Omega at its Swirve-era nadir in early 2004 was ~40-45 members... which would make it larger than almost the rest of the server combined.

Man, I remember Mai Tais being an alliance talk staple back in like 2000. I had one at Trader Vics solely because of Earth Forums.

I assumed since you wanted the updated top 10. :)

Congrats on the real top 10 finish! Down with those stupid DMBRs and their extremely efficient land/NW ratios!

aww, no more tech leeches.

Thanks! Our 2025 reunion keeps on rolling! Now if only we could get all of the slackers hanging around in the channel to play.

Also, this is my first top 10 ever. I am both amused and aghast.

YOUR FINAL TOP 10 LANDPHAT, THE REAL TOP 10:

Havoc (Omega) - 511.9k
Sir Balin (Paradigm) - 457.9k
Lightbringer (Paradigm) - 407.6k
Beefhawk (Omega) - 386.8k
Goten (Omega) - 365.2k
Sleepy (Omega) - 346.8k
Benito the Bad Bunny (Bad4U) -332.7k
wANNabe (Monsters) -323.8k
Skylo (Omega) - 319.6k
Vic Rattlehead (M4D) -310.2k

I write today to tell you that I cannot believe you would start your reselling before me, depriving me of the chance to screenshot myself in first place and post "stop the count!" across multiple forums and discord servers.

Please stub your toe or step on a Lego.

Disrespectfully,
grelk

4/28 UPDATE

1) Sir "Ballin'" (Paradlgm) - 359.2k acres
2) Havoc - (Omega) - 317.9k acres
3) LightBringer (EVOdigm) - 252.9k acres
4) tulosba (Omega) - 245.7k acres
5) cyref (MONSTERS) - 236k acres
6) Theosqua (Omega) - 225k acres
7) Beefhawk (Omega) - 223.4k acres
8) Goten (Omega) - 217.7k acres
9) Zygotic (Omega) - 210.7k acres
10) SkyLo (Omega) - 200.3k acres

SUSPENDED DUE TO THE REFEREE'S PERSONAL VENDETTA:
Vic Rattlehead (M4D) - 213.8k acres

Theosqua can't be more than a few mil, but you want to send big for those ghost acres!

BONUS: TOP 5 CLANS BY AVERAGE ACRES
1) Omega - 165.9k
2) Hero - 128.2k
3) Old Monsters - 92.5k
4) Paradlgm - 90.6k (if we're not counting the inactive/late start player it's 96k)
5) Bad 4 U - 82.5k

4/27 Update!

1) Sir Balin (Pair o' dimes) - 352.2k
2) Havoc (Omega) - 299k
3) Lightbringer (Pair o' dimes) - 237.6k
4) cyref (Monsters) - 228.1k
5) tulosba (Omega) - 222.4k
6) Theosqua (Omega) - 220.5k
7) Goten (Omega) - 216.6k
8) Beefhawk (Omega) - 206.4k
9) Vic Rattlehead (M4D) - 204.9k
10) Zygotic (Omega) - 201.1k

The top 10 is all over 200k. Continue your march to making many millions of bushels/huge vast piles of cash each turn.

Sorry if I missed you the other day, Vic! It might have been that someone was ahead for at the moment I was doing the post or it could be that I just plum screwed up.

4/25 Update!

1) Sir Balin (Paradigm) - 323.9k
2) Havoc (Omega) - 274.3k
3) Cyref (Monsters) - 213.8k
4) Theosqua (Omega) - 209.3k
5) LightBringer (Paradigm) - 204k
6) tulosba (Omega) - 197.8k
7) Goten (Omega) - 190.5k
8) Beefhawk (Omega) - 188.2k
9) Skylo (Omega) - 184.9k
10) Zygotic (Omega) - 173.7k

Zygotic cracks the top 10!

4/23 Update!

1) Sir Balin (PDM) - 295.7k
2) Havoc (Omega) - 248.2k
3) Lightbringer (PDM) - 203.7k
4) cyref (NM) 191.3k
5) tulosba (Omega) - 184.4k
6) Theosqua (Omega) - 180.8k
7) Goten (Omega) - 174.5k
8) Rolangunslinger (PDM) - 165.6k
9) Skylo (Omega) - 164.5k
10) Beefhawk (Omega) - 162.5k

Vic has dropped off the pace and out of the top 10, Goten has roared onto the table and into 7th, while Lightbringer is the 3rd country over 200k, and Tully and Theo keep trading 5th and 6th.

Accuracy is important! I have sacked my copyeditors and issued a correction!

I don't think I can search down that low with the in-game search!

4/22 TOP 10 - SPECIAL ANTI-OMEGAN EDITION

1) Sir Balin (Paradigm) - 286.1k
2) Lightbringer (Paradigm) - 195.3k
3) cyref (Monsters) - 178.5k
4) Rolangunslinger (Paradigm) 159.8k
5) Vic Rattlehead+ (Marked 4 Death) -157.5k
6) wANNabe (#67)* (Monsters) 143.4k
7) Alifie (Paradigm) - 135.4k
8) Yodal33t (Stones) - 126.3k
9) Sterlitamak (HERO) -123.7k
10) Benito The Bad Bunny (#27)** (BAD 4 U) - 123.5k
...
17) Taz (Paradigm) -73.3k

* I do not know your name, but if you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends, cuz friendship is forever, friendship never eeeeends.
** I do not know which player u r but I know u r bad for me.
+ We apologize for the earlier misspelling of Mr. Rattlehead's nom-de-terre.

