old post i know,
I am from en7, so i know nothing about your world, this is soley based off opinion and general theory, exact circumstances can always change the way things are to the oposite of the general rule.
Few points to make,
1- if you make a claim, support it with examples.
2- being the top tribe is not always the result of being honorable, I have known highly ranked tribes that werent honorable, few of them lasted to the end of mid-game however.
3- "honor" is all too often a matter of perspective and of culture. One player might find chapel flashing dishonorable (i have been accused of this), while another does not, one player may find attacking at night dishonorable (despite the fact that its just because thats the attackers day), another might claim a player is dishonorable for attacking when a player has gone on holiday (despite the fact that the player has not advertised this fact - again something i was accused of)
4- Back to the original reason for this thread. Sabotage has its place, it feels overpowered when weighed against the damage you can do to a single village, however when taking into account the fact it takes months, if not more, for sab villages to destroy their equivalant number of victim villages, its not so bad. Personally I only use sabotage on players that have first used it on me or allies (yes there are a couple exceptions, like when a 70k player gets a village stacked and keeps taking my barbs out of it - me being 2mill, ill sab the village to save the barbs).
If used in conjunction with attacks, its frustrating and annoying, but Im not against it, What I am against is the use of sabs to destroy villages with no fighting to take advantage of that. I have been on both sides, I was sabbed for months by one player, 80 sabs a day, with no attacks. And I have sabbed others, though i bring down villages to make it easier to take, thus i dont sab as long as i suffered.
Basically dont sab unless your willing to have it done to you, I built sab villages specifically to revenge sab for my tribemates who were recieving sabs and were unwilling to "dishonor" themselves by sabbing back