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Originally Posted by Spinner
If you are in an alliance somewhere in the middle of the ranks, it doesn't matter how well you know the game, you are just food for bigger fish.
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To be fair, you never did understand your own game, so not unsurprisingly you're way off with this assumption. In fact if you hide away in a middling alliance, able to avoid any greater interest during the round and with decent support and a good planet strategy, you're quite able to end a lot higher than with the same effort and skill in a top alliance which is forced to take part in wars.
For your supposition to be true the winning alliance has to secure the win relatively early and dominate the end round, allowing it to prune out non-critical hostiles from the high ranks before rounds end. Given the current scoring system and the effort it requires, this seldom happens. Closest we've had that I remember was rnd28 when Asc held 26 top32 planets.