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The last week has shown me that I won't be able to guarantee these kinds of posts on a weekly basis, it simply takes too much time to be able to keep the same standard of quality to be able to fit it in a weekly schedule. That's why the title will consist of an edition rather than a week number.
The North-Western special is a clear example of this issue, due to time constraints I leaned too much on the info that was presented to me by a singular person which has caused a few mistakes in my previous post so I'd like to set at least some of them straight.
The DRAGON hostilities towards TTS did not stop since DoW had declared war on them, Penetier not capping barbs in their territory was no more than a coincidence. TTS has defended more than one planned attack by DRAGON, due to not losing villages however, it wasn't as easy to spot.
As you can see the Matkustaja account in DRAGON tried to take advantage of TTS being occupied by attacking a player in the TTS area but he got walled.
Matkustaja isn't the only DRAGON member moving into TTS territory, dl08 and Titan hydra have done the same thing.
Updated ToW vs. -TU- Situation
This morning (27-01) the cooldown between ToW and -TU- ended, but from what I heard, some -TU- members started sending attacks early, breaking the cooldown.
Even more old DoW members screaming -TU- are backstabbers, just what the doctor ordered...
-TU- opening op is supposedly landing on 28-01 22st so definitely keeping my eye out for that one.
DRAGON's plan seems to be to wait out the first wave and eat ToW if they crack.
Another interesting piece of info here, -TU- has a leak within their council. Somehow the plans made within -TU- council were known to DRAGON leadership before they even announced them to the rest of -TU- so I'm curious how this newly patched up relationship between DRAGON and -TU- fares under this fact.
Retina's Future
After weeks of warring BOT, Retina has come to the end of their time. BIO couldn't advance fast enough so they ended up aiming for a merge with BOT. WalkWithMe is a notoriously distrustful duke which was only worsened by his top players leaving him for BIO a month ago. The fact that Retina once had an alliance with BOT caused him to not be interested in taking them in and the war continued. After defending the BOT ops very well for a few weeks as well as their continued efforts to sort out a merger, Retina finally got BOT to agree to a ceasefire to negotiate the exact terms. Some funky stuff happened with this ceasefire though. Originally, Retina was under fire from BOT as well as their two allies, VK and SUSA. VK honored the ceasefire BOT had agreed to but SUSA refused to and continued attacking Retina, claiming they had spent too many resources on hitting them and were close to a breakthrough. They found a little bit of success but at what cost?
Regardless of the SUSA hiccup, Retina and BOT managed to find agreeable terms for a merger, and today some members from Retina joined the BOT family. There's a catch to this agreement though. Retina has to give up a decent amount of villages though for this deal to be made, supposedly to also keep the allies of BOT happy. Odd though that you'd have to give up villages to be able to join a tribe. For example, the McCree account who's done very well in terms of defending in this war is losing about 75% of their account. Seems like a very desperate agreement to settle for.
The trust from BOT in the SUSA/BOT alliance is damaged because of SUSA refusing to honor the ceasefire agreed to by BOT. Might even lead to a war in the near future.
BIO vs DIA War
Let's include some war stats!
For a war declared on the externals by a tribe who's 10 times larger than the tribe they are declaring on, this for sure is disappointing to see.
Especially since the morale within DIA is so bad they've started attempting to flee to the rim.
The DRAGON/Nuke merge
Something everyone saw coming has finally become a reality. Seems BIO is finally no longer the king of family tribes, DRAGON has taken that throne with their 6 family tribe.
6 I hear you ask? I only count 5. Apart from DRAGON, HYDRA, WYVERN, Nuke, and NukeII, Rlease is sort of a basher/friend kinda tribe, so we also have to count that one.
In other news, Nocturne who previously took control over Nuke has now also become very important within DRAGON leadership. Abel (Bobonfire account owner who plays on Nocturne) has also started trying to bring in some of his close Swedish friends so the quality in DRAGON surely has been going up since the Nocturne account has stepped up.
Noobs United
Nocturne did it again, took a good amount of villages of a BIO account.
Upon noticing the internal of a BIO account on their frontline, the Nocturne guys decided to launch on it instantly with success, they managed to cap 7 villages.
Not sure how BIO allowed this to happen in the first place. Nocturne is one of the only few capable accounts on the western frontline of BIO, the DIA accounts north of Nocturne really don't pose much of a threat, but somehow they couldn't get enough defense together to allow the internal to be executed smoothly. Just dreadful.
