The deal is because of the massive rise in backstabbing and the likes, friends throughout multiple era's have become very valuable. There's a surprising amount of players now who consider a war with friends the same as the breaking of friendship... Got kind of out of hand I fear.

In the end, in my opinion, as a leader you owe your loyalty to your alliance first, above anyone else. You have their trust and they spent their valuable time and in a lot of cases money for you. Making decisions based on emotion when people count on you to give them the best possible chance of winning the era is in my opinion nothing short of betraying their trust.

Of course, there's some things that transcend multiple era's, such as honor and reputation. But there's no loss of honor and reputation in fighting a friend - that's part of the game, it's a point of the game. Would you tell your friend he's not welcome in your house if he beats you in risk? of course not. Why would BD be any different? It's just entertainment.

Wish people would think straight and play this game for the win again, would make the era much more interesting.

GML never lose as they play the numbers game (with subs and allies), yes they lost 100+ squads but they learnt from mistake, will rebuild and carry on with the war.
Its going to be a long war, I can see VND and allies are pushing in hard now but GML will bring in new allies to slow down the enemy.
The only way I see VND + allies winning against GML, is if GML just quit and become inactive which I think will happen as the war continues, the longer it takes the more stressed and exhausted they become and may find it boring eventually.
All I know is that this war won't end after 1/3 of alliance army dies. VND + allies are moving south quicker than before but will find themselves in a dangerous position. Its going to be a long war if GML don't give up.

I don't see SoLD winning this, they seem to be playing to support another team (maybe SAGE).

SAGE don't look to me like they'll win, unless they betray.

Fear (now known as I) won't last long, I believe they are just like HU, boost boost boost with no coordination or skill, but unlike HU I think Fear will die soon.

SEXY doing good against Fear, but dont look like competitors for top 3.

HU seem to be playing for rank 2-3 now.

....Anything could happen, let the best team win. I think greendays team will be dead or kicked out of greenland by tick 1000 if not then maybe by tick 500

you're right about some things, but not for all.. its more like this Sage/I/SoLD. + subs good luck haha but yeah cant tell who will win at this time.. fyi why SEXY got close is cuz we backed off the front for the hive.. ( about 5 spam bombs went off in our hive) had to leave but they ketp attacking so we would lose that.. but its whatever getting it back slow.

I dont see a team like GML who is used to slow paced worlds backing down any time soon

if vnd keeps *buying alliances* then sure noone could beat them,
if they stop that im sure they could never win ppl wouldnt let them, nor would sage, , vnd subs (hu.love,beer,etc)

i think it would be GML or SOLD

and if i get 30 squads r5 then sure i will win

It is far, far too early for this discussion. Anyone who dies now can re-build and carry on like it never happened.

I Agree Red

you have examples of alliences who rebuilded
and even this world may go over 2500 ticks
so GooD LucK to every 1
no predictions