Just for reference for those that weren't around back then and think I'm just crazy for even backing up the idea that it could 'actually' be done, a group called 'Core' split into two towards the end of the round in Round 8, and that was when a private alliance had a limit of only 15, and public of 30.
http://www.bushtarion.com/portal/portal_past_rankings.php?ShowRound=8
and didn't they only really do that to fool CRA so they didn't get raped?
correct and it wasn't near the end either, it was about mid round when we split to avoid CRA.
but even then people complained that we were cheating by splitting into 2 alliances of at the time equal score to avoid CRA.
For those who weren't around back in round 8. Core was named as it was made up of the central group of players from Shadows, which also dominated by a long way in round 7 with almost the same average score as rank 2 alliances collective score.
Name Members Size Score Avg. Score
Shadows 12 927,752 2,557,063,763,717 213,088,646,976
Pathosis 18 347,839 226,194,113,470 12,566,339,637
As Core had such a large lead in round 8 and people were complaining that the same group won round 6,7 and would win 8. (mainly Blackwolf and his band of merry Virus trolls
) Azzer decided to implement** an automatic system whereby government troops under the guise of CRA would randomly send at people in the top alliance if they were too far ahead of rank 2 alliance (basically doing the player bases job for them). Now the way CRA worked again was also unfair in a sense. Low cost, low init, big damage units with a total LET value equal to that of the actual value of the target (including land score, flak, seeds, plants, etc).
I don't know about you lot but I didn't fancy having 150 trillion funds worth of lethals attacking me and nor did the rest of my alliance so we split in 2 groups not of equal member count but of equal score to avoid being woke up in the middle of the night.
I also didn't play bushtarion to fight against an automated system which you had almost no chance of winning against in a battle.
Incidently the same group who complained to get CRA implemented also complained and wanted it removed when they were winning in round 9
** Yes Azzer used to actually make changes to the game both between rounds and during rounds, which may be a shock to some