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Saw your piece of pointless writing, contemplated for a while and decided to write my own piece of dribble about SPAM, before we became well known.
SPAM (Chapter 1: A rough Beginning):
To know a little about SPAM and what it is all about, you need a little backstory. METAL was an old tribe I founded in World 51. 23 members, extremely elitist, a priority on internal atmosphere, sticking to a certain set of values (which I don't have time to get into) and stability over all other things, METAL was an awesome tribe that was around for about 7 months. One has to ask why an awesome tribe like METAL plunged whereas an alright tribe like Axte managed to win W51. The answer to that is quite complex, but can be boiled down to one major factor: location. METAL was a small rim tribe based in K86/87 and was not a premade of any kind, we had fun, no matter of the strategic consequences and one of those consequences was fighting a tribe ten times our size.
This brings us to November 12th 2011. I decided for some obscure reason that I wanted to repeat METAL, but we would win as well this time. In those two days, I found 15 players, 10 or so from METAL, 5 from World 56 who preregistered with me to make the backbone of SPAM. The direction we chose was North East so ended up in K45 when the world started on the 14th. I did not like our spread so made everyone restart about a day later in the same direction. We landed in K35/36/46, of which we chose to focus on K36 where 8 of our members ended up. The rest of our guys joined other tribes or quit.
At this stage, the backbone was broken and we had a dilemma. Whilst it was perfectly possible to make SPAM succeed within K36, it was very difficult to do without sacrificing values gotten from METAL. One value in particular was very important to keeping up member standards, but was hard to maintain without having an already established base. This value entailed that in order to join SPAM, one had to request to join first. In essence, SPAM did not send out recruitment mails like similar tribes in the area, putting us at a clear disadvantage. It was for this reason that I thought SPAM would probably not do very well and changed the plan to grow until nobles and then merge into RatedR, another NE premade run by a friend of mine.
Fortunately, quite soon after that, I thought of a solution which changed SPAM's destiny in K36 and transformed us into a more serious contender within the NE. The plan was basically to make SPAM fill a niche in K36, the elite tribe. Although SPAM was by no means an elite tribe, containing mostly players from a rim tribe in W51, we managed to pull it off because I managed to pointwhore myself to rank 1 in K36, which started a conversation with the former rank one player doogology, who soon joined SPAM. This was a key moment as his presence in SPAM attracted other big names within the K (as he soon became the top ranked player after my pointwhoring started to not pay off) such as bladesorrow and twbutch3r.
By this point, we were rank 4 in the K and a variety of other tribes in the K saw our threat and decided they wanted to get rid of us. We won this conflict quite handily due to better organisation and stronger players. SPAM ended up taking rank 1 in the K as tribes above us disbanded and we kept adding members. This takes us through the first month of SPAM's history and to a point where our biggest players had around 3-4 villages and to the end of chapter 1 of our history.
SPAM (Chapter 1: A rough Beginning):
To know a little about SPAM and what it is all about, you need a little backstory. METAL was an old tribe I founded in World 51. 23 members, extremely elitist, a priority on internal atmosphere, sticking to a certain set of values (which I don't have time to get into) and stability over all other things, METAL was an awesome tribe that was around for about 7 months. One has to ask why an awesome tribe like METAL plunged whereas an alright tribe like Axte managed to win W51. The answer to that is quite complex, but can be boiled down to one major factor: location. METAL was a small rim tribe based in K86/87 and was not a premade of any kind, we had fun, no matter of the strategic consequences and one of those consequences was fighting a tribe ten times our size.
This brings us to November 12th 2011. I decided for some obscure reason that I wanted to repeat METAL, but we would win as well this time. In those two days, I found 15 players, 10 or so from METAL, 5 from World 56 who preregistered with me to make the backbone of SPAM. The direction we chose was North East so ended up in K45 when the world started on the 14th. I did not like our spread so made everyone restart about a day later in the same direction. We landed in K35/36/46, of which we chose to focus on K36 where 8 of our members ended up. The rest of our guys joined other tribes or quit.
At this stage, the backbone was broken and we had a dilemma. Whilst it was perfectly possible to make SPAM succeed within K36, it was very difficult to do without sacrificing values gotten from METAL. One value in particular was very important to keeping up member standards, but was hard to maintain without having an already established base. This value entailed that in order to join SPAM, one had to request to join first. In essence, SPAM did not send out recruitment mails like similar tribes in the area, putting us at a clear disadvantage. It was for this reason that I thought SPAM would probably not do very well and changed the plan to grow until nobles and then merge into RatedR, another NE premade run by a friend of mine.
Fortunately, quite soon after that, I thought of a solution which changed SPAM's destiny in K36 and transformed us into a more serious contender within the NE. The plan was basically to make SPAM fill a niche in K36, the elite tribe. Although SPAM was by no means an elite tribe, containing mostly players from a rim tribe in W51, we managed to pull it off because I managed to pointwhore myself to rank 1 in K36, which started a conversation with the former rank one player doogology, who soon joined SPAM. This was a key moment as his presence in SPAM attracted other big names within the K (as he soon became the top ranked player after my pointwhoring started to not pay off) such as bladesorrow and twbutch3r.
By this point, we were rank 4 in the K and a variety of other tribes in the K saw our threat and decided they wanted to get rid of us. We won this conflict quite handily due to better organisation and stronger players. SPAM ended up taking rank 1 in the K as tribes above us disbanded and we kept adding members. This takes us through the first month of SPAM's history and to a point where our biggest players had around 3-4 villages and to the end of chapter 1 of our history.
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