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I don’t really think I should be explaining this to the publics, but I will do so anyway and for the sake of me not wasting valuable time, this will also be another goodbye, one to METAL members.
When I joined this world, I wasn’t a new player, but I was a new leader, having only led once before and for a period of around 2 weeks. I was promptly overthrown that time as leader. This was around a year and a half ago in world 32 in a tribe that should be familiar to anyone who seriously played world 32: Hostile ([H]). There are several reasons for this, but the main reason was that I was not active enough, not proactive enough and didn’t deal with players well. In essence, I wasn’t good enough to lead a highly motivated top tribe. At the time, I was 15 and the internet bullying, to be frank that was what it was, from that escapade on skype and from my personal hotmail that put me off leading for over a year.
As for METAL, it was never meant to be a serious contender or even a top tribe, I created it as a one man tribe so I could, believe it or not, solo and talk idlely to some friends in the world. I was never ready to lead seriously. Around a week after the start of the world, a player in my area called snowplow wanted to join my one man tribe as we had become good friends. Granted, he was not a great player, not even a good one to be honest, but he was always eager and always up for the challenge. My soloing was going well and I was becoming one of the biggest players (with one exception, I will get to him later) in my area and as I talked to more players, they became interested in joining.
At the end of 2 weeks after snowplow first joined, METAL had around 14 members and was hardly in the top 20 tribes in K86, nevermind the world, we had our first war against Fate. The biggest player in my area was a player called purple bloxx. To put it the best way, he was what is known as a warmongerer and a man of action. He was exactly what METAL needed to progress as I was neither a warmongerer or a person of action. Thus came the METAL leadership of me and purple, the war duke and the diplomat.
I am never going to say that we were invincible, but in K86, we were a small but elite (relative to rim standards) tribe and miles ahead of our competition. We were the only tribe with offline sitting, the only tribe with people who were willing to teach, the tribe with the best players and the only tribe that used skype and t-trains and did proper operations. Needless to say, we beat the top tribe in K86 in 8 hours after declaring war on them. After another war that took around 3 days, we became top in K86 and have been top ever since.
Our next major event was a fight against REBS and it was a landmark because it was the best tribe we had fought so far and it was the first time METAL used the PnPs as a weapon of war. This brought about the introduction of the maps of the METAL like sea creature hilariously attacking other tribes on the maps as well as the witty PnPs designed by members of the tribe. We therefore got a reputation, despite being around rank 80 at the time, of being a bigmouthed ambitious tribe who fought against bigger tribes regularly. A lot of players and tribes knew the name METAL and I was starting to get known a little on the publics due to my postings.
One of the players who wrote to me about METAL was h0llyghost and I could talk about the METAL and Apathy relationship for a long time, but I am not going to. This is about METAL and METAL only. Anyway, our next major war was against Rally and was another success, causing, for a short amount of time until Apathy recruited ex-Rally members, METAL to become the top in K85. All this is all very well and saying, and to that point, METAL was going extremely well and was shaping up to be a great tribe. So when did it all change?
It had to have changed when me and purple got into an argument which caused him to be kicked from the tribe and rimmed. I talked a little about my partnership with him earlier, that he covered my deficiencies as a leader and I covered his. Unfortunately, I wasn’t covering his deficiencies well enough and he was pissing off a lot of members, to the point it was causing internal conflict. We got rid of him, to the much glee of many of the leaders in the area, including the leader of DNA who was scared shitless of him.
There was a problem therefore, that I no longer had anyone to cover my deficiencies as a leader and therefore I decided to promote thelordpegasus (ali), icequeen190 and jeaks4 to roles of power to consolidate that. METAL was going back on track, although never really recovering into that golden age where it was before, it was doing well against its opponents.
The next stage of METAL’s development was the war against purge, DNA and SS. METAL focused on purge and crushed the tribe, SS and DNA were taken out by swags recruitment button. It was around this time that Axte and METAL lost the little relationship they had. It wasn’t like our relationship was that great anyway, Axtes only reason for not attacking us was because there was no point to at the time.
Our relationship soured with axte when I firstly returned drunk home and spouted a load of BS to .sam. But the main blow came when I quoted .sam. on the public forums, something that he took huge offence to, as well as a statement in parentheses in a leaked mail in METAL leaked by a former member’s sitter about an idea to get DNA to attack axte and rid them of their villages in K87 and therefore lead us to a complete domination of that area.
After that war and after swag recruited. METAL had a huge problem of inactivity. Define huge you say? Huge being that a lot of the tribe were inactive or quit. METAL had 3 permasit accounts out of 20 members and a few more inactives on top of that. This made life very hard on the hardworking members. I therefore, to remediate that decided to recruit 3 more members to the tribe and internalled out the permasits as fast as I could.
By the time just before the NAP between Axte and METAL was broken, METAL was not a 22 man tribe, but a 10 man tribe for all intents and purposes, with those 10 doing the work for the rest. Moreover though, METAL only had 2 leaders active, me and Pegasus. The latter went AWOL on the first day of the war, leaving me to pick up the pieces. And there were a lot of pieces.
