They why the hell wouldn't you bring along a much stronger proportion of long term players focused on seeing the server out ? Winning a world doesn't necessarily need the tribe be very good but it does demand a certain level of longevity, you're not going to meet those winning conditions before 5 villages. So if your objective is to win Uk9, then why would the leadership recruit a tribe where half the people are start up specialists who quit before 5 villages ? (Mind you the early game affectations of these guys aren't a secret to anybody).
Who was recruiting for the premade ?
I brought along late gamers as well to equal out the start up players. Fact is, people still quit. Late gamers seemed to believe late game would never come and left as well. The world was deemed "boring" from a day or so in.
See if (in your own words), most of the active players chose to leave with spark, what that shows that they agree with sparks, that sparks was right. Quite frankly if the leadership of KTHX cannot retain the loyalty of most of its active players (regardless of Sparks individually) then the leaderships of KTHX must have been making some very major mistakes. Otherwise why would most of their active players leave the tribe and attack their old tribe ?
And on a different level, if your plan is to win Uk9, then why would you stop paying attention or logging in ? Thats not how you win worlds. And quite frankly why would you expect Sparks and the people who left with her to have any faith in in the tribe if you as the leader stop paying attention to the server?
Like I said, that's fault for not being dominant in the latter part of this debacle. My time went from being able to play actively to barely being able to touch my PC (still like that tbh). The fact is, the core of the tribe had quit, start up'ers and late gamers. Some of the people (most actually?) Sparks took were from the merge. I guess in a way, it's as if Sparks left to another tribe and became leader and taking a few from her previous tribe.
So my opinion is very obviously one sided. That doesn't mean the opinion isn't dead on accurate. Admittedly my reasons for airing criticism of KTHX as a poor tribe is because I'm friends with sparks, but doesn't mean those criticisms are not valid.
Infact, you have come here and supported that by telling us how half the tribe went inactive after early game, and how the leadership didn't give a damn and how the most of the active members had more faith in a renegade like sparks who didn't like the tribe from the beginning than they did in the tribe itself.
You know what you just described ? A very poor tribe.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but dead on accurate is another story. I did give a damn about leadership. I was giving up time and effort for the tribe. Was I there when things went down? Mostly, no. Was it because I didn't care? No. It's not really that people had more faith in Sparks, it's mostly that loyalty to a tribe is a distant idea to TW. It's not a secret people will jump boats at the sign of danger.
Was KTHX a "pervis" tribe? No. Was it a poor tribe? No. It was a tribe founded on certain ideals. The core of those ideals diminished and so did the tribe. Who's fault was it? Mine, inactivity, Sparks, disloyalty. But those are all excuses. I really don't care for debating for or against anything UK9 anymore. KTHX was never meant to be "elite" or anything. It was meant to just be what is was, a tribe I enjoyed leading and had fun playing with the people I liked (for the most part). Things got serious and the idea of "winning" the world entered discussion. Continuity of the tribe was given effort. It's still here, but for the most part, everything "KTHX" is dead and gone.
