[DC] Divide et Impera!

Day 3,011, 09:17 • Published in Croatia South Korea • by Don Croata

Hi,
Several days ago Asteria had their 2nd birthday. It’s a perfect opportunity to wish them happy birthday in my own way, by writing an article about the strongest alliance in the eWorld in this moment. Building an alliance such as Asteria takes a lot. You have to plan many things, you need to have someone like Serbia to lead it and you need to fix issues which are stopping you from having a success. Asteria did all those things perfectly, they made a strong start which launched them to become dominating alliance for couple of years and years to come. They’ve already beaten two other alliances - Aurora and Sirius. So, why is Asteria so successul?




Rise of an empire


In order to see a whole picture you need to start from the beginning. Obviously, as biggest and strongest Asteria member Serbia has took most important role in founding Asteria. There were issues they had to solve so they had to plan everything precisly. The first important question was who to invite to an alliance. Along with Slovenia and Hungary as their best allies they needed Romanian damage which caused the first issues since Romania and Hungary aren’t really the best buddies. The second controversal member was Greece. Serbia wanted their damage and they knew that Greece is soon going to become most important member of Asteria. Getting Greece in their alliance was an absolute Prio 1 for many reasons. Damage isn’t even the most important one. Last of the founding members was Argentina, their night damage proved to be a crucial thing in several occassions and no one didn’t really had anything against them being in the alliance.

They knew it will will be a hard thing to have only those countries on “their side” so they need another smaller alliance in which they would gather all other allies such as Iran, Portugal and France. So they founded LETO, an alliance they will help wherever is needed and ask for the same in return, but also an alliance which won’t cause any internal issues to Asteria. It’s kinda usual that smaller countries have more issues with HQ’s and alliance so they eliminated this threat since its start. With Chinese arrival to Asteria they’ve completed their “7 star” alliance and was able to start dealing with issues. There were many of them.



First problems


One of the hardest thing to overcome in this game is RL hostility. Two members of Asteria had this problem. The real issue was: If Hungary doesn’t join Serbia will lose one of their most loyal ally and friend, they couldn’t afford this to happen. If Romania don’t join they lose awfully lot of damage and probably support of Greece and Argentina too since they were closest friends of Romania. Serbia gave their best to help both countries overcome RL issues and made them both to join an alliance. Romania and Hungary didn’t had MPP whole the time, but they were coordinating and they’ve successfully ignored their citizens who fought against each others. Both of those countries were motivated with common interests - to be a part of the strongest alliance which is going to give them a reward - bonuses. A true interest marriage. Their leaders were mature and smart enough to know that if they reject joining the alliance with their arch enemies they will lose everything. Serbia made perfect situation for themselves. Neither Romania or Hungary couldn’t reject an invitation.

Sure they had some MU’s fighting against each others, few of their Governments tried to take each others bonuses and there was a lot of ‘nasty’ moves, but eventually they were clever enough to realise that there are more important things in this game than RL troubles.




Love and marriage


Asteria really seemed like a marriage of interests as I already mentioned. Just look at the situation before and after. TWO has been the first to act smart and Asteria is its successful successor. Asteria could easily be separated in two sides. One the one side there are Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia and in the others side Argentina, Greece and Romania, exEDEN members. Serbia offered exEDEN countries an alliance and all of them has gladly accepted it, with only few ‘terrorist’ movements in few of them, especially Greece. Serbia knew that with those members they can’t lose it, for many reasons. I’ll explain some of them later in this article.

What fueled Asteria is power. They knew that if they could gather all those countries everyone are going to prosper, all the members, especially if they manage to divide the other side and make sure no opposition will be strong enough to fight them off. When the game became more pay2win than ever they didn’t had to pay. They’ve been recieving enough money with their taxes due to strong bonuses. It was a simple as that. Asteria just needed Godfathers, people who will have enough brain to make all of this happen.




Divide et Impera


Divide and rule. It should be Asterian moto. Greece was a crucial member of Asteria to ensure they can keep their dominance and rule the world. Even though today Greece and Hungary aren’t Asteria members anymore both of them are still working only in interest of their ex alliance. So, why Greece was a crucial?

After EDEN falled apart Greece has decided to leave Croatia and join Serbia. That caused some strong rejection from smaller part of Greek citizens. They’ve organised themselves in “Terrorists”. MU’s which won’t follow their country Prio’s if those are set against their previous allies - Croatia and Turkey. Of course, Terrorists won many sympathies in Croatia and Turkey mostly, they kept fighting for those two countries and those two countries heavily appreciated it. This might sounds like a problem to Asteria? But it isn’t. Smart people see problems only as something which could be used for something better and that’s exactly what Asteria did. They used the fact that Croats and Greeks won’t fight against each others and made whole opposition divided with Greek attacks on Macedonia. While Croats tried to repay the favour to ‘Terrorists’ by fighting for Greece official eGreek Government did all they can to play in Asteria interests. It meant that Croatia and Turkey will directly fight for Asteria interests against Bulgaria and Macedonia. It all meant that any form of antiAsteria alliance will be impossible as long as Greece is seen as a friend in countries like Turkey and Croatia, even USA back then too.

