[NoXiouS]

Going quite a bit off topic, but I'll do this anyway.

The mass-NAPping occurs as people despise defending (because it's not worth it), so we all try to reduce our incoming to a level where defending can be done by AFs and/or defense support planets. Defending sub-750 roid planets isn't worth it atm, and most of the time you just end up flying 6-8 ticks just to see the attacker(s) recalling before land, gj, you just gained ~100xp wasting 12-16 ticks that could've been used on attacking, which is way more profitable most of the time (even if you land only every third time or so, the profit is more). IF you're extremely lucky and one or more of the attackers unlucky, you might end up landing the def fleet, for minimal gains or even for a loss (if your DC was pro and only covered the attack, instead of overcovering it [the calc is bit bad for both]). And most likely you or your alliance spent real money getting that defense there, the calls and SMSes do cost real money, quite a lot of it too if you're an active ally. Really, only those 1 ship defs ingal are profitable.

Any alliance could keep a defense system running every round, it's not that hard, the hard part is to keep members interested and invested enough to keep them running every round.