K15 – by request – @ 3 January 2010
(maybe a follow up in 2 weeks if things change much. "Valley Girl" edition may follow later today)
Rank TAG Points Villages in K
1
VORB 18.380 17
2
Damage 12.137 22
3
tNL 5.306 6
4
Ni 4.369 4
5
=K15= 2.921 8
Crikey!! – I thought that I was on the rim, anyway here it goes:
VORB
Like an alien out of the carcass of tNL, this tribe popped into existence on 3 January and into the top slot of K15.
Since they have only just come into existence, their tribal profile and recruiting requirements should be met 100% - right?
First up this is a tribe that requires “..an impressive conquer history,” but only one member has conquered anything. On this basis it should be a tribe of one. Let’s say that the requirement is aspirational, so the leaders are looking to the future. That’s a good sign if they can live the dream.
Next thing, the tribe requires OD to be higher than points. A fair aspiration and OD rank is higher than tribal rank, so they seem to be on the right track. However, 4 of the top 5 players fail this requirement.
Minimum points should be 400, but they have recruited below that.
I think we all understand recruitment and player expectations, but black and white ‘requirements’ can be so limiting.
They are spread along the K15 / K25 border, mostly concentrated in the SW corner but with some random members in K24, K26 and one half-way down K25.
1.3K average points per member, but with a huge points spread between top and bottom, which is probably more understandable this close to the rim, but less acceptable given that they have had the luxury of just forming and choosing who will be in the tribe.
The new leader is relying upon his 250 village experience from W24 as his leadership credentials. Some might ask why wait to join the rim of W43 if you have that level of skill … but these are questions for another day … there are often wolves patrolling the rim.
VORB may be a wolf, or it might be stalked by one.
Cheer squad rating – hell they don’t have cheerleaders that far out, in the cold, without adequate changing facilities, with wolves prowling …
No predictions, too early.
Can a bunch of players, dissatisfied with their old tribes, all come together to form a cohesive tribe? Can they be led to glory?
Damage
A family tribe related to Punjab (which is actually tNL). Punjab might have made me think of links to India, tNL maybe to the Netherlands and the cyrillic writing on Damage’s profile makes me think of Eastern Europe … its all too confusing (maybe even for the members)
Recruitment policy is liberal on their profile: “
Anyone in k15, message me and you shall get an invite.” This seems to have paid off well for them, propelling them to 2nd place in K15, ahead of their ‘parent’ tribe tNL. (Or maybe that’s just because VORB ripped the guts out of tNL)
(Its like Days of Our Lives….)
512 average points per member with a fairly modest spread of points between top and bottom ranked players.
Damage are mostly located in a ball in the middle south of K15 and so their recruitment might be a little more geographically selective than first impressions. Membership seems to have been generally stable and slowly growing by recruitment. Maybe they do have a method…
However, they also have members in K24, K26 and K37 ????? Don’t they know how to read a map?
OD ranking is quite a bit lower than tribal rank. I can understand that inexperienced players on the rim might not want to attack a family of tribes, so the ODD should be low, but why is the ODA so low?
Cheer squad rating – hell they don’t have cheerleaders that far out, in the cold, without adequate changing facilities, yada, yada, yada …
No predictions, too early.
Maybe this branch of the family will succeed its ‘parent’. Maybe the parent got killed by VORB. Maybe Damage will need to do battle with VORB to wreak vengeance … or maybe not.
tNL
It looks like VORB gutted them. All of the key contacts on their profile page are now in VORB. They only have 6 members in K15, but 23 overall, scattered in … well, just scattered.
So it seems they were Punjab, then tNL, and they had a family tribe in Damage (above) and they couldn’t find the “un-family” button, so some members left to form VORB so they don’t need to be in a family with Damage???
Hmmm … maybe the VORB leadership has something. Hmmm … Maybe Damage have a chance to capitalise on their better geographic spread to defeat VORB (once they get some nobles)
Maybe all this thrashing around will attract predators.
But I digress, this section is about tNL.
Err, I think tNL will go the way of every creature which has an alien being rip it apart from the insides….
Ni
Some W36 imports with a small foothold in K15, but which are mostly based in the south of K25.
Hmmm … not really contenders for K15 at this stage. If they really are active and experienced W36 players I guess they will be headed towards domination of K25.
Something for another day.
=K15=
With their Roger Ramjet style ID, you just know they will fight for truth, justice and the Hapsburg Empire??
They have ambition to “unite the player's of K15 in order to begin an elite tribe”
Either they have some exceptional training capabilities to create elite players or they have MUCH better intel than me about the average quality of players in K15.
Just 9 players but at least they are ALL in K15, and scattered along the southern border.
