Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24108228-20160428230922/@comment-24108228-20160504222224

I get that too Crykov. I don't want to feel like my efforts are going to waste and nobody will acknowledge them, but similarly I don't want to deal with idiots in your tribe (who constitute 1/2 of any server), and follow you around to demand your attention so you can't get any work done.

It's a hard balance to find, and I usually spend the entire game repeatedly building and abandoning tribes until I've filtered out a set of dedicated and expert players (dumb ones don't notice I'm gone, and are too attached to the buildings I leave behind, but the skilled players end up following me since they realise the tribe's only defence is gone and that my temporary leader I chose is rubbish). This takes a while, especially given that the filtered set of players eventually have to leave, so I need new ones, which means more public tribes and filtering. Given enough time, I end up 'owning' villages on most islands.

It's not exactly a fast or effective process, but given a few about 10 hours I'll have been able to form a band of 3-4 skilled mithrilites, and I can successfully dominate any threat that comes my way. One day I'll get those 10 hours.