Earth: 2025 / Alliance Talk / Allinaces in Histroy

Servant
User ID: 8681043
Dec 29th 4:33 PM
I joined 1a about 2 weeks after OMEGA formed, since that time I have seen hte rise and fall of several allinaces. AS I started looking at the top 10-15 or so alliances I noticed that very built from nothing...except for some of the older ones such as TGA. I will rate them in the order I think they belong ( no explanations for the rankings)...the ranksing in not based on this reset or future resets....but where they stand for the long haul. then I will post what I know about the formation of the alliance. I found several interesting conclusions that I will share afterwards.

1. MD
One of the group of top allainces that popped up 4-5 resets ago. They came out of of MUD joining midway through a reset basically going unnoticed. Led by Samoan, arguable the best alliance leader in hitory of the game, in their first full reset they fought ROCK, the top alliance at that time, to a draw and in that process revolutioned the ways that wars are fought. Due to their mudding expreince together adjusting to 1a and thriving in it was not not as hard as most alliances that start from scratch. Although they started as a totally new alliance, they didn't exactly build from scratch having years of trust and taemwork as a foundation to build on.
2. SOL
I really don't know much about the origins of SOL, except they have been around for a LONG TIME. being well grounded in the PRE-OMEGA period
THere time comes earlier then the newer top alliances of the game, some info here would be interesting.
3. LAF- YEs they have a weakness fihgitng but reset after reset they dominate the top 100. they are also PRE-OMEGA having also been well established, in their first reset they had 30 members and I believe they took 27 of the top 30 ranks (is this correct?) They have also been able to maintain their quliaty through multiple leadership changes, and are nowcontinuing into their post-ronnie era taht started with papafunk.
4. LEGION
NOT the dominate alliance ROCK was. they are the best fighters in the game next to MD and are still a top netgaining alliance. I don't think anyone will ever dominate as ROCK did that 3-4 sandwiched around both sides of the formation of OMEGA. Still with RT in semi-reitiremnet they are stable and will be around till ther next name chnage. Legion can trace its roots through ROCK to Axis, one of the first allainces in the game, I believe this heritage goes back to the very first reset (again am I correct?)
5. UCN UNder the long running leadership of FIN they have devloped a reputation of always being the bridesmaid bit never the bride. Another pre-omega alliance in the top 5. They have a common heritage with SOL in their roots I believe, and I would be interested in having that expounded on by someone with more knowledge than me.
6. OMEGA- I really think early earth history and modern earth history can be traved to the time OMEGA started. SINCE omega's time 5-6 resets ago the following allainces have come along as well as the death of two top 10 alliances of the old earth ERA, EOS and OOA, those allainces that came up: MD, RAGE, SOF, LCN, New Monsters, with all of those but SOF getting a start within one reset of OMEGA's start. OMEGA's start was basically a group of top earth players coming together and starting a new alliance...their superstar start catapulted them to the top as in thier 3rd reset they were dominating the top 100 before WWIII broke out. ONVE again, they were a new alliance, but as MD they did not totally build from nothing...they had experinced solid veterans and strong leadership (after the niphty/caste escapades).
7.TIE PRE-OMGEA currnetly undergoing a slow renissance under the leadership of Patience. ONE time they had 300 members and were plagued with inactivity and multies, they cleaned their act up and are on the way to back to back resets with 10+ top 100 countries. TIE is on the rise.
8. RAGE- out of the ruins of OOA TIROl/Insanity and ??? formed RAGE. 40-50 members that made a very impressive debut in the reset preceding WWIII in a war with ROCK in the first of the coalition/ anti-colation wars that ended with WWIII.
OMEGA is back, SOLID and will remain a definite top 10 for a long time. ONCE again an alliance that had a strong foudation to build on in tis conception.

allinaces 9-15 are tossups. Previous top 10 shooins TGA and HAN are showing signs of possible vulnerability...it is too early to say they have lost their top 10 rankings, but it is safe to say they aren't the only allainces that can round out these rankings, with LCN SOF ARROW and New MOnsters all wanting to join this list. any of these 6 allaince can go top 10 for two or three resets in a row.