Because everyone relied on me to be their offline sitter, I was sitting around 8-9 accounts at one time. I tagged 3-4000 incomings throughout the last 3-4 days or so. Then Pegasus went and I had no-one to lean on, no-one to enact those ideas that I come up with whilst I have a shower or just before I go to sleep and no-one to get us into war mode. It was really therefore my fault that there was an underwhelming defence, I am not used to leading on my own, or infact leading at all and I apologise to all you members who I wasted their time on the game.
METAL was great fun, I had a great time leading you guys and you were seriously some of the best players I have come across in some cases. You will surely do well wherever you decide to move to and I see a lot of you becoming seriously strong players. I cannot say enough how much good times I had as a leader, not leading the ops or even winning the bucketload of fun wars we had, but more just speaking and getting to know ya all. The stuff like talking to you on skype, playing guys at chess, thinking out strategies and just messing around on the chats was as fun as playing the game and I just want to say that I really appreciate this.
I really want to go on and keep on leading, but I have to face the facts. METAL will never beat axte with me as leader, they will never beat axte with the 13-14 players they have playing. Axte is too good at exploiting the flaws in METAL defence and they know better than I do who are inactive and who are not easy targets. Axte aren’t an impossible tribe to beat, but with the level of activity we have as well as my inadequate leadership, we wont win without a drastic change.
I don’t believe that drastic change is there and therefore, without ruining your time on the world due to a false hope, I want to be able to give you all a chance. And that is why I am writing this today and I am writing not only my last major post on the publics, but my last major post as a leader of METAL and as a player of world 51 and tribal wars. I have always said that my gaming heart and soul is in METAL and that without METAL, I would feel a little heartbroken on TW. This is completely true and as METAL has started to disintegrate, a process only quickened by Axte, a part of my interest for world 51 and this game has started to fade away.
So, I ask all of you in METAL to remember what I taught you, and I am not talking about the strategies and whatnot. I am talking about having fun on this game as playing tribalwars is as much about what happens off the battlefield as on it. I am not talking about the public forums here, I am talking about getting to know people and making friends. I never played this game to win, but I ended up winning anyway, being able to meet and play with some great people. It was more than I ever wished for when I started this game a few years ago.
My last task as leader of METAL is to get you all into a decent tribe and I will complete this challenge. I know a lot of you guys want to join apathy and I want to make that happen but in the case that it doesn’t, I want to give you a decent home with decent leadership and players. After that, I have little purpose in this world and will delete my account. There is only one more thing I have to say and Im sorry this has been long, but its because its worth me explaining myself.
Thankyou METAL and thankyou world 51 (you know who you are), for making this game a good one. Wish you all the best in the future.
Your truly,
Ballistick – Leader of METAL
When I joined this world, I wasn’t a new player, but I was a new leader, having only led once before and for a period of around 2 weeks. I was promptly overthrown that time as leader. This was around a year and a half ago in world 32 in a tribe that should be familiar to anyone who seriously played world 32: Hostile ([H]). There are several reasons for this, but the main reason was that I was not active enough, not proactive enough and didn’t deal with players well. In essence, I wasn’t good enough to lead a highly motivated top tribe. At the time, I was 15 and the internet bullying, to be frank that was what it was, from that escapade on skype and from my personal hotmail that put me off leading for over a year.
As for METAL, it was never meant to be a serious contender or even a top tribe, I created it as a one man tribe so I could, believe it or not, solo and talk idlely to some friends in the world. I was never ready to lead seriously. Around a week after the start of the world, a player in my area called snowplow wanted to join my one man tribe as we had become good friends. Granted, he was not a great player, not even a good one to be honest, but he was always eager and always up for the challenge. My soloing was going well and I was becoming one of the biggest players (with one exception, I will get to him later) in my area and as I talked to more players, they became interested in joining.
At the end of 2 weeks after snowplow first joined, METAL had around 14 members and was hardly in the top 20 tribes in K86, nevermind the world, we had our first war against Fate. The biggest player in my area was a player called purple bloxx. To put it the best way, he was what is known as a warmongerer and a man of action. He was exactly what METAL needed to progress as I was neither a warmongerer or a person of action. Thus came the METAL leadership of me and purple, the war duke and the diplomat.
I am never going to say that we were invincible, but in K86, we were a small but elite (relative to rim standards) tribe and miles ahead of our competition. We were the only tribe with offline sitting, the only tribe with people who were willing to teach, the tribe with the best players and the only tribe that used skype and t-trains and did proper operations. Needless to say, we beat the top tribe in K86 in 8 hours after declaring war on them. After another war that took around 3 days, we became top in K86 and have been top ever since.
Our next major event was a fight against REBS and it was a landmark because it was the best tribe we had fought so far and it was the first time METAL used the PnPs as a weapon of war. This brought about the introduction of the maps of the METAL like sea creature hilariously attacking other tribes on the maps as well as the witty PnPs designed by members of the tribe. We therefore got a reputation, despite being around rank 80 at the time, of being a bigmouthed ambitious tribe who fought against bigger tribes regularly. A lot of players and tribes knew the name METAL and I was starting to get known a little on the publics due to my postings.
