those players were weeded out months ago, which is when you are bringing up most of the internals from. The players that quit now quit because of real life getting too busy and them getting too big to devote enough time.
EDIT: decided to post dacritta's stats
180 internals :icon_surprised:
23 barbarian
and 80 tribeless players
That are some great stats for the #1 players:icon_rolleyes:
I would dig up some more barb/internal noblers in RUM, but I cant be bothered too.
EDIT 2
some of us know not to double post)
I just checked and RUM has 17 more villages under 3000 points nobled than un w40 and un w40 has more nobles, so you cant really say anything. Sure some of our academy members take alot of barbs, but they are solidifying their clusters. Most were scared before they joined un w40 and decided to noble all barbs in their church radius to get ready for big bad UN w40.
UN 40a does have almost 700 more villages under 3000 points nobled than RUM though, but most were in the beginning, and I would say quite a few of those players have quit.