Family Tribes, and why you should hate them

MNWT

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Guys, we're less than 12 hours into this world and there are already three family tribes. (Possible there are more, I've only noticed three so far.)

DTS / YCSU
Ether / Ether2
Druids / DRUID2

For the love of honor, can we please play with a little pride? Can we please stop with the spam families? I know everyone wants to pwn hard, but maybe when you win, it should be because you've put the requisite effort into the game, and not because you've got a drone army that gives you a size advantage. I know everyone wants to look like a TW badass, but how about striving to actually be one? Nothing says "I'm afraid of putting in effort" like joining a family tribe to make you look more formidable than you deserve.

We can solve this family problem that plagues every world by having some principles we're not willing to violate, and stigmatizing this family nonsense and the players who use them as a crutch. But the change starts with you.

Quality, not quantity.
 

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kawoni said:
Speaking as a player, Don't family tribes mean more food?
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How do you mean? Generally, family tribes are intended as a cheap means of protection. That's why they advertise themselves so willingly. You look at a tribe profile and you see a three tribe family, and then often some generic and overly macho threat like an attack on any of us will be met with a response from all of us. It's a total noob tactic of manufacturing unearned respect. By advertising how large your "family" is, you try to get people to leave you alone.

This is markedly different from alliances, which may or may not be advertised. But at the point where alliances are advertised, I'd say it's venturing into family territory because advertising your alliances is the same intent as advertising your family members. It's just a noob shield to try to make yourself look scarier to other players than you deserve.

I'd very much like to see TW make a standard server one where support can only be sent to members of the same tribe. It would greatly reduce (although not eliminate) the impact family tribes.
 

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Kawoni is right,family tribes mean more food.
But in a world of family tribes,who eats that food? :D
 

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Dase said:
Kawoni is right,family tribes mean more food.
But in a world of family tribes,who eats that food? :D
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How do family tribes mean more food? The amount of "food" is the same, it's just arranged in a smaller amount of tribes. Take the Druid family, who is the front runner for the Spam Family Title so far with three tribes. Having 60 members in that family doesn't make "more food." Whether it's 60 people calling themselves Druids, or 60 members all calling themselves something different, it's still 60 people. If anything, family tribes reduce food by building large groups to get around the tribe member limit, and giving people who are not good enough to fend for themselves a drone army to protect them.
 

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Personally, I know more then 20 players on this world, and I would love to gather all of them in some family tribes or something, but amount of work and stress those family tribes will bring just not worth it and ruin game experience.
 

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mnwt said:
How do family tribes mean more food? The amount of "food" is the same, it's just arranged in a smaller amount of tribes. Take the Druid family, who is the front runner for the Spam Family Title so far with three tribes. Having 60 members in that family doesn't make "more food." Whether it's 60 people calling themselves Druids, or 60 members all calling themselves something different, it's still 60 people. If anything, family tribes reduce food by building large groups to get around the tribe member limit, and giving people who are not good enough to fend for themselves a drone army to protect them.
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Family tribes are not well organized ->food.
 

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mnwt said:
I'd very much like to see TW make a standard server one where support can only be sent to members of the same tribe. It would greatly reduce (although not eliminate) the impact family tribes.
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I think w18 or something was like this and the only problem is there is
a loophole that family tribes will use to get past that, simply keep a few
spots open and switch back and forth between the family tribes for help.
 

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Smoke0ne said:
I think w18 or something was like this and the only problem is there is
a loophole that family tribes will use to get past that, simply keep a few
spots open and switch back and forth between the family tribes for help.
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That could be true, but it would be pretty difficult to continually have to coordinate that. That extra obstacle would go in the plus column for me.
 

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It wasn't that difficult just have to have a
tribe that was willing to go that extra mile.
 

DeletedUser5959

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Druids are ridiculous with their family tribes that's for sure.
 

DeletedUser5959

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x_X isn't a "acad tribe"

The Nobodies are super serial elitists with a ironic
sense of Millennial humor and will never have one

...just sayin'
 

DeletedUser6712

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sister or family or academy tribes or however they refer to each other...
x_X and (X_x) both have same profile pic and tribe description, i assume they are somehow related to each other, maybe x_X is not academy tribe but some kind of sister or brother or uncle tribe for sure
 
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