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Well, we've actually stopped adding Regular tribes because we have deemed that we have enough. 12 months, 12 tribes, and Midjiwan is hard on that. Add another month to the calendar and we might talk.

And yeah, we could bend the rules a tad....but we might as well just add more Special tribes, which is the plan anyway.

I'm aware of that.

I'm saying that those sorts of changes proposed are usually within the domain of the Specials

Those are called "Special Tribes" 😜

If you'll notice the pinned post, you'll see this month's thing for Zebasi Tribe Moon. Every month, the represented tribe gets a lore blurb detailing something about them and a picture about the blurb. Special tribes don't get moons, but they do get a week throughout the year.

1. Tribe Moons! Every month is dedicated to a different Regular tribe, and Midjiwan likes this a lot. This month is Zebasi.

2. Well, somewhat. It isn't just about the tech, but also the feel of the tribe or the gameplay around it. Polaris used to be a Regular tribe that started with Whaling, but that wasn't fun, so we changed them. Zebasi land is very different from Imperius land, despite them being similar. Etc.

So, the main reasons we don't want to add new Normal tribes is twofold (in order):

1. 12 months, 12 tribes

2. The other techs left are either useless or would cramp the style of other normal tribes (e.g. We've actually deigned Xin-Xi around them getting Mining quickly, and thus, dont want a tribe to start with it)

Originally, the Daggers couldn't capture cities (and could just be spawned in enemy territory, as Cloaks werent made yet), but we quickly realized that they really weren't worth the hassle without something powerful like that.

You couldn't control them, and they were frustrating because of it. They couldn't capture cities, and they weren't worth the effort to make. They are the way they are because we want Cloaks/Daggers to be high risk/high reward, and what's the highest reward out there than having the potential to capture an undefended city?

The goal of Cloaks/Daggers since the beginning was disruption and capturing cities, as we wanted a way to break stalemates.

Then they wouldn't do their job as no sane person would attack their own town with them.

We tried this, too.

We also didn't like it. 😜

This was actually how we had them in development, but removed it because it was frustrating to play with.

It was supposed to be pushed at 10am, but I was super busy, and had to push it now when I had the chance.

Good news is that the tourney doesn't begin foe a little while, and this is only to denote sign ups

It's not 0:00 here in California. ;)

You can get to the Discord here: https://discord.gg/polytopia

Yes, Zebasi

Discounts on all Zebasi merchandise at https://shop.midjiwan.com until July 31st.

Thanks for the art, Viera903!