sigh... people call me the tribal hugger, while we have tribes all around trying to unite to stop us.. raven u sound desperate. We dont think this world will be over in a few months. Keep up your recruiting efforts, they may just pay off one day.. but then.. will that tribe be put in the spot light for mass circing the world to fight against 1 tribe? :| have i not declared war against enough tribes? I dont know what it is you expect to see form our tribe.. or is it you just want us gone, but i think you can honestly say, we have fought to where we are no? This world is far form over, there is still many tribes to defeat, we have our work cut out for us... atleast give us that pls... :| nobody is rolling over.. anyways, srry just tired of reading your mass mails..
Well, thanks for the well wishes on the recruiting. We are now ranked #9 - but that was never my intention. Many of the warriors we have are not the ones I intended. I think our ranking is more a reflection of the end state of this world. We are not and don't pretend to be a "legit" tribe - more of a coallition at least until and if we prove otherwise.
And, it does sound a bit doom in gloom - for the audience I wrote it for. 3/4 of the map has significant challenges left - and I agree with you - Storm has much work to do. But, look at the PnP - at least twice members of Storm have already talked about their win in record time - as if that is a forgone conclusion - all that is missing is the final date. I didn't see you come about against their assertion either, so don't blame me if I use their own words in my propaganda.
The SW corner of the world - what is left there? I just heard there will be fight left in the reformed BOS - for this I am glad. But, other than them and ~WS~, what is left?
No one wants to fight, they all want to join and barb noble - even SOA now has an academy for christs sake! REALLY? there are THAT many highly skilled players left down here that we have to just keep them all?
I've had all kinds of replies to my circ - public and private. But no one has yet said I was wrong - well, correction, no one has said I'm wrong and THEN GIVEN examples of other options in the SW.
I see the options as:
1) Join Storm F and fight Deus, long range
2) barb noble
3) barb noble + <killing off semi active semi skilled semi tribes>
4) Fight the remnants of BOS reformed.
5) Quit
6) Fight Storm
7) Fight SOA
For me,
#1 - I want to be on Deus' side, personal choice, so pass
#2 - boring. Been there, done that. Only joy I get is holding K75 dominance over SIGHT, but even that is now empty - he and his co-horts could take that from me if they so chose. They don't out of respect for prior relations, but its at their leisure I hold that position
#3 - slightly less boring but still not enough to keep me here
#4 - they are on my side
#5 - always a choice, one some wish I had made long ago!
#6 - ON IT!
#7 - I prefer not to, for the same reasons my former mates are leaving me alone elsewhere. Say what you want about MANIC leadership, but the members of MANIC were/are awesome!
So, many will say I'm wrong. But they will then say "we have plans".
Storm's plan, correct me if I'm wrong wiz, is to beat Deus and then petition for the closure of this world -in record time. If you accomplish this, truly you and your long term mates have an accomplishment for the ages. Those that joined after the fall of MANIC - not so much but if it helps them sleep at night - knock yourself out!
My question remains - in the time we have left in this world - what will you spend your time doing? Which of the 7 in the SW?
It doesn't matter if you have plans - if and when Storm beats Deus, they will ask the world to be closed. If that request is denied, Storm will attack the next biggest tribe out there who is not Storm 1 or Storm 2, so that the world can be closed and they can be declared the winners.
And yes, Wiz, you have fought. And you have merged. I don't fault you for either - look at the results. Some may not like "the style" but we all have to admit you have been successful - at both. I don't hate Storm - I'm just on Deus' side. I'm not mass circing to fight one tribe, but two <ok small point>.
But still, you can't really fault me for trying to rally up some support in my effort to stand against Storm 1 and 2?
The only thing I find lacking in your success is not your fault. MANIC folded. Some gave up and deleted. Some formed an academy for you - or whatever - independent tribe of little world significance <way more than ~WS~ but still....>. Some joined you.
Instead of having a great war, you won by default. Its not your fault that MANIC did what it did. Perhaps b/c I was personally involved in it, I still feel - unsatisfied. STORMF did apply the pressure that exposed the fatal flaws - something no other tribe had done to date. But, still, its not as complete or satisfying a result as it would have been if you had taken 10% of our villages and players first. Or even 1%.
How would you - well, and your tribe mates feel, if Deus gave up next week and 3/4 of them "joined" you? Storm F would hold what - 90% of the world? Game over. Fun over. All our hard work, over. 90% of us won. I just won't be in that number. Or, will the Deus members NOT be allowed to join like MANIC was? Really? Manic members deserve to "win" more than Deus?
The longer this gets, the more convinced I am that I am making the right choice, for me. If, from time to time, I reach out and look for others who feel the same way I do - well, that is my right.
And, P.S. - you don't have to read my circs. I didn't send it to storm this time - just SOA. If they are so "independent" then it really didn't concern you - why did someone send it to you? Or was the only time you saw this when chlorine posted it?