Errrr . . . turned on a tribe that was large and had a lead at rank 1 but inactive and lay bare their inactivity by nobling those inactive accounts that somehow the tribe did not do anything about (presumably to keep them around for points) ?
That sounds like an exposition to me.
I'm not going on about that being some of hard task to do. But basically speaking every world in this server seems to have a premade like KTHX take the lead at rank 1 and face no competition (as you say).
The reason why they face no competition is because the rest of the tribes do not pick on them. Presumably because they expect they cannot win.
And unless the myth of name packed premades (packed by .uk standards, they're usually not all that) being invincible breaks, I don't think there is a good likelyhood of fostering the kind of competition everyone says is lacking.
By exposing how truly fragile KTHX was I do believe sparks has gone some way to killing that myth. More needs to be done in other worlds but sure you can see my point. Everybody here is telling me that KTHX was very inactive and very weak at the time sparks made her move, but I don't really think the rest of the server unrelated to the situation knew that. Thats what sparks exposed and I don't think everyone has one of hanging in their bedrooms..
I have no problems with premades with a lot of (comparatively) decent players in them. I just dislike it when the server buckles without going after them and they get away with their inactivity and incompetence - oftentimes by merging before these weaknesses are revealed (and bigging up how great they were before the merge).
We had tribes take us on from the start, Ruffus's tribe, and Outlaw (led by Deb/clyde if I remember right?). There's a few reasons to why Kthx failed. Over half the players, (qrasticus, detlef, garg, luke, tim, matt avy...the list is long) quit before 5 villages.
Yes, the tribe was fairly inactive at the moment Sparks pulled her move. We had 3-4 accounts being sat which were "supposed" to come back. But still, we had a solid active core of players. Sparks pulled her move, took most of the active players and then the active left, left the tribe.
Part of it is my fault. I severely dropped time logging in, or even paying attention. BT was given a load he wasn't ready for.
Basically, your opinion of KTHX is very one-sided. Sparks disliked the merge, and yet didn't confront me. Sparks consistently blames "lowering the winning conditions", which I never stated nor supported (at least for the time being). The fact remains that most of KTHX's players were here (and still are on UK9) for personal gain and "fun". I've played that way before. But on UK9 I played to win, not to cater to the world, not to have "fun" (winning is fun to me, however boring it may be at times).
