More whales?

I think you had bad luck, at least for me I didnt find a whales on my last games

Right now, I'm in a game with 5 high rankers who joined together. 3 of them that I know of are using gold. They have 1400 points by day 4. One of them is a mod.

I just completed a game with no big spenders. It is still possible.

I'm guessing some maps are more prone to it than others.

I've only once encountered a whale on the 22 player map. However, I've only played the 100 player map twice but know ones existed in both games. On the day four military ranking in the newspaper, one player had 11% of the military in one game and in the other a player had 6%.

I think that it depends on the map that you play. The World at War and the historical tend to have more gold players. Same counts for some events like the Free for All by example.

Yes, it is funny - in a sad way - how there's a pattern in the behaviour of certain playable countries of the HWW:

Germany: Some hotheaded noob wants to be Hitler and recreate the occupation of Europe, but fails at day 2 and quits.

Australia: Positions a ring of fleets all around the continent and does nothing for the rest of the game.

USSR: Uses the most resource abaundant nation on the map for precisely zero. May even lose to Tannu Tuva.

Japan: Invades the Chinas, but forgets or neglects to tech and has his major fleet defeated.

UK/France/Italy: A golden boy is usually found in one of this nations. He doesn't realise that he already has a nation suited to win the game as is, but pours in gold anyway. Most often this player has no clue how to use his fleets efficiently.

USA: Thinks he can police the world, but fails to expand, letting the US get overtaken by smaller powers.

Does it ring a bell?

Hey look on the bright side that if you outplay them you are quite literally fleecing them of money.

If a player spends 1 million gold, it is about $250. Imagine spending that much to beat a random person in a video game!

This is the most recent post I could find about the "whales". I apologize if I opened a closed thread, or if there are indeed other, more recent threads about aforementioned "whales".

Now, I know how to deal with "whales" on smaller maps, such as basically all of the Europe maps, Pacific Theater, and America: Homefront. But how do you effectively deal with them on the world maps? They have the benefit of distance and time, and they seem unstoppable...

_Pyth0n_ wrote:

This is the most recent post I could find about the "whales". I apologize if I opened a closed thread, or if there are indeed other, more recent threads about aforementioned "whales".

Now, I know how to deal with "whales" on smaller maps, such as basically all of the Europe maps, Pacific Theater, and America: Homefront. But how do you effectively deal with them on the world maps? They have the benefit of distance and time, and they seem unstoppable...

If the whale is good enough and willing to spend enough money, you may have to consider the possibility they cannot be beaten short of playing their game. Something I'm not willing to do. I never feed the trolls by trying to outspend them. Sometimes you have to just archive the game.

_Pyth0n_ wrote:

This is the most recent post I could find about the "whales". I apologize if I opened a closed thread, or if there are indeed other, more recent threads about aforementioned "whales".

Now, I know how to deal with "whales" on smaller maps, such as basically all of the Europe maps, Pacific Theater, and America: Homefront. But how do you effectively deal with them on the world maps? They have the benefit of distance and time, and they seem unstoppable...

K.Rokossovski wrote:

I took a break from this game somewhere in last spring, and have recently returned. From what I've seen, the atmosphere in the game has drastically changed since then: previously, it was pretty rare to encounter a whale (someone spending HUGE amounts of money on the game), but since I came back, I still didn't join a round (maybe 5 different 100p maps) where there wasn't at least ONE whale around disrupting and ruining having a big impact on the game. I'm not talking about the small spenders, just using the daily 2k you get these days for watching video's; I'm talking people who are apparently spending hundreds of thousands gold, possibly millions, on a single game.

Have I just been unlucky on the particular games I joined? Or do you guys have similar experiences, and are whales a MUCH more common sight than they were, say, a year ago?

You sound like a fun player. contact me if you play a round.

NoobNoobTrain wrote:

I just completed a game with no big spenders. It is still possible.