Hello, fellow person of the Subterfuge community who just opened this thread up,
Niverio here. Maybe you heard of my name in a game, or watched some of my recap videos. I am a Turkish player and I think I am one of the most "versatile" experienced players in this game with 117 games under my belt (no offense Math) , by which I mean that I have been in every aspect of Subterfuge. I began playing this game the week it was released, and since then I have played with the top players in the world in rated matches, I played casual games with only newcomers, trying to teach them things, I played in almost every single forum game since I became a part of this community (except alternate account stuff because I am too lazy), I played sandbox games with some people to experiment stuff, I learned some interesting niche details, I hosted some forum games myself, I made recap videos of various games, hoping to teach some people new things, I even talked with 2-3 people to find out if there was an algorithm behind specialist hire patterns. With all of these experiences I gave a month of my own to create a FAQ about this game that I fell in love with, just hoping to make people realize how great this game is. I enjoyed winning battles when people expected me to lose, whether it be the most basic king promotion or a double engineer promotion to change the tides when noone was expecting it to be. I had deep thoughts and analysis' when people outplayed me and won the battles I didn"t expect to lose. I knew numerous numbers of people playing this game, learned some great friends which don't have faces, also came to know that there were also people who would do anything to win, those bastards. In this one year, I had been in this game, and it was an awesome year. But as people say, every good thing will end someday.
Now I heaar people saying "No, Niv is having a sub detox too!". No. I am not leaving anyone. This ain't a sub detox. This is different, in the way that now I feel that I have reached the point where this game cannot give me anything new or exciting- not diplomatically as I had already played with 95% of the people at high rates, and not mechanically. There isn't a single specialist I haven't used till now, and I had seen it in the end, that nothing can beat kings and admirals. I am just tired of seeing the same things over and over. And while it is still nice to talk with people I have came to know, it still never changes the dynamics of a game: Gang bang someone, get a few outposts, mine, rinse and repeat.
It just came to me to write these things. No reason, not a message to you guys. I won't be leaving Subterfuge, I love this game too much for that. And the forum games are still brilliant. So I just wasted your time here.
Best wishes,
Niverio.