i've got lots of pride, 20 people magically grow to #3 on the server with the highest ppm despite having a 100 man big arm holding the core & a 170 vice around them, & both potentially eating us. COS was on our doorstep, that's not our fault but xvx's horrible past leadership, who disappeared before we did. even if they hadnt, we made quite a feat here, there was a time we were going to go with HI, then we shied away from them, there was a time we attacked & were prepared to go to war with COS for a slight against us. we did what was best for us, & maybe we did play both sides of the field against each other for awhile while we made up our minds, but hey at least we told both sides what each had offered & werent afraid to go it alone despite the odds for awhile.
& if you call what was going on when MS~ was established a war...you are sadly mistaken, all your highest ranking members had a mass exodus along with mid rank members, your middle ranked members that were left(MS~) on a new front, no leadership responses whatsoever other than elphame, saying well if you eat rim at least you can grow again...im not afraid to lose, i wont suck up, i bring my own people with me to the servers, i always meet new ones id go out of my way to help if i saw em down the road, but i refuse to eat rim because lackofleadership says "it's okay" & "i can start over."...when leadership of said tribe has went silent except for one person who was more an advisor than a leader in the first place. no what you had when we left was the mighty xvx laying down & expecting everyone else to lay down with them.
if you ever get 20 folks to kick as much butt as my guys have since we established our squad & go it alone for as long as we did, then you can talk smack about me being proud of my men.
how much pride do you have in your 200 man tribe when your members keep asking me to defect? & when i tell them they need to reach x amount of points they go 2 weeks with no new villages....maybe 500-1000 total point growth between all their villas, maybe. then they complain when my men start scouting their villages because they think theyre getting in....after 2 weeks of practically no growth, you lose a good NAP where your people got to hide behind us...because of a player who logged in every couple of days & kept less than 1k troops in each village before ever getting attacked....no my men did good, regardless of anything else. at least no one has to baby them & they wont log in one day to find out they lost a village & are 1 noble hit away from losing their only other village
& if you're bitter, maybe your leadership style should have changed, or the old xvx leadership shouldve stepped up while their tribe was dying instead of laying down. running an mrt might get you to the top of the charts for awhile & make you feel good, but your men dont learn, they dont have as much fun, & they dont work together as well, sooner or later, they become a joke like tnm & everyone just eats them....not that they go out of their way, it's not like theres a threat, but just another easy village, and the people who get attacked & lose a village, they tend to give up before they lose half their villages.
weve been taking TBS villages for awhile now, but i respect the hell out of that tribe. for a small band of players they stick together, they support each other....and not those cheap care packages you guys use. & man can they snipe a noble train, if it was your tribe & that tribe & that was all that was left in the world, id put money on the little guys.
xvx screwed up, xvx died a long time ago. phoenix? tying to dead horses together doesnt make em kick again
20 guys with higher growth in a week than 170 ppl a rank above them on the charts....that's something to be proud of
i do have hope your tribe learns to play the game & possibly run a tribe outside of big diplomacy, so that you may make it a little further on the next server, but that's something you gotta earn, nothing is ever given
and thats about 8 paragraphs too long,