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Slagpit:
I'll be a bit argumentative again. When exactly was this golden age of player to player interaction? I first played on alliance around 2004. I remember alliances heavily pacting out and most countries doing all-X or only hitting untagged countries. I also remember land:land becoming the standard retal policy. Players themselves are the ones who were always pushing for less interaction. Just look at what happened to the team server. The last time I looked there was essentially zero landgrabs. Some clans even boasted about their 1:kill policies.
In my opinion, the golden age of player to player interaction was mid to late 1990's to early 2000's. There were no land bots back then, but there were 1000's of multies. By 2008 the original 1A server was about to shut down and the game was losing a lot of its appeal. I think the retal policies and such were partially responsible for that.
Pang was good enough to provide EE when Mehul cut the cord on 2025 but I left here around 10 years ago or so after playing Earth for a couple of decades. I have to say it doesnt seem the game itself has progressed much since then.
