Goodnames679

goodnames679 is a prominent Citieswar player who started on January 14th, 2019 (player ID 1167) in the Canada region. He played in the Americas for a time, before migrating to the East Asia region and remaining there for the rest of his Citieswar career. In May 2021, he reached level 20 and the Lord title.

**2019**

In 2019, goodnames679 was one of the first members of New World Order (one of the only alliances to exist at the time). Only one other player in the alliance, Uriel, was exceptionally active at the time as the game was mostly in its earliest stages at this point with a handful of active players. goodnames, having come from a history playing Cybernations and Politics and War, started looking for ways to make efficient plays and move NWO towards the top. He recruited, did the first cost-benefit breakdowns of the early units, and started moving NWO players towards China where the populations were significantly higher and there was high gold income. goodnames also became a subreddit moderator at this time and set up the first citieswar Discord.

All this paid off when NWO took the top spot and built a strong core group of players - goodnames679 (also Riot, Round1, and WorldCoalition), Uriel, AwfulWaffle, and Famzness (also WuWarrior) were the most active 4 at this period, and as the game explicitly allowed multiple accounts at the time these players were able to hold many of the world's top cities between them. In February goodnames ended up moving into the leadership role, as Uriel took a step back but continued playing as a member.

In April 2019, goodnames retired from the game but continued to monitor the subreddit as a moderator from time to time.

**2020**

In August 2020, the day after TR was attacked, goodnames679 returned to citieswar after seeing all of the subreddit drama surrounding the attack and satellites. He joined Sakura - partially for geographical reasons, partially for the sake of being an anime nerd and wanting to play with the Japan alliance. Tensions in the world were high at this point, and while goodnames built a decent stockpile of units off of conqueror rewards, he began to primarily focus his attention on boosting Sakura's top defense armies to 100% defense. Gem boosting steel and rare to their maximum and selling nearly 100% of his daily resource income, he maxed nearly 2 armies per day for over a month and prepared Sakura for its upcoming war with 5 alliances. During this time period, goodnames also launched Sakura Radio, a Discord based radio station for The Sakura Pact.

During the fighting with TBS, goodnames skirmished in China but reserved one large offense army and one max defense for an important target. When Tokyo was felled and blocking Sakura territory at the tail end of the fighting, he retook it and became the owner of Tokyo until the NWO split. Immediately following the TBS war, goodnames became part of Sakura's Imperial Council.

In November 2020, goodnames raised the topic of there being spam issues in world chat, and when willy took action and created the moderation team he was one of the first group appointed to moderate the game.

**2021**

In January 2021, during World War III between TR / Sakura / Albion / Hispania / UER and UN / AM / NSTC, goodnames served as Sakura's head of Defense and organized / took part in a lot of the fighting. Following the war, as the world headed towards more smaller alliances, goodnames679 was chosen to lead Sakura's new division in China - and used the opportunity to revive New World Order. NWO was a top 3 alliance for the duration of its existence, from January 24th 2021 until April 2021, when Sakura and NWO recombined to keep activity levels high.

**2022**

Goodnames currently continues to work as a council member of Sakura.

But later sadly, he left the game before 2023 and everyone showed the respect for him by changing the flag of alliances.