Quote Originally Posted by Kempion View Post
You could have stopped right here. You don't want to be dependent on other players nor do I. In reality, that is why alliances exist-unless you just use them as a chat channel.

unfortunately, the game is designed around alliances. To that end, alliances are integral to our individual performance more than we care to admit. Your actions, as well as each individual in an alliance, then become the tactical portion of the alliance's overall strategy. An alliance without a stratgey is doomed to fail,ergo, the players in said alliance fail also.

Yes it is but you want it to replace who has the biggest army with who has the biggest alliance in player numbers. The only difference in your game the end consists of only that alliance with no buttons left worth hitting and thus no reason to log in anymore.