Cavebears *new thread*

[Leech]

Hello Bears. I will not be as active as i usually am this week. I will not meet the donation requirement. Should i leave the clan and rejoin later?

Hi MrSkip,

you can join the skybears. Mike is there.

SKAL!

[lycheebon]

Hello! This is Quasi. I'm posting here to inform and seek permission from my dear elder bears that I wish to travel to a friend's clan for a visit.

I have met my 200/wk for this week and I will return coming Monday.

Please let me know if its ok. Thank you!

QH

[Tanys]

Greetings Bears, a heads up that I will be away for a few weeks and mostly out of internet range for that time. Should be leaving later this week. I will wander off to SkyBears for the duration, but will not be taking my sleeping furs with me as I wish to return and not lose my favorite sleeping spot. I should warn you that I have booby trapped them, so no funny business! (Who am I kidding?)

Eat hearty, drink merry and may Thor show no mercy to those you raid. (Oh, and can someone feed the cat while I'm gone? Thanks)

HAIL MIGHTY CAVEBEARS

[FarticusSparticus]

Hey guys I'm thinking about joining im lvl 27 with 885 trophies and read through the rules. My IGN(in game name) is Sparticus. Im currently in a another clan so I'm iffy about joining, can you tell me a little more? You guys seem really dedicated so that a +1. I also have 2500 gem and 5 builders if that means anything.

Keep on pillaging/drinking mead/chucking people off cliffs with pillows/talking about axe throwing,
Farticus Sparticus

[Cavebears]

Hey guys I'm thinking about joining im lvl 27 with 885 trophies and read through the rules. My IGN(in game name) is Sparticus. Im currently in a another clan so I'm iffy about joining, can you tell me a little more? You guys seem really dedicated so that a +1. I also have 2500 gem and 5 builders if that means anything.

Keep on pillaging/drinking mead/chucking people off cliffs with pillows/talking about axe throwing,
Farticus Sparticus

We are Vikings. We steal and pillage and invade and fight each other in bloody bar-room brawls, plus we throw people off cliffs. What more do you need to know?

You have applied on the Cavebear thread. They may well not be accepting new members because they are nearly full. Try to join anyway, but you may be asked to join Riverbears or Icebears (sister clans)

mike$ (skybears)

[mayana70]

Fellow bears!

Most of us have decided to serve THOR by "collecting" resources as fast as possible and thereby growing
our strength as fast as possible. We are not overly distracted by the false charms of high trophy count
and the misleading perception of stength that it creats amongst those weak in imagination.
(Most of us would likely have kicked Jorge Yao from his thrown if we had time for such nonsense or at least saw sufficient
return-on-invest ... I for example was just busy lately...Players whose name ends in "...The Great" might see that differntly)

However, we position ourselves in a "trophy range" that allows us to be matched with prey that offers us
a good "return on invest" in terms of resources available to us versus the amount of elix that we need to
deploy to the battlefield.

The cost of our armies is largely depending on the level of troops that our baracks produce and hence it is
observable that in parallel with our own personal evolution we need to attack prey that has a higher offering
in resources (often we assume a full wipe-out of the enemy, but sometimes sufficient resources in outer
collectors is just as good). Consequently there is a tendency that high level farmers choose higher level hunting grounds.
I for example am level 65 with lvl5 giant, brb, arch, wiz lvl 2 healer and my choice was 1300-1400.

The choices we make are mostly based on own experience and reports by fellow bears, about where we
can expect what kind of prey population.
I say that we can throw that historic knowledge over board, because our prey has changed their behaviour.
Most astonishingly our prey also follows some weird thought process to choose themselves a trophy range.
My hypothesis is that the new league system has created incentives for our prey to move up in trophies.
(arguably not much has materially changed, because the incremental gain in "league bonus" is low compared to the base loot,
but relevant for this argument is the prevailing interpretation of the situation amongst our prey)
Unfortunately I have no mathematical evidence.
My guess is that around 1200 trophies everyone is moving up by 100-200 cups.
... and consequently we would need to follow.

Any opinion on that?

C U Mayana
(chief advisor on axe throwing physics)

P.S. There is nothing wrong with seeking the fun in this game by trying to achieve maximum trophys
... this article is adressed to those that do not seek fun that way (probably "do not seek fun that way yet")

[Cavebears]

Fellow bears!

My guess is that around 1200 trophies everyone is moving up by 100-200 cups.
... and consequently we would need to follow.

Any opinion on that?

C U Mayana
(chief advisor on axe throwing physics)

I would advance the theory that Thor is testing us. The fact that these disgusting little scrubs are attempting to raise their trophy counts in order to gain a pitiful few extra shiny tokens and raspberry bubbles is nothing less than a way of Thor seeing if us Vikings are still sufficiently barbaric.

So the scrubs raise their trophy counts? What should we do?

BY THE GODS I WILL TELL YOU WHAT WE WILL DO!

IN THE NAME OF THOR! WE SHOULD DESTROY ALL THOSE WHO DARE TO RAISE THEIR TROPHY COUNTS WITHOUT OUR EXPRESS PERMISSION!

The revelation has come to me. As if by the direct voice of Thor Himself. It is our divine duty to lower the trophy counts of these scrubs, back down to more respectable levels (i.e. far below us).

Let us go forth, Viking Bears! Let us carry out our sacred work! Let us pilliage and steal and maim and burn, kill and loot! And so thus claim our undisputed right to be called barbaric!

...anyway, thats I how I see it. Yes, I know my theory lacks any empirical evidence, and certainly any experimentation with a control will be problematic. But who can doubt the word of Thor?

[FarticusSparticus]

Hello fellow cave bears i was kicked not long ago without a reason plz tell me why you kicked me. The first few minutes i ever had with this clan were amazing everyone said welcome. I hope I can return to this epic clan.

Regards,
Sparticus

[Tanys]

Last week one of our Elders (Koolprince), failed to meet the donation requirement, but more importantly did not flag with the Cave that there were real life issues which influenced this. Easy decision .. Kick him, BUT, Kool has been with the Clan since its inception and, rightly or wrongly, that makes a difference. So started a vigorous debate amongst the other Elders as to how to deal with this. Fortunately there are other Clans within the Bear Empire that have lower donation requirements and as Kool is often only just over the line in donations, we thought it best to ask him to move to one of the other clans. Over three days, Kool was asked to move on four separate ocassions via clan chat. He agreed to do so, but then stayed. We were left with no choice but to kick him.This decision was not arrived at easily, and it gave no one pleasure to be forced to kick a long standing Elder.


The Cave is strong because we all choose to abide by our own rules, no one is exempt from those rules, but sometimes the execution of those rules requires further debate and consideration of the 'big' picture.


Footnote: Kool is now in SkyBears and we wish him well.

[Cavebears]

The most important thing is the fact that there was vigorous debate. That the fate of just one member was of great importance. That people within Cavebears cared significantly about not just the process but also about the person concerned.

It is this type of commitment to our principles and to our people that makes our Bear Empire so strong.

This is why people join us and stay.

This is why we have expanded to a four clan Empire.

This is why we are unbeatable.

AND BY THE GODS WE SHALL CRUSH ALL THOSE WHO STAND IN OUR WAY!

HAIL THE MIGHTY CAVEBEARS!

HAIL THE MIGHTY BEAR EMPIRE!