I was not farming bots. I was encouraging them to build better defenses, so when the war between bots, and players begins, the bots will have an initial advantage!

The game has the bots now tag as Live Operational Computer (LOC) in FFA

The bots weren't working correctly for the first week, they did pick up after that and slowly scaled to normal. But during the time it wasnt working right, all the players were still producing normal amounts of tech, so the market started with a surplus. Itll balance out over the next few days.

if (!isset($cpref->gdi)) {
$cpref->gdi = (bool)(rand(0, 2) == 2);
//out("Setting GDI to ".($cpref->gdi ? "true" : "false"), true, 'brown');

its supposed to be 1/3 in gdi which it basically is

so i think that code is randoming 0,1,2 and if it chooses 2 then it goes gdi

seems to be working fine and no change in recent sets

there is 2k bots and roughly 670 in gdi

i think this needs to be redone and include the bots

While I don't disagree with your choice as I would personally think TKO is still #1, the real picture is actually a lot more complicated than that. Free land doesn't mean anything as everyone has it. The neutrality of bots is important in comparing eras as it means that the stats I posted aren't changed by bots. If we were talking best set ever, bots would need to be taken into consideration. But as for more people playing.... That's true but were more people competing? FFA has been in an unprecedented state of peace since CC left. It could be that more people were netting in many of ICDs victories than at many points in the past. Take TKOs first triple crown.... Who else was netting that set? It was a dominant reset, during a server war. PANLV usually took ANW off TKO in those days, and ICD was competing against both and winning some netting victories when both were at their top. I think it's a bit more complicated than TKO won more TNW rounds when there were more in the game; therefore.

I think an argument for all ICD, TKO and PANLV can be made. IMP is pretty clearly #4 being one of only 3 clans with triple crowns and many dominant sets and then it can be ESD or LAE who never really lasted in EE imo as far as netting goes.