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A Look at the Top 80 Alliances and their respective Spheres


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I have compiled the scores for the Top 80 alliances and put them together in the graph here. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq1r-Sz_6FrzdERmZkpMYVlDd3dlSlEzSXN4ZTg5UVE#gid=0

 

All of the Alliances were sorted in to spheres based on the treaties I was able to find on the wiki. An alliance would be included in a Sphere if,

1 It was in the Bloc that the Sphere was for

2 If they had a direct Treaty with a Member of one of these Blocs, or

3 Their only treaties were with Alliances that were in one certain Sphere.

Most of the Alliances in the "Other" Catagory have treaties with more than one bloc.

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Yes you do have a point there, but would you not agree that these are the major spheres, or at least the biggest.


I would argue that saying IRON is not in a "sphere" is somewhat inaccurate, given how central they are to the expected politics over the next year. Likewise, "Polardoxia" is more two distinct spheres (XX and "Platysphere") that have come together only in the last war - much like multiple spheres have come together in previous wars.
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I would argue that saying IRON is not in a "sphere" is somewhat inaccurate, given how central they are to the expected politics over the next year. Likewise, "Polardoxia" is more two distinct spheres (XX and "Platysphere") that have come together only in the last war - much like multiple spheres have come together in previous wars.

Letum: beacon of accuracy.

 

I think things are so muddled right now it's tough to properly divvy up the pie. An alliance like IRON surely should be heading some sphere with all its NS and treaty ties yet nothing up there reflects that. On the other end of the spectrum, there are alliances that have stuck out of spheres pretty effectively - are they just "Other", or are they lumped in with spheres they're only somewhat connected to, or what? And I definitely see Platysphere and Polarsphere as separate entities. I'd say Polarsphere/Aftermath is a more feasible combo thanks to all the common treaties there.

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Sorry if I wasn't clear before. It sucks because of lack of info.. 

 

Minimum Number of Spheres you need, imo: 

 

- BFF sphere (NEW/FEAR/WP/DB4D/Kaskus)

- Platy (TOP/DD/Umb/VE/MI6/GOONS)

- Sentinel (GDA, UPN, NADC, MCXA, CCC, CRAP, TTK),

- XX (Fark, NPL, Polaris, MHA Sparta, AO, KN, GO, Invicta, Legion),

- US (RnR, NATO, TIO),

- IRON (IRON, Argent, AI, Val),

- NPO (NSO, NG, TPF),

- C&G (ODN, GATO, TLR)

- DL (UCR, OG, RIA, SL, LSF, SWF) 

Misc: STA, HB, LoSS

 

Also should include all stat categories.. you want me to do it?

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Sorry if I wasn't clear before. It sucks because of lack of info.. 

 

Minimum Number of Spheres you need, imo: 

 

- BFF sphere (NEW/FEAR/WP/DB4D/Kaskus)

- Platy (TOP/DD/Umb/VE/MI6/GOONS)

- Sentinel (GDA, UPN, NADC, MCXA, CCC, CRAP, TTK),

- XX (Fark, NPL, Polaris, MHA Sparta, AO, KN, GO, Invicta, Legion),

- US (RnR, NATO, TIO),

- IRON (IRON, Argent, AI, Val),

- NPO (NSO, NG, TPF),

- C&G (ODN, GATO, TLR)

- DL (UCR, OG, RIA, SL, LSF, SWF) 

Misc: STA, HB, LoSS

 

Also should include all stat categories.. you want me to do it?

A few points:

-Is Kaskus treatied to any BFF alliance other than NEW? If so, please tell me. This is a minor point.

-Bang-up job on Platysphere, although I think it's a pretty basic one.

-You have a lot of Aftermath in the "Sentinel" group, and Aftermath is much more powerful than Sentinel.

-Polar and CCC not in the same group? Those two seem joined at the hip sometimes.

-I'd put AI with NPO rather than IRON.

-OG and RIA seem outside of DL. RIA is probably closer to either Polar/FARK or to other ex-SF alliances like GOD.

-What about other alliances? A bunch of us feel left out here.

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Just to preface this, what I put above was off the top of my head which is why I didn't include everyone. 

 

-Is Kaskus treatied to any BFF alliance other than NEW? If so, please tell me. This is a minor point.

 

 

No.

 

-Bang-up job on Platysphere, although I think it's a pretty basic one.

 

 

They don't seem to have little known/smaller alliances like most other spheres.. I guess I could throw MW in there. Nothing else comes to mind. 

 

-You have a lot of Aftermath in the "Sentinel" group, and Aftermath is much more powerful than Sentinel.
-Polar and CCC not in the same group? Those two seem joined at the hip sometimes.

 

I would rename the Sentinel group aftermath and leave it as it is after revisiting this. 

 

 

-I'd put AI with NPO rather than IRON.

 

 

I wouldn't. Considering Duckroll seems to be the only thing driving AIs FA atm. 

 

-OG and RIA seem outside of DL. RIA is probably closer to either Polar/FARK or to other ex-SF alliances like GOD.

 

 

OGs closest (and only afaik) is to UCR who is the main signatory of DL. So i would leave that as it is.

 

As for RIA.. Fark is going one way, and R&R is going another. Rather than RIA being a glue that holds them together, I see them as an alliance that has opted for neither. GOD I would put with R&R, but they really have no direction. 

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Minimum Number of Spheres you need, imo: 
 
- BFF sphere (NEW/FEAR/WP/DB4D/Kaskus)
- Platy (TOP/DD/Umb/VE/MI6/GOONS)
- Sentinel (GDA, UPN, NADC, MCXA, CCC, CRAP, TTK),
- XX (Fark, NPL, Polaris, MHA Sparta, AO, KN, GO, Invicta, Legion),
- US (RnR, NATO, TIO),
- IRON (IRON, Argent, AI, Val),
- NPO (NSO, NG, TPF),
- C&G (ODN, GATO, TLR)
- DL (UCR, OG, RIA, SL, LSF, SWF) 
Misc: STA, HB, LoSS
 

Maybe add AZTEC and a Doom sphere
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Eh, score isn't really a telling metric. History has shown us time and time again that score can easily be fluffed up and equally burnt away.

 

Number of WRC's might be interesting. Actually, how many nukes the alliance can buy per day overall - NS comes and goes like you say, but a 3mil NS alliance that can buy and fire say, 50 nukes is going to be at a disadvantage against a 2mil alliance that can buy and fire 75 nukes.

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I would argue that saying IRON is not in a "sphere" is somewhat inaccurate, given how central they are to the expected politics over the next year. Likewise, "Polardoxia" is more two distinct spheres (XX and "Platysphere") that have come together only in the last war - much like multiple spheres have come together in previous wars.


Divide and conquer amirite?
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