulible 102 days 3 hours
Twlya 94 days 12 hours
Why let this continue this way???????
Get rid of these kinds of accounts. could of had half price coins along time ago
if they where not here taking up space in this world. Lower cost Nobles would be nice like you mentioned Jeho.
They should go barb after 30 days at this stage of the game.
I’m TIRED of them coming back to life and used against me or my Tribe Mates to suit the enemies Needs.
Hint Hint!= SNordst311
Otherwise….
The Blog position should just go to Pasta Monkey
he truly is doing some Great Blogs for Our World.
and many approve the work he’s done.

Look at him….always at his post, how could you say no?
MAP
i posted in discussions thread to Morthy about the map and how it would be nice to be able to see the K’s numbers on it.
*for ppl who haven’t seen this feature go to your map and click on show world map. you see the world but not marked k’s (k40 k41 etc)
outside of some of these ideas of mine…. not sure what else. ill add if i think of anything more.
Smileys/Emoticons
*The Use of emoticons when you’re messaging in game Mail to show them how you really feel. Emoticons are a visual ways to express the way you feel when words alone just aren’t enough.
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So there you have it. Once again thanks to all who entered and congrats to the winners. I also want to thank Atlantia for sponsoring the contest and providing the premium for the prizes.