See? I told you I'd fluff up somehow! Sorry.

I scrutinized the last three resets, resets one through three of Earth Empires.

Both the Pure and the Overall incorporate TNW into their respective equations. The only difference is Overall includes Membership stats.


And Forgotten, I was surprised by LaF's ranking as well. Part of it is Omega, who hasn't finished lower than 2nd in either TNW or ANW yet. But Reset One really brought down LaF's grade. That's one thing I had in mind when I tried to downplay these a little by calling it a Beta Test and why I mentioned we should take these with a grain of salt. One war or subpar reset has a disproportionately large effect on the results. Ideally, LaF's reset one results would be diluted by four other resets, not just two.

If the numbers make me an "LaF Hater," then I apologize. The only blatant and intentional manipulation of the numbers in this is my posting of the Top 26 instead of the advertised Top 25. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go cash ViLSE's check. :-)