preMEDitated

I must admit that I can easily get hooked on to games. This is partly the reason why I no longer install games in my PC. They usually just eat my time away.
So it was an ambivalent time when I came across Tribal Wars. I didn’t install it. It’s online based. I originally planned to check on it twice a day, but it is now on all the time I’m online.

Tribal Wars is a text based, RPG cum Strategy game. Yet despite being only text-based, it has captured the liking of hundreds of thousands of people across the world. At any given time in all the worlds (at least 35 as of recent count) of Tribal Wars, villages are either growing stronger, or getting plummeted. Troops are marching off in victory or defending otherwise hopeless villages. Merchants are hauling off tons of clay, wood, and iron for trade to drive the economy of war.
Players join tribes, or are kicked off from them. Tribes make alliances with other tribes as easily as they break them. Diplomats broker negotiations. In short, the game is the focal point of the epic fantasies of thousands. Yet for all its features, the game to me is just one big “Lord of the Flies” scenario, wherein everything is right as long as it is supported by might.
I have to go cold turkey on this game soon. It has started to encroach on my real life plans. It’s now demanding my all. I must remind myself that this game doesn’t have an end, or even a redeeming value. Sacrificing my precious time for a 6000 point village, or villages, is pointless.

So in tribute to my disappearance on World 34 of Tribal Wars, here’s a pic of my village.
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