Lastly, I think BH played a fairgame against THE to the fullest possible extend. If BH can be called victorious now or in a few days/weeks, this remains for THE leader(s) to acknowledge with their coming actions. I will leave the floor to them. I was a little off from my disclaimer - but hell why not nowadays ? :lol:
robot out
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Unfortunately R2, the fact is that today BH's leaders revealed that it in fact did
not play a "fairgame" against us. Spies, agents, double-standards and all the rest; is it any coincidence that people came to me, asked me for help, got it and then betrayed me as soon as it was convenient? Ask Theshearjoy and those who are still following him after the way he handled it.
THE hasn't lost a game of Tribal Wars to date. But I'm afraid we're just no good at Tribal Spies, and that's clearly what W30 has become to the dominant powers in the world. People spy on your forums, take private rants (inappropriate as they might have been) and try to make them global issues while refusing to acknowledge how they themselves have been both condescending and insulting (am I a delusional wife-beater McMellow? According to you, I am just like one.).
Today, TheShearJoy told me that I was a prick. I responded quite truthfully that I never claimed I wasn't. I
know I'm a prick. But this is where the rubber met the road:
[8:47:59 PM] geoff/theshearjoy: lol you lost a war cause you didnt have a spy like all the other wars, so cry me a river
See, that's just it. THE never used spies - or, at the absolute least, I never once authorized the use of them. But BH used spies - that much I know, because they've had intel on us since day one and they've told me so. DECIDE? They've certainly used ill-gained intel. So...Congratulations are in order, I guess. We couldn't be beaten in a straight fight so you guys went and made it a crooked one. There's something to be said for that, but that's not really what's been said by most of those involved.
I will say that BH and DECIDE aren't terrible tribes. DECIDE has a tenacity that is pretty hard to match, and BH has some talent in attacking - when they have the upper hand, at least. But its nothing overwhelming, nothing I'd call A-list. But A-List itself has no meaning, since some of the top-regarded players out there only play for about three months on a given world before they quit. Others only really make an impact later in a world.
The biggest gauge of talent, then, is probably how people react to adversity. Some people stick it out until the end. Some people give their all until they have nothing left to give. Some people give out quickly and die, and some people cut and run. Some people slap on a second face and lie to people to get their way. THE had a lot of the first two, less (but I can't deny some) of the second set. None of that last clause.
Just about everyone left in THE is a class act, and they pretty much all are happy to fight to the death. That's A-list to me; much better than I am, and much better than a lot of the people on this world - especially, and unfortunately, the people that are going to inherit its hugged-up ashes. Not everyone in each of the tribes involved in this was, well, involved in it - many in DECIDE are good guys who were honest and forthcoming, and many in BH are also just out to have a good time. Some of you dudes are really, really great. Its a shame your leaders have painted you the way they have - as nothing more than two-line quips on a message board that talk so much trash when they have the lead that others made for them, by hook and by crook alike.
On the plus side, like I said to Theshearjoy when he told me that the name of the game wasn't Tribalspies, but was "jpfails," I suppose I should thank some of these key folks for that. Thank you, everyone who made it their life's mission to take me down just like he did. Thank you for finding me so important that you needed to dedicate so much time and effort into sneaking into tribal forums, sitting accounts that are at war with your allies, lying to your tribemates, and pursuing "jpfails" for literally a year or more (I think its been that long since Erevos got stomped?). Thank you, because I guaran-damned-tee you that I'm really not that important, and that the effort you put in just to get "stiff" off of my defeat (I'm using his word, here) wasn't worth it in the slightest.
And thank you, also, to the players in THE that stuck it out - and the players in every tribe on W30 that had nothing at all to do with this kind of "in-joke" that I "don't get." The people that really had no idea that one tribe here was created to oppose another tribe there just because THE was somehow involved in it. Thank you to those that didn't join in the conspiracy that went on - the one that a lot of people will deny, especially those that let it out. And thank you to those, most of all, who were truly friendly with me and my tribemates - and my apologies to you for the damage that others would apparently cause to our friendships in their mad pursuit to achieve victory over me in a game.