Labels really don't matter. The bottom line is.. Sci has somehow out familied, out recruited, and out merged VVV. They've even picked up those neat little tricks of VVVk's of naming their villages to provoke their neighboring allies. I never thought anyone could make VVV look respectable, but somehow Sci has managed.
Dazrield are you talking about naming villages to provoke other players? Vojd might have something to say about that one... but nobody cares about him anyways
I will be the first to admit SCI has lost respect. Anybody questioning that is just being naive.
We used to be probably one of the most respected families in the game (even though that in itself is an oxy-moron, a respected family?
). Being split by location at least we had to fight for success & villages rather than being like the typical family tribe, for example V V V, all grouped together, always have each other's back, etc.
We basically were only a family in the sense of the name. We fought our own battles, had different diplomacy, no singular leadership, etc. Now however, with an academy for each main SCI tribe, member lists overflowing in more than one tribe, and merges (regardless of who initialized the merge), SCI has lost a ton of respect. Doesn't matter that we were 1, 4, 5 for a while, we have lost respect, there's no way around it, and most people would like to say "oh respect means nothing, we don't care what they think, blah blah blah" but naturally everybody cares, and if they don't, they're naive/ignorant.
Respect for a tribe is directly correlated with the tribe's image... a well-respected tribe has a better image than a widely-hated tribe. Image reflects upon alliances and recruitment. If everybody hates a tribe, would anybody want to ally with them or join them, no matter how good they are? Sure allies are usually overrated and not as necessary as people think, but even PKs has 3 allies... and of course, without any allies and hardly any members, you're going to have to be ridiculously skilled and active to pull off a win in war... Is it possible? Of course. Is it likely? Very doubtful... if it happens, go buy lottery tickets because you're either crazy lucky, fighting against pathetic tribes, or your tribe is made of multiple nyxx's