Seeing as I was the one to start this thread, I might as well start with my own bits of truth. I started this game when Filius told me about it. The tribe he was in at the time, *I*, had already reached their maximum number of players, so I was put in VF-A as someone who would rise through the ranks and spy for *I*. I joined maybe a week before *I* declared war on THOR, and before long the original *I* crumbled. Seemingly from JINXO's perceived betrayal.
In VF-A I seemed to make an impression. I gained power quickly because I was given all the info I needed in terms of strategy. I was emailed everything in terms of how to build armies, to cutting trains, to sending effective fakes, and with that knowledge I formed alliances with the players around me, and single handedly took out the leadership of the top guild in K69, and in the process made it a VF dominated continent.
I continued to grow, VF went to war with MP and pushed north into their territory rather quickly. The MP tribes started to merge, and what I assume were some of their allies (BarBar, Angels, ect) merged into them as well. The relationship between PTT, and VF at the time seemed strong, and all was going well.
Then VF just died. Their academy was left to pretty much fend for itself. By this time I had become a fairly influential member, and from what I heard, I was on the brink of joining the parent tribe before it all came down. *I* had reformed itself in the death of VF, and had offered VF-A to become an academy tribe for them. In the end Filius and I decided I should go to PTT to continue spying for *I*. The whispers of *I* intending to just eat their academy after a time, or just outright abandoning the idea just sealed the deal, and most players on my continent followed suit and went to PTT.
We were put in PTT-R mainly as storage, and I suspect to see who would really be worth keeping in the tribe if any. Some of us had potential, but many of us were pretty worthless. For some reason PTT-G, and B kept us around though, and I became the unofficial Duke of the tribe for several months before getting the actual title. Relations between PTT-G, and *I* began to fracture quickly due to Irispeace's issues with how *I* was going about things. She wanted to much, and *I* didn't want to give her all she wanted. For months I played diplomat the best I could while constantly feeding info to Filius. During this time I also pushed for PTT to deal with the long time Serbian issue. For those of you who weren't aware of the problem, a large number of Serbian players were in PTT, particularly PTT-G. They are a group of people with so much national pride that they will defend other Serbians despite tribal affiliation. This became an issue when members of PTT would attack such a player, and defense came from his own tribe. Eventually we took out the Serbian tribes, and eliminated any traitors. I felt this was an important weakness to address. Also for a time Filius himself led PTT-R as Duke. It was him who had Meklar merge into us, and in the process gave us a stronger presence in the south.
My goal with PTT-R, was to form a strong boarder tribe by waring with TATEC, and then either pushing against -WE- on our one continent boarder, giving aid to PTT-G when/if they went to war with *I*, or if the alliance held to send massive support to our FxF/PTT-B boarder. Filius and I also discussed the possibility of using PTT-R to attack PTT-B/G's vulnerable boarders and give *I* a chance to deal a stronger blow, but the idea quickly fell apart.
My greatest failure with PTT-R was my unwillingness to share power. I knew there were spies in the tribe, and from my connection with *I* through Filius, I knew what they were capable of in terms of dismantling a tribe from the inside. VF was a testament to that. As such I tried to do everything and didn't have enough time to deal with diplomacy, internal affairs, external threats, and maintain my own villages all at the same time. Trying to do so burned me out, and we never had the time to take out the dead weight players that were pulling us down. Not all of PTT-R were bad players, but about 75% of them were stored food.
*I* switched leadership. The old Dukes were more diplomatic than the new ones, and the difference between them was clear. It got to the point where even Jason-theking-yeh and I could not negotiate with them. I knew they had some brilliant plan that under different circumstances, might have won *I* the game, but I didn't know what. *I* went to war with PTT-G, but internal arguments with the new leadership inside *I* was causing tension. Most of all on Filius who had a Duke as a spy but couldn't say so, and got frustrated when Colpo and the others kept falling for Jason-theking-yeh's false promises, and decoy info.
Apparently it all blew up one night in an argument between Filius and Colpo(?). While we were talking, Filius switched sides, and he happened to be sitting a Dukes account at the time. We came up with an idea of disbanding *I* to disrupt their operations at the start of the war. It was only a casual suggestion on my part but Filius ran with it. I told him I needed to talk with the other PTT Dukes about it, as *I* would almost assuredly think we had a hand in it unless Filius himself were willing to take the fall and lose his account in the process. The other Dukes agreed with me, but in the end gave the ok. I believe Filius went to a friends house, or the local college, so the IP address would look different, and we could use the excuse that the account was hacked. He then disbanded *I*.