BIO Instability
There seem to be a number of instabilities within BIO. There have been some people in and out of leadership but the most glaring issue within leadership at this point in time seems to be the complete opposite philosophy of multiple people within the council. One half feels like to want to push around everyone else around in the world since they are the biggest tribe in the world which manifests itself in actions such as the recruitment of BOT members. On the other end of the spectrum, there are people who've criticized these choices and prefer to make some friends in the world instead of just enemies. So far this struggle seems to be having a negative effect on their decisiveness.
Apart from that, there continues to be a group of players in BIO who continue "bending" the rules. I'll show you what I mean.
In the core of BIO (marked in black) a number of small villages have started appearing in the last 2 weeks highlighted in the red boxes.
This is in the core, not the rim, so not a natural place for new players to join in.
The conclusion we can draw is that someone is creating new accounts and using the relocate/join near a friend feature to artificially create a higher density of villages in the core of BIO which of course helps with better flag boosting when the villages are in BIO possession as well as just having more villages within the area they control. This exact behavior has been seen in worlds before, specifically, a world where BIO players such as Rajasit played, W107.
It gets better. The tribe players such as Rajasit and xixjapanxix were in on 107 was called Mafia. There were a large number of accounts in the Mafia family at the time, but in merger discussions at the time they claimed only a small amount of them were actual accounts, the rest could just stay in Mafia.
Back to 117 since this is the world at hand. BIO has allied a tribe called Mafia which has some players randomly throughout the BIO cluster but last week, a new Mafia tribe appeared.
So some of the tiny villages I've pointed out before actually joined together in a tribe created by someone from Thailand. Such a coincidence that Mr.Eggman and his crew are also from Thailand
At a first glance it seems like these accounts quit at different points in time due to the varying points per player, but let's take a look at the tribal file.
As we can see, these accounts were all created within the same 24 hours and haven't grown a single point each, very suspiciously joining in the middle of a core tribe.
Regardless of what I've pointed out here, sending in support tickets is a pointless thing to do. They use VPN's as well as mac address spoofing software so they will never meet the criteria to receive a ban, however, it has gotten to the point where some in BIO leadership no longer want them to be part of BIO. The accounts they view to be the ones that take part in these practices as well as accounts they consider push accounts have all been moved to BIO3. They are now more viewed as an alliance rather than an academy tribe to BIO. According to some, keeping them as an ally is something they're fine with while others claim they're just waiting for the right chance to be able to force internal them. I guess the next few weeks will show the stance of BIO leadership of practices like these.
The North-Western special is a clear example of this issue, due to time constraints I leaned too much on the info that was presented to me by a singular person which has caused a few mistakes in my previous post so I'd like to set at least some of them straight.
The DRAGON hostilities towards TTS did not stop since DoW had declared war on them, Penetier not capping barbs in their territory was no more than a coincidence. TTS has defended more than one planned attack by DRAGON, due to not losing villages however, it wasn't as easy to spot.
As you can see the Matkustaja account in DRAGON tried to take advantage of TTS being occupied by attacking a player in the TTS area but he got walled.
Matkustaja isn't the only DRAGON member moving into TTS territory, dl08 and Titan hydra have done the same thing.
Updated ToW vs. -TU- Situation
This morning (27-01) the cooldown between ToW and -TU- ended, but from what I heard, some -TU- members started sending attacks early, breaking the cooldown.
Even more old DoW members screaming -TU- are backstabbers, just what the doctor ordered...
-TU- opening op is supposedly landing on 28-01 22st so definitely keeping my eye out for that one.
DRAGON's plan seems to be to wait out the first wave and eat ToW if they crack.
Another interesting piece of info here, -TU- has a leak within their council. Somehow the plans made within -TU- council were known to DRAGON leadership before they even announced them to the rest of -TU- so I'm curious how this newly patched up relationship between DRAGON and -TU- fares under this fact.
Retina's Future
After weeks of warring BOT, Retina has come to the end of their time. BIO couldn't advance fast enough so they ended up aiming for a merge with BOT. WalkWithMe is a notoriously distrustful duke which was only worsened by his top players leaving him for BIO a month ago. The fact that Retina once had an alliance with BOT caused him to not be interested in taking them in and the war continued. After defending the BOT ops very well for a few weeks as well as their continued efforts to sort out a merger, Retina finally got BOT to agree to a ceasefire to negotiate the exact terms. Some funky stuff happened with this ceasefire though. Originally, Retina was under fire from BOT as well as their two allies, VK and SUSA. VK honored the ceasefire BOT had agreed to but SUSA refused to and continued attacking Retina, claiming they had spent too many resources on hitting them and were close to a breakthrough. They found a little bit of success but at what cost?
