Wren's Alliance Analysis, 5/25/09

[Wren]

Well, after looking at the numbers, we had almost no changes over the two weeks since my last look. I wish I had something more interesting to report, but there really has been no change.

The only news of note, as far as I can tell, is that MTW are a bunch of cheaters. The MH exercised his banhammer and he banned upwards of 15 accounts for multi-accounting, with more, less extreme, punishments handed out to others. Shameful.

Oh, i almost forgot. TUS switched to NAPs? How pitiful.


By the numbers


Alliances by total population
1. TUS (2334670)
2. UIA (1955815)
3. MTW (1533979)
4. Nemesis (1138950)
5. Co. (1018302)
6. Scourge (838611)
7. MosTLy (519487)
8. DOL (462893)
9. MGD (431430)
10. NATION (422983)


Alliances by average population
1. Nemesis (11505)
2. MGD (10786)
3. DOL (10287)
4. UIA (9682)
5. Co. (9607)
6. CatOps (9539)
7. Scourge (9530)
8. TUS (7011)
9. JustUs (6452)
10. TNT (5964)


Alliances by average attack
1. MGD (52092)
2. Nemesis (36631)
3. DOL (31928)
4. UIA (26352)
5. Co. (25881)
6. Scourge (19269)
7. JustUs (18881)
8. TNT (17052)
9. TUS (15486)
10. CatOps (13597)


Alliances by total defense
1. TUS (2775331)
2. MTW (1878973)
3. UIA (1799161)
4. Co. (1605791)
5. NATION (911027)
6. Nemesis (744059)
7. DOL (707924)
8. MGD (574475)
9. Scourge (521441)
10. MosTLy (486585)

After two weeks of almost no change, here are the slightly updated server rankings.

Server's Strongest Alliances:
1. Nemesis
2. MGD
3. UIA
4. Co.
5. DOL
6. TUS
7. MTW
8. MosTLy
9. Scourge
10. JustUs


The comments are usually the most interesting/revealing part of these alliances, so speak your piece!

[Ravenica]

- is still dominating, however we have a large farm population, the downside of not being able to boot anyone out, if only we could force them into some other alliance

[Thy]

Unbelievable, Easy and Fox Co were at war with each other and we still didn't boost up our attack and defense rankings . Well back to killing more Easy Co newbs....

And no, don't go fix this to blue, I'm dead serious

[SmackyBear]

Originally Posted by Wren Oh, i almost forgot. TUS switched to NAPs? How pitiful.

Why does that matter exactly? If people want to take advantage of the stupid rules changes regarding conquerings, they're allowed to.

[Wren]

Originally Posted by SmackyBear Why does that matter exactly? If people want to take advantage of the stupid rules changes regarding conquerings, they're allowed to.

and why, exactly, should allies be conquering each other?

[Cleatus]

It's really not that MTW is a bunch of cheaters. Almost every banning was of *one* player, who is now a member of TUS along with several of his accounts he somehow talked the MH into unbanning.

[Thy]

Originally Posted by Wren and why, exactly, should allies be conquering each other?

to trade villages, to chief players that are deleting, etc. I've seen them done before on other servers.

[Wren]

Originally Posted by Cleatus It's really not that MTW is a bunch of cheaters. Almost every banning was of *one* player, who is now a member of TUS along with several of his accounts he somehow talked the MH into unbanning.

one guy accounted for 9 of the accounts in question. there were still a few more guilty parties.

[SmackyBear]

Originally Posted by Wren and why, exactly, should allies be conquering each other?

Geographical reasons. I don't want to derail the thread, but there are many situations where it is desirable. I haven't really seen it used on s3, but I've seen quite a few on s7.

[Cleatus]

Originally Posted by Wren one guy accounted for 9 of the accounts in question. there were still a few more guilty parties.

10 actually. An additional 3 were other players punished for legitimate reasons but were only noobs making mistakes unintentionally. All others had apparently done nothing wrong, and were only banned because the above mentioned player had a grudge against MTW and reported half the alliance to MH with deliberately false information. Hence why few of the accounts that were in question other than his were banned for more than a very brief period of time or even got any sort of punishment.