Hello to all W16 readers and welcome once again to the W16 blog. This week I bring you an inside look on Blitz, the tribe that split off from Plight. At this point in the world, it seemed highly unlikely that tribes would be splintering off into smaller tribes, but that’s exactly what happened. Normally this would be a bad thing, but the results may prove otherwise.
Blitz seemed to form out of no where. From the point of view from an outsider, it seemed that very little had occurred to prompt this, other than perhaps a forum post questioning Plight game play posted in the externals. Then suddenly in the last few days of March and the beginning of April, sixteen players proceeded to leave Plight and join Blitz. Most of these members came from the northern portion of Plight, which can still be largely seen on the map above.
As surprising as this split was, what seemed even stranger was the pattern of players returning. A few returned to Plight within days of joining, bringing up the question, why leave in the first place? In the beginning of May, another six players returned to Plight and it seemed that whatever had happened had begun to be fixed, but then three more players left for Blitz between May 11 and June 14, including cyclopz who had already left Plight and rejoined once before. To top it all off, earlier today, three members returned to Plight, which once again included cyclopz.
This erratic seeming behavior just lead to more questions. To those of us not directly involved, nothing seemed to explained what was happening, and we were only left with theories, so I decided to interview two players involved with Blitz, crazyplayer4, the duke of Blitz, and RJGall, ex-duke of Plight and one of the members who joined Blitz and later returned to Plight.
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Justin/Jurasu:
Thanks for agreeing to do this interview with me. For the benefit of the readers, would you please introduce yourself?
crazyplayer:
I am crazyplayer4, Duke of Blitz.
Justin/Jurasu:
Blitz is actually the tribe I wished to discuss. It seemed strange to see one of the major tribes left in W16 split after the world had been going on for so long. Why did Blitz split off from Plight?
crazyplayer:
Blitz was created because of a lack of activity and low morale in Plight. A select few of us broke off to start a tribe that was going to actually attack and show C² that we were not going to just roll over and let villages be taken from us.
Justin/Jurasu:
Do you think that, so far, you’ve been accomplishing those goals?
crazyplayer:
We have done a lot better than I thought we would so far. At first we were struggling to decide where we wanted to attack first, but now that we organized, we are a formidable opponent.
Justin/Jurasu:
How did Plight react to this? I know even from personal experience that there is still a good number of players with varying ranges of activity left in Plight. I can’t imagine that they were the most pleased to see part of the tribe leaving.
crazyplayer:
Plight was by no means happy with this at first. There was much hatred along with confusion in Plight over all this happening. After some time went by though, we were able to reconnect some ties and are now neutral towards each other, but are still attacking together and support each other. I think this actually brought Plight back to life if you ask me .
Justin/Jurasu:
If things got better between the tribes, and activity increased, why did part of Blitz leave and return to Plight?
crazyplayer:
My only guess for them returning would be just a strong tie that they have with Plight. For most players Plight is their first major tribe in TribalWars. It is a sense of accomplishment for them, something that they can’t let go of.
Justin/Jurasu:
Then why did you, and the other nine members of Blitz, not return along with them?
crazyplayer:
I can’t speak for everyone in Blitz, but for some it is just bad encounters with Plight or they just like how active and war packed Blitz is. In some cases they stay just because of their extreme desire to have some “crazy” in their lives 
Justin/Jurasu:
Hmm…Is that a bit of self-flattery I’m sensing?
crazyplayer:
Possibly. I just like to keep things upbeat and out of the conference room so to speak.
Justin/Jurasu:
I’m sure the readers agree and thank you.
I do have to agree with you in thinking that the overall Blitz/Plight activity has increased compared to what it used to be after the split. It will be interesting to see how this affects the war and the world itself. I’d like to thank you again for doing this interview with me Crazy.
crazyplayer:
Thank you for doing your interview on Blitz.
