I REMEMBER THIS THREAD!! lol ok, just saw this again (lies, I saw this a day ago but wasn't bothered to reply). Twilight's efforts at dismantling my subpar argument is what i get for writing that much half asleep.

Here goes...
Twilightmask wrote:
First, your comments don't really have any bearing on my comparisons. I simply stated that... and I will clarify
Communism and Socialistic derived governments still exist despite the western worlds large outcry against such.
SubEmpires still exist despite the forum's large and continuing outcry against them
Therein lies the comparison. I'm not really concerned with how well Communism works, or how communist the communists really are.
Yeah ok, for some reason didn't pick up on that. I'll reread what you posted later, but I think that that point wasn't very well stated. Anyways. If that's your point, fine.
Twilightmask wrote:
Continuing, How is this a guaranteed win? If there are 1500 players and ninety six of them work together that's definitely a sub empire but they all have to be really good to get into the top 12 alliances. It's hardly a guarantee.
Furthermore, if we remove those 96 players, there will be another different group up to replace every one of them in the rankings. There are 1500 players to draw from in the average server. The lowest amount of players on a server I've seen is like 750. Still more than enough
Nowhere did i say sub empires are a guaranteed win. You can't even imply that. I implied that *good* sub empires are a guaranteed win (8 alliances in top 12, although SYN does stand to be an exception, but I'll get to that). History is, I believe, on my side on this. But I'll justify this anyway. 1500 players is a lie. Large majority of players are farms. Decent players, players that can make a difference aside from taxation, lie in top 500 (bit liberal, should be 100 but eh). Let's assume that as a good sub empire, you're drawing from top 500? Congrats, you own a fifth of the world. And in which case has the other 4/5 of the world succeeded in united against a sub empire? They all prefer to make peace with the empire than fight.
Will continue tomorrow at work.