I am kind of curious what the family tribe of a barb-nobling bashpointless tribe who has nap's with 9 tribes and also accepts refugees said about us, not that it really matters. Could you post a summary of their comments, if it's to much then I'd be happy to read the in-game message.
As for Mythic, it was the #1 tribe for a little while. I'd say myt was the mix of a tribe like TLI, and a tribe like GoD in the sense that it had a lot of elite players, but also had a good number of mediocre players. It had about the same number of members as GoD does now (130) at its height if I remember correctly, but the points per player was much higher just throwing that out there. Myt had a unique diplomacy stance. We were at war with everyone, no allies, no NAPs. Anyone who wasn't mythic was an enemy. This attracted a lot of aggressive and active players. The war-on-everyone stance was doomed to fail though considering we were at the #1 spot and an obvious threat to anyone who bordered myt. Due to the war-on-everyone it made it easy for other tribes to gang up on us even if they weren't coordinating with each other. One of the main problems myt faced was tli. As I said there was a good number of mediocre players with us despite being #1.As things got more chaotic discipline started to break down, and it was obvious myt was on the decline. A couple cities were being lost, we were losing a couple players to defection. Nothing huge, but we were losing points and it was obvious. Then myts leader and tli's leaders agreed on a merge. (as to the details of the merge I don't know as I am not and wasn't part of leadership.) What i do know, is tli's 20-30 elite players gained the elite and valuable players of myt, bumping them up to about 65 members and the #1 spot with atleast half the members of any other tribe.. The average players who weren't able to join tli either formed up with one of the tribes like rem or got swallowed up by the growing menace.
So in short MYT warred everyone, started losing, (mostly to TLI) and then tli gained their valuable members, and conquered the rest. So now the name spoken of in fear is not myt, but TLI and we will conquer the world.