Wait why was the merge done? not to avoid a future small % fighting chance? and to counter balance RAM?
Because Decide wasnt high enough for BH and RAM standards as it was? :icon_evil:
+isnt this taking place during the war with RAn
This world will be relativelly alive as long RAM doesnt get killed too fast lol.
After that will be a waste land exactly like i said w14 looks like.
I can't speak for BH anymore than you can, so at this point, both of us are working in theories. That said, you believe the merge is reactionary to RAM due to timing. This would make sense if we are shirking logic to take the merge at face value. And I'm guessing you didn't follow the
link in my first post that offers said logic, given that you have nothing new to counter any of it. But for the sake of a post, here are
my theories:
Was Decide enough on its own? Stats indicate they were, and history shows their players' tenacity and fortitude, so in terms of skill, I would argue yes, inasmuch as the tribe itself felt like continuing as it was.
Why was the merge done? I'll give you several logical reasons: Because Decide, being long time allies with Hammer, has a personal tie with BH. (Friendship). Because BH shares the same long term plan, and tribal philosophy as Decide. (Culture.) Because Decide is a very small tribe of skilled players with a handful of dead accounts. (Size.) And because Decide and BH have successfully worked together in the past. (History.)
Considering this logic, why wouldn't Decide merge with BH? The only two reasons I could think is to either keep a name, or to worry about an image (joining a Family). But neither names nor images win worlds.
The merge took place during a war, so isn't it reactionary? No. There is a term for this assumption, it's commonly known as
post hoc, or the fallacy that since X followed Z, then Z is the cause of X. I already countered this false cause best in my link, but here's an addendum: It seems that neither Decide nor BH care much about what the world thinks of their merge; they seem more interested in doing it correctly rather than doing it popularly. It is my thought that the idea of a merge began before the RAM war, but that the details of the merge, the layout of the split BH, interviews, tests, etcetera all took time, and the two tribes saw no reason to hold off on war to accommodate these things.
Will this world end too quick if RAM goes down? As I said in another thread, I don't agree with this. It is my thought that, out of the ashes of RAM, we will see a great many skilled players broken of paradigms with the opportunity to spark a new force, and this may very well rival even the now mighty BH; whereas in its current state, RAM has no chance of long term survival.
In closing, we can look at the merge and make face value assumptions, or we can give it some thought, and try to see it from a broader angle. Either way, as I said, these are our theories, our opinions, and given the above logic, I can agree to disagree.
