Fate of Defeat

Today I just find out that, I keep losing my army not really due to my careless and stupid mistakes, the fact is, the game (the Three Kingdom Online, 热血三国) does not allow me to increase my army!

Why I say so? I do not know what thing I have done to unintentionally offend the 2 players in the game, they kept robbing the resources in my town. If my town do not have the great internal defense, they sure try to conquer my town in order to make me no home to back. However, according to my current army power, I know that I am unable to fight with them. My army kept dying, it makes me so hard to get a huge amount of troop. In fact, I know why they want to attack me. Every time they successfully wiped out my army, they would send a message for me in order to ask me to join their guild. Why should I want to join them? I am playing this game with my friends, surely I join my friend's clan so that we can discuss and chat together. Just now I was defeated by one player, he sent a message to me and said that I was lucky because he did not send his light horse riders to come together in the battle, so he lost around 1 thousand of archers instead of losing nothing. What the hell! This meant that I should be happy because I could kill his archers. My loss was more than him damn a lot. I lost 2675 archers, 546 light horse riders, 480 shield carriers, and 1300 spear soldiers. He lost just a little bit of archers, he still dare to send a message with rude words to show his anger for me. This sounds like I did not have any sad feeling on my losing, my army was valueless or cheap? The 1 unit of archer seemed like very important for him, he would feel very sad on losing 1 unit but I would not? Therefore, he could say that I was lucky with my success on killing his archers. So bored, I need to train again my army. My damage has not yet getting recovery, the player who just attacked my town and won the battle asks his friend in the same guild to come together to attack my town again! I really do not know what are wrong with them, I just want to play the game in peace because I am just a new player. Finally, they successfully force me to move my town immediately to another place. I hope that they are unable to find my town again. They just wait, if I am able to have a huge army in the future, I will surely revenge to wipe them back!

When I say until here, I think that all of you will say, it is very normal. In the game, all of players have the freedom to choose anyone as the victim. As the phrase, the law of the jungle, the weakling must be bullied by the stronger one. Thus, it is a shame to complain on any defeat and scold the person who attacks me. I am a good person of course I never do such thing. But something really make me unhappy and I am unable to control myself not to release my anger. However, it does not mean that I send a message to scold the player who make my whole army gone. I just show my dissatisfaction through chatting with my friends in the same clan. Why I have so many complaint? The first time I lost my whole army due the attack from the player who likes to aim me. I have nothing to say with this case because I was a newbie. I did not know that it was necessary to set the defense mode to make my whole army staying inside the town so that they would not go out from the protection area to suicide. I have learned the lesson, I immediately set the defense type as defending inside town, they want to rob my resources I let them to do that, I just want to protect my troop from dying. But this time, I still lost my whole army again due to a ridiculous reason, seems like a fate to make my army unable to live longer.

When I woke up, I saw the army status tab blinking terribly, I knew there was something bad happened to me. As I expected, a player was sending his troop to my town in order to rob my resources, they were on the way and have the remaining traveling time of 30 minutes. I was not really care about my resources but my troop! I did not hope my whole troop to die again. So, the first thing I had done was checking the defense mode for several times and confirmed that my army would stay inside the town. Of course, I could not allow my enemy to get any benefit from me. Thus, before they arrived my town, I tried my best to spent my resources as much as possible such as training a lot of soldiers and sending my resources to the court in order to increase my reputation. I did not receive the reward from the tasks I completed in the list as temporary so that it would not increase my resources for my enemy to rob more. Finally, my resources was spent until leaving a little bit, I had done the thing that I could do, next was just waiting to see the result. The countdown timer made me so exciting. I did not know how huge the enemy army was, I did not have the courage to fight with them outside my town in order to prevent them from robbing my resources because I knew that I was not the lucky one. The attacker would not fight a war without the full confidence to win. Three ... two ... one ... they arrived. Something was out of my expectation, my stupid army was still going out to fight with them. As a result, of course my army was not qualified to fight with them. Finally, my whole troop successfully committed suicide! After that, I still want to listen my enemy to say me lucky. Damn it! I was very wondering with the defense setting because no matter I did set or not set, the consequence still be the same, my army still like to go out to receive the enemy. Then, I found out the problem, it was so funny that I was actually unable to change the setting. I had tried it several times. Every time I set the defense type to be defending inside town, after I refreshed the web page, the defense type would be changed back to "receiving my guest" automatically. I was not sure whether it was the line problem to cause the server unable to know any change on my setting. But, I still could train my army and construct buildings at the moment! If I could not do anything in the game, surely I would refresh the page. I could not change the defense mode but at least I could immediately teleport my town to another place to avoid the war. What a good reason to make me to enjoy the great loss!

Lastly, what I could say is, I am the one who have the fate of defeat. So bored ~ again.

