Mid-week Express has been published, above the latest edition. clicky for lazies
I enjoy reading the newspaper and usually agree with most if not all of the stuff in it however I do not agree with this mid-week addition.
I know the media likes to portray things as bad and worse than they are because it sells, this is a free paper so this must be your opinion which your entitled to however I disagree.
Yes good players will leave (perhaps more than usual in this case due to lack of action admittedly) but they will be replaced, this world is so young so much can change. Trust in the rim to produce some quality (not necessarily the current rim but the future rim).
Don't get me wrong I like frst and think its future looks great but they need to make the most of it as threats will emerge. I know there are current threats but without a gang bang I can't see anything too major.
My view on what has happened:
Old world settings attracted people who have just rejoined from extended brakes (like me), unlike me they remembered why they took that brake e.g. time issues, they leave once again.
We had a boom of people joining (world started) all booms are followed by recessions, join : stay ratio, think about it.
Chain reaction - people see people leave they do to, there will always be people who will see it out till the end.
...I predict it will be core supper tribe(s) created from the boom of the start of the world v future rim supper tribe(s) created from the boom just before the world closes to players joining (when it is at the top of the list).
To conclude:
The worlds life is so long you can make predictions but they are based on only a small part of the worlds life therefore reducing the reliability of the predictions (including my own), I haven't looked at the first few worlds for some time but I am not aware of any singular tribe that can "claim ownership of the entire world" they are in - waiting for someone to prove me wrong :lol:.