It had the intended effect. *I* fell apart, and between recent leavers, the disband, and more leavers which the disband caused, they couldn't recover. Some of their villages became food. Much of *I* was taken into PTT against Jason-theking-yeh, and my wishes. I feared the destruction of PTT just as *I* had done with VF. My focus came to becoming the massive south eastern support tribe for PTT-G, and PTT-B's front lines, since standing defense I was pretty sure even the inactive players could handle sending.
Much of *I* went to -WE-, and I suspect brought it back to life. From the other side of the world, -WE- was a wild card. I didn't get why they merged with GODS to form -WE-. The whole thing made no sense, and I honestly figured they were inactive as much of the GODS had been. TFB and PTT-G/-WE- went to war, and after a while TFB asked to merge with PTT-B. Jason-theking-yeh denied them so as to not cause conflicts with Irispeace and PTT-G. They then merged with -WE- instead, and gave them a massive boost of power. The rest is pretty much recent history. -WE- beat the hell out of PTT-G, and TATEC. PTT-B and FxF only stopped fighting each other when neither could do anything, and -WE- won the world.
Now I have questions.
Does anyone know why JINXO betrayed the original *I* at the height of it's war with THOR? I mean yeah he could have done it for power, but I heard he was a brilliant player, he had to of known it wouldn't work out well for him. That is what he got banned for right?
What was the reason for MP losing so badly to VF? Was it just inactivity? Was MP a tribe that merged it's way to the top? I came in later in the world so I don't know how it formed. Was it just a tribe that burned itself out earlier in the history of the world and didn't have much drive to fight against VF? Seriously what happened there. I don't want a flame fest PTT vs FxF/MP thing again, I'm just curious.
Who were the original players in VF that orchestrated it's downfall? I knew there were people giving Xafilah bad info while manipulating the tribe, but I've never been able to find out who exactly it was. As much as it scared the hell out of me at the time, that whole thing was executed masterfully. Also why did Irispeace betray her alliance with VF? I know she had a hand as she frequently told me she thought the second incarnation of *I* needed to pay her more respect for her roll in it since according to her they wouldn't have existed without her, but I don't know why or how she played a part.
Was *I*'s intention to eat the VF-A academy, or was that false intelligence?
During my time as a diplomat between PTT-G, and *I* I got pretty in depth with what was actually going on, but I assume not everything they told me was true, and if so, what? Also what was your great world changing plan? I know Colpo was forming friends in TFB, so I suspected *I* was forming an alliance with them, and most likely FxF to take out PTT. -WE- I think was assuring both sides that they were fighting with them if war broke out, but which was it really? I think Maintos or MsCheesy could as well.
Why did GODS merge with SF, and were they really as inactive as I had heard they were? The problem I had heard with GODS was they had merged their way to the top with the exception of THOR, but I've never been sure if that was just propaganda, or if it were actual truth. I know the wars between TFB, the other north western tribes, and ORION went bad, but exactly how bad? Did they really put up a fight at all?
Was the newly formed -WE- just as inactive, or were they just eating the inactive ex-GODS players, and biding their time? Did the influx of *I* players really make that much of a difference? I only saw them start to really do something after *I* fell, but why wait so long? I had just assumed *I* gave the tribe life and a hatred of PTT since they thought we had hacked *I* and caused the disband. It became very hard to speak with -WE- leadership after *I* joined them as well.
How big a part of *I*'s strategy involved tearing enemy tribes down from the inside? It was a fear we discussed in PTT often, but were our fears for good reason, or were we looking at the past and just over reacting? Mind you I'm not saying you weren't fantastic players in terms of actually going to war, hell you taught me almost everything I know, I was just wondering if the whole concept of *I* being mostly tight friends who's loyalties never faltered, and organized so well and caused so much discord among other players inside other tribes via private messages, that they ultimately couldn't function was true?
Why didn't TFB just dominate? For a long time I saw you as a wild card to. Most of the top players were members of your tribe. Why didn't Kylan just order you to devastate the north west, and push from that corner to win the world? Granted I don't know anything about the history of the north west, so what happend in that corner of the world in general? Lets hear your history.
I'd also like to know what happened up until I joined the game when the original *I* and THOR went to war. I've heard of SOCOM but I know nothing of them. How did so many Serbians get into PTT? Was PTT just a badass tribe at the start of the world and burned out? How did VF form, and what was the deal with the "Lions Brotherhood" that became *I*? I could be getting the name wrong on that part. What was it like on the FxF/PTT-B boarder? You fought a lot in the forums obviously, but there didn't seem to be all that much fighting in game based on a lot of the statistics. Were both boarders just so heavily fortified that no one ever really nobled villages, or what? I suspect it was that war which burned out a lot of PTT/VF players after it went on for so damn long.
So there you have it. Absolute truth from what I saw of the world from the time I started until now. I'd really love to keep this going if the rest of you are up for it. Give us your history, and ask questions. I can't be the only one who wants to know.
