You'd be surprised at how effective a family can be, when it comes to defending each other and removing a common threat
Just look at a wolf pack
We aren't talking about Animals defending each other, we're talking about a game called Tribal Wars, if they wanted families they'd have called it Family Wars, as you can branch off a family but you can only belong to one Tribe. I've never seen a Zulu, with a group of Māori.
Family tribes lack the communication and member interest to function correctly.
You can open all the skype chats and Ingame forums you want but, they will be either:
A: Spammed
B: Die from inactivity after an initial rush of posts. Generally the threads, ''count to 100'' and ''Hello Over there'' are the lifeblood of an ingame shared forum.
Maybe a family tribe could work but it would need an enormous amount of work and effort, constant effort at that. I dont think anyone wants to offer that much free time to a tribe that will more than likely ignore it. Everyone needs to support and talk to the other tribes to set up links. It helps having an alliance first to have basic links set up. Usually even in alliances communication is poor other than through the leaders. :icon_rolleyes: