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DC's biggest mistake ever was recruiting FUN, I'm surprised Shaun didn't see how that would have gone down, we couldn't afford the potential consequences due to their positioning - Let alone the playing ability which we were later lumbered with.
DC and DOT were pretty much in clean up mode on W00T in preparation for the final war (DC vs DOT at that stage), and all was looking well. A lot of w00t were inactive/ not putting in much effort defensively, given their circumstances you couldn't really blame them.
Then we took in FUN although many within DC were against the move. some strong players even quit due to the decision.
I must say, DOT have certainly played diplomatically smart throughout the world and as such, they used this as an alibi to switch sides and ally up with W00T. (the excuse being they took it as a hostile act and were worried, though I think they just didn't like the few million point jump DC made right before the final war) , half of DC straight up hit delete from there, slapping the tribe down from pole position to being straight in W00T's shoes. So while DC were living up to their name in absolute chaos, and W00T were still licking their wounds and beginning to play again, DOT knew they were in a great place to gain a further advantage and get their village count up munching away on the inactive accounts DC now had to offer, and they were doing so very, very quickly.
At this point W00T could have dropped their pride, analysed the situation they were in and levelled the playing field by taking in some of the remaining stronger and determined accounts within DC; BEFORE sufficient ground was gained by DOT, but unfortunately for both us and them they decided against, Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Lots of diplomatic errors have occurred throughout UK27, None in particular by DOT though. Not many of their players stand out as spectacular individuals, but wholly smart diplomacy, strong activity and solid teamwork is what has brought them to where they are now.
Just a point, i agree with most you are saying Max, however the matter of us dropping our pride had nothing to do with it. Maybe if Miv and Kriss didnt go through with the things they did (inviting all of woot to join DC) that was Kriss via mail to all members. And also Miv thinking DC had upper hand and was in the position to boss around and reject making new tribe with new council and wanted Woot to merge into DC and for DC council to run things then things would have happend much sooner than they did. it wasnt a matter of our pride but a matter of Miv thinking he was gonna win the world alone, and Kriss meddling with woot tribe members which really was where we said no to the merge.
Hence why after the few of the accounts basically got rimmed we ended up taking in the leftover broken DC members.
Either way, regarding this world its a shame it all went down to backstabbing again, i dont see how 5 active members after the tribe jumping can beat a trice their size especially how the Map looks after all the tribe jumping from the woot members.
I believe that the few actives in woot have done an amazing job till now to still be standing and regardless win or lose, (in my eyes its already lost) DOT have done well with their diplomacy and all their recruiting from their only enemies left kind of finished the world off.
There are some decent players in DOT but we all know that its mostly below average players skill wise, if you take away the original DOT members. The only reason they gained the upper hand was the jumping that fucked up the MAP isolating half the woot tribe that was left. Shame that's what they had to do to beat us but i guess a win is a win in anyone's book just how u get to that win is what makes it special or just something that happened.
Cheers
Pani