ANYWAYS, epic finish on a 1-hour game just now. We had gradually pushed the Reds back farther and farther, until it came to a small canyon with towers on both sides. The bloodshed was absurd; if we hadn't had Unlimited lives, the game would have ended right there. Eventually we shattered Red's tower; all that was left was hastily erected defenses overlooking the canyon, and a small courtyard between that and their spawn building. Still, they fought valiantly, and the battle raged as we tried to blow apart the tower, and dig under their base. I got several bombs and blew a hole through the bottom of the courtyard just as someone bombjumped in through a hole in their building's roof, and took the flag. The blue with the flag jumped through the now gaping hole and ran like hell; we had 2 minutes to get the flag back to the base. Red sallied forth one last time, hoping beyond hope to stop the ringbearer's flagbearer's inexorable march towards Mt. Doom the spawn tent. And the Blue Army met them on the battlefield, and much blood was shed. We captured the flag with around 30 seconds left on the clock.
And this was a public server :p the server was not without its idiots, but there was little they could do to detract from the moment.
Edit: Re: what I build/what my team builds
I think he's just pointing out that at least lately, there's been a large influx of new builders, who are struggling to understand that you're supposed to build to last for more than ten seconds, if you have any time at all. Structures do degenerate over time, but often no one bothers to repair them. I find myself taking up the hammer to fix gaping holes in our defenses quite often. However, I never bother gathering resources by mining/chopping wood. If you're sort of brave, you can run in the battlefield; oftentimes, stone and wood litter the ground, with gold scattered in between. All in all, people could do more to help out; as a knight, I always pick up everything and give building supplies to builders who look like they know what they're doing, and arrows to archers with good aim.