Ikpeip wrote:If you meant "explain to me your goal [as the Tribe]..."
The Tribe's goals are somewhat ambiguous (there is no Tribal Mission Statement), but among them is the intent to be the sole dominant power in Providence. You and the other fellows crying foul in this thread and others are missing the point entirely. Killing you was not about showing our dominance over you. Killing you was about showing our dominance over our detractors. Our foes knew where Mikus was today. They knew what he was doing. They wanted him to stop, and were incapable of doing anything about it. There are a lot of propagandists on these forums who will try to convince new players (and on some level, themselves) that the Tribe over-represents our dominance; that we are not as uncontested as we claim. Things like today prove otherwise. Tribal Braves and Horde affiliates can walk off the Boston Claim to collect scalps at their leisure - everyone else must act as a jackal, and sneak off when the predators are not looking.
Nobody knew where Mikus was today. He was attacking 5/5/5/5 noobs off the boat somewhere just outside of town but nobody knew about it until after it happened. I didn't even know he was attacking people until the stream was over. I'm sure there were plenty of people that would have gone after him if they knew about it. Things like today prove nothing. It only proved that you guys are willing to allow cheap thrill killing of new players that hurts the game. I walk off the Boston claim on a regular basis so I don't know what you guys are talking about. Nobody walks off the Boston claim because they have no need to. They're not based right next to it like you guys are. That being said, yes, you guys are the biggest group playing so we have to play around that.
Ikpeip wrote:If you meant "explain to me your goal [as an individual in the Tribe]..."
My goal as an individual is to maintain the grow the power of my chosen group, and ensure it is capable of achieving its goals regardless of changing circumstances or opposition. I chose the Tribe because it had an ambitious spirit, members who showed tenacity, plenty of room for improvement, and the potential for me to quickly exert a large amount of influence over the group's operations. The Tribe's overall goals are not the ones I would choose were I starting my own faction, but as I made the choice to join the Tribe, I strive to help the group achieve these goals as I am able, for that is the obligation I took upon myself when I joined. I don't regret this decision - the Tribe is a great group of folks who work well together and are highly competent. Our average member would be a "rock star" in any other faction. Working with this group has allowed me to maintain competencies that might otherwise rust - logistics, tactics, strategy, and training. I get no personal satisfaction from scalping randoms, but I do get satisfaction from seeing Mikus wreak havoc at his leisure.
Highly competent? All of your towns just have more people. I'm amazed how little work you guys actually have done on them compared to some of the other towns with less people. You're average member isn't competent by themselves. Biddas was completely useless last world. His town was a running joke for it's design. None of you would be Rock star's by themselves. The rest of us playing in smaller groups don't think they're rock stars, we think that you're all followers who are only safe because they grouped up and are willing to do what the Chief wants. Larger groups of players will always win games like this but they will also kill little indi games like this if they don't take an active interest in it's growth.
Ikpeip wrote:A side benefit is the wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments, from people like Claeyt/Jalpha/Kaios. They swim in the Chief's ocean, and their rage is pleasing to see. It's fun to watch Claeyt post outraged nonsense based off an inflated sense of entitlement - Jalpha repeatedly make claims of some other group coming to save the day without ever taking action himself - Kaios just being his unfortunate self. That's not enough in itself, but along with the rest, it makes for a nice side bonus.
The Chief isn't even playing anymore and I've never swum in his ocean, not when he was on Roanoke, and certainly not here. None of us are raging because you hurt us personally in any way. All of us are raging because you're attacking brand new players from an advertising stream of the game for no reason and destroying the game in the process just like you destroyed Plymouth. Just because you can kill every new player in the game doesn't mean you should. We're raging because we want to see the game grow and you guys clearly don't give a ****. If you actually cared anything about this game you'd realize that this streamer with 10,000 YouTube subscribers would actually have helped this game grow and you could have helped him and protected him so that you'd have more people to play this game with.
To everyone else and all of us veteran players it looks like you guys are intentionally trying to drive any new players from the game so that it's just you playing it. If you actually cared about this game at all you'd tell the braves to protect new players like this.
The only line to take from this whole episode is when Aavak realizes he's being stream sniped and Wikus is yammering to him about the treaty and he says "Up to now, the game seemed quite friendly, but if the game isn't I'll just play a different game." That's exactly what will happen. People will just go and play a different game.
If the Tribe continues to harass new players then the game will die just like Plymouth died. Feel free to attack older players but nobodies impressed with screen shots of a 100 stat character killing a 5/5/5/5 noob who's been playing all of 30 minutes.
