This is a phenomenon I've observed a lot in both A2 and Ypsi - there will be a dozen different groups working in roughly the same direction, but with only 2 or 3 people in each group. Why don't they join up into one larger group and pull together? Well, we can't do that! We're doing this because xyz, and they're doing it because wxy, and we can't give up z, and they won't give up w, in order to get xy done.

I think it's /idea/ control as much as turf wars, or grudges, or even money. People want to do their thing, not somebody else's thing that's similar.

Consensus, Consensus, why hast thou forsaken us?!