Well here comes my wall of text.......(Honestly I don't know how to make it any shorter..lol)....
I don't understand why people put soo much emphasis on the FW being the be all end all of a server. The guilds that hold it derserve to have it. Sure there are some unfair glitches in the FW but remember the game is full of them. Have people really lost sight of the fact that this game is really actually fun? That there are rewarding accomplishments for all players at any level? The fortress war is fun to be in, whether you win or you don't. Of coarse I have only played it in Venus though, so maybe it just don't know that is sucks on what ever server you play on.
My husband and I didn't come to Venus to actually stay. (and I know I am repeating myself here lol) We came to try out Euro char's with out the A-hole players on Venice to deal with. After playing for a couple days, we made a guild so we could have storage, joined a few people to help us level it up for more storage. After a week it was our new home. I have never and will never bot, nor will I understand the drive in those that do. I could not imagine still being stuck on crappy Venice with all the A-hole botters there.
Venus has come to be a place where Bots are not needed to create the drama that some many ppl crave. We legits can be full of drama all on our own. We literally do not need bots for anything. Not for drama, not for a challenge, not for gold, not for honor, not for fun. We disagree, we fight, we party, we celebrate accomplishments, we knock each other down, we pick each other back up. This is the world of being a legit, finger pushing button players, that play fair, play for fun, and play because the game is worth playing.
Avalon does not need to give up the fortress to win it back. That implies that they didn't win it fair and square to begin with. We should hand bots a fortress? They (bots) already get everything else without working for it, why throw them another bone?
Oh yeah, the guildwars with XCalibur get better and better each time. 6 against 25+ was the best! We may not have won a FW, but damn it if we don't kick butt in guild wars. LEGITS to the end!
(I warned you about my wall of text

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