If a new player actually joins alliance automatically put him in an alliance for the first reset (and inform the alliance leader) so that he has not got to look for one and his country gets farmed before he knows what's happening.
Everybody thought there would be lots of cap space every FA. as everybody made some huge senseless deals last year, there will not be much left next year after the big guns got paid.....
I liked the idea for a finish. If someone does it again it will be boring though. MD was too much of a friend from my perspective to consider this a bad end.