Right, one of the rare times I come on these forums, I was looking around and saw this: the classic mostly noob group, slagging of MRAs and calling them noobish and claiming to be elite, when most of them have never actually got above 10 cities lets say.
The term MRA is ridiculously thrown around these days. I saw a post of too many 70+ member alliances. I must saw I laughed. having over 70 does not make you an MRA. Frankly having over 100 is no where near an proper MRA. MRAs frankly need over 250 members to be classed as one IMO, and the movement of alliance caps has made it very hard to be an MRA. In the older grepo servers, the caps either weren't there, or where very high. I remember in delta all the alliances having pretty high membership. Delta was 500 member cap, and there was a 3 branch alliance, which was pretty full. less than 150 in a top 12 alliance was pretty rare and the Huns had around 250 at one point.
Besides, alliances which mass recruit promising players succeed the best. I am going to take
PV for example. They were called an MRA frequently, as they were letting in a lot of noobs who showed promise. To think that someone who has never played the game before is therefore terrible is idiotic frankly. Some of the best players, like Milos for example were taken in as noobs. If the newbies aren't learning then kicking is hardly an effort. If you try to be all exclusive you are never going to last long. People quit, and too many seem to forget this.
Besides, the amount of alliances in grepolis that are actually elite is minute, and by elite I mean an alliance where all the members are active, and actively participate in operations and such. People claim to be this, but very very rarely are.
Thats my word said, hope it provided some reflection of my thoughts on this matter
som sens in hire