We pre-registered, and we instantly started getting skypes about, "don't trust sam" "sam will backstab you" and tales of sams many backstabs in past worlds. So we kicked them out early on, before the world even started! . . . .
In the end, I decided to give this guy a chance. Like I said, we wanted to meet some new players, and he did promise in his premade post that he was going to change his ways. Little did we know, that the picture above would end up being a total lie.
It wasn't long after the world started with Sam in SLY, that we started to notice a pattern. . . .
It was like a baby needing a pacifier. Sam needed duke to stop crying. He needed the power or his image might look bad. We kind of felt sorry for him. Duke to us is just a word. The only thing a duke can do that a baron can't is disband a tribe. All of us work together and we all play our part. We get stuff done like that. We don't need someone barking orders. He cared so much about his image that he needed duke. The first thing he did was put his name in the profile. He was a complete control freak. This was a non stop conversation topic. Sam wanted to weasel his way into power. But little did we know what would happen next..
I'm sorry for your many woes. I personally have little tolerance for stuff that harms one's own tribe - it's contrary to the very name and nature of the game after all. Stuff like spying.
But honestly, if a rival tribe beat you by, say, getting a spy in
on a sat account, would you get much sympathy if you started bitching about it on the forums? I'm sure 99.9% of people would say to harden up and be a little more careful next time. If warnings about Sam from other players weren't enough of a red flag, then surely this attention-whoring that you claim should have been!
Yet so many people in the thread - many if not most of whom are folk who actively condone and use spying - are now acting like this 'betrayal' by Sam is somehow more despicable. I'd say it's much less so, both for being
far more obvious and (being impelled - according to what's presented - seemingly by his own narcissism/mental health issues)
less intentionally malignant.
Folk can and should bitch about betrayals like this all they want, but should at least be honest enough to recognize the brazen hypocrisy if they simultaneously condone or use spies