but ya, I wouldn't say that is a world war...

it was all separate wars, the only thing which tied it together was collab getting involved in a few wars that weren't related to each other prior to that.

I'd say the SoL+SoF vs Evo+NA+Collab set would be more WW'ish than last round. Or one of those rounds when the wars were basically defined before the set started.

The current climate isn't all that great for server/world wars. Everyone wants to isolate, and most of the major warmongers aren't attacking other major war mongers -- they're consistently attacking netters who would rather net than build a coalition. It doesn't help that the fighting alliances which hit the netting alliances also tell them "if FS us next round, we will tie you up in war for a year."

That change in warmonger policy in the last year or so has seen a big dropoff in political activity at that level, which was always the hallmark of the old 1a server.

A key reason why the server went down the tubes before was because all the warmongers were working together, starting with TIS and moving forward from there. The full-time fighters just simply don't want that type of challenge anymore, and would rather kill the server more by fighting people who don't want to fight than actually take eachother on.