User blog comment:Nondirectionallaser/It never ends this sh-/@comment-25500470-20150622210603

And to the point about Alliances...

I joined my current Alliance a LONG time ago after I got tired of the previous one with their poor AUB performace. Nice people, but the leader was halfway nonexistent and we were ranked 4 more times than I could count. Of the three of us that were really pulling weight, one up and left suddenly, the other quit the game. Which left me. And then I left and joined my current some months ago, I forgot exactly when. I know it's been a LONG time.

The leader at the time recently turned it over to me because they just didn't have the availability they used to have. I'm on every day at least a few minutes if not longer. I just don't "live" on the game like was the case last year.

My alliance is full of great people that are friendly. We do have some non-log-in-ers, but to drop them means we drop Alliance rank, because they were heavy contributors when the Alliance first started. We also have some that told us they'd be back after a while, so we're a bit flexible. But the majority of our folks are active.

Saturday is really the only day that the participation in AUB is less than ideal, but we're not too worried about it frankly. The awards haven't been great and the Fever Time essentially broke it anyway.