Yeah thats not entirely true. The market behaved well and had great balance but both major netting tags show more defends than recent sets (aside from hawk hitting raz but that doesn't really count as suicide).

Personally i had about 1500 defends that cost me ~5b nw. Bomber's main country was killed. This wasnt anything close to the clean sets recently. I did enjoy a solid balanced market tho.

I think people who love scoreboard finishes like to net during server wars, but this market was almost as close to balanced and ideal as one could expect with the size of the player base. Oil and jets were both affordable which indicates a good variety amongst players. That parity of market makes what ashe did even more impressive.