Headache in Gaming

Few days before, my friend introduces an online web-based game for me. The game named "Three Kingdom Online" (热血三国 <-- Click it!). This game is great but it gives me a lot of sadness. There is a special feature on this website game in which I can give commands to my army during a battle. I can control them to move forward, stop, or move backward and attack which troop on a battlefield. The ability of controlling army greatly influence the battle result. I may win a battle without losing a unit. If I forget to control my army, they may stupidly go to die. This is a headache that I always miss the chance to give command for my army. Why? Because when I want to attack a land, it needs time for my army to move from my city to the battle destination. If the travel time is too long, I will go to do other thing to wait for the battle begins. Sometimes, I may totally forget the battle and the whole troop heroically die on the battlefield.

Training a unit spends much time and resources. For my city, training 100 archers needs more than 6 hours, training 50 light horse rider needs more than 4 hours. But I can get a lot of units very quickly since I have 5 barracks in my city. Thus, I can have 500 archers and 200 light horse rider after 10 hours something. According to this training speed, I should have a great amount of units in my city. But, there are a lot of funny cases causing the number of my army unable to reach higher. Those sad cases are unforgettable in my heart.

I brought my army to commit many wonderful wars. Thanks to myself as a genius commander, my army was able to eliminate all of the enemy troops on the battlefield without losing a unit. Archers made a great effort in battle because they were the only ranged attackers in the early game and had the benefit of long attack range. They could attack enemies in a long distance and prevent the enemies from going near my troop. However, the good matter never last long. I still remember the amount of loss in my army. I lost 900 archers, 200 light horse riders, 120 shield carriers and 89 spear soldiers on my first defeat. Why I lost? Because after I sent out my troop to fight, I did my Final Year Project (FYP) while waiting for the battle. I was attracted on solving a problem in my game programming work and absolutely ignore the battle without intention. After I solved the problem, I felt the bad thing and then I suddenly remember the battle. My concern was too late. The battle ended when I wanted to control my army. Then, I opened the report box to see the result. What a "good" news for me that all of my army was wiped out. Nothing could be done after the fact happened. The only one thing I could do was training my army for several hours again.

The second case was damn funny. I played with full of braveness to challenge a high-level land. I brought 1600 archers, 400 light horse riders and 200 shield carriers to conquer the land. In my impression, the defender approximately had 5000 basic soldiers, 600 spear soldiers and 370 shield carriers. I was very scared of those melee enemy units which are able to go near my archer team. The life of an archer was as low as an ant, he was so easy to get killed by the enemies. In strategically, I should attack the enemy units with highest movement speed in the first and kill them in efficient way such as dealing a good damage according to their weakness. But I made a "clever" decision to kill the hardest enemy units in priority, that was attacking the shield carriers although I knew that the attack damage for an archer against a shield carrier was only 70%. Finally, I eliminates all of the shield carriers in 3 rounds. But the scary thing happened, the 5000 basic soldiers and 600 spear soldiers was already standing very near with my troops. They just simply wipe out my whole army in one round by dealing a huge amount of damage. I lost in this battle due to my stupid mistake.

The third case was the greatest loss and I had nothing to say with this. The war happened in my own town. A strong player came to bully my army while I was playing DotA. After that, I saw the army status tab was blinking. It gave me a bad feeling, what would the matter be? I saw the winning of the attacker in a battle but lost 100 something light horse riders, I thought that the attacker was me and my army went to die stupidly again without my control. But the problem was, I remembered that I did not send my troop out for battle before I played DotA. Then, I read the report carefully. Damn it! The attacker was not me, it was another player. It meant the losing defender was me. My pitying 1900 archers, 73 light horse riders and 357 shield carriers were gone in this war. I thought that I sent my troop to conquer a land and I forgot to recall them back to home after winning the battle. I left them to stay outside and they were killed by others. But when I looked at the battle location carefully, it was my town location! The wall around my town was hard and there was a lot of arrow turrets and traps in surrounding to prevent them from entering my town. I wondered that why my turrets and traps did not work. The attackers could be easy to go into my town and kill my people. After I continued reading the battle report, Oh My God, it mentioned that my stupid army went out from the protection of my town and fight with the attackers at outside instead of staying inside to defend behind the wall. After I told my friends about my army's funny action, he said that it was necessary to set the defense type at somewhere in order to make the army staying inside to defend. I had nothing to say with this. I made my town defense to be so great, but it was useless, my army was damn smart to fight with enemies at outside and got rid of the protection of my town. They liked to commit suicide when I did not pay attention on a battle. I really did not know I should laugh or cry. Because of this defeat, I lost a great amount of army again.

After I successfully trained a lot of army, they died. I trained again, they died again. I was unable to gather my army step by step in order to make a huge army. Some bad matters must be happened to me when I had a good number of army. It was so bored with this cycle.