4/20 UPDATE!

1) Sir Balin (PDM) - 266k
2) Havoc (Omega) - 221k
3) DEFINITELY NOT TAZ (MonSTARZ) 164k
4) Lightbringer (PDM) - 163.6k
5) Theosqua (Omega) - 157.7k
6) Tulosba (Omega) - 157.6k
7) Rolan (PDM) - 148.2k
8) Vic (M4D) - 140.6k
9) Skylo (Omega) - 137.9k
10) Beefhawk (Omega) -135.8k
...
24) grelk (Omega) - 99.7k
...
26) Mort (Omega) - 94.1k

Proof that Mort is the stinky one!

Also, if anyone would like to NOT be doxxed by this list, please let me know and I'll put some super cool alias on your name.

Remembering some Guys (and Gals):

Mickster
Fingolfin
Inferno
Ampy
Nazar
Ghost
Tirol
Helmet
Beltzschumeltz (I cannot remember how to spell that name, but guy could build an alliance in a weekend)
Deitylord
De1i
Citan

I want to liven up these forums, and since there's no real point in doing a top 10 alliance ranking these days I decided to just drop a list of the 10 fattest countries in the server. I've done this a bit in the Omega discord over the last couple resets to help us compare ourselves to the rest of the server (with the exception of Sir Balin, who is head and shoulders above everyone else).

Updated when I feel like it.

APRIL 19, 2026:
1) Sir Balin (PDM) - 252.5k
2) Havoc (Omega) - 208.3k
3) NOT TAZ (OM*) - 155.4k
4) Lightbringer (PDM) - 149.5k
5) Tulosba (Omega) - 143.3k
6) Theosqua (Omega) - 141.9k
7) Rolangunslinger (PDM) - 141.4k
8) #17** (M4D) - 135.5k
9) Skylo (Omega) - 133k
10) Goten (Omega) - 126.6k

* Old Monsters, since they ain't been new in decades
** I don't know who's playing this country so I can't give them a proper shoutout by name!

All errors are my own and feel free to yell at me for them. For example, the Monsters country not being Taz.

xoxo,

grelk
il principe of the Omega

No, I would come lurk but never got around to being allowed to post.

I wonder where some of the old posters are these days, like my tube o' lube.

Mortimus is the worst, he grabbed three of the countries I was gonna hit today!

So I finally got around to being allowed to post.

Yes. And now I feel dumb.

I don't think it was Jer Bu, simply because of how often he was away from the game and because he wasn't really super active when he was in the game. I could be entirely wrong, but if so that dude is more machiavellian, and was way more into Earth, than I gave him credit for.

Teal's ISP was from Regina, Ontario. I'm from Massachusetts. We weren't both active in the game at the same time for long stretches. If people thought I was Teal then they're idiots.

Also, goddamnit, am I ever going to find out who Teal was? I don't even recognize most of those colors, and several of them were recycled. I met the original Mr. White, and it sure wasn't Gramberto.

The original was better.

"8 years ago you were torpedoing the Dean campaign"

Hey! I worked in New Hampshire. It was Iowa that fluffed us over. We knew at the start of January that we were going to lose Iowa. I remember Jeremy Bird (you might recognize the name if you were on Obama's mailing list) being furious with his counterparts in Iowa who were pointlessly obsessed with the number of out of state volunteers they were bringing in while completely failing to set up the infrastructure you need to win a caucus state. Argh. That still frustrates me. And if we'd had more than one week between Iowa and New Hampshire, I still think we could have won NH. Winning beyond that, who the heck knows.

Hi Ponderer!

I don't think I was doing anything interesting in Earth 10 years ago. But 10.5 years ago Iccyh, Beefhawk, and I tried to create an alliance called Tiger. We ran a half reset in 1B, recruited people there, and had a nifty little group that might have done OK if we hadn't been farmed to a pulp by SoF. Also, if Iccyh, Beefhawk, and I weren't all incredibly competent yet incredibly prone to burning out due to trying too much at once.

Alas, poor Tiger.

And I'm back.

This time a decade ago I was... where was I? I'm getting old man's disease. I guess I was back in Omega at that point, which means that I've been there on and off now for over a decade. Yikes.

Also, this is officially the "give your reminicenses of the olden days to get your bonus" thread.

Violators will be unheeded.

There are so many more turns in this game than there were in the old days. I know I've missed a bundle and I'm over 4000 for the reset. Makes it kind of hard to compare performance across the eras, even ignoring the fact that the game was much larger and landgrabbing was much different.

Who the heck was Mr. Teal, anyways? I never figured it out.

At what point do we all start teaching our children how to play?

I want multigenerational bad blood between alliances! "No, dad! I'm joining RD because you grounded me!" "You're no son of mine!"

I'm only moderately surprised at how many oldies I see around, given how many people I regularly keep in touch with from the game. If other people are similar, there's a lot of ways to get dragged back in.

After I'd been playing for a couple years, I thought to myself "It's going to be weird if I'm playing Earth 2025 in 2025. But nah, no way that could possibly happen."

That was 2000.

It's over halfway to 2025 since then.

If that happens, yeesh.

I guess I should name this "grelk's once weekly comment so he can get his bonus turns."

what sort of treachery is this?!