Aside from say the 9pm eastern to 1am eastern hours , the alliance from what I saw, showed poorly on aotk. The good feds on mirror got by on 6 or 7 regulars despite the numbers commited in the draft.( only 2 sides) My view is that more sides are bad with the player base so small and unable to reliably commit an effort.
I hex flipped a lot on my own as it was strategically neccessary. I don't want to feel that I have to nutter because of insufficent numbers on my side. Let's not have another major server where an RM feels the need to thank the few who stuck it out from an opposing side.