I guess you must know about that kind of pain then Bear? Do tell us all about it....
If you think that organising all the top players into one alliance to win at any cost is smart then I can't help you. It's actually about as dumb as it gets and I still can't work out why nobody has the balls to try and win it with their own team anymore. I'm just glad SMYN had the integrity to reject Richard's offer of a merge. I'm sure Extortion don't mind being second choice.
You ask what planet am I on? I'm on the planet of players that used to look at massive coalitions as nothing to be a part of because they had some self respect, I'm on the planet of players that used to not run scared of anything vaguely resembling a contest because it was fun to not know if you might succeed or not, I'm from the planet of players where playing the game used to be more important than talking about it. Clearly a totally different planet to the players that are in it now and frankly, I don't like what I see.
I came back in hope that there might be something left in this game but truly it's in an even worse state than I remember.....