9. SOF they got numbers, they can netgain and fight, they HAD a very solid start as an outgrowth of OMEGA after a fairly bitter split. Compleintg thier second reset since the split they are an alliance with ENormous potential, yet seems to be slightly unstable.
10. LCN. the founder of LCN,Castejon ,was also the co-founder of OMGEA. unlike OMEGA's superstar start though castejon started fomr scratch this time pulling some newbies out of tourneys. WHen LCN entered 1a a few resets ago they had 20 newbies with caste leading the way. He soon handed off to his best recruit BRINK ,who has run with it and built LCN into the budding SUperstar it is, today. Sorry Caste the best thing youy did for LCN was recruit BRINK...he gets the credit for making LCN what it is.
11. HAN Pre-OMEGA alliance. don't know much about their start exceopt they are a Korean based alliance. They seem to be falling on hard times this reset, but I expect them to be back next reset in full force.
12. New MOnsters, the only allaince besides LCN that started from scratch. New Monsters started as a group of freinds just playing together for fun and eventually turned into an alliance.
13. NLS- started as a division of the now defunct EOS, they were pre-omega as a division but post OMEGA as an alliance they are merging with UBN next reset to form ARMEGEDDON.
14. Arrow- has expeiernced rapid growth under NAzaar Arrow has blossomed to 175 members in just their second reset....a adminastrative nightmare for any alliance. Arrow and RAGE are brother allinaces and as arrow learns to netgain better it will start to climb its way up the rank.
15. TGA- still a great alliance, They were the FIrst allaince in 1a and have a long reputation as a fighting alliance. Scandles have forces chnages and changed are going to continue. TGA is no longer top 10, but I would not be surprised to see them there in 2 resets or so. The revuilding process will take time.


SOME INTERSTING OBSERVATIONS.
12 resets in 1a history OMEGA is in its 5th full reset and is currently 5.5 resets OLD ifuse use taht is the turnin poiint in modern and eraly earth you find the following conlcusions.

8 of the top 15 alliances are pre-omega including 4 of the top 5.
7 of the top 15 are after (including OMEGA )

of the 6 alliances in the Modern earth AGE, only LCN and NEW MOnsters built from scratch. all the other allainces had a base to build on.

and that tredn continues today with CM, star, surfers league....and other allaicnes taht are new this reset or starting..they are all starting as mergers or pulling members fomr established alliances.

the One possibler up and coming allaince today that started fomr scratch is ZOD, but they have a LONG ways to go it will be two resets before they join this list.


HEHE if you actually read all of this post that you did I want to see how many addcits tehre are out there.

thanks!

Servant



Nazar
User ID: 9836983
Dec 29th 4:38 PM
Addict
Downie
User ID: 1167284
Dec 29th 4:43 PM
Excellent insights, you get an A:)
Agramelh
User ID: 9851073
Dec 29th 4:53 PM
Addict
I was here before you.
Viola
User ID: 0081374
Dec 29th 4:58 PM
Addict. At least i'm proud to say I was pre-Arrow:)

Viola
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 9544623
Dec 29th 5:02 PM
NO! Post more!
Dusty Richards(UAF) Dec 29th 5:18 PM
*bubbles*
Helmet
User ID: 1118614
Dec 29th 5:22 PM
*flops around on the floor.. Burps up some green atomic funk*

We're stable.. I SWEAR!

*runs away*

Helmet,
1st in command SoF
http://zip.to/sof

groton
User ID: 1606604
Dec 29th 5:23 PM
Affict .
fingolfin
User ID: 8200143
Dec 29th 5:27 PM
Klingon brought the UCN over from Game B 8 resets ago. After one fairly uneventful reset he managed to recruit a bunch of small allainces and form what is likely the first true coalition He brought in ICN under Crash, SOL under Mike1, Terran Avengers under Plunder/Mist/zorky, and had their own internal groups led by Quester, Hemmy and one other council that escapes me right now. That was the reset of the Great han war. At the end of the reset Sol, Icn, TMA left to be on their own again and I took over the 15-25 members who stayed and built it to what it is now with great help.

During my first and second reset leading Norcal took over sol (sol was i believe created by iron guantlet 8 resets ago before merging into ucn), omega was born, md can out of the mud, gram led th e anti-rock campaign, and SG rose and fell like a comet.

The best timeline of earth might be e2hq. e2hq was used for a full reset 6 reset ago i believe it is now. I know that UCN was the first to use it thanks to Gorfin and the SEA. Sol, TMA, UCN all used it that first reset.

Been a long time now. I can't remember life without this dumb game.
Deisal BU
User ID: 7475643
Dec 29th 5:28 PM
I believe UCN was started by Klingon. Dont know where they started, but they were made up of several little alliances, Mist lead one, SOL was one, a few others, dont remember there names cause I havent gone to the old site in a while and I dont remember where its at.

