May 27th 2011, 10:28:15
It was back before in game tags, when everything was secret traded lists. Starting up LCN, and the only ally we had was a mercy DNH from EoS, and then a mercy DNH from RoCK in the last couple of week of the set.
I was closing in on finishing about 80th or so, and I grabbed TGA. And not just TGA, but Digtex himself. Tap-danced out of the automatic kill, but payed monsterious reps. A few days later I grabbed a UCNer that turned out to be Finny himself, payed more reps.
We had 15-20 countries in LCN if we were lucky, and there were 100+ member alliances everywhere and you didn't have tags to to know who was who.
We were able to turn those grabs on leaders into pacts for the next set, so it is likely good that I grabbed them and made the connections even if I did have to grovel to a bunch of over the top grandstanding.