Justin/Jurasu: Hello. Thank you for agreeing to do this interview with me. For the readers’ benefit, would you please introduce yourself?
may.davis: I’m May Davis, one of the leaders of MAD. I’ve been playing TW for almost 2 years now, so still a noob.
Justin/Jurasu: Why was Mad originally created?
may.davis: Mad was created from an insane moment and an insane situation.
Justin/Jurasu: I know it may be quite hard to explain something created from insanity, but what was the situation that lead to MAD’s formation?
may.davis: I had joined Plight from Ni to find the Duke Seagryfn’s leadership inactive. I became her hands. I worked at getting the tribe re-energized with the help of the new dukes and we finally entered the war like everyone wanted. An unfortunate accident in my real life made it virtually impossible to continue playing the game at the pace I was and maintain any form of sanity. A few circumstances occurred that I totally could not condone and felt it better if I left the tribe. However, I had built up a really strong relationship with Bang! members. I had been managing the diplomacy (except for C²). I had incomings from C² and could not keep stacking and sniping against the short range attacks, so I asked Bang! to assist me by sitting me. Yes, I know that was totally out of order, but they were my only friends. Some Plight members decided to take advantage of my situation and attacked me, which made Bang! furious and Truscott took it up with the Plight leadership. They claimed that I had never been under attack and was playing a sympathy card. This made Truscott more furious, and the situation got out of hand. To prevent a war with Plight that I knew Bang! was not ready for, I declared on Bang! Truscott took up the declaration which resulted in some of Bang! wanting to help me. Everything went MAD after that and MAD was created.
Justin/Jurasu: Wow! That’s quite a history. There is one point that I did not seem to get too well though. Why did you think declaring on Bang! would stop a war between Bang! and Plight? Were you not a part of Plight anyways?
may.davis: Bang! at the time would not have survived a war against Plight. They will soon. None of Bang! had real hard core war experience and that needed to be developed. All the good players had been taken into C². I like all the members of Bang! and did not want to see them being slaughtered. It would have advanced Plight.
Justin/Jurasu: So how did you declaring on them personally stop a war with Plight?
may.davis: It made Truscott take a deep breath and stop being arrogant with the leadership of Plight. He had incomings from me, a whole 400 hours away, and when gn0me joined, he knew he was in deep trouble. We then systematically started attacking players. They either joined or were nobled. Each of the members have had incomings and have had to swipe a few nobles. They have now improved their skills, learned a lot about things and can be more progressive with any war.
Justin/Jurasu: So you already talked about how avoiding a war with Plight and improving the skill of your players as two of your main goals early on. What are some goals for MAD in the foreseeable future?
may.davis: A difficult one under current circumstances, but we would like to dominate in the top 2 k’s of the northern rim and reach from k0 to k19. We will clean up all the loose end tribes in the process and all inactives, no matter which tribe they are in. Oh, and we do know that most of the inactives have sitters from other tribes.
Justin/Jurasu: That is a rather interesting goal you have. How do you plan to accomplish that when C², Plight, and *MK* have large presences there?
may.davis: That’s the MADness! C² are hopefully working with us and the rest will have to be dealt with.
Justin/Jurasu: There has also been rumors about tribe members fighting personal wars against each other within MAD. Personally, I would call that the MADness. Are these rumors true?
may.davis: Yeah, with our structure we have to deal with conflict. Conflict is dealt with through duels. We have very few rules in the tribe.
Justin/Jurasu: That seems very counter-productive, especially so late in the world with Plight and C² being so much larger. Why do you allow that to continue?
may.davis: It is a constructive way to handle conflict and it has a very stringent set of guidelines to it so it minimizes collateral damage. It is also another way to improve skills. If you lose a village, you will not make the same mistake again and you learn with every duel. You learn about tactics and strategy.
Justin/Jurasu: So you think that allowing these inner-tribal duels is actually more of a benefit to the tribe as a whole since it improves the skills of the members without provoking a larger tribe?
may.davis: Yeah, and they end up being fun to watch, too. Usually, it starts with a lot of confrontational verbage – HOT AIR. Then, with a few slices, it becomes very respectful.
Justin/Jurasu: It seems fairly odd, and definitely unusual, but if it works, then who am I to question it? Now, that concludes my questions. Do you have any other points you would like to make? This is your time to say whatever you want on the subject of MAD that my questions did not cover.
may.davis: MADness is about having fun playing this game. There are no stiff rules nor structures. A good tribal culture and a lot of MADness. If anyone would like to join, they can contact any member of the tribe for an invite. Come join the MADness and let’s have fun!
It seems once more that the northwest part of the world is unsure and that no ones can really predict what will happen there. there is no dominant tribe in this part of the world and MAD is as influent as C2 and Plight on these extreme Ks. It is probably the last key area, especially in K2 and surroundings were something could happen in the last war of World 16. MAD joining C2 side would allow them to finally have a strong presence in the northern front and could create trouble to plight but the same applies to plight, C2 could be overhelmed and would probably need to put much more effort on holding the north west. What would happen if the tribe split again? on each side? civil conflict again inside the Madness? Maybe some members will join each side and if never it happens… I hardly see how it would simplify the northern border.
It seems most of MAD wants to join C2 and are calling for a fight against Plight…
Theres goes nuetrality?
sounds like it will be an ‘interesting’ few months for plight then
though MAD wanting to own k0-19 is a big chunk out of Plight/*MK*…they’re not just going to give it too u guys…it’ll be a tough fight thats for sure
overall, sounds like everyone going to having some kind of fun over the coming months
Good blog again! To improve you should add a picture at the start to have something to do with the title. Like in W50 its called “Ban hammer hits” and hes got mario smashing the words “ban hammer hits” with a hammer.
But if all the members in MAD have the same opinions as those Muffin9 has then
1) Plight has a problem
2) C² has the choice of whether to invite some noobs and some good player – or not.
but i dont think may davis or walkara or anyone from former Plight would join C² because if you look on the map, they are surrounded by Plight and *MK* so they would be gone in, what, 3-4 weeks? Unless of course C² can get 2-3 defensive villages in every village, and even then they would still struggle.