A tribes greatest strength comes from the players it has in it at the end of the day. I've only ever started a world once in a premade and to be fair it was the best and most efficient start to a world I have. We used skype for communication from the outset, 24 hr sitting and farming rotated around several people and we were a group of players who had met by random in a previous world and some others brought in id never met before. Everyone who is experienced and plays the game seriously, and intends to play the game world and do well will want that kind of set up from the start. So this can cluster all the most experienced players into groups.
Sometimes pre-mades will even communicate before hand with each other and choose different quadrants of the core especially if the people setting up the various ones know each other and have played with each other. Nothing wrong with that I guess because its experienced, dedicated to the game players lining up for an interesting world with a successful tribe. The first aim for a tribe being continent dominance of there starting K.
One thing we have to think about though is where this leaves everyone else. If you start on a core continent as a player not in a premade then your already surrounded by a lot of people going to be gunning for you. People will band together as it is the nature of the game. It is tribal wars after all. Currently in w3 I joined a tribe purely on the basis that I liked the name of the tribe leader, reminded me of an anime I watch. This tribe has 9 allies and a nap, I have plenty red and plenty blue around me to play in. Everything looks good, well it doesn't look good, but I'll get onto that later.
Tribes like this, and there are similar ones all around litter the core continents and make up the bulk of players. There will be a whole range of people, new players, people trying out there 2nd or 3rd world, probably never played with different units or the settings this world has and still have a lot to learn and some experienced players who have played several worlds. Out of these players there tribes are formed. Then we have our world ready to go.
The premade's and there personalities will begin coming out on the worlds forums, as has been mentioned by people above there can be a lot of arrogance shown. This will generally be directed at everyone else. The best example I can give to show what I mean by this is say a top 20 tribes at the start of the world. People who are known and experienced players, probably in a premade will do there top 20. At the very worst they will pick out the premades they recognize and make comments about how they feel there growth will be and big them up, while everyone else on the list who has made a tribe, banded enough people together to make it into the top 20 at the start will just be labeled as fail or family tribe.
These kind of players as well will be the first to cut down any kind of forum fun and propaganda too. Very rare is p&p well received on the forums when its between tribes the elitist havent heard about and care not for because there not in the pre-made club of the elite. So what you might be thinking if your one of these kind of posters and players. But you have to consider that there are people playing the game and learning. Tribe leaders, and good ones are few and far between when you consider the size of our player base but there is constantly new people joining the game, and out of them potential good leaders, people who will step up with a bit of experience and say this world im gonna make my own tribe and lead it. People who have run tribes and played at the higher levels of there infrastructure will know it is hard work to lead and run a tribe. Well not hard work, it is only a game, but it is time intensive and requires a lot of attention sometimes.
But these people have already been labeled to fail publicly on the forums by elitists. Most likely ultimately there tribe will be swallowed anyway by the local premade that started around them. So not only did there tribe fail, which it always is going to anyway as there is premades around you with the top skilled players from around the world but your also mocked from the outside that its going to happen. We stifle development of people who have the potential to step up and make the game more entertaining and diverse.
Something to think about. Im not saying premades and groups of the top players together are bad. If you want to do well in a world, your more guaranteed a good start, especially if you start in a reasonably sized premade and its lucky enough to not have much competition from other premades in your K. Continent dominance and then off into the later stages of the game where you can involve yourslef in some real large warfare is almost guaranteed. But the people knowing this is going to be how their world starts should sometimes chill out a little, theres no need to grief everyone else and label them as fail. Its easy to become arrogant when your in a position for a good round playing with the best of the best, it can become easy to mock others.
As I was saying my tribe has 10 allies but one thing I know is im not safe and I will probably probably be taken out on W3 as a name I recognise from net forums already scouted me and by looking at there growth must of been farming and playing/account sat 24 hrs. I asked my tribe for an us player to maybe account sit me over night during protection but I think half of them didnt even understand why I was asking for one
Also, a premade on W1 I gained much respect for, as right at the start of the game world they posted p&p saying they were going to war with there entire continent and did so from the outset. No agreements, no deals they just came out and said to everyone, you dont see many tribes doing that at the start of the world.
I digress, im not going to sum what I said as it would just be more waffle to an already long post.
