I (err... we) appreciate your statements, however the war is far from over for us. Perhaps it is for PURE! but the few players I know in their upper echelons are respectable players who have the honor that will encourage them to keep fighting. I have gained alot of respect for those players who were/are PAs of mine in PURE, even if we are no longer so.
They have done admirably, but their problem is the family tribe system. A close knit well organized tribe of 60-70 (like POWER!) can take almost every family tribe because the coordination and organization necessary to beat a high village tribe (like POWER!) is simply too difficult to be efficient in the family system. There are too many steps, too many players involved in the decision, too many players that don't care, and to put it in legal terms, "too much hearsay." Though it may be effective to avoid war, the family system is ineffective during war... that is PURE's downfall, that is why the stats appear the way they do.