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EN Gran Manzana Sub is the first club branch of the main Gran Manzana club (grey shield) of Simcity BuildIt.
The creation of the first branch came from the idea of having another club to recruit new members with the potential for battles, although it was also thought as a way to easily battle with big cities and recover War Simoleons (purple coins).
After the departure of several important members of the main club it was necessary to do something different than waiting for new gamers to decide to join Gran Manzana club, so it was decided to go looking for new members while creating the new branch.
In October 2020 the branch was finally founded under the name "Gran Manzana Sub". The club was created with the city Antis (second city of Atlantis), so that the city of Essos (second city of Braavos) would go for other clubs seeing the possibility of recruiting new assets, apart from helping this club to start growing.
The name of the club is derived from the original "La Gran Manzana" and "Sub" indicating that it was below the first. Due to the restriction on the number of characters in club names, "Gran Manzana Sub" was chosen.
From this branch club came such important gamers as Cielos y Estrellas, Avi, New San Fernando, or Arandelle, among others.
Anecdotes
Initially the club had quite a few anecdotes. One of them was the belief that if all the major cities were to battle there, it would be an easy war to collect the War Simoleons. So one of the first, if not the first war, many of the major tier cities of La Gran Manzana went to battle in the new branch. The surprise was when in the matching, most of the opponents were hackers (crackers). Atlantis' surprise made some gamers in the chat room say "...but what the f...", something that some gamers remember fondly. Of course, that War was lost. The second battle was exactly the same, so it was decided to go back to the big cities, back to La Gran Manzana, and continue with the small ones in this newly created club.
Another anecdote of this subsidiary was the very hard beginnings. People didn't join, and it was very hard to reach the minimum of 10 gamers to start doing continuous wars.
Loss of the club
The loss of the club branch was due to an unfortunate concatenation of events.
At the time, Antis was the only secondary city in Atlantis, and after many months stuck in the club branch, he decided to give up the presidency to go out and do battle in the main club and/or other clubs. At that time Cielos y Estrellas was fully trusted, and he handed over the presidency to her without any problem.
After the successful ceding of the presidency, Cielos y Estrellas left the club to return the presidency, and it went to Arendelle, another fully trusted and active gamer. Arendelle, at the time, told Antis that she did not want the presidency, but Antis trusted her and assured her that nothing was wrong, to be calm and to make Antis vice-president, which he did immediately.
As the weeks went by, Arendelle began to play less and less until one war when she didn't show up. It was then that Antis asked her, and she replied that she was taking a new job in two days and could barely get into the game. After the jet lag between Chile (Arandelle) and Spain (Antis), the latter's response was to pass the presidency on to her.
Unfortunately, at that time, a senior (with the ability to activate battles), who even Antis does not remember his name, activated a club war. Arandelle replied, already in the War, that without any problems, he tried but could not do it because the war had already started. From then on, Arandelle disappeared completely, and the club was left with only one vice-president (Antis), which had dire consequences for months.
With the president gone and only one vice-president, Gran Manzana Sub was left at the mercy of Antis' actions as vice-president. This city was locked out of the club forever, because as the only vice-president (and without the president's action), if Antis left, the club would be left without any control; and if he got back in, there would be no vice-president to promote him to senior to have a modicum of control. Furthermore, the seniors don't even have the ability to remove gamers, so in the event of any eventuality with any of them, the club could not defend itself.
Blocked for months since January 2021, and leaving notes to Arandelle continuously, Antis contacted the developers of the game after 4 months of absence of the president, giving him an answer, to say the least, unusual: "they could not do anything because they could not kick anyone out and besides that gamer had created that club and they were not the ones to remove the president". It is clear that the developers did not understand ANYTHING about the letter that Antis sent them, and we were constantly seeing how the developers were kicking people out of the clubs because they suspected them of being hackers.
This last news was the beginning of the announced end of that club branch.
What happened to the "Gran Manzana Sub " club in the end?
Antis, just before he stepped down as vice-president of the club (in about June 2021), promoted all the members of the club to Seniors, so that if anyone wanted to stay, they could activate battles. Nobody would be able to control the incoming and outgoing gamers, but at least they could enjoy what little the club could offer them anymore. There were people who stayed there at the announcement, and, at the time of writing, are still there.
* Editor: Atlantis.
