Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I made my account almost 10 years and 1 month ago. (Weirdly enough, I was 100% sure I made it in December 2014, not 2015, but I guess I was wrong.) I was 20 then. Initially my name was "Nitrobulgarine", then I changed it a few more times before settling on the current one.

I found Warlight after I was bored and did a short search for a "game about conquering territories on real-world maps" or something along those lines. Finding such a game was my dream - and find it I did, soon afterwards! Enormous thanks to Fizzer for creating it!

I was quite active initially, pretty much obsessed, both in standard fight games and in diplos. (Nothing like players like linguitariste, of course. How can you play 327,565 games in less than 4 years?! And the dude is in over 1000 multi-day games right now. Crazy.) Studied in university then and had lots of free time. Gradually my activity waned and after like 2020-2021, I pretty much abandoned Warzone (then already renamed, I think). Decided to return to active playing in early November last year, and I'm not regretting it, though for now my success has been moderate. Okay... maybe "moderate" would be an overstatement, lol. But I'm willing to improve my playing and learn new strategies. Not sure if I will join a clan, but I'm open to it generally. Also, I have 0 or almost 0 experience with ladders and tournaments. Usually just join games available on the dashboard. Have created my own games, but not too often.

So, on the topic. The biggest factor for my continuous engagement with Warzone is my geekiness about geography and geopolitics, and a bit less about history. (I play on non-real world maps extremely rarely.) Combined with the thrill of conquering and overpowering opponents, as well as joining efforts in teams... essentially, I found my dream game and I can't, y'know, leave it forever like this! Even just exploring the maps is so awesome for me. Kudos to their creators! I would make maps, too, and I already have great ideas about maps, so provided I find the time to explore the needed software and make the map divisions precise and beautiful, I'll get down to it.

Also, I'm one of relatively few (I think) Bulgarian players and feel the need to represent my country here.

I'm not that much into the community yet. Seems like there are both great people and dicks. As everywhere, duh. Have made some closer game acquaintances, but nothing too deep for now.

Still remember how naive and emotional I was in my first diplo at level 9 :D

Greetings to all! Hope I can get to know you better!

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I joined warlight for the game. Kept playing for the game. Still continue here for the game.

5 or 10 years? Noobs.

To answer the question what keeps one around for 15 years:
Addiction.

"What I like best about this game is that it's strategic like chess but also different in that it doesn't overly require memorization to excel."

Resonates with me the most. I like playing it as a daily exercise for my small brain.

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Made my account in 2014 and played for a while. Picked it back up again in 2018 when an irl Friend tried to tell me about the game like I didn't already know what it was and we played a lot together until about 2020. I picked it back up most recently about a year ago.

Each time I burn out it's because I had too many games and too much life going on at once. Each time I pick it back up I remember the joys of winning a 1v1, and somehow beating the odds in a large FFA.

Been here since 2013 and began playing when I was 11 years old. I joined originally since I enjoyed risk and other strategic board games like it. I have stayed so long because it not only still fulfills that itch but I also have met a lot of awesome people while playing and I still overall enjoy popping up and checking into said communities from time to time.

Also addiction, lol... (:

Been here since 2016, don't remember how i found it but i must have been searching up conquering games, as i found call of war during this era too. I love diplos and FFAs, it's like creating your own story on a map. I come back on and off, and as much as i love diplos i don't last beyond 30 turns i believe looking at my track record. Many diplos are just too taxing or too complicated for a simple web game which is what i like to play it as.

10 years has gone by slowly and so fast at the same time. I miss 2016 :(

this account is the #1 for the name "alababi", was registered in 2011.

I made two very good friends on this game and we played for years, sadly a few years back we lost one of our friends to cancer, i wish he was still here to play this, his name name was Stone, so now its just me and hex, we have found a few other regulars which makes this game fun, though you always get one if you know what i mean lol.