Some tips for your new world.
1. Stay off the pubs.
Would disagree with this. Im pretty sure if H0lly and I hadnt met, there would be no METAL-Apathy alliance and the only reason we even talked was because of publics.
2. Grow your own account, its most important. Lead by example. You want your players to farm more? Farm more. You want your members to nail landing times? Hit everyone of them better than anybody else. You NEED your own troops. Its a lot easier to win wars when you got 100 of your own nukes to throw it. And its a lot easier to save everyones villages with 100 of your own to snipe from. Sitting accounts is not leading, which leads us to 3
I have to agree with this, and if I had all the time in the world, I would do so. I had the time earlygame, which was why I was once the biggest player in METAL, but I have to balance real life and ingame obligations and I have little to no want of growing or farming on big accounts. In essence, I played in METAL to lead only.
3. Make your players do their own work. You cant expect your kids to learn anything in school if you do their homework for them. I cant expect my employees to improve their work if I do the work for them
I have to agree with this too, I was way too kind during the war because I didnt want my tribemates losing villages. It worked in some cases, but not in others...
4. Never quit until your last village is nobled.
I quit for a reason. I hadnt lost any villages in the war, but quit only to force METAL players into apathy. Criticise me if you want for that, but I believed that h0llygh0st's apathy (notice I say h0llyghost not anthills here) was the best solution for METAL players.
5. Recognize and admit yours and your tribes flaws. Its the only way you can improve. Loyalty is one thing but overconfidence and unjustified self declared awesomeness will lead to..........
Fail
We always had flaws, thats why we lost. We never self declared awesomeness and I dont believe there is an instance where I have said we were the best tribe in the world. The publics declared our awesomeness for us. Likewise, I never said I was a good leader, infact I never said I was better than any other leader of any small rim tribe, it was just interpreted that I was for some reason and therefore I was judged to those standards.
And thanks dools, as I said, your efforts have got quite a few of my friends talking to me again about world 57. I am not the best leader, and METAL was never the best tribe, but that was never the point of METAL. It was as much the skype chats and the spam that made METAL as the conflicts and wars. As for prayers, if you call quitting when it gets tough as losing against a tribe ten times your size with an academy tribe thats bigger than your own when only half your players are active, then yes, I am a quitter. I have never decieved and lied anyone though, I have always been quite upfront about my views and given the circumstances, most of the players who matter know why I did what I did and know that I had the best interests of those players at heart.
Congrats for saying fail on a random thread, but it doesnt change things much. For the most part, 90% of these people dont know me and I dont know them, or are nobodies in the scheme of world 51 publics and the world and whos opinions do not really matter to me. The one thing I would say though, is dont condemn something as a failure that you dont even have any idea about. That, in itself, is a fail.