bella - he tells us that... well it would be no fun would it!?
need a bit of mystery...
keeps it exciting
back on topic - what are the alternatives to mass recruiting then? It seems that most people categorize tribes into mass recruiting and premade tribes... but i know there are other alternatives/combinations of the 2... Is it just a combination of the 2 that genuinely beats a world? What should we call the middle ground???
I can tell you for a FACT that there are more then just premades and mass recruiters.
While technically, the Saints could class as a premade, (Even though i don't think they even made the premade list) to call them a premade wouldn't exactly be accurate.
When the world started, we had 5 people from our world 3 tribe who were coming over.
We got lucky when 1 of these world 3 guys celticbhoy34 invited all his friends from his tribe in world 1. We pretty much had a recruiting policy to start of that emphasized quality over quantity. Rather then spamming invites, we wrote the players we were interested in. If they replied back, they got an invite.
This kept on until about a week after BP drop, when we hit 30-40 members. At that point we set up a recruiter to check everyones credentials. For the next few weeks, B.B. worked his butt off checking out everyone that anyone suggested.
We also got a really great find in Sherlock Holmes. He has been invaluable to the tribe, and has brought many good people in.
As you can guess, not every player recruited was any good at all. The most important thing we did was set a rule on being active.
Everyone is required to find a sitter if they will be inactive for more then 24 hours. Anyone that goes yellow gets kicked. As a result our numbers have stayed low, and we end up with active players, and a group that communicates well.
I say all this to say, you can start a high quality tribe from scratch. I knew 5 people coming into the world. Alot of it was luck, alot was the hard work of other members of the tribe, and a non-compromising approach to standards.