I don't usually post stuff in here but I feel like I should make some points.
I think first I should point out I was in synrgya too, though I doubt you guys from Syn will remember me much. I wasn't a major player, but having seen the kind of garbage DT dragged up and the way he led, it put me off doing much more then spamming the 'fun' section. The way the entire thing was led was poor, I knew that from the start. I asked to join, yes. My (mini) tribe originally was going nowhere, and with my (somewhat) limited experience of playing on a few worlds, I thought it would be best to join one of the bigger tribes then just get nobled when my villa got tasty enough. You shunted me into the academy, which I accepted due to the level of points. What surprised me, however, was that not one single person in either tribe thought to look up, or even ask about previous experience of members at any effective manner. Considering what I've found in other worlds' better [sarcastic air quotes] tribes, this seem to me to be a fatal flaw. On the odd occasion it came up, it was not paid any attention to. There were players there who had been in many worlds (and still were) and where very experienced, but had fewer points then some of the leaders, so who cared? In my opinion, it led directly to a complete black hole in leadership and experience, as not only did DT basically not draw on others for the help and experience he needed, he didn't even bother to find out who could. That was the key difference for me when I joined ExTerr, the first thing that came up when I asked, was my experience in w31. This happily surprised me, that they actually took note, looked me, saw what I was like - in other words, evaluated me fully and not just 'ooh he's got 100k points we'll have him' or 'he's got less than 5k points, therefore he MUST be a noob, stick him in the academy'. You guys in SYNRGY weren't quite point whores, but you were damn close. I still think looking a tribe of 200 odd members, is ridiculous. Especially when 75% are pretty much lame. Anywho, you also major problems in every department of the academy. I don't know how your main tribe worked, but I judge that you picked DT to lead (and judging by your own post you seem to admit he needed Noely's help) and therefore you had to be complicit with the way he ran things. What I saw of this was a tribe with about a million different segments, none of which were coordinated properly or had decent leaders; a mixed system that screamed 'I'm not sure what to do for the best' as far as support and offensive operations went, no idea how to aid morale other than 'We took a village, we took a village', little to no communication between the academy and the main tribe (particularly in the area of support), and so many inactives and barb noblers you may as well have just written 'this is the academy of synergy. Can you spell nuke? Do you think spears are effective nuke forces? Do you send nobles by themselves? We want you' on the tribe profile. It was embarrassing, and the one time some one tried to say [metaphorically] 'hey this tribe has a great heart but no skeletal structure, and several missing organs' (this was noely) they shut him down, said, this isn't the way we do things, don't do things with out permission, and pretty much 'there's the door'. And all he did was show that there was soooooooo many inactives that even when he circ'ed a tribal announcement we should all say we are here! Big crime, trying to make things better!
Anyway, this is just my opinion and what I saw and I could well be totally wrong, though I'd need some decent proof of that. And judging by the sudden death of Synergy Academy, I think my points are well proven. But the whole 'foot in mouth' disease thing really doesn't work. The next time you wonder why your tribe is failing, perhaps you should take a moment and think that actually, telling the people trying to help you or be a decent member that they have 'foot in mouth' disease and kicking them/nobling them/forcing them to leave may NOT be the best ways to go about strengthening the tribe. You should try to do something you obviously found hard (kinda like DT) and LISTEN. It's not hard. I could teach you if you like.
But anyway, listen to me doing exactly what I don't like about these forums sometimes and debasing myself to almost the pettiest level I can reach. On that note, I really hate it when people say 'the stats show this' or 'it shows with the stats'. The stats tell you nothing really (sorry Noely, again just my opinion). Particularly on a players worth. I agree it can back you up (as it does in this case N) but really it cannot be a proof in and of itself.
Anyway, whatever. This is tiring. I just like to see the continuing war of 50 members odd of ExTerr against the formiddable might of the several hundred members of the Synergy fam. Even if you somehow won, you can hardly boast about it. You're so many times bigger in members alone this should be a cakewalk. The fact its not is just a tribute to either our awesomeness or your failsomeness. I don't mind which tbh
But then again, like I said, you have to many internal problems to be an effective tribe any more imo. Though I got many laughs out of watching you guys fail so hard. A slight tip: if the villa is so heavily stacked that you do so little damage after 9 nukes, GIVE UP. It's just self-inflicted wounds, and it makes for some pretty funny fail. Come on, surely you can work out that sending more nukes, even if you clear the village, just leaves more of your own vulnerable and you with far fewer troops. For 1 (empty except for support) villa. You don't even know where the support was coming from so you can't strike at those who lost troops, but they know where you sent your nukes from. Little vulnerable, don't you think?
Anyway, it's all my opinion. It's up to you guys to make of it what you will. I will do the cliché though.
Go ExTerr!
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