One of the players who wrote to me about METAL was h0llyghost and I could talk about the METAL and Apathy relationship for a long time, but I am not going to. This is about METAL and METAL only. Anyway, our next major war was against Rally and was another success, causing, for a short amount of time until Apathy recruited ex-Rally members, METAL to become the top in K85. All this is all very well and saying, and to that point, METAL was going extremely well and was shaping up to be a great tribe. So when did it all change?
It had to have changed when me and purple got into an argument which caused him to be kicked from the tribe and rimmed. I talked a little about my partnership with him earlier, that he covered my deficiencies as a leader and I covered his. Unfortunately, I wasn’t covering his deficiencies well enough and he was pissing off a lot of members, to the point it was causing internal conflict. We got rid of him, to the much glee of many of the leaders in the area, including the leader of DNA who was scared shitless of him.
There was a problem therefore, that I no longer had anyone to cover my deficiencies as a leader and therefore I decided to promote thelordpegasus (ali), icequeen190 and jeaks4 to roles of power to consolidate that. METAL was going back on track, although never really recovering into that golden age where it was before, it was doing well against its opponents.
The next stage of METAL’s development was the war against purge, DNA and SS. METAL focused on purge and crushed the tribe, SS and DNA were taken out by swags recruitment button. It was around this time that Axte and METAL lost the little relationship they had. It wasn’t like our relationship was that great anyway, Axtes only reason for not attacking us was because there was no point to at the time.
Our relationship soured with axte when I firstly returned drunk home and spouted a load of BS to .sam. But the main blow came when I quoted .sam. on the public forums, something that he took huge offence to, as well as a statement in parentheses in a leaked mail in METAL leaked by a former member’s sitter about an idea to get DNA to attack axte and rid them of their villages in K87 and therefore lead us to a complete domination of that area.
After that war and after swag recruited. METAL had a huge problem of inactivity. Define huge you say? Huge being that a lot of the tribe were inactive or quit. METAL had 3 permasit accounts out of 20 members and a few more inactives on top of that. This made life very hard on the hardworking members. I therefore, to remediate that decided to recruit 3 more members to the tribe and internalled out the permasits as fast as I could.
By the time just before the NAP between Axte and METAL was broken, METAL was not a 22 man tribe, but a 10 man tribe for all intents and purposes, with those 10 doing the work for the rest. Moreover though, METAL only had 2 leaders active, me and Pegasus. The latter went AWOL on the first day of the war, leaving me to pick up the pieces. And there were a lot of pieces.
Because everyone relied on me to be their offline sitter, I was sitting around 8-9 accounts at one time. I tagged 3-4000 incomings throughout the last 3-4 days or so. Then Pegasus went and I had no-one to lean on, no-one to enact those ideas that I come up with whilst I have a shower or just before I go to sleep and no-one to get us into war mode. It was really therefore my fault that there was an underwhelming defence, I am not used to leading on my own, or infact leading at all and I apologise to all you members who I wasted their time on the game.
METAL was great fun, I had a great time leading you guys and you were seriously some of the best players I have come across in some cases. You will surely do well wherever you decide to move to and I see a lot of you becoming seriously strong players. I cannot say enough how much good times I had as a leader, not leading the ops or even winning the bucketload of fun wars we had, but more just speaking and getting to know ya all. The stuff like talking to you on skype, playing guys at chess, thinking out strategies and just messing around on the chats was as fun as playing the game and I just want to say that I really appreciate this.
I really want to go on and keep on leading, but I have to face the facts. METAL will never beat axte with me as leader, they will never beat axte with the 13-14 players they have playing. Axte is too good at exploiting the flaws in METAL defence and they know better than I do who are inactive and who are not easy targets. Axte aren’t an impossible tribe to beat, but with the level of activity we have as well as my inadequate leadership, we wont win without a drastic change.
I don’t believe that drastic change is there and therefore, without ruining your time on the world due to a false hope, I want to be able to give you all a chance. And that is why I am writing this today and I am writing not only my last major post on the publics, but my last major post as a leader of METAL and as a player of world 51 and tribal wars. I have always said that my gaming heart and soul is in METAL and that without METAL, I would feel a little heartbroken on TW. This is completely true and as METAL has started to disintegrate, a process only quickened by Axte, a part of my interest for world 51 and this game has started to fade away.
So, I ask all of you in METAL to remember what I taught you, and I am not talking about the strategies and whatnot. I am talking about having fun on this game as playing tribalwars is as much about what happens off the battlefield as on it. I am not talking about the public forums here, I am talking about getting to know people and making friends. I never played this game to win, but I ended up winning anyway, being able to meet and play with some great people. It was more than I ever wished for when I started this game a few years ago.
My last task as leader of METAL is to get you all into a decent tribe and I will complete this challenge. I know a lot of you guys want to join apathy and I want to make that happen but in the case that it doesn’t, I want to give you a decent home with decent leadership and players. After that, I have little purpose in this world and will delete my account. There is only one more thing I have to say and Im sorry this has been long, but its because its worth me explaining myself.
Thankyou METAL and thankyou world 51 (you know who you are), for making this game a good one. Wish you all the best in the future.
Your truly,
Ballistick – Leader of METAL