As for SOL. It started in a random game, like game I or something, dont remember that either. But the original leader was Iron Gauntlet. Still plays today, not this reset but will be back next. And after the random, moved up into 1A under UCN, with Piston leading us at that point. A while later moved out of UCN and Les took over from there. Its a rough history, but pretty sure its right...
Deisal BU
User ID: 7475643
Dec 29th 5:29 PM
he beat me to it...
Deisal BU
User ID: 7475643
Dec 29th 5:32 PM
And I guess Piston was after Mike1. Like I said, been a long time, I got old timers disease...
Beltshumeltz
User ID: 9802413
Dec 29th 5:32 PM
Cool unbiased post.

One note, it isnt UBN who merged with NLS, it's BoA
Wyeme-ArMxTF
User ID: 1954724
Dec 29th 5:41 PM
You know, BoA, formerly UBN, has been around for 6 resets now?
Servant
User ID: 8681043
Dec 29th 5:48 PM
thanks FIN,
Before it is brough up...
CM and Surfers may get some consideration after thay have completed 2 resets.
Blood Saber
User ID: 9586293
Dec 29th 5:48 PM
Good try on Legion, Servant, but...

RoCK was one of the first alliances ever formed, I think TGA was the first 'official' alliance, but RoCK, before it took on that name was a group of a bunch of Chinese players that knew eachother in real life. TGA was formed to combat them, and called them the CA (Chinese Alliance). It was led by bb, Virus I believe... maybe PLA128...

Axis was a totally seperate alliance that was founded by Brian and someone else... I don't think it was Corflu, but it may have been... They were an elitist alliance, in order to join, you had to have finished top 25. They eventually merged with FORCE, which was basically a small group of about a dozen really good players.

Both alliances had a lot of great players, but some of them were planning on retiring, and the 2 of them got along well, so they merged. The merged alliance played under the name of RoCK on server 2 and Axis on server 1 (or vice versa. Also, this was before the tourney.)

Somewhere along the line, WDA (World Domination Agency) had merged into RoCK or Axis... they were another small elitist alliance, but I don't know very much about them other than they were led by Fish.

Another alliance that merged into us was the LSA, or League of Stuyvessant Alliances (I think I got that right) They all played at Stuyvessant high-school in New York, or Stony Brook college, also in New York. Most of them had met eachother in real life. They're probably better known now as our Panzer division

The reset that Axis and RoCK merged, [SL] also merged into them. I co-led the Star League along with Deadeye. We were a small alliance formed by people who play a board game called BattleTech. Mechwarrior 2 and 3 were based on the BattleTech universe, as well as some other games. We had 20-30 members, depending on who joined and who quit... we did have a strong showing in the top 100 though, typically finishing with 6-8 top 100 countrries.

1 or 2 resets later, DB (Death Brigade) merged into us. They were very small, fewer than a dozen players.. I think they may have been a division in some other alliance... they specialized in killing people though, probably having the most kills/capita of any division we had, except maybe Panzer.

Another reset or 2 passed and we absorbed RPH (Red Phoenix Horde, better known as the smurfs)

2 resets ago we also absorbed DCA (Death Chop Alliance), led by Lord Bubba, and Auxabois, Led by Shark.

I probably forgot some things, but that should be reasonably accurate :)
Blood Saber
User ID: 9586293
Dec 29th 5:50 PM
That may be my longest post ever, normally I'm pretty succinct :)
Wyeme-ArMxTF
User ID: 1954724
Dec 29th 5:50 PM
UBN started its first reset as a division of SOL going independent for its second reset.
MOB
User ID: 0206274
Dec 29th 6:35 PM
EoS was formed During the HAN war reset by Scarface and his friend Animal..got #2 in their first reset whit 8 in top 20 or top 30..only had abour 25 members but all were in top 100..next reset EoS grew and started whit 60-65 members,this was the reset Omega was formed..EoS had a large number of the ten and top 100 countries,but this was back when HAN was HUGE and really aggresive..HAN by some reason decided to Attack EoS(i belive it was over a couple of Landgrabs)and EoS and HAN started to fight..After awhile all the major alliances started fighting,but i dont remember the reasons..this was also MD´s first reset i believe.After that reset EoS got to big for its own good,NLS,and what now is called AoD i think,i could be wrong here..and some other smaller alliances..Anyway,EoS was the biggest alliance in the game for awhile,and was supposed to be able to hold its own against any alliance..But Participation was very low and EoS lost a war against SOL,which were about Half EoS size in members and Networth..that started the downfall of EoS..the reset after that EoS had grown even larger despite NLS and some other Division Leaving..but all the new newbies made participation even worse than it was and EoS again lost a war..after that EoS disbanded in 1 reset

There is alot more but i dont have all night :P

MOB