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This game really pisses me off. I don't get how something I love so much can make me so angry. I think like most people, it started with the alliances. I've always been a work by myself kindaguy. If teachers allowed it, I would do my projects alone rather than with a group (didn't allow it too much, unfortunately). So when the third cover got shifted to alliance only, of course, I was upset about that. Depending on if I wanted it (ah, remember when you could play 'if' you wanted something?), I could get all three covers for a character. So of course my solution was to do exactly what D3 wanted me to do, spend a **** of money on their game. At the time, I didn't have much of a problem with it because it was (and for now, still is) only one of two games I play on my phone. So I funded a whole 20 man alliance on my own. I didn't do the buy a slot thing (reiterating the previous sentence here!) because I thought of this all as a good... long term investment. And for season 1, it worked! We got all but I believe two alliance rewards, including ending up 57th overall for season one.

And then scaling, mmr hell, sharding, working as intended, yadda yadda. You all know that part by now.

With the season two burnout affecting many teams, mine included, and while Xmen and 5deadlypeoples somehow are farming or making new players, it was getting harder to compete. I never made any "miss a PVP and you're outta here" or "don't use 3 shields per match and you're gone" rules. I had a great group of guys who in the end are human beings (I think, never actually met any of them). After a couple left, and I eventually, and unfortunately, kicked one person, I found some more good players. We were one of those teams who was bordering top 100 the whole season. We got some top 100 covers, we missed some top 100 covers.

A couple days ago, we had a member get locked out of his game (for the second time this season). So I was currently sitting at 18/20 members. Last night, I spent more time on this forum than I did playing the actual game. I sent out way too many messages. I would sit and watch to see if people read them. I went to gamefaqs and tried there. I would refresh the alliance post waiting to see if people would post. All in all, I found a total of one person last night. I woke up this morning, and now I'm at 17/20. One guy I've had from the beginning had left. He was consistently one of the highest scorers on the team, so I understand him wanting to get the Fury cover that we've all been going after. But I already apologized to my team and told them that this game is not worth it to me anymore. I spent a couple hours scouring the depths of the internet to find one person yesterday. Now I'm supposed to find three with a high enough score to bump us back into the top 100? It's hard enough with the 2 days and 8 hours left in the season, but I also have to work with other teams saying **** you to their lowest scorers while they try to get people to alliance hop to them? Screw that.

So obviously I'm not one of the big forum presences. And I unfortunately can't even say I'm quitting the game. I've spent (way too much) time and money on it. I love Marvel. I enjoy puzzle games. So I still plan on playing, maybe. I just dusted off my Wii U to play Mario Kart 8. Kinda weird that when I played that, I had so much fun. And it was awesome because I didn't have to play at a certain time to make sure I earned every point possible. I didn't have to worry about Bowser all of a sudden going up 100 levels. I could just race, and it was fun.

I want to say thank you to everyone who has ever been apart of Thieves Guild. You guys have all been awesome players and people.

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I feel sorry for you. Hadn't thought that kind of thing could happen.

But recruiting becomes harder and harder, that's true, and even Top Alliances need to find new members all the time.

The beginning of Season 3 is going to be a disaster I'm sure, as many guys will quit on the game.

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Try adding your alliance to the reorg. doc and see if that cuts down on your legwork:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=7952

Hope that helps (assuming you still plan on playing).

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I'm almost at 180 straight days and I find I no longer want to play - for many of the same reasons everyone has mentioned... at the beginning this was awesome - Marvel Heroes with Puzzle Quest gameplay - absolutely perfect pairing for me...

Over the last week I have found that I prefer instead to play Hearthstone - I find I can play hearthstone for an hour at a time and enjoy myself - and I loaded up Wildstar (MMO) to give that a whirl...

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if you are willing to consider me and my wife we would be willing to join your alliance. I don't consider either of us high end players. I am at 8406 for the season #1 in my alliance and my wife is at 6593 at #3. There are only 12 people in our alliance and many of them don't play that often. Both of us are 2** teams mainly using OBW and Ares with the main character. I currently get frustrated becuase we just don't have enough people to get quality alliance rewards and it is keeping me personally from being able to really build my 3*** team. If you feel we are high enough levels we would be happy to join.

Let me know

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Had similar issues with gettingpeople in my alliance after we had about 4 leave at the end of last season. Seems like people are quitting the game faster than you can even recruit sometimes. And now we have 3 members (myself included) who are pretty much done at the end of this season. I may play a round or two if I feel liek it, but I cant compete anymore, not with how things are now.

I get it. Im with you.

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It's not easy running the number one alliance, I can say we don't have much turn over. The trick is finding people that have play styles that are similar to your goals. It's funny how people think we spend crazy amounts of money on this game. We actually don't I bought a 20k pack some months ago and I still have much of that left. I know of at lest 4 guys in X1 completely F2P, so it's possible to do. We get attacked so much that when we shield and people lose we go up dramatically in points. So there is a balance out there. Don't give up! If there is any way I can assist let me know.