Dear all,

For anyone who may be interested: I am providing a link (not live of course, imagine that :P, just add an 'h' in the URL) to pt. 2 of the History of Resurrection of AMAB. It was primarily written as a document for AMAB's players to look back to, but may interest players of other teams as well, since it obviously also deals a bit with ML history in general and other (mostly 'elite') teams are mentioned as well. It is mostly about wars, but also shows how game fatigue could creep in with many, leading to almost the entire lead team making place for a new lead team recently.

If you don't like it just move along, there's nothing to see here.

ttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1lwKRXwk1pU76GtDnj_u5YPkLIPdWozQO/view?usp=sharing

Is Part 1 available somewhere?

@Carlos said in History of Resurrection of AMAB pt. 2:

Is Part 1 available somewhere?

Here it is:

ttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5XxTQqxGprOWEJkTGtoYnVOQ00/view?usp=sharing

Thank you. It has been a most entertaining read.

very interesting read....thanks

Yes great read and a very nice insight into what this game has created.
I wasn’t expecting Aus Rocks to get a mention.. but I see we are now historically documented along with the elites

Did the poor Vietnamese students get grounded by their parents for spending all their student loan money on ML?

@testcyp no, they're busy concentrating on getting their degrees...some are still playing ML

@testcyp Most of them were, and still are, F2P, as was the majority of AMAB in the early days.

Thanks Ekto Gamat, I commented on Part one, I will comment on Part two as well.

The team I was on could not survive the Lab. We merged/split. As I wrote in a comment to Part one: the only thing that made our new merged team survive (Fatal Assisins came from Sparta Coq+MobDeep) was (besides good teammates!) Fraternity Event. By focusing on Frat. event we - as many other teams - managed to concur our own sentiment and make it possible for us to level up some of the generals (in the beginning it was Thetys). That was the reason for our surprise win over Amab.

We also won over "Brute Force" - we where the last team to confront them when they blew up because of cheating. So in a matter of hours there where only one player left!

Back to the history of Amab. I think our win was a wake-up call for Amab. Amab has always had excellent players (knowledgeable and intelligent - that is how Amab could stay in the lead for so long).

Later we meet Amab was in a Water-C war. We where still focusing on getting generals leveled up, but Amab was prepared in other ways: Many used a water C and some used Caillech. Both was a surprise to some on my team: a C that could survive a water-blow and a L that could gain enough stamina to blow a 0 CD skill even after hit by Thetys Stamina Removal and actually kill a C.

That made the difference - and, so I believe - has always made the difference between Amab and many of the other teams.

That was also the difference making it interesting to meet Amab in war.

All top teams wanted to beat Amab - of course! But some players hated Amab. We even saw Amab being accused of being almost SP agents or somehow "bought" by SP! Is that a game that does so to players (competition that makes people blind) or is that just the result of the negative sentiments in Gods "preferred and superior beings - created in his image" (I hope a little sarcasm is in order here or I am toast!).

I am sorry you are not around for part 3 (or ???). We are again in a new crossroad. "Brute force" where back (I mean being hit by 30 Samaels) and relics made players stop. Once again my team did not survive (we where Rank 5 at the time). Players on different teams are - independent of each other - looking for other games the entire team can migrate to.

So in that sense - a part 3 could be interesting!

Thanks Ekto - and thanks to other Amab Players making contributions to the game and/or to these pages.

@Jorgen-Schultz thanks for your perspective.

One thing I believe is not entirely correct: Fatal Assassins beat 'Brute Force' shortly after they had reunited (months after the bans). They disbanded again after that, but not because of the cheating.

Minor thing: it was Sphyrrnus, not Caillech, that did the C killing.

@Jorgen-Schultz I'd be interested to know if any team has found another team based cross-platform game that provides entertainment and a good team environment!

@David-ML said in History of Resurrection of AMAB pt. 2:

@Jorgen-Schultz I'd be interested to know if any team has found another team based cross-platform game that provides entertainment and a good team environment!

Sorry - I have not seen anything posted yet. Problem is how to know!

@David-ML said in History of Resurrection of AMAB pt. 2:

@Jorgen-Schultz I'd be interested to know if any team has found another team based cross-platform game that provides entertainment and a good team environment!

Quite off topic, but:

I am currently trying out 'Dragon Soul', based on my wife's recommendations. Seems promising. From what I heard: even match ups, no resources squandered on elite wars, no timers on your attacks (just do them once a day), no introduction of OP 'heroes', end game only pushed away further slowly, different servers for old and new players, the ability to progress well as F2P, small monthly subscription fee if you want to get 'VIP' benefits, big compensations when they F up something.

Takes a while before you can enter a guild and even longer before you can play 'team wars' there. But then again, cannot do that immediately in ML either.

@Ekto-Gamat said in History of Resurrection of AMAB pt. 2:

@Jorgen-Schultz thanks for your perspective.

One thing I believe is not entirely correct: Fatal Assassins beat 'Brute Force' shortly after they had reunited (months after the bans). They disbanded again after that, but not because of the cheating.

Minor thing: it was Sphyrrnus, not Caillech, that did the C killing.

Well - you are the Historian: Sphyrrnus it was (Energized). I have forgotten because I no more use the monsters from that Era (!).

I did not know the team in mention managed to get 30 players again. The last two times we (FA) got them in the end of September (where they beat us) and 4 wars later where we (during preparation day) could not figure out what actually happened (Too Many Rumours), but when war-day came they where reduced to just one player - I think it was a way of keeping the team alive (although inactive).
Either way, my point being: We where not to happy about getting them again so shortly after our last defeat and then we literally saw the team disintegrating before our eyes. We only manage to beat them because of this - they did not make one single attack!

@Jorgen-Schultz Ah, right, that episode, lol.

This is why more team histories should exist. I had completely forgotten about it, obviously because I was in neither team (though I did see it from a distance).

@Ekto-Gamat I have been considering to write something about the history of AUSTRALIA ROCKS as I have been with this team pretty much from the beginning (joined as Lvl 22 player with my son and we were pretty much the two weakest players on the team back then ). It wouldn't be nearly as detailed as your account of AMAB, though....

.... oh and yes, Dragonsoul is one game I have looked at that holds some appeal. Looked at quite a few others, but found nothing enticing yet!

@Jorgen-Schultz Haha yes, I suspect that some teams will just disappear and won't necessarily announce where they are going. Just putting it out there that it would be nice to know if players have found something else....

@David-ML said in History of Resurrection of AMAB pt. 2:

@Ekto-Gamat I have been considering to write something about the history of AUSTRALIA ROCKS as I have been with this team pretty much from the beginning (joined as Lvl 22 player with my son and we were pretty much the two weakest players on the team back then ). It wouldn't be nearly as detailed as your account of AMAB, though....

Different team, different writer, so different kind of history. I would certainly read it.

With AMAB unfortunately disbanding I felt I had to add a final paragraph completely at the end of the history to make it complete (same link as above).