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Justin/Jurasu:
Hi, and thank you again for agreeing to do this interview with me. For the readers’ benefit, would you please introduce yourself?
rjgall:
Yeah, I’m Ross playing the RJGall account.
Justin/Jurasu:
This week I wish to discuss Blitz. This far into the world, I thought the tribes had stabilized and that we wouldn’t be seeing any major changes, so I was surprised when Blitz split off from Plight. Why did this happen?
rjgall:
It happened for many different reasons. I don’t even know everyone’s, but all the players left for their own reasons.
Justin/Jurasu:
If you don’t mind my asking, what was your reasoning for leaving to join Blitz?
rjgall:
Once I stepped down from leadership, no one stepped up to take the reins. I had players stealing my claims and cross nobles and one day I just thought “I cannot be putting up with this.”
Justin/Jurasu:
I can not imagine that those who remaining in Plight were happy about several of their members splitting off to form their own tribe. How did they react to this?
rjgall:
I’m not entirely sure. I think some players in the tribe blamed me for it, as I was the first of the few. They were quite annoyed with how it all happened out of the blue. Once I explained myself to several players, they understood my position.
Justin/Jurasu:
So nothing other than words were exchanged? It never appeared to come to the point that the tribes became aggressive towards each other, at least not to the eyes of an onlooker like myself.
rjgall:
No, not in the slightest. It was discussed from the beginning, right what can we put right, what needs to be done and it was with these changes and key players stepping back up to the mark that I went back to Plight.
Justin/Jurasu:
So you returned to Plight, amongst others, to stave off hostilities between the two tribes?
rjgall:
Plight made promises as to what would change and I moved back as a show of good faith in that the others would one day return.
Justin/Jurasu:
Personally, I’d assume that one of these promises was to increase overall activity in Plight. Do you think Blitz splitting off was the cause of this?
rjgall:
I could only assume so, but Plight has begun to renew its old practice and bring euthanasia to those unworthy. This was meant players have had to improve. I don’t know if you have noticed anything?
Justin/Jurasu:
I know in that in past blogs I’ve suggested that Plight needed to increase activity and eat their inactives, and at the very least I can see the stats and see that it appears that they have started down that road.
rjgall:
My only worry is it happened before when me and Haza took over, but the efforts soon declined again so time will decide
Justin/Jurasu:
Indeed it will. I think that it could make things quite interesting in the time to come. Do you any other comments on Blitz’s effect on the world that I may not have covered that you may wish to share?
rjgall:
Just the question…. Will they ever rejoin? Changes are happening in Plight. Is it enough to convince these players to come back? I have noticed C2 seems to be stepping up efforts on Plight rather than Blitz players and that raises questions, but for this moment in time, players on both sides are working together and that’s important.
Justin/Jurasu:
That’s definitely an interesting question, and again I think all we can do is sit and wait for an answer.
rjgall:
Yeah.
Justin/Jurasu:
I’d like to thank you again for taking the time to do this interview with me. I greatly appreciate it.
rjgall:
No problem.
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In my last blog I commented on the increase in activity from both Plight and Blitz. These two interviews confirmed that this was one of the major goals in the split, was to prompt an increase in activity from both tribes.
Lately, Blitz’s future seems questionable. They seemed to have reached their goals, at least in part, but with members returning to Plight, they are down to seven. In addition, another two members in Blitz are currently banned, while two more are losing points, leaving the tribe with only three members actively growing. Considering the trend of the past few months, it seems likely that Blitz will once again completely join with Plight, but whether or not that will happen remains to be seen.
That’s all for this week. Originally I wanted to include a view from a C² member, but had trouble catching the person I had in mind online at a time when I could conduct an interview. However, during that time I decided it would be better to wait until after these other two interviews had been publicly posted, so that the opposing side could give their own view on their view of things as well as what was stated in the interviews. I’ll be including that in next weeks blog.
Until next time, your W16 blogger and fellow spreader of carnage,
~Jurasu
