Regardless of his gold use he still managed to fight PB with a good amount of success while completely outgunned alliance wise. PB was far superior to Nicks alliance. On top of that Socs only lost city was also to Nick. So you can talk about his gold use and what not, but fighting PB in a far inferior alliance and still managing to take a city off their best player is impressive. He basically single handily kept Proto alive. As soon as he left the alliance fell apart.All time? Soc. Nick was a gold WHORE. That much gold.