FARMERS ANONYMOUS (12 Step Program)

This is a safe haven for those like myself who are addicted to farming. Feel free to share your stories and remember. You are not alone. You CAN fight this because we all stand together!

To ease the tension, I will start things off.


My name is Cyn, and I'm a farmaholic.

My story begins like many KaW stories begin. Innocence. Watching my kingdom grow. Excited to add new buildings and complete all my quests. Where did it all go so wrong?

My story begins back in 2010. I was a noob. Clans and system wars freshly created. OSF's were the closest thing to an EB you could have. And you had to wait for those players to declare 'open'. I made friends, I worked my way up through the ranks of my first clan xXPsYcH0S1S_C0nC3P7Xx and made admin. My pure forges with a single guild for plunder boost couldn't be stopped. But I had a secret. I didn't always respect the 5 hit max rule. For weeks and possibly even months I justified my addiction to the owners Chad and Truz. In any way that I could so I wouldn't have to stop. I eventually made my way through the ranks and into the main clan xXPsYcH0S1S_3xP3R1m3N7Xx where I was met by grizzled LCBC players who kept calling me cyndie and made me the butt of almost every noob joke in the books. I was at home. I felt even safer continuing to feed my addiction to farming. But I was never satisfied, no matter how many battle victories, my bloodlust could not be sated.

But then something wonderful happened. Ahdragos (RIP), wrote the thread that changed my KaWreer. "A Line in the Sand". Declaring war on the superpower alliance of ZAFT and iG. My clan was part of the large coalition of smaller clans who decided to take a stand against the tyranny of those superpowers. Finally, I had a free pass to farm anyone I pleased. I was in heaven. I was able to LCBC off the blood of my enemies. I didn't sleep much. I would get calls and texts warning me of strips so I could get up and pin myself on quests and purchase more allies. Until I decided I couldn't hide this anymore. I didn't need to! I needed to accept the path laid in front of me. Next strip attempt I was ready. I pinned myself as they bought my allies. And I had a whopping 50b at my disposal. I began tearing down my subterranean factories to replace them with guilds. My conversion to pure spy was in place. I would no longer need allies. I would no longer need to explain vast amounts of hits, because you cannot catch what you cannot see.

The war drums droned on and on. Neither side seemed to be gaining any ground. More and more players were converting to pure spy. More and more funds were lost to strips. There were threads made predicting the outcome. Corinthian (mod at the time) himself hypothesized this has the potential to be never ending. More and more people would just convert to pure spy and KaW would be filled with 324k/324k spy builds. The war eventually came to an end. But it was too late. My world had been exposed to the most fun and intriguing way to play KaW. I continued to farm whoever I could find and sharing the money for the remaining attack build in my clan my opening myself in cc.

Then, something terrible happened. With so many OSF builds around it was only a matter of time. The war system could be exploited. Pwars were born. I clashed with my fellow clan mates insisting that farming and osw was the true nature of KaW and eventually parted ways to start my own clan to fight against this change in KaW. I created multiple alts across my many devices. Made them all pure spy. Recruited some like minded players and got to work. The clan Sympathy Ends was born! It couldn't have been easier. Spy pinning OSFs during pwars thanks to those beautifully posted ads on WC. We would stop this madness! But it didn't matter how many OSFs we pinned and how many wars we got ourselves into. Pwars kept going and eventually, we bit off more than we could chew. The clan True Spartans had had enough of our antics. We were under the heaviest fire I had ever felt. 20vs100 is hardly a fair fight, but when you threaten someone's coin purse, don't expect good treatment.

The clan began to wither as did my spirit. Pwars continued to gain popularity and I felt like my work had been in vain. I would never be able to play how I wanted to again. And so I quit. I gave up the game around the time t4 buildings were released to stem the pwar growth demand. I always came back to check my account every month or so. Just to see if the pwar fad would die, it sadly didn't. KaW didn't seem to enjoy fighting targets that could fight back anymore and so I took out my rage on WC every time I had full speakers. Players needed to wake up and understand this is not the game that is used to be.

Eventually, the pwar exploit was fixed and EBs were born. This was NOT what I had in mind when the devs promised a solution. But business is business and money is money. I continued my WC rants with increased fervor.

