I've played express for years on e2025 before earth empires and I've played 11 express sets since I found out about earth empires a few months ago. I've finished in the top 60 on all my sets so far, 3 times in the top 20, 5 times in the top 30, and 8 times in the top 40. More than half of my sets were me experimenting with different builds (mainly timing of builds, etc.)

I'm not some super player or anything. I feel my analysis on the current express server situation is valid though. My best runs were with GDI but the three runs I did that were not with GDI (except for one Facism oiler experiment) didn't turn out horrible. I wasn't plagued with assholes or witnessed too many wars in any of my runs.

So from my point of view the apparent issue is being inflated. Feel free to let me know how wrong I am on that though. I can't wait to hear about it. Though maybe the reason I avoided many problems is because I don't run risky anemic min/max builds where I have to hope and pray no one notices. Though in my opinion taking such risks should be oh I don't know RISKY and therefor not encouraged or PROTECTED like some crybabies seem to want.