Why does one adapt?
Also; The mentality "IT'S JUST A GAME PLAY HOW YOU WANT TO PLAY" is fine, I respect that, but when you made a pure or advertise your clan as a pure clan, you had to follow certain limitations. 30 def gives great advantages, but it's not 1-10 or even 1-20 def, now is it? The simple fact of the matter is that 40 def and 45 def gives great advantages too, why don't you just go the whole way and accept that?
Because you guys need to stay in this little community and you will get 39 def, but not 40 because it's the symbol of being main. You are doing whatever you can to get an advantage over the rest of the clans because it's too hard to win fights the right way.
If you have such a problem with 30 def, why do clans with 1-20 def bother competing with us, instead of fighting 'real pure clans.' People don't get defence to gain an advantage over clans, people do it because thats how they want to play the game. No clan is forcing there members to get defence, its a personal choice.
There is a certain extent of fairness when both types of clans are fighting such as 1 defence rules but excuses still come into play, however in the wilderness people will wear addy if their clan allows them to, so it's down to you whether you want to fight them or not.
Either way, if your telling 30 def people to get 45 def for even better advantages and indirectly telling 30 def people to get out of here, it's diminshing the so called 'pure community.'
So you think that people get 30 defence because "that's how they want to play the game" and not to gain an advantage over other clans. You kidding me? Wake up and smell the coffee. Your own clan promotes 100 combat and doing whatever it takes to get 100 combat (39 def) because that's how you want to play the game? not because you want to have the highest def possible and still be able to post on this site, and fight clans that are actually pures?
C'mon, you're not that blind.
Look at FOE, the symbol of pure clanning. You think they started using addy out of nowhere because that's how they want to play the game? They got smacked by CP's wave of Addy and instead of looking at how they performed, they just reverted to addy. That's the clan that won all of the awards on this site.
What are EOP doing now? They're allowing addy to trips because their competition is going to be running around in Addy. NOT because that's "how they want to play the game". Instead of just "adapting" because you think that your opponent has addy, you can't win no matter what, why don't you guys improve your performance, and warring? Why don't you get the number advantage on your rival clans to even out the addy?
If that doesn't work, then revert to addy?