Croatia and Turkey has never realised that they are playing in interest of Asteria, while Asteria could just smile and watch their plan being successful. Even more successful than they expected. I don’t think that they actually expected Croatia and Turkey to keep fighting for Greece for over two years. It’s something no one has expected. It was something which blocked all possible alliances. If you put exSirius and exAurora in the one alliance you will have an alliance stronger than Asteria, so Asteria had to make sure that doesn’t happen. They did it over Greece, a country which could do whatever they want. Of course that it bothered Asteria to hit against strong Greek MU’s, but this damage isn’t enough to restore the balance and more important, eGreece has never done something against Asterian interests. They’ve never proposed some proAsteria country as NE. Greece was a key. Greece still is the key. Divided eGreece is the biggest win Asteria could have. Official Greece on their side, unofficial Greece keeping their enemies divided.




Anti Asteria


Is there Anti Asteria? Of course there is and sad part is that it’s stronger than Asteria itself. It’s just naive and too stubborn to open their eyes and see the eWorld as it really is. When Sirius has been founded they didn’t want to accept Bulgaria and Macedonia as full members. Chile didn’t want to leave ther BG&MKD allies and lots of others has followed their steps. It was Sirius who made a crucial mistake and divide the whole opposition. Sirius was weaker than Asteria alone even though they had countries such as USA and Poland in their rows. Sadly, they didn’t saw the need to unite with other Anti Asteria countries. This other part organised themselves under Aurora. It was ‘3rd alliance’ which fought bravely against all Asteria countries. Even Sirius enjoyed it, because they didn’t had to do some huge fights and they actually enjoyed some bonuses. But guess what, it was all false. Asteria didn’t want to change the situation, so they didn’t even tried hard against Sirius, they wanted Sirius members to be at least content with the situation and Aurora was too weak to fight alone.

There were some movements to merge Aurora and Sirius, but when eGreece comes as a topic it would all fall apart. Sirius never seen Greece as enemy, and since Macedonia was Aurora member eGreece was the biggest enemy of Aurora. It’s a win-win situation for Asteria. It’s the situation they used perfectly to organise themselves even better. Imagine if Aurora and Sirius could see things as they were, imagine if they worked together...would Asteria celebrate their second birthday these days? I don’t think so! Another question which comes to my mind. If eGreek ‘Terrorists’ truly was against Asteria, why wouldn’t they understand the need to unite all anti Asteria countries? Why would they expect Croatia and Turkey to stay aside and keep neutrality towards Greece? Those are the questions I’ll probably never know answers on.




End of Aurius


With all these issues between Anti Asteria countries they’ve started to hate eachothers more and more. Aurora blamed Sirius for not helping them, while Sirius falled apart from the inside when USA and Poland decided to leave the alliance. Bulgaria and Macedonia knew they can’t count on Sirius help. Chile on the other hand had full support of Sirius, so they were the Aurorian fighting country, they made so much success just because they were supported by all the Anti Asteria countries, including Turkey, Croatia, Bulgaria, Spain and Macedonia. Chile is an example that Asteria can be beaten, they had many successful campaigns and interesting battles.

Since Aurora falled apart and to this day there’s a lot of Anti Asteria sides who still keep Asterian MPP’s. Bulgaria has Slovenian and Iranian. Croatia has Greek. Turkey had Greek. Those MPP’s are there either to protect those countries since they strenght isn’t enough to defend themselves alone, or it’s there to keep Asteria away from their original regions. Either way, Croatia had the worst situation of all with Serbia on their border and no real support from anyone except Chile, Turkey and few other ‘small’ countries with big hearts. Bulgaria and Macedonia was wiped for a long period of time before accepting some help from Hungary, Iran and other proAsterian countries.


Is there hope?


I’ll never understand some things, one of those things is that most of Anti Asteria countries are still too stubborn and proud to do what was easy for Asteria in Hun-Ro case. Asteria dealed with their issues, they motivated their members with bonuses and stronger alliance while Anti Asteria side was never able to do so. Asteria had smarter leaders, visioners who knew what’s going to happen if they fix their issues. Everyone on Anti Asteria side knows that if we overcome differencies between each others we can beat Asteria. After so many years of being beaten, we can beat them, we really can. But there’s no one brave enough to lead this movement. It has to be someone special, someone like zdlemmy, or Morrpheus to take charge of it and lead people to the victory. Citizens of Bulgaria, Macedonia, Croatia, Chile and Turkey have to open their eyes and see the real issue if they want balance back in the game. If people don’t push their Governments to do such steps it will never happen just like it never did happen until now.

I understand Croatia and Turkey for helping Greece, I don’t understand citizens of those countries being so stubborn to realise that is a wrong thing to do. I understand Bulgarian and Macedonians when they don’t want to support Croatia because Croatia kept its loyalty to Greece. I don’t understand them being so stubborn to keep this hate.

Either we’re going to open our eyes, do something smart for a change and restore the balance to the game or we’re going tp keep fighting Asteria while being in the lands far away and have a chance for TP only if we open some RW’s. Game could be so much funnier and interesting for everyone, if only there’s enough brain and less stubborness. So, happy birthday Asteria, we made you successful!

Can someone change it? I never lose my hope. So yes, there is a hope. Don’t let Asteria keep dividing their enemies.




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Don Croata