User blog comment:Kirbyna321/Ranking Rant/@comment-24492152-20140808233218/@comment-25195396-20140809045705

Alliance really plays a part. In my alliance, not all of us are ranking so we do send our FAWs around. It's possible to get 10m or more just from alliance sends, depending on the time you invested refreshing your AW screen.

Also, he had comrades as well. Just that once he hit rank 1, he stopped. I think it's wrong for you to assume that people are just hacking. In Chinese server, ranking can go as crazy as getting 50m per day. 25m? That's only half.