Then something else incredibly wonderful happened that further shaped my KaWreer. A player with an odd name walled me. His name was Poo, surrounded by a barcode and tagged with the letters: "ISS". He liked my style. He wanted me to join his clan because they still held true to the old ways. How could I say no? I joined and was immediately at home. I jumped right into the middle of an osw. I was advised to and converted my pure spy build to hansel to be more versatile and grow at the same time I destroyed people. EBs at ISS were rarely completed and only used to pin your troops on.

It was war after war, ISS was the most lethal clan out there, with deep pockets that could clear hundreds of billions in allies every few nights. But eventually, my ways would again be my downfall. My mouth would only serve to get not only myself into impossible predicaments, but my friends as well.

Another thread was made. The alliance Apocalypse was born. And there I saw them. True Spartans. I could have let bygones be bygones but in my own pride I didn't. I trolled them and got myself farmed and my new home threatened. I was disciplined. And I eventually saw the error of my ways. The osw's with ISS continued to flood in and quench my thirst for war. We allies ourselves with a like minded clan Sic Noc and and eventually SicNiSS was born. But I would not enjoy it for long. My mouth continued to cause more problems for those I was friends and allies with. My presence on forums only stirred the pot. I was eventually stripped of my tags and admin status to protect the interests of the new alliance. Neither side held a grudge and I remained good friends with all those I fought with in war after war.

I tried my hand at running a clan once more. INTeRNaTioNaL MaSSaCRe aka InterMass was born! I started small. Recruiting small accounts and teaching them how to fight before they were sucked into the whirlpool of EBs. I used my knowledge gained from ISS to create my own banks and stripped billions after billions and relished in the slaughter. With the help of LaLa, an old friend from the sub clan of ISS, ADHD, we founded the 'Valentine's Day Massacre' farming event. I knew that out there, people were tired of EBs only and no farming rules. We simply gave them a 24hr period to enjoy KaW as it was meant to be played.

But again, I was never satisfied. I attacked the rival clan Ad Mortem which stirred up controversy. Why would we attack a like minded clan. Why does Cyn have to prove to KaW how lethal he is. That seemed to be the beginning of the end. After a stalemate conflict, larger clans were targeted and eventually InterMass would begin to die off. I passed over ownership to Naomi and quit KaW yet again. I would come back every now and then but when I was perm silenced and perm forum banned that seemed to spell my retirement.

I never made a thread. I wanted to leave KaW how I entered. A shadow. Was it all worth it? Maybe. The right question to ask is: was it FUN? Hell yes. And if I did it all over again would I change anything? NO. Each step I took in my KaWreer led me to a new adventure. And looking back, it's been a hell of a ride.

So here I am, silences and bans lifted due to this nifty new statute of limitation rule. I am back. Trying to contain myself and grow again. Will I return to my self destructive ways? Who knows. One day at a time.

-Cyn


I have devised a 12 step program for us all to follow. In order for KaW to be a much more EB, EE, money grubbing event, anti-farming, non-bullying sanctuary.

The 12 Steps of FA:

1. We admit we were powerless to farming - that our KaWreers have become unmanageable.

2. Come to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Cyn as we understand Him and how pretty good He is.

4. Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admit to Cyn, to ourselves, the KaWmunity and to the Devs the exact nature of our wrong doings.

6. Be entirely ready to have Cyn remove all these defects of KaWracter.

7. Humbly ask Cyn to remove our shortcomings so that we too may be pretty good.

8. Make a list of all kingdoms we have farmed, and become willing to make amends to them all.

9. Make direct amends to such players wherever possible, except when to do so wouldn't be pretty good.

10. Continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong, promptly admit it to the KaWmunity and most importantly Cyn.

11. Seek through adoration and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Cyn as we understand Him, asking only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to be pretty good.

12. Have a spiritual KaWakening as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to farmaholics and to practice these principles in all our KaWffairs.

 

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It's the thought that counts though 

 

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Me too Yeti. Me too

 

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Oh snap. The grammar police have arrived. Apologies for the apostrophe. I didn't mean to injure your delicate sensibilities

 

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Nice snoopy. We are all noobs at one point. The only time I can say I was outgunned in a 1v1 was against Tornado. Dude just never ran out of xtals it seemed. Tried my best to time my attacks and strip him when I could but I only ever had a couple hours windows. And we eventually just tapered off and stopped everything. Went on for a few weeks at least. But that was a huge learning experience

 

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MAGOO! You're still around.