I'll be honest, your a pretty negative person.
Besides Im whats called an opportunist, A clever player that thinks through every attack and what could happen, That is why I have nobled barbs in k85 early in the game because those villages are fully built up in the middle of a war zone and if I had not nobled them I would of been easily rimmed by now due to being so spread.
Just a small thought for you, Every offense that has ever lived has always had a solid foundation to protect it from attack but I guess overlook that fact rofl
You look at my ODA yet ignore my ODD, you check my noble history yet do not check the map of my location and how well it has helped me thus far, you are short sighted.
If you cannot see how villages can help you then how can you become better at this game every village can help in a differnt way no matter who you fight yet you just think of barb villages as a waste of time, I see them as expansion and a building block for future wars.
Barb munchers anonymous #BMA Lets get through this together
~TW God Aka,
~Barlow`
Well, since I'm apparently a negative person and am short-sighted, let me give you a comparison instead.
42 of my 409 conquers on this world have been barbs (10.2%). Of those 42, all but 3 have been 8k or larger, with only 2 others being under 9k. 18 of my 409 conquers (4.4%) have been internals, and I'm including a player that I continued nomming after I left the tribe because I faced no resistance regardless. An additional 42 conquers (still 10.2%) were of tribeless players, NOT counting those kicked by Riot (which would add 15) or controlled by Riot (an additional 4).
So to compare you with a real player:
Free villages (Barb/Internal)
You: 56%
Me: 14.6%
Easy villages (Tribeless)
You: 16%
Me: 10.2%
Total
You: 72%
Me: 24.8%
Also, your explanation of nobling a ton of small barbs in an attempt to cluster up and more easily defend yourself doesn't hold water. While taking roughly 1/4 of the free villages you did, I'm still one of the more heavily clustered players, being concentrated mostly along the K45/46 border. My villages outside of that are all warcaps.
Btw, further making clear the separation between us, 99 of my 409 caps (28.8%) are warcaps, and all came from tribes that were at least in the top 20 at the time of conquer (most were top 10 at the time, but one family was lower than that).
Continue barb munching and trying to justify it Barlow. Instead, I will sit here and bask in the knowledge that I am more than 4 times your size, and have done all of that in the Core of the world against top competition like Riot, Gians and Impact.
And as a clarification, I do not see barbs as a complete waste of time, but in the vast majority of circumstances there are always better targets available than 1k barbs. If you can't see that then you're not short-sighted enough, because larger villages become productive faster and help fuel your expansion more than a village you'll have to spend 3+ weeks on just to make it useful.
~Morningfrost