Yes, another Tribalwars post, an academic one next 
Currently I play World 24 and World 26, in both worlds I am part of a tribe with a low number of allies and NAPs (Non Attack Pacts). Due to recent events in World 24 I reminisced about the situation in World 2 where I got so bored with all the diplomatic ties that I decided to go Gung-Ho against RUM, leading to me leaving that world after gifting my villages to the Saints and ESL (RUM didn’t manage to get a lot of the villages, even though they tried hard and I had at least 2000 incoming over the time span of a week.
The dreaded Sea of Blue that forced me to come to that decision was built up over time. ESL have always had great esteem for their allies and this philosophy in the end led to us having too many alliances. Hence our careful decision making process in World 24. In light of this progress that we made over the last two years I decided to describe what an alliance means to ESL.
ESL is a very hardcore and solid group of players, we are reclusive and it is very difficult to get access to our tribe. Those that manage tend to like it so much that they take up our philosophy very quickly. It is exactly that mentality that leads to us being careful with alliances, we believe that an ally is bonded to us by more then light blue dots on the map. When they are in need we will support them, when we are in need we expect them to support us. When they go to war and it isn’t going well we will join them and help tip the balance and vice versa.
NAPs are exactly that, an agreement to not attack each other. However, a NAP with ESL tends to be what an alliance is to other tribes. We will not drop an NAP nilly-willy and will consider requests for assistance from our NAPs.
I am curious as to what your views are on alliances and NAPs, I know there are quite extreme views, for example an NAP standing for Next Attack Project etcetera. Let me know!
