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... in the silent backyard....

Directly to the point.

Sorry Streu, at the moment I don't see an ease comming to the feelings around. Leaving the games is meanwhile the only answer to the poison (chain alliances) that came to the running games.

Some benefits ingame are without compare - like (Tachyon device, webmines, refit and gravitonic) and when most of them become accumulated in only a few hands and this happens in right a couple of games in a row, the refusal to continue playing is the only option we players have to call attention to the grievances.

Unfortunately that actually points only to a hand full of players.

But thinking back maybe about Pleiades 5 Kobrov, Siba and Darkclow ended up in a quite similar situation. The path of actions aside they ended up in a 3 vs 6 - crystal, robot, lizzy vs everybody besides the birds who were kicked out early on and the privs which somehow got in between factions.

Maybe you can argue that we didn't combine forces in a manner like some described here, still it was 6 vs 3 and I as FED got my hands on big carriers from the Colonies (my allies) and a quite useful fleetlogistic tool named Bridgekeeper (merely from a trading partner). And showing up when you called for help was by no means a nice turn of mine. It was just damn useful for me and the meaning was of course getting rid of a dangerous enemy and thus winning the game.

So far I tend to follow april76's arguments all along. Apart from the premade alliances which I detest - nevertheless april denied using them and since I never played a game with him, I've got no reason to doubt him.