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Alliance Spotlight: Dutch Warlords

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Today we have a special feature Q&A with the leader of the Dutch Warlords, The Destrayer! His Alliance recently won the banner contest due to the great job by one of their members. So without further ado, let’s get into it!

Seraphine: Congrats for having the very first Alliance win! How about you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Destrayer: I am 38 years old and I am living in the Netherlands. I am married and have two kids. I love the strategy games, especially DomiNations!

S: When did you first start playing DomiNations and what drew you to the game?
D: The game had just launched in the App Store when I downloaded it. I think it was November 2014. Like I said I love strategy games. I often check the App Store to see if there is a new strategy game. I have downloaded lots. But when I don’t like the game, I uninstall it. That’s mostly the case, but with DomiNations I was hooked from the beginning. I like the idea to go from the Dawn Age to the Space Age.

S: Many players have strong reasons why they play as a specific nation, which nation do you play as and why?
D: I first chose the Roman nation, but a few months ago I took a revolution to the French nation. The reason I did this is because of the shorter training time, the bigger allied army size in the alliance gate and the stronger tanks. The shorter training time combined with a training blessing provide you an almost instant army.

S: What was your inspiration to start the Dutch Warlords Alliance?
D: Ok nice question, long story. Here it comes, the history of Dutch Warlords!
I think it was January or February 2015. I knew a few fanatic gamers like me. We met each other in other games and we found out that we all played DomiNations. One of us started Dutch Warlords. Because we were experienced gamers the alliance was a success from the start. Soon, after a few weeks, we attracted a lot of Dutch top players and the alliance seemed to be too small. So we made a Dutch Warlords2. Meanwhile our former leader unfortunately had some private problems, so he had to demote himself to (honorary) council. From that moment on I have been the leader of Dutch Warlords. In the meantime we have grown into six alliances. Besides the main group Dutch Warlords, we have (at this moment) Dutch Warlords2 up until Dutch Warlords6. Our alliances are classified by strength (level, age, walls, troops, medals, experience..etc.). You can say that we are highly organized. We have contact with each other through the chat app "Line". There we have different channels to communicate. I want to emphasize that although I am the leader, Dutch Warlords became as successful as it is right now due to all the great players and their involvement. That makes being a leader very easy. The winning of this banner contest for example was really a team effort.
S: Wow that is quite the story! It’s great to learn about such a strong Alliance.

S: Do the Dutch Warlords have a special battlecry before taking on opponents?
D: Samen sterk!! (Together Strong)
S: Love it!

S: How many World Wars has your Alliance participated in?
D: Three. Currently we are in our fourth. It is hard to find an opponent because we are a global top 10 alliance. For our current opponent we have waited more than 48 hours. That’s way too long.

S: Do you hope to increase your member count after winning the Banner Contest? Or if you’re already at cap, is your Alliance enjoying the current spotlight the win has brought?
D: Increase our members??? Oops…then we have to open a few more alliances. But that’s no problem we can handle that. Been there, done that ;-) But we have a policy that we only allow Dutch speaking players. They are all welcome!

S: What is your favorite feature of World War, or DomiNations in general?
D: The fight between two alliances is a great feature in general. It’s fun to organize the war strategically, to battle together to destroy the enemy and of course to win the war! That strengthens the bond with each other even more.

S: Where do you think DomiNations could improve?
D: I think there are a few important improvements that we would like to see. First of all the medal system. When you are a high ranked player, it's a big struggle to gain medals. That's because you can only win 1 medal even when you get a five star victory. On the other hand you can lose up to 39 medals with one defeat. We can all understand that this system is disproportional and very frustrating. Another medal system would improve the game very much. So my exact answer on the question would be: "Implement a new medal system".

Besides that a big improvement will be to ban the obvious cheaters quicker. It has happened multiple times that the same cheater was reported by a lot of players. Weeks or even months after that, that cheater is still in the game and that frustrates all the players. Some of the cheaters even manage to reach the global top 20.

A good working chat is the last improvement I want to mention.

S: Any parting thoughts before we wrap this up?
D: We (Dutch Warlords) want to suggest the following things:

For the World War feature:
- World War Ranking.
- World War Tournament with a knock-out phase.
- World War Season.
- Add the possibility to watch the war battles live.
- Add the option to watch the battle afterwards.

Medal system:
- Add two more stars to the five that are there already (one star for defeating an opponent with more medals and one star for defeating an opponent that has a higher level). So you get a total of 7 stars.
- Every star is worth a medal, so you cannot lose or win more than 7 medals at once.
This will make attacking more fun and rewarding. Also you will not be rewarded with a -8 to -39 for your Hours of hard work.

In general:
- Reduce the tactics training time.
- Fix the forced closes. So defense will be more rewarding.
- Fix the bugs before launching the Global Age! Quality first!
S: Thanks so much for the suggestions from yourself and the rest of your Alliance! I’ll make sure these are passed onto the team. It was great to learn a bit more about yourself and the Dutch Warlords!
Keep your eyes out for more chances to have a special Alliance spotlight in future contests.
 

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Congrats Dutch Warlords5! You all sound to be a very solid alliance.... and you will need to be. When you see the eye shine in the surrounding woods on the battle field you will know your being hunted and it may be too late to retreat. Enjoy the win and play on. :cool:
 
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Good on you, Dutch Warlords, for using this opportunity to reach out to Dev's with the many issues the game has. If they ignore it this time, it will be because they wanted to. Also, congratulations on winning the banner contest.
 

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Congratulations Dutch Warlords! Cool banner! Thanks for representing other honest alliances dedicated to seeing this game succeed by voicing all our concerns and wishes for the game. Well done!
 

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Congratulations! Thank you for using this opportunity to highlight the most important game improvements. Many great ideas there.
 

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D: We (Dutch Warlords) want to suggest the following things:

For the World War feature:
- World War Ranking.
- World War Tournament with a knock-out phase.
- World War Season.
- Add the possibility to watch the war battles live.
- Add the option to watch the battle afterwards.

Medal system:
- Add two more stars to the five that are there already (one star for defeating an opponent with more medals and one star for defeating an opponent that has a higher level). So you get a total of 7 stars.
- Every star is worth a medal, so you cannot lose or win more than 7 medals at once.
This will make attacking more fun and rewarding. Also you will not be rewarded with a -8 to -39 for your Hours of hard work.

In general:
- Reduce the tactics training time.
- Fix the forced closes. So defense will be more rewarding.
- Fix the bugs before launching the Global Age! Quality first!

I think these are great suggestions! I would like to add that I think it would be fun to also have some of the following:

- A special one time use troop reward for players who use both attacks
- Multi alliance battles where alliances can form allegiances of possibly 3v3 for greater scale battles.
- Increased maximum alliance member limit to a certain amount of players based on an alliance level that gets increased with donations of resources to the alliance feature.
- Refresh chat option and move the text box button farther away from the alliance "?" button to avoid selecting the wrong button.
 
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