Also, I’ll throw a hard take in. Now that there is 10,000 bots it’s sorta unnecessary for them to ally. Essentially the only benefits are inflating the military market which is actually bad imo, and allowing netters to unnaturally inflate their finishes if they send alliance requests quickly enough to have free tech leaches all set.

It’s extremely niche, unnecessary and supports only those who are in the know and push the right buttons fast enough. In other words, I think it’s terrible for generating newcomers who wanna compete with old heads. Case and point, this post.