Hyperhero2

A trusted N.S.T.C co leader, Hyperhero2 single handedly maintained N.S.T.C's foothold in Australia until he was overwhelmed by the other alliances. Hyperhero2 was a lone wolf before joining N.S.T.C, until H.\_Stickmin\_Esq and Kihtrak216 convinced him to join the N.S.T.C. In the end, he decided that it was a right choice and has remained with the alliance ever since, not once considering to leave even when splinter alliances formed.

Hyperhero2 was promoted to co-leader after the attacking territories of The Resistance in Australia, pushing them out of Australia for around 2 weeks before it was taken back.

Before the Drewsade, they won the lottery five times in 10 draws, with a streak of three-in-a-row.

The first time I stumbled upon this game was from a reddit ad, talking about this new game called CitiesWar. Until then, I had usually got ads I just straight out ignored because they were for things I never would have used. This was different though. I like playing games, and this new game that seemed exciting to me was pretty good. So, I joined in the beginning of March 2020, and found a nice game, if not a little empty. There were no satellites, army boosts or evaluations. I was even there before the levelling system and alliance roles (Captain, General etc.). New Zealand was my starting point, and the first place I took was my hometown with about 50 m16 rifles on the 16th of March 2020. At the time New Zealand only had 8 cities (Invercargill, Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Napier-Hastings, Tauranga, Hamilton and Auckland) compared to the 28 cities it has today. When I took it, I realised “maybe I’ll enjoy this game”.

Over the next few days I continued to build resources and took a few more cities using only basic troops, because I didn’t know that some troops were much better than others. About three days into me playing, I received a DM from Sir Nils Olav, asking me to join N.S.T.C., one of the top 3 alliances of that time. At first, I refused, because I wanted to take it on my own and create my own alliance. I invited a few friends to the game and they really enjoyed it too, so I thought we could make an alliance together and hold all of New Zealand. The next day, H. Stickmin Esq. sent me a DM, asking me to reconsider and join N.S.T.C. with him. They needed people in Oceania, and I just so happened to be a person who was there. I joined the alliance and began taking cities in both Australia and New Zealand. I think my proudest point during this time was holding Perth for a month before JoseyXIII took it. The main people I had to worry about then were The Resistance, United Nations, The Beliebers (haha) and The Black Sun. Over this time, new cities were beginning to be added to Australia and New Zealand, and I thought it would be a good thing to get those. So I did. Once, I held 7 cities in New Zealand and my friend UnstoppablePhoenix (who now no longer plays the game) held almost all of the rest. The only other person I really had to deal with was meiswys, who helped me to farm some places for attack and defence %. On the 14th of May 2020, coincidentally around the same time alliance territory resources were introduced, N.S.T.C started planning for a big war, and I was involved in it. At this time, me, along with a few N.S.T.C. players were driven out of Australia by The Black Sun and V. They built a territory basically covering the entirety of Australia and New Zealand, and we wanted to get rid of that. My goal in that attack was to clear ImmaStealYourWives’s cities in Northern Australia and Alice Springs, and hope that this multi-pronged attack significantly reduced their defences. Well, safe to say it did work. We had a territory in Australia that stretched all the way to McMurdo Station.

However, all good things must come to an end, and sometimes, it take a while. The first sign of attack was Darcy1234, who was in this new alliance called The Overseers. It seemed at the time that they were teaming up with JoseyXIII, as he would attack, and suddenly an Overseers person would be in that city. I even wrote a huge thing in our discord about how losing all of these cities pretty quickly was disheartening. Then came along something pretty cool: the CitiesWar lottery. Suddenly, there was an easier way to get gems, and all you had to do was wager 10 for the chance to win up to 120. I had the privilege of winning 7 times in the first 45 draws, including one point where I won 5 times in the span of 7 days. At the time of the 68th draw, the prize was 126 gems. This all changed rapidly almost overnight with an event I like to call “The Drew Durnil Invasion”.

I had only learnt about this after the fact, but Drew Durnil made a video about CitiesWar, and suddenly there was a whole heap of players joining, almost too quickly. They formed alliances called Drewsaders 1, 2, 3 and 4 due to how many people were joining, and just overall you could see a giant wave of yellow “(name) has joined the game)”. A message you posted in world chat would be gone in 5 minutes. The first lottery draw that day had 420 gems won (700 total). The day after that it ballooned to 624 gems won (1040 total). Up until the end of the lottery tracking spreadsheet I had, the amount of gems won never dipped below 160. This was also around the time that the multi-accounting was getting out of hand, and as such the ip block was implemented. Because of this, I was unable to log in for a couple of days due to it thinking I was using a multi-account, and that was the end of the CitiesWar lottery spreadsheet.

It was also the end of a big drive for me. I would log in everyday to check up on troops and see what was happening, but me being locked out really crushed that drive. Ever since then, I've played CitiesWar less and less. Alliances rise and fall, but so do the players. People I’ve seen a lot on the game disappeared and left, and soon, I might be one of them. I still try and keep it alive with two servers: the (un)official CitiesWar server, which I help to moderate, and our N.S.T.C. alliance server. I don’t talk a lot on them, and those will be left eventually. I hope that even when i’m gone, my legacy will still live on with the older players: me winning the lottery many times in a row, the absurdly large country I have and random appearances in world chat. H Stickmin Esq., thanks for introducing me to your alliance and keeping me engaged with conversations about things like how our countries were doing with COVID. Christian, thanks for also asking me to join. I don’t think my experience would have been nearly as enjoyable without you two. Also thanks to TubularTOUCAN, The Eye, Pakistan, SoloRoo, BakaBento and any others who helped me to enjoy this wonderful game.

But, as time goes on, I've started to get back into the game a little more. Not as much as I have used to, but there is still progress being made every day. New Civilizations and Conquerors means that I can get back into the game and try and finish them while at the same time supporting my fellow alliancemates and the new players that join.

Have a good one,

Hyperhero2

*Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.*

* The Dalai Lama