Now... I think we all know that barbarian nobles and internals are part of the game... inactivity, deleting, RL issues all contribute/hinder their respective tribes...
So Let's compare... I am looking at pcH, TRAIN, and RAoV (as a control)
pch has 22 members
TRAIN has 133 members
RAoV has 60 members
1. Starting with RAoV as a tribe about average of member count for the world right now, ranked 3 in the world.
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Non-tribe ennoblements: 241 conquers
29.61%
Internal ennoblements: 185 conquers
22.73%
of those non-tribe ennoblements,
71 were barbarian,
24 were less than 1,500pts
(anyone who thinks it's advantageous to noble villas less need to reevaluate their playing strategy)
2. looking at TRAIN, which is 2 times the size of RAoV and 6 times the size of pcH
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Non-tribe ennoblements: 241 conquers
40.99%
internal ennoblements: 83 conquers
14.12%
of those non-tribe ennoblements,
87 were barbarian,
47 were less than 1,500pts
3. and pcH, the smallest of the 3 compared here
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Non-tribe ennoblements: 108 conquers
33.23%
internal ennoblements: 71 conquers
21.85%
of those non-tribe ennoblements,
33 were barbarian,
0 were less than 1,500pts
What do you see here?
I see that pcH is taking advantage of growing by way of larger barbarian villages surrounding them, using the res on troops, not buildings...
I see all tribes keeping their tribe villas inside the tribe, which is a good thing...
I see that TRAIN may have admittedly taken in noobs, but they are not teaching them what are farms, and what are worthwhile villas to noble...
"the easies" would be taking out the non-tribe affiliated players around you, not recruiting them.... 40% of TRAIN's ennoblements are barbs... hope you are practicing your timing on them.