thank you all for the positive response to the MORS review, though really i pretty much let the stats speak for themselves
regarding Free!, clearly i can be much more articulate, the trick is to say what needs said without it being tldr
i am also going to ignore the format for this one, so if you want to know what i think, you will have to read it
this is the map the scientist posted to his first thread, February 15th
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clearly a lot has happened since, but back then we were all admiring their spread, prompting this reply from the scientist
It was kind of weird how it worked out, not really a premade tribe just a couple guys in the tribe who played to join together and good recruitment ended up in a pretty good spread.
yesterday, i decided to actually look at the early tribe changes :icon_idea:
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MORS stats spoke for themselves, but these stats tell a story in what is NOT there
not only were they not a premade, the tribe apparently started with no plan at all cuz the people who made plans for the tribe were not even in the tribe
Ceiling Destroyer Feb 18, 20:47
What happened to SHHHHHHHH
The Brick Wall Feb 18, 20:49
The ex duke (who was inactive before) returned. By then he was cleared by another tribe and we kept farming him and wanted to noble him. He just logged in, disbanded the tribe and logged off again
Ceiling Destroyer Feb 18, 20:50
A bit surprising that King Matt II got cleared and farmed that easily
The Brick Wall Feb 18, 20:51
Like i said he wasnt active. We worked well as a team then he just disappeared. I really liked him from the old days.
it seems maybe CD was wondering what i am now wondering, who cleared watercolour?
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when was this period of inactivity? who ended up nobling watercolour?
he picked up some oda same day watercolour was cleared (notice also how much smaller he was)
TBW did also
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a coup perhaps? regardless, the tribe was disbanded and TBW started the new tribe, inviting everybody, though there had apparently been talks of new leadership already and that not everybody was going to get an invite to the new tribe
dan supposedly left the world and the tribe declared war on the tribe TBW had agreed to merge his mates into
other than the ethics involved in their target choice, it was a brilliant move tbh
it was a war they expected to win with no problem, allowed the undesirables to be weeded out by natural selection rather than new leadership kicking loyal players with friends in the tribe, it would unite them as a tribe and give them something to be proud of with some positive PnP in the forums
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Side 1: Tribes: Free!
Side 2:
Tribes: -SC-
Timeframe: Forever
Total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 8
Side 2: 5
Difference: 3
Points value of total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 25,059
Side 2: 15,755
Difference: 9,304
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dan immediately returned to the account, which apparently had the duke privs at the time, scientist was not yet duke or the situation with ExTribute might have been resolved
in fact, i thought scientist was duke and encouraged ExTribute to work it out with him and not quit, even though it meant losing my story
despite what has been said and implied of me, i have too much integrity to be a reporter
but anyway, it was yet another blow to the tribe, losing a mate who with no co-player, very little pp, and a single village, outfarmed everybody in w86 except teh ninja (iirc) when he had like half a dozen villages
somebody who sat accounts, somebody i have seen be very agreeable with a great many people, in fact in have seen him in 2 group chats and the only person he has issues with is brandonrulz :lol:
anyway, it was never about the tribe, it was about 1 player on TBW and 2 on CD, 3 traitors by their own admission
regrettably, Free! now seems to have all 3 :icon_rolleyes:
recruiting CD even after the plot against ExTribute was revealed was a shocking move, but this is getting tldr
a lot has changed since that map was posted
no w86 tribe of notoriety has survived such upheaval, let alone on a constant basis
yet they remain in the top 5, dominating their k, with less members than any top 25 tribe
they are not even a premade, they are the underdog
i have no doubt the tribe is full of good players and mates, but it seems shockingly bad ethical decisions by the top tier will haunt their reputation
ExTribute wished nothing but the best for Free!
me, i would love to be able to root for the underdog
we both hope you mates in Free! end up with the tribe you deserve