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It's been a while since there was a discussion about gamma and the alliances. The closest to such thread, is the "Top 12 alliances" but many times they offer a single line or two three words about each alliance. I made this thread mainly to offer my view on gamma and it's status, as well as personal opinion about certain alliances, not individuals. Actually, there are such threads from time to time, but they keep turning into "Me", "You", "Mine", "Yours", which this one will most likely follow that trend.
I do not intend to talk about everything, nor a specific topic, but that's also the point of this thread.
Alliances.
Like many players, i was surprised by the recent merge of RDLM and CJ.
It was not the merge itself, rather than the end of one of the most important and powerful alliances in gamma. CJ
Gamma has not lacked big merges, nor is CJ the first alliance to call it a day. But it's not often that the #1 alliance vanishes.
And it's this event which made me think of the current alliances from a different angle.
Gamma is a 16 months old world. Many came and left, many rose and fell, but some are still here. I am not talking about players, but alliances.
Every alliance has it's ups and downs. Few aliances have been far superior than others at their peak sometime during the game. But, when an alliance like CJ goes, it makes one ask:
Did CJ make some wrong choices somewhere along the line which accumulated and led to the point where they decided they'd be better of starting a new chapter?
How about the alliances remaining, will they have the same fate as the mighty CJ? Do they have more depth and better long term strategy?
So it's on overall alliance qualities that i will rate below the alliances which i have knowledge of.
#1- Grepohugs.
Peak time: 10
Leadership(thoughout it's existence): 08
Teamwork (current): 05
Individual skills(current): 08
Longevity: 10
Diplomacy: 07
Consistency: 08
Stability (thoughout it's existence): 10
Grepohugs is the overall most impressive alliance. They have the advantage of being the one with the longest history, but at the same time being still here at the top, after such a long time shows they have survived many tests and challeneges, which can not be said the same for some other alliances.
They were unstopable at their peak, which was quite some time ago.
Behind this success is of course a top class leadership. Leadership has changed hands, but they have all been able to keep the alliance up there.
Being one of the oldest alliances, they have some of the oldest players and the biggest. It's probably playing for so long, and being so large that has driven these players to minimize comunication, coordination and working together. So even though they have many terrific individuals, the results they achieve as alliance is fairly low.
Consistency has fluctuated. As an alliance they have performed superbly during their golden age, but they have also gone down to below average performance for long spells of time. One aspect of that may have to do with some controversial recruitment standards.
However, they are stable, they are still here. still in the top 3 for so long time and they never had any big crises.
For all the above reasons, i would rank them as the number one alliance overall.
Comments on #2 to follow later..... It's too long for one post.
Links:
#2 Fusion
#3 Illuminati
I do not intend to talk about everything, nor a specific topic, but that's also the point of this thread.
Alliances.
Like many players, i was surprised by the recent merge of RDLM and CJ.
It was not the merge itself, rather than the end of one of the most important and powerful alliances in gamma. CJ
Gamma has not lacked big merges, nor is CJ the first alliance to call it a day. But it's not often that the #1 alliance vanishes.
And it's this event which made me think of the current alliances from a different angle.
Gamma is a 16 months old world. Many came and left, many rose and fell, but some are still here. I am not talking about players, but alliances.
Every alliance has it's ups and downs. Few aliances have been far superior than others at their peak sometime during the game. But, when an alliance like CJ goes, it makes one ask:
Did CJ make some wrong choices somewhere along the line which accumulated and led to the point where they decided they'd be better of starting a new chapter?
How about the alliances remaining, will they have the same fate as the mighty CJ? Do they have more depth and better long term strategy?
So it's on overall alliance qualities that i will rate below the alliances which i have knowledge of.
#1- Grepohugs.
Peak time: 10
Leadership(thoughout it's existence): 08
Teamwork (current): 05
Individual skills(current): 08
Longevity: 10
Diplomacy: 07
Consistency: 08
Stability (thoughout it's existence): 10
Grepohugs is the overall most impressive alliance. They have the advantage of being the one with the longest history, but at the same time being still here at the top, after such a long time shows they have survived many tests and challeneges, which can not be said the same for some other alliances.
They were unstopable at their peak, which was quite some time ago.
Behind this success is of course a top class leadership. Leadership has changed hands, but they have all been able to keep the alliance up there.
Being one of the oldest alliances, they have some of the oldest players and the biggest. It's probably playing for so long, and being so large that has driven these players to minimize comunication, coordination and working together. So even though they have many terrific individuals, the results they achieve as alliance is fairly low.
Consistency has fluctuated. As an alliance they have performed superbly during their golden age, but they have also gone down to below average performance for long spells of time. One aspect of that may have to do with some controversial recruitment standards.
However, they are stable, they are still here. still in the top 3 for so long time and they never had any big crises.
For all the above reasons, i would rank them as the number one alliance overall.
Comments on #2 to follow later..... It's too long for one post.
Links:
#2 Fusion
#3 Illuminati
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