Small tribes vs Regular Official, whats the difference?

[KRONOSDOUBLE]

Small tribes vs Regular Official, whats the difference?

I never really paid attention to small tribes that much. Just wondering if anyone can provide some basic info on the difference between small tribes and official servers? What makes them more appealing?

[SlipperySquid]

Everyone is going to give you a difference in opinion on which is better and why. 

Small tribes =  more chance to catch them offline and get loot. Most enjoy getting loot more than they do the PvP so if the only way to get the good loot is to make sure your enemy is sleeping at the time of the attack then that is perfect.  

Regular = zerg vs zerg in a very un-fun way. Well no one on twitch/reddit seems to be happy about how the wars are played out be it through shady methods or just the pure spam war. 

[ForzaProiettile]

Small tribes means no large tribes. The tribe size is capped at 6 and alliances are officially against the rules. It also has 3x rates so its easier to farm and tame. Think of it as an ultra PVP mode for ARK. No hand holding or alliances, everyone is out to get you but that's a good thing since there are far more people to kill and you know they aren't going to be to able call in 30 people to help them. It's a highly rewarding and skill based mode.

The normal servers are 2x rates and you can ally with as many people as you want. They are dominated by very large tribes that rarely fight each other. On these servers you must join a large tribe in some form in order to survive. 

[covenantgrunt]

6man is basically official lite at this point with level 400+ dinos and titans. There are defacto megatribes in form of teamers and cross server alliances. Just like official everyone lives in unraidable caves and raids are just griefing teleporters or just clearing spam. The plus side is no 70/70 joinsims, downside is with fewer tribemates you have to play much longer hours to keep yout base defended.