Do you really expect the older ISC players to dutifully follow to the alliance after the crap we've had to put up with in the past?
Explain.
You really don't but anyways let's see.
How about the many many feds who have accused us of cheating over the years I think pretty much every experienced ISC player had at least 2 I currently have 5 Feds along with 1 Klingon. A lot of ISC players left purely cos they were sick of putting up with crap like that pretty much always feds.
How about the fact everytime they are actually losing a server it's because the server is unbalanced, they are outnumbered (even when they aren't) or because we cheat.
How about whinging about how overpowered the ISC ships are while lobbying to get themselves some of the most stupidly overpowered ships in the game because they deserve them as they are feds.
But anyway that is a bit of a digression from the main questions which were:
Why not traditional alliances? (I know technically this puts the ISC on their own but we normally put them with coalition for balance).
Why are the PVP races stacked in favour of the alliance and hex flipping to coalition?(With the current rules posted making hex flipping fairly unimportant but PVP very important).
Why can't ISC and Lyran be on the same side? (it's not like they haven't been together on pretty much every server beforehand and never had a problem).
Also I think the server was one of the RT ones I know we had a post up in the ISC forum about flying klink and lyran but it's been deleted since then was just a few years ago.