Regardless of the SUSA hiccup, Retina and BOT managed to find agreeable terms for a merger, and today some members from Retina joined the BOT family. There's a catch to this agreement though. Retina has to give up a decent amount of villages though for this deal to be made, supposedly to also keep the allies of BOT happy. Odd though that you'd have to give up villages to be able to join a tribe. For example, the McCree account who's done very well in terms of defending in this war is losing about 75% of their account. Seems like a very desperate agreement to settle for.
The trust from BOT in the SUSA/BOT alliance is damaged because of SUSA refusing to honor the ceasefire agreed to by BOT. Might even lead to a war in the near future.
BIO vs DIA War
Let's include some war stats!
Side 1:
Tribes: DIA, CAR
Side 2:
Tribes: BIO, BIO2, BIO3, BIO A
Timeframe: Last week
Total conquers:
Side 1: 68
Side 2: 1,069
Difference: 1,001
Total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 3
Side 2: 22
Difference: 19
Points value of total conquers:
Side 1: 367,252
Side 2: 3,801,194
Difference: 3,433,942
Points value of total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 17,700
Side 2: 122,571
Difference: 104,871
Tribes: DIA, CAR
Side 2:
Tribes: BIO, BIO2, BIO3, BIO A
Timeframe: Last week
Total conquers:
Side 1: 68
Side 2: 1,069
Difference: 1,001
Total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 3
Side 2: 22
Difference: 19
Points value of total conquers:
Side 1: 367,252
Side 2: 3,801,194
Difference: 3,433,942
Points value of total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 17,700
Side 2: 122,571
Difference: 104,871
Especially since the morale within DIA is so bad they've started attempting to flee to the rim.
The DRAGON/Nuke merge
Something everyone saw coming has finally become a reality. Seems BIO is finally no longer the king of family tribes, DRAGON has taken that throne with their 6 family tribe.
6 I hear you ask? I only count 5. Apart from DRAGON, HYDRA, WYVERN, Nuke, and NukeII, Rlease is sort of a basher/friend kinda tribe, so we also have to count that one.
In other news, Nocturne who previously took control over Nuke has now also become very important within DRAGON leadership. Abel (Bobonfire account owner who plays on Nocturne) has also started trying to bring in some of his close Swedish friends so the quality in DRAGON surely has been going up since the Nocturne account has stepped up.
Noobs United
Nocturne did it again, took a good amount of villages of a BIO account.
Upon noticing the internal of a BIO account on their frontline, the Nocturne guys decided to launch on it instantly with success, they managed to cap 7 villages.
Not sure how BIO allowed this to happen in the first place. Nocturne is one of the only few capable accounts on the western frontline of BIO, the DIA accounts north of Nocturne really don't pose much of a threat, but somehow they couldn't get enough defense together to allow the internal to be executed smoothly. Just dreadful.
BIO Instability
There seem to be a number of instabilities within BIO. There have been some people in and out of leadership but the most glaring issue within leadership at this point in time seems to be the complete opposite philosophy of multiple people within the council. One half feels like to want to push around everyone else around in the world since they are the biggest tribe in the world which manifests itself in actions such as the recruitment of BOT members. On the other end of the spectrum, there are people who've criticized these choices and prefer to make some friends in the world instead of just enemies. So far this struggle seems to be having a negative effect on their decisiveness.
Apart from that, there continues to be a group of players in BIO who continue "bending" the rules. I'll show you what I mean.
This is in the core, not the rim, so not a natural place for new players to join in.
It gets better. The tribe players such as Rajasit and xixjapanxix were in on 107 was called Mafia. There were a large number of accounts in the Mafia family at the time, but in merger discussions at the time they claimed only a small amount of them were actual accounts, the rest could just stay in Mafia.
Back to 117 since this is the world at hand. BIO has allied a tribe called Mafia which has some players randomly throughout the BIO cluster but last week, a new Mafia tribe appeared.
So some of the tiny villages I've pointed out before actually joined together in a tribe created by someone from Thailand. Such a coincidence that Mr.Eggman and his crew are also from Thailand
At a first glance it seems like these accounts quit at different points in time due to the varying points per player, but let's take a look at the tribal file.
Regardless of what I've pointed out here, sending in support tickets is a pointless thing to do. They use VPN's as well as mac address spoofing software so they will never meet the criteria to receive a ban, however, it has gotten to the point where some in BIO leadership no longer want them to be part of BIO. The accounts they view to be the ones that take part in these practices as well as accounts they consider push accounts have all been moved to BIO3. They are now more viewed as an alliance rather than an academy tribe to BIO. According to some, keeping them as an ally is something they're fine with while others claim they're just waiting for the right chance to be able to force internal them. I guess the next few weeks will show the stance of BIO leadership of practices like these.
