I think we knew IMP, Virius and IT wont fight each other.. they are hugging as 'one massive family tribe'.
We're hugging as 'one massive family tribe' with tribes that we don't have any official relationship with one and the other only a NAP? :icon_neutral:
If you're going to say it that way then you might as well count the GA in there as well.. I believe they spoke to us once..
While we're at it, I'm going to assume that PnP, LT, =BCB=, and Dr. NO is in a hugfest as well and are just as well 'one massive family tribe'.
Now let's move past these assumptions and take a look at reality. IT! has players that are rl friends with IMP players. These players formed friendships in rl and it carried over in game.. simple enough. From these small friendships there have been a few friendships form between other IT! members and other IMP members. So a lot of both of our tribes are friendly with each other.. however this doesn't mean we will never attack them and that they will never attack us. For the most part relations have been good between us but there have been moments where we've seriously brought up and considered possibilities of attacking them. Now that we've merged with SW1FT we see that they had apparently considered the same at times before.
As far as ViRiUs goes, we had them on our enemy list for nearly a year before removing them from our diplomacy altogether and I've heard that they've had us on their enemy list several times before as well. Ugofree even technically declared war on us at least two times that I can remember.. maybe even more than that. ViRiUs even once posted biased war stats when things with KoN were stirring up to try and further tarnish our name at the time.
With IMP I just see a few friendships that have made relations more friendly but there has still been the possibility of aggression between us and with ViRiUS we've never even shared a NAP that I can remember. So really.. where are you getting that we're hugging and 'one massive family tribe' just because we're not attacking them right now?