User blog comment:Polysium/Asian Alliances vs English Alliances/@comment-25102474-20150117042509

In my opinion, it is a combination of timezones suiting Japanese Standard Time (the rest of Asia would be at most an hour or two off), and the fact that Asians seem to grind harder than anyone else (as seen in any other online game).

From what I understand, in Japan, the alliance battles happen at 8am, 12pm, 7pm, 10pm local time. This is ideal for the Japanese because it is in the morning before work/school, during lunch break, after work/school, and not-so-late evening. For me in Western Australia, I'm one hour off, so battles happen 7am, 11am, 6pm, 9pm my local time. As long as I don't forget, I can usually participate every round of the day.

Alliance battles are ultimately decided by whoever has the most participants using rods. My own alliance used to dominate alliances which had more active participants than we had, but this was because there were several of us spamming rods to get the ranking reward. Many of us have stopped aiming for the ranking reward, so now we mainly win if we outnumber the other alliances (and if they aren't rod'ing).