Sure does, although the actions of some EN leaders in that world makes it relevant to this one.
Mainly because their tactics were carbon copy of ENs and the situation is similar to now (EN not having the shipping power to complete all 7 wonders first)
Anyway its hard to brush these events under the carpet when people come on bragging about what their 1/8 of the alliance achieved, especially when the other 700 players involved got stung.
i really dont get the en hate to be honest
i played against them (sort of) in nysa
i played with them eventually in sinope
i played with them from the start here
and what have i found on my travels ............. well they arent evil in fact they are a pretty decent set of people - like most alliances
what they are good at is planning, tactics and activity
the anti en brigade moan about en pacts ......then they do exactly the same but refuse to admit it.
and on this server it appears to me that the enemy will stoop to pretty much nothing
to win while trying to take the morale high ground.
There was some pretty nasty stuff directed at me when i said bloods and qoq were pacted - i saw the shared forums - but i was branded a liar ......... qoq and nc tried to shaft bloods - at least en attacked them in a good old fashioned war.
But here we are with qoq still trying to push the evil en line..............
truth is en are a good alliance - and all qoq have achieved is to push more people into the en fold for this server and future servers so perhaps we should thank qoq for their en recruitment ;-)