The 'patched together' alliance I refer to is as you said the recruitment of players for the WW era stage.
No, you said that Fight Club was a patched up alliance which it never was. The anarchy guys had fought together and controlled their three northern oceans for a year, the fight club guys had fought together for a year.
You are now backtracking and saying the "WW Fight Club" was a patched up alliance, but at the same time you say what great leaders Tom and Chad were.
So why did these great leaders go on a mass recruiting spree, taking a harmonious alliance that had fought together for a year and made it patched up and recruited spies?
Anarchy were a solid alliance, a year fighting together, with utmost trust in their members.
Fight Club " " ditto...
The patched up element came because leadership decided to go on an MRA blitz bringing in everyone and anyone to win wonders. If as you say, Fight Club ended up being a patched up alliance full of spies, then there are only two people to blame for that. You cant say the alliance was a patched up mess because they recruited loads of players for WW phase, and then say your leaders were brilliant when it was them that did it.
(And 34 was never really disputed, the west was cuddling, Fight Club had more Naps than a narcoleptic - and 54 was pretty much theres till they fell out with Hughes)
I simply meant that a world started by alliances with the prearraged single mission of beating TS will be a different challenge. If the alliances I'd been part of in Zac had started that way I know personally I'd be positioned alot differently than I've ended up.
It will never happen because there are very few alliances actually capable of checking their egos at the door and working together. Many alliances in Zacynth tried to get organised action against syndicate, but never actually did it. At one point there was a shared tab of about 8 alliances including Saints, .9., Death Plague, Midgard or whatever they were called, one of the western alliances (whos name escapes me), but in a moment of genius they also invited Syndicates allies to share that tab.
And most of the alliances were all talk anyway, Emeralds merged into us (AG) with the plan of fighting Syndi (we would have lost but didnt care), but Hughes talked us out of it, then we (AG/Emeralds) wanted to fight fight club when they were still 30 members but Tom talked people out of it. The same Tom who led FC by making sure when there were offensive ops going on he didnt send any troops.
The only people who actually had the guts to take a fight to anyone were syndi and the ORIGINAL fight club (which was a million times better than the final FC)
but